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Quotes About Prostitution

Oh I don't plan on getting married. It's a legalized form of prostitution.
~ Candace Bushnell
Prostitution] is ultimately an experience we all share. But diluted. I think many of us, maybe all of us, are really selling and not knowing we're doing it. The question lies than in who among us could stand, or will have to stand on Broadway tonight.
~ Kate Millett
Alexander Liholiho, deeply concerned with the fate of his people, worked hard to establish Queen's Hospital at Honolulu, and soon after the hospital opened the legislature passed an act ordering prostitutes to register and submit to medical inspection.
~ Gavan Daws
The very term "skid row" comes from Seattle's skid road, a logging skid at the center of a large liquor and prostitution industry.)
~ Bruce Barcott
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
~ Catherine Deneuve
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
~ Lord Hailsham
I am a prostitute. I don't want to know the client. I just want money, lots of money. My seed rises into the glorious eruption of a majestic orgasm when I picture the Divine Dali rolling in money. - Salvador Dalí
~ Carlos Lozano
Because what touches His heart is not how much we know, but how much we love. Not how pure we are, but how passionate. Maybe that is why, when Pharisees were fighting over theology, prostitutes were falling at the Savior's feet and slipping into the kingdom of God on their tears.
~ Ken Gire
You don't know what it is to want a man, any man. I wish I could discover some respectable male prostitutes, like civil servants or university dons who do it in their spare time for a bit of pocket money, there must be such people.
~ Iris Murdoch
In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I got up on time this morning, boarded the train, changed to the subway, and worked like an aggressive career woman in one of the biggest corporations around. At night I transformed into a prostitute sought out by men. Suddenly I remembered the argument I had had earlier with Arai and stopped short. I'm a company employee day and night. Or is it that I'm a prostitute night and day? Which is it? Which one is me?
~ Natsuo Kirino
Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Mitä on rakkaus? Tarve tulla ulos itsestään. Ihminen on palvova eläin. Palvominen on itsensä uhraamista ja prostituoimista. Niin on kaikki rakkaus prostituutiota. Kaikista olennoista prostituoiduin on korkein olento, Jumala, koska hän on jokaisen yksilön ylin ystävä, koska hän on rakkauden yhteinen, ehtymätön lähde.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Si hubiera nacido mujer seguro que hubiera sido una prostituta. Como había nacido hombre, anhelaba constantemente mujeres, cuanto más guarras mejor. Y sin embargo las mujeres, las buenas mujeres, me daban miedo porque a veces querían tu alma, y lo poco que quedaba de la mía, quería conservarlo para mí. Básicamente deseaba prostitutas, porque eran duras, sin esperanzas, y no pedían nada personal. Nada se perdía cuando ellas se iban.
~ Charles Bukowski
Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.
~ Dustin Hoffman
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.
~ Thomas Stearns Eliot
The earliest records of prostitution show that it took place in temples: to visit a prostitute was to make paeans to the goddess.
~ Teela Sanders
gender and power relations have been central to theoretical frameworks that attempt to understand prostitution
~ Teela Sanders
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
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
~ Bertrand Russell
The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.
~ Alexander Chee