Top 100 Quotes About Prostitution
#1. He, that same man, after having abandoned her, finds her after a night of orgie, pale and leaden, forever lost, with hunger on her lips and prostitution in her heart.
Alfred De Musset
#2. Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.
Flora Tristan
#3. Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place.
Thomas Aquinas
#4. A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.
Scott Hahn
#5. Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else.
Steven Morrissey
#6. Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. When women tolerate prostitution they are actually tolerating the dehumanisation of their own gender in a broader and more encompassing sense.
Rachel Moran
#8. Let's reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.
Mayim Bialik
#9. Prostitution has the same relationship to trafficking as sex has to rape. One is voluntary, the other is not
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#10. Prostitution is illegal in many places, but porn is not. But what is porn if not sex for money, caught on camera? What the law actually prohibits then is having paid sex in private and not allowing anyone to watch.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#11. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
Thomas Jefferson
#12. I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-being.
LaShawn Harris
#13. Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.
Eric Drooker
#14. Sabine was now sixteen and old enough to begin doing what any girl like her would."
Brazen Mortal crossed her arms over her chest and knowingly said, "Prostitution."
"Wrong. Commercial fishing."
"Really?"
"Noooo," Sabine said. "Fortune-telling.
Kresley Cole
#15. 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
#16. The oldest profession [prostitution] is the most honest, for it exposes the bare bones of what civilization is all about. It's the root of all professions.
Daniel Suelo
#17. As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved.
Carol D. Leonnig
#18. Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are "sex-negative" without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and domination to get laid, and without them the number of fucks would so significantly decrease that men might nearly be chaste.
Andrea Dworkin
#19. Ron Paul is in favor of letting states legalize marijuana, prostitution, and cocaine. So even if he doesn't win, that's going to be one heck of an election night party.
Jay Leno
#20. He would behave in the same way, say the same things, give himself completely to anybody who came along, anybody and everybody who liked to appeal to him. It was despicable, a very insidious form of prostitution.
D.H. Lawrence
#21. Prostitution demoralizes men far more than women. Prostitution does not degrade the whole female sex, but only the luckless women that become its victims, and even those not to the extent generally assumed. But it degrades the character of the entire male world.
Friedrich Engels
#22. What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.
Rachel Moran
#23. My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.
Xaviera Hollander
#24. Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
Honore De Balzac
#25. Economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.
Max Tegmark
#26. In writing the book I wanted to make it very clear that I feel prostitution should be decriminalized. But some people might have breezed by those aspects that others took the time to notice. In All I Could Bare, I hope I relate in a conversational way how stripping is a lot like other types of work.
Craig Seymour
#27. Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.
Colin Bateman
#28. It's interesting because the Thai king says there's no prostitution in Thailand, it doesn't exist, so the prostitutes don't pay taxes. They can work other jobs if they want and put away money, maybe leave when they're 40.
Michael Glawogger
#29. The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.
Virginie Despentes
#30. I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.
Philippe Halsman
#31. The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)
Maxine Hong Kingston
#32. If you ever go to Las Vegas, and you will, just go for a few days. I was there recently for seven days, seven days in Vegas. After I blew all my money on gambling and prostitution, I had six days to kill.
Doug Benson
#33. Even now it is ceasing to be art of the nobleman, and it is quite possible that some day one may find it so common and even vulgar that, along with all party literature and journalism, one would classify it as prostitution of the spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. If prostitution is the oldest profession, then love is the world's oldest problem, and it's a dodgy sport.
Scott Parker
#35. Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.
Robert D. Kaplan
#36. Nothing against prostitution. It keeps civilization running.
Cassandra Clare
#37. This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.
Orson Pratt
#38. 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
#39. It had a long and varied history, mostly involving crime, prostitution and the theater,
Ben Aaronovitch
#40. Most wives fuck their husbands, just to ensure financial support. Marriage is just a form of legalized prostitution, when you really thought about it.
K. Syrah
#41. Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
Emma Goldman
#42. 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
#43. I was shocked, however, to discover that homeschooling is not allowed in the Netherlands. I could only imagine that after legalizing pot, prostitution and gambling, they had to outlaw something.
Quinn Cummings
#44. One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher rates of PTSD? Women who have escaped prostitution. That tells me that the war that men wage against women is actually worse than the wars they wage against each other.
Lierre Keith
#45. The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.
Gail Sheehy
#46. The prophets Hosea, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, for example, often used the metaphors of adultery and prostitution to indict those they accused of being "unfaithful" to God's covenant.
Elaine Pagels
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#52. Here is my personal opinion about prostitution. If men knew how to do it, they wouldn't have to pay for it.
Roseanne Barr
#53. Some degree of prostitution will probably always be with us, but we need not acquiesce to widespread sexual slavery.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#54. I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.
Harriet Martineau
#56. I thought you were opposed to engaging in prostitution to fund our travels."
"That's not what I - is prostitution your answer for everything?
Claudia Gray
#58. In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#59. I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#60. It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.
Ad Reinhardt
#61. No nudity or sex happens at hostess clubs. It's basically like prostitution, but they just hang out with you. I was very confused.
Aziz Ansari
#62. Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?
Larry King
#63. 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
#64. Alas, I soon grew disillusioned, concluding that economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear. Whatever
Max Tegmark
#65. Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.
Georges Bataille
#66. We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?
G.K. Chesterton
#67. Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
Catherine Deneuve
#68. There is an invincible taste for prostitution in the heart of man, from which comes his horror of solitude. He wants to be 'two'. The man of genius wants to be 'one'... It is this horror of solitude, the need to lose oneself in the external flesh, that man nobly calls 'the need to love'.
Charles Baudelaire
#69. How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.
Tom Coburn
#71. A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio.
Jay Leno
#72. If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
Ann Voskamp
#73. I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
Helene Hanff
#74. To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#75. Is it not heavenly irony that God pressed the headman's sword of morals into the hands of the newspaper writers? Perhaps the great God Pan thought they would be the fittest to handle the sword, since they are so intimately associated with mental prostitution.
Various
#76. Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man
Zaman Ali
#77. Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.
Julie Burchill
#78. Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
Melissa Farley
#79. My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take.
Maya Goded
#80. Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.
Jane Fonda
#81. Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
Luke Rhinehart
#82. The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.
Jane Addams
#83. Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
Angela Carter
#84. 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
#85. A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.
Karl Kraus
#86. Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Bertrand Russell
#88. 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
#89. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. Lewis
#90. Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.
Dov Davidoff
#91. Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.
Muhammad Ali
#92. Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression.
Nocturnus Libertus
#93. 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
#94. Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.
Colin Mochrie
#95. You ever think that school dances are a form of legalized prostitution?
Alex Flinn
#96. Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny
#97. I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years. The prostitutes and their world have been the main subjects of my photographs.
Maya Goded
#98. Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.
Peter McWilliams
#99. Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire
#100. Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.
Jonathan Nolan
