212 Quotes About Prostitution

For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal human beings and thus break out of their subordinate status, is undermined by the ability of men to escape from the responsibility of acknowledging women's equality. Men's use of women in prostitution stands directly in the way of women's efforts to improve their status.

She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

Some women sleep their way to the top. Most men sleep their way to the bottom.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself

Like clutch ballplayers, prostitutes perform beautifully in the awkward spaces.

A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be particularly 'sex positive' at work. These factors are structural, not a function of the worker's state of enlightenment.

Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest if not always the best. If prostituted women worked together to end male supremacy, it would end. Surviving degradation is an ongoing process that gives you rights, honor and knowledge, because you earn them.

Wenn wir das Gewicht der Erklärung von den Opfern auf deren Fänger verlagern, entdecken wir, dass das "älteste Gewerbe" nicht Prostitution, sondern Zuhälterei ist.

Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who’s really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place?" - excerpt from: freefalling