whoremongery

English

Etymology

whoremonger +‎ -y

Noun

whoremongery (uncountable)

1. Sexual relations by or with a prostitute.
   • 1947, Reinhold Friedrich Kies, "What is Wrong with the World Today?": Evils Exposed and the Remedy:

     Fornication is the loose and illegal sexual relationship between unmarried persons, and whoremongery the same conduct with a professional prostitute; both are often included in the biblical word "whoring."

   • 2004, B. J. Sokol, Mary Sokol, Shakespeare's Legal Language, →ISBN, page 391:

     He then addresses the servants of 'three usurers', who provide the occasion for his extended comparison of usury with whoremongery (2.2.89–105). The same association of usury with prostitution arises in the bawd Pompey's florid lament on the legal closure of the brothels of Vienna:

   • 2012, John Sweeney, Wayne Rooney: Boots of Gold, →ISBN:

     Rooney's confession statement read: Foolish as it now seems I did on occasions visit massage parlours and prostitutes. It was at a time when I was very young and immature and before I had settled down with Coleen. I now regret it deeply and hope people may understand that it was the sort of mistake you make when you are young and stupid. youngand stupid. Rooney was denounced from the tabloid pulpits for his whoremongery, but, idiot that he was, one cannot help but feel a pang of pity for him.

2. (more generally) The act of engaging in illicit sexual relations.
   • 1852, Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg, The Revelation of St John: Expounded for Those who Search the Scriptures:

     In ch. xxi. 8 whoremongery is considered under the aspect of an injury done to a neighbour.

   • 1870, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, page 206:

     Hence the sanctification of the sexual appetite can be regarded as only a single purpose, for which there is not even a point of resemblance in the parallel with the church and her Head, not as the principle task of Christian family morals (Schenkel), as if marriage were ordained as a safeguard against whoremongery or carnal excess, when this is but a single object, or rather a coincident result, even though the main matter is this work of sanctification.

   • 2018, Chuck Stewart, Documents of the LGBT Movement, →ISBN, page 166:

     The only lawful sexual connection is the marriage bed. All other sex activity is whoremongery and adultery, which will damn the soul forever in Hell.