Prostitution Quotes - Page 2

• Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

  Woody Allen

  Speak, Hell, Beats

  Woody Allen (1998). “Deconstructing Harry”

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• Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

  Jane Fonda

  Competition, Importance, Inevitable

  "Jane: An Intimate Biography of Jane Fonda". Book by Thomas Kiernan, 1970.

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• What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Differences, Wife

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• 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

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Hate, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

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• Love has no thought of self!
  Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold
  The loathsome prostitution of a hand
  Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things
  To bless the thing it loves!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Noble, Taste

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• Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.

  Jerry Falwell

  Atheist, Sex, Stupid

  "Crossfire", May 17, 1997.

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• Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.

  Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

  Oratory, Littles, Tricks

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• Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Academia

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.8, Random House

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• If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

  Ann Voskamp

  Church, Body, Ifs

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• When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.

  Margo St. James

  Sex, Men, Weapons

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• Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés 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. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• 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

  Country, Moral Corruption, Literature

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• I'd rather be in Las Vegas 104 degrees than New York 90 degrees, you know why? Legalized prostitution. In any weather that takes the edge off.

  Ray Romano

  New York, Vegas, Weather

  "Fictional character: Patient #3 to Dr. Katz". "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist", 1995–2002.

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• I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Rain, Heart, Sight

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• 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

  Marriage, Sex, Feminist

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.94, Routledge

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• Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

  Georges Bataille

  Attitude, Apotheosis, Feminine

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• Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

  Melissa Farley

  Climate, Social, Harm

  "Attitudes Toward Prostitution and Acceptance of Rape Myths". Journal of Applied Social Psychology Vol. 32, issue 9, Abstract, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. September 2002.

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• You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

  Xaviera Hollander

  Call Me, Mercenary, Customers

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• Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

  Tina Fey

  Jobs, Inexperience, Virtue

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• Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Merit

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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• In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War

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• Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Girl, Power, Opportunity

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• Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.

  Candace Bushnell

  Married, Form, Plans

  Candace Bushnell (2014). “The Carrie Diaries and Summer in the City”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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