Definition of Prostitution

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Prostitution

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.

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Prostitution Quotations

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman

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

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell

What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Angela Carter

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
Catherine Deneuve

Prostitution Translations

prostitution in German is Hurerei, Prostituition

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