Disease Quote by Nawal El Saadawi

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

Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral…

— Camille Paglia

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

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should…

— Emma Goldman

“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

Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacred/private between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold…

— Annie Lobert

Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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

— Jane Fonda

“For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal human beings and thus break out…

— Sheila Jeffreys

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

— Georges Bataille

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

— Federica Montseny

Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself...…

— Thomas Szasz