Prostitution Quotes

• The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Agreement, Humanity

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• Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Reality, Trouble, Happens

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• a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Girl, Hate, Poverty

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• Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Marriage, Body, Married

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• 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

  Wisdom, Civilization, Names

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Prostitutes have feelings; they are very human. They hurt, bleed cry and laugh just like you and me. To the people that want to legalize prostitution: Let me ask you a question. If you want to legalize it, would you now let your daughter/niece/grand daughter/sister do this? Why not sign them up for what you want legalized? And if not, WHY not? Does it make them too human for you now?

  Annie Lobert

  Daughter, Hurt, Niece

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• Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

  Moliere

  Love, Funny, Money

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• Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?

  Gloria Allred

  Done, Immoral, Paid

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• I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.

  Steve Martin

  Love, Funny, Beautiful

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• Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

  Lucan

  Mother, Poverty, Manhood

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• Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

  Saint Augustine

  Lust, Atheism, Capricious

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• When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

  Xaviera Hollander

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• Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Mean, Men, Disease And Death

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.84, Zed Books

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• What is art? Prostitution.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sarcastic, Art

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

  Emma Goldman

  Doe, Body, Facts

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

  William Booth

  Careers, Income, Profession

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

  Kate Millett

  Law, Two, People

  Kate Millett (1976). “The prostitution papers: "A quartet for female voice"”

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• One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Differences, Deals

  Letters from aWar Zone: Writings 1976 - 1989 "Feminism: An Agenda" (1988).

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• The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

  Isabel Paterson

  Race, Would Be, Half

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.93, Transaction Publishers

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• Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold just like any object. But prostitutes are people, not objects to be consumed, used and discarded like trash when they are no longer doing what each client/trafficker wants.

  Annie Lobert

  Sex, Two, People

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• Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Men, Fame, Conditions

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• Prostitution will always exist in every society, so I believe in a fair trade. Open the doors for women to earn their money without having pimps. The worst thing is to criminalize it, because then you open the doors for pimps, criminals, and trading.

  Michael Glawogger

  Believe, Doors, Pimp

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.

  Jesse Ventura

  Girl, Running, Law

  Interview in "Playboy", November 1999.

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• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Hilarious, Military

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• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  Federica Montseny

  Moral, Problem, Economic

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