Noted with Pleasure

Virginia Burrus (pg. 64 in her 2004 The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography) on St. Jerome's Paula:

"What Lynda Coon has dubbed ‘the patristic theology of the cosmetic’ is more than a matter of simple inversion. Resisting Jerome, Paula claims her ascetic practice as her own. Seeming to swap beauty for ugliness and pleasure for pain, she is making herself over as the bride of Christ. Her fasts are heroic (17), her illnesses frequent (19). Face furrowed by grief, body practically a corpse, her mortal flesh betrays an immense desire. Good looks disordered, her power to please is out this world."

"Her power to please is out of this world!"

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You go girl, as the young people used to say.