“ Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself was that of cashier. ”
- Jesse Kornbluth- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil… ”
- William Booth- Copy
- 962
“ If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 450
“ The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 1.1K
“ If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters? ”
- Bernard Mandeville- Copy
- 2.1K
“ If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
- 529
“ Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. ”
- Xaviera Hollander- Copy
- 835
“ Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined. ”
- Kate Millet- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. ”
- Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 907
“ Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 105
“ Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual; the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. ”
- Gail Sheehy- Copy
- 4K
“ All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
- 2.3K
“ What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician — these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin. ”
- Polly Adler- Copy
- 4K
“ The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid — these are whores in everything but name… ”
- Polly Adler- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
- 1K
“ Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. Worst of all, prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichTs about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be DONE TO, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another… ”
- Julie Burchill- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 792
“ I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all drugs and tax them same way as you do alcohol… ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it. ”
- Joseph Howe- Copy
- 3.9K
“ My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm — as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
- 2.7K
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