Capitalism Quote by David Simon

I think sex work gets over-mystified and overcomplicated because it's about sexuality, and women's sexuality in general. What strikes me when I look at…

— Melissa Gira Grant

This is the hardest thing to articulate: I think that there is a legitimate space for sexual commerce. And like every other industry, particularly…

— Melissa Gira Grant

Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've always wanted…

— Kate Bornstein

Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus…

— Catharine Beecher

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

— Julie Burchill

I think the anti-prostitution feminists need to do some consciousness-raising amongst themselves about their feelings. But that's a different political activity. Asking ourselves, how…

— Melissa Gira Grant

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

— Margaret Halsey

Most people aren't encouraged to think of their labor as very valuable. We usually think of it as the necessary thing we engage in…

— Melissa Gira Grant

...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a…

— Michelle Tea

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

— Ludwig Von Mises

What shocked me was three different anti-prostitution feminists asking me to justify that I had been a sex worker, to prove it. That either…

— Melissa Gira Grant

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…

— Flora Tristan