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Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. A person selling sexual services is a prostitute.
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- Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this—that there is no horror!
- Aleksandr Kuprin, The Pit, translation by Bernard G. Guerney.
- I can enjoy her while she's kind;
But when she dances in the wind,
And shakes the wings and will not stay,
I puff the prostitute away:
The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd:
Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.- John Dryden, Imitation of Horace (1685), "On Fortune", Book III, Ode 29, l. 81 - 87.
- [in Kenya]...any woman who is single and has multiple male sex partners is considered to be a prostitute, whether or not money changes hands.
- New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.
- [in India] Any sexual intercourse outside socially acceptable unions is likely to be regarded as prostitution.
- New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.
- [In Iran] Under mut'a, it is possible to be 'married' for as little as half an hour.
- New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.
- Egyptian law states that a man who is caught with a prostitute is not imprisoned; instead, his testimony is used to convict and imprison the prostitute.
- New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.
- Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
- Jane Fonda, in Thomas Kiernan, Jane: An Intimate Biography of Jane Fonda (1970).
- Prostitution is organized rape.
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