Our episode begins with skipping stories 7.8 and 7.9, for violence against women and against animals, respectively. Instead, we conclude day seven with Dioneo's tale (7.10) of a man returning from the dead to reassure his friend about the sins that are and are not punished in Purgatory. This is followed by two stories (8.1, 8.2) about men who found ways to retrieve the payment they had offered to women in exchange for their attentions. 

CONTENT WARNING: Prejudice against sex work. A repeated theme in the discussion around the second and third stories is that adultery for love is acceptable, while adultery for money should be punished by death. (In the stories, the characters face no real consequences.) Consent issues in the second and third stories: the women agree to have sex on the condition of receiving a payment, which the men trick them out of afterwards.