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Delilah was used as another name for a prostitute from old times until fairly recently. It has also been used like many people use the french word for a female dog that starts with a "B." In the Biblical story it wasn't that she was just a prostitute, although why somebody would think that is an empowering association to saddle their daughter with is beyond me. She insisted that if her boyfriend truly loved her he would tell her the secret of his strength. Apparently, he did love her enough to trust her, and she promptly sold his life for the highest price she could get and helped his enemies capture him. His eyes were put out and he was used in place as an ox to grind grain and subject to ridicule and torture as a political captive. If she had helped the Philistines capture him out of a sense of patriotism or something, people would think better of her, but from the story, she had not objection to sleeping with Samson or having a relationship with him and only betrayed him when offered a pile of gold. She had a lot more options than Mata Hari. Actually, Mata Hari would be a classier courtesan association.

This message was edited 7/29/2015, 12:58 PM