Prostitution Quotes

When the stocks go up, the cocks go up!

— Xaviera Hollander

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

— Harry Anderson

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

— Luke Rhinehart

Love doesn't pay bills, unless you're a prostitute.

— Anonymous

Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

— Hans Eysenck

“Dating is no charge prostitution.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I can love what is broken.”

— Carla H. Krueger

“At night all cats are grey.”

— George Orwell

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

— Dov Davidoff

Prostitutes are way better than marriage. Why buy a whole cow, when you only want a glass of milk?

— Anonymous

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

— Candace Bushnell

“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

— Saint Augustine

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

— Jane Addams

Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.

— Najib Razak

“Though it sounds vulgar, selling something that should be a gift is precisely what prostitution is.”

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

— Julia Ward Howe

“You know she’s a liar if she says she’s never done it for ten bucks. We’ve all done it. Practically giving it…

— Darlenne Susan Girard

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting…

— Orson Pratt

Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself was that…

— Jesse Kornbluth

The last four secretaries of defense have pointed out that defense spending creates jobs. So do pornography, prostitution, and narcotics.

— Michael Parenti

“We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.”

— Jane Hersey

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

— William Booth

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

— Jane Fonda

“The Ritz Hotel was grand, sophisticated, and established, unlike me. The only thing we had in common was façade. Mine may not…

— Aiden Shaw

“Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still…

— Ludwig Von Mises

Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible…

— Julie Burchill

I would never want to take away the option of sex work from someone, but I would want to create more options…

— Emily Symons

“They all come in by themselves" Big Eve told her customers " & nobody is working here as a prostitute against her…

— Nicholas Chong

The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long…

— Gail Sheehy

I respect people who come forward and speak, but I'm not asking most of the sex workers I interview now about their…

— Melissa Gira Grant

I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of…

— Camille Paglia

“Maybe he'd never come across anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an…

— Aiden Shaw

It's a misnomer to say you can criminalize one part of the transaction and not criminalize the entire transaction. For example in…

— Melissa Gira Grant

“Government neglect and endemic poverty means that, aside from the constant hassle tourists must suffer from the legion of touts, many of…

— John R. Bradley

In the current situation with criminalization, we've created situations where sex workers have very little power and control over their lives. Increasing…

— Melissa Gira Grant

Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are…

— Isabel Allende

The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their…

— D. H. Lawrence

If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some…

— Baron d'Holbach

If you're a prostitute, this is your day: You party, you have customers until four or six in the morning, then you…

— Michael Glawogger