Colonization Quote by Melissa Farley

“It is folly to buy into the argument that prostitution empowers women. If anything, it imprisons them, and legalization will exploit even more women…

— Victor Malarek

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

— Frederick Lenz

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

— Alexander Chee

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

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men…

— Bertrand Russell

“The effect of legalised prostitution on women outside prostitution is to lower the status of all women. Women are recognised by the state in…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

— Georges Bataille

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

— Emma Goldman

“Prostitution, perversion, and pornography are intertwined with independence and radical politics in the history of outstanding women. Radclyffe Hall, Colette, Anaïs Nin, Kate Millett,…

— Pat Califia

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

— Melissa Farley

“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

When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex…

— Margo St. James