Entry 180

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

P.J. O'Rourke

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

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
ANGELA CARTER

Marriage is for woman 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

If nobody wants to sell sex, it is a crime to force anyone to do so. But when men or women do want to sell their bodies, they should have that full right without encountering punishment or discrimination. If the client behaves decently, the relationship between the sex buyer and the sex seller must be considered a purely private transaction.
NILS JOHAN RINGDAL

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she doews it. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America.

Gail Sheehy

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. Lawrence

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick

Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.
Xaviera Hollander