The Honest Whore

Bodily decay is emphasized quite a bit in Dekker's play. Hippolito constantly conjures images of Infelice's rotting corpse being taken over by worms and he also mentions flesh-eating venereal diseaese in his several critiques of prostitution. Can we connect this emphasis on decaying flesh with prostitution - or the plying of "fleshy" wares - i which the play is so interested? Does the fact of human flesh - perhaps most as it is manifested in the hymen of a midenhead - usurp all other truths in this play?