512. Their fate after death is like this. The rapists then of their own accord separate themselves from those whose sexual love is limited, and completely from those who have conjugial love, and so from heaven. Later they are sent to the craftiest whores, who not merely by persuasion, but by a perfect piece of acting can imitate and represent themselves as models of chastity. They can very well tell which are the men who have that lust. In their presence they talk about chastity and how precious it is; and when the rapist approaches and touches them, they become furious, and take refuge, as if terrified, in a room where there is a couch or bed, lightly barring the door behind them while they lie down. From that position they use their skill to excite the rapist to an overbearing passion to break down the door, rush in and assault them. When this happens, the whore sits up and begins to fight the rapist punching and scratching, scoring his face and tearing his clothes, and shouting out in a frenzied voice to her fellow whores, as if calling on servants for help, 'Thief, robber, murderer!' While the rapist is achieving his purpose she weeps and wails, and then after the rape she throws herself on the floor wailing and crying 'Horrors!' Then in a serious voice she threatens the rapist that unless he pays a heavy fine for his rape, she will encompass his ruin. While they are engaged in this theatrical love-scene, they look at a distance like cats, which before mating fight, run about and wail in much the same way.
[2] After a number of such bawdy contests they are taken out and transferred to a cavern, where they are set to some task. But because of their foul smell, the result of having dispelled the marriage principle which is the jewel of human life, they are banished to the borders of the western region. There seen at a distance they look emaciated, as if made of bones covered only with skin, and from far off like panthers. When I was allowed to see them rather closer, I was surprised to find some of them holding books in their hands and reading. I was told that this was because in the world they had had plenty to say about the spiritual things of the church; yet they had befouled them by their acts of adultery, which they took to the extremes mentioned, and the correspondence of this lust was with the violation of the spiritual marriage. But it should be known that those who have this lust are few and far between. Certain it is that women repeatedly resist, because it is unbecoming for them to prostitute their love, and their resistance gives them strength. But still this is not due to a lust for being raped.
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