Prostitution

Proverbs regarding gigolo, harlot, hustler, lechery, looseness, promiscuity, prostitution, seduction.

These proverbs almost invariably refer to females prostitutes, but the same can apply to male prostitutes.

Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.
None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
Prov. 2:11-19 (read whole chapter)
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.
Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.
So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.
Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.
And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
And you will say, "How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.
I almost came to complete ruin in the midst of the whole congregation!"
Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?
Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife -
a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?
For the ways of a person are in front of the LORD's eyes, and the LORD weighs all that person's paths.
The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.
Prov. 5:1-23 (read whole chapter)
by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.
Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?
Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
Prov. 6:24-29 (read whole chapter)
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding a close relative,
so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.
For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out
and I saw among the naive - I discerned among the youths - a young man who lacked wisdom.
He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house
in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
(She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home -
at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait. )
So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,
"I have fresh meat at home; today I have fulfilled my vows!
That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you!
I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt.
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Come, let's drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let's delight ourselves with sexual intercourse.
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.
He has taken a bag of money with him; he will not return until the end of the month."
She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.
Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare
till an arrow pierces his liver - like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Prov. 7:4-23 (read whole chapter)
She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.
Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare
till an arrow pierces his liver - like a bird hurrying into a trap, and he does not know that it will cost him his life.
Prov. 7:21-23 (read whole chapter)
The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.
So she sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,
calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way.
"Whoever is simple, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.
"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"
But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.
Prov. 9:13-18 (read whole chapter)
The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
Prov. 22:14 (read whole chapter)
Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;
for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.
Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
Prov. 23:26-28 (read whole chapter)
Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.
Prov. 31:3 (read whole chapter)