英语听力：探索发现 2014-03-21 Sex for Sale -2

 There is no doubt that Catholic churches had a contentious¹ relationship with sex and prostitution. The modern church feels that sexual act is sacred within a contested married relationship, and that all sexual acts outside the marriage are great things. But it wasn't always that way. At the dawn of the Middle Ages, the church thought sex in a different light.

-In there for century, the Catholic church begins to massively rise to power and becomes one of defining forces in European culture, European governments, and European life. As the church's attempting to gaining power, one of those things they have to deal with is the fact of sexuality. Sex outside of marriage was not allowed. But Catholic church realizes they could not inhibit² sex entirely³. Nor could they inhibit the sale of sex entirely, so they thought it as a necessary evil that needed to be accounted for in limited ways.

So what did they do about it?

-The church fathers developed a justification⁴ for allowing prostitution. They are saying, OK. Prostitution is wrong, but prostitutes are necessary.

-The Catholic church continued to sanction prostitution and in fact often promote prostitution by creating brothels of their own. They are in Europe.

That's right. The Catholic church owned and operated brothel.

1 contentious   

adj.好辩的，善争吵的

参考例句：

• She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
• Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。

2 inhibit   

vt.阻止，妨碍，抑制

参考例句：

• Don't let ego and greed inhibit clear thinking and hard work.不要让自我和贪婪妨碍清晰的思维和刻苦的工作。
• They passed a law to inhibit people from parking in the street.他们通过一项法令以阻止人们在街上停车。

3 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

4 justification   

n.正当的理由；辩解的理由

参考例句：

• There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units. 没有理由把公司划分成小单位。
• In the young there is a justification for this feeling. 在年轻人中有这种感觉是有理由的。