PROSTITUTION QUOTES
quotations about prostitution
The only way to stop this trafficking in and profiting from the use of women's bodies is for prostitution to be legalized. Legalization will open it up to regulation; and regulation means safety.
JEANNETTE ANGELL
Callgirl
Prostitution will always lead into a moral quagmire in democratic societies with capitalist economies; it invades the terrain of intimate sexual relations yet beckons for regulation. A society's response to prostitution goes to the core of how it chooses between the rights of some persons and the protection of others.
BARBARA MEIL HOBSON
Uneasy Virtue
Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.
WOODY ALLEN
Deconstructing Harry
Further legalisation is the wrong approach. When the sex industry is legal, demand goes up.
BLAKE YOUNG
"Talking Point: We would best be freed from the scourge of sex work", The Mercury, January 12, 2017
Any a poor shivering woman, walking the streets by night in sorrow and shame, is infinitely less a sinner than many a courted fashionable lady, who would spurn her as an unclean reptile.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Fallen Women", Short Essays
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
ANGELA CARTER
Nights at the Circus
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.
JERRY FALWELL
Crossfire, May 17, 1997
Prostitution is a serious, ugly, social phenomenon. Young women do this connected to the fact that they cannot survive any other way and that is a problem of society.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
"Vladimir Putin dismisses Donald Trump dossier claims as 'rubbish'", CNN, January 18, 2017
Marriage is for woman 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 and Morals
[Prostitution] isn't inherently immoral, any more than running a company like Enron is inherently immoral. It's how you do it that counts. And the reality is that it's going to happen anyway. It's not called the world's oldest profession for nothing. Why not make it, at the very least, safe and productive?
JEANNETTE ANGELL
"A Wellness Perspective on Prostitution, Freedom, Religion, and More", Seek Wellness, April 30, 2005
People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
The Art of War
I think prostitution should be legal, because the way any society treats prostitutes reflects directly on how it treats the highest, most powerful woman. They treat us like we're all prostitutes--that we can be bought. But you have to be a real strong woman to be a prostitute. You do. And a real intelligent woman. I don't like it when women talk down other women because they're prostitutes. I'm for prostitute rights. It's always been here, and women should be able to control it, and regulate it, and have some f***ing protection.... Prostitution is a business. It's not about wanton women, from medieval times. It's a f***ing way to make money.
ROSEANNE BARR
"The Real Roseanne", Vanity Fair, February 15, 1994
Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
KATE MILLETT
Sexual Politics
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
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Throughout our conversations with young men who had visited prostitutes, their main worry was about the "shame" of talking about their experiences. None of the boys said they were worried about the women with whom they were having sex.
NACHO CARRETERO
"Why Spain's brothels are filling up with 20-year-old johns", El Pais, January 12, 2017
As you hope for mercy, be merciful to your erring sisters, strive when in your power to lead them back to the paths of virtue, and in so doing you will place a crown of beauty, a diadem of glory, around your own brow. If you but knew how the hearts of many among them yearned to leave their abandoned life, and once more eat the bread of honest industry; if you knew how they loathed the life they are leading, which so often ends in a suicide's grave, you would strive by kindness to save them at the eleventh hour.
T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH
"On Fallen Women", Short Essays
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
interview, Playboy, November 1999
If nobody wants to sell sex, it is a crime to force anyone to do so. But when men or women do want to sell their bodies, they should have that full right without encountering punishment or discrimination. If the client behaves decently, the relationship between the sex buyer and the sex seller must be considered a purely private transaction.
NILS JOHAN RINGDAL
Love For Sale
Prostitution exists today because women are objectified sexually, and because it is considered more permissible for men than for women to have purely sexual experiences.
RUTH MAZO KARRAS
Common Women
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
Les Misérables