Isabel Allende

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Chilean Writer

Samantha Morton

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

English Actress

Thomas Jane

Places where prostitution is legal, you find much better health care, fewer cases of disease and illegal abortions. There's really nothing to be gained by keeping prostitution illegal.

American Actor

Victor Hugo

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.

French Author

Karl Kraus

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

Austrian Writer

Peter Coyote

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Moliere

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

French Playwright

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

Iraqi Public Servant

Harry Anderson

Is now the time to legalize prostitution?

Charles Baudelaire

French Poet

Talking about prostitution can be sensitive due to negative views many people have.

Social Stigma

Laws on prostitution vary greatly by country, so it's a term linked to legal debate.

Legal Context

Prostitution is sometimes not a choice; it's important to grasp this situation's gravity.

Not Voluntary

When used metaphorically, prostitution suggests unworthy use of skills or artistry.

Figurative Use

Metaphorically, prostitution carries negative connotations; often implies corruption.

Negative Connotation

It's typically used to suggest that someone is profiting in a dishonorable way.

Personal Gain

 had just two boats which could go at the same speed. And this is very important, because the only way you can catch these guys is if they run out of gas. Sometimes the gangsters would bring with them women being trafficked into prostitution, and if the police intervened, they would hurl

Misha Glenny investigates...

 said that they had been raped or assaulted by the police in the past year alone. People in prostitution, including people who have been trafficked into it, regularly receive multiple convictions for prostitution. Having that criminal record makes it so much more difficult

Noy Thrupkaew: Human...

 We had a memorable fight. Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world, who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor.

Isabel Allende: Tales of...

 daughter and all of us here today but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage prostitution forced labor they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed they

Tales of passion -...

 illegitimate children, even drug abuse, prostitution in countries where women drive is higher than countries where women don't drive. I know, I was like this, I was shocked. I was like, "We are the last country in the world

A Saudi woman who dared...

 especially wives, who are afraid of being seen as bad women if they show some spark in the bedroom. And then there are those whose marriages are actually a veil for prostitution. They have been sold by their families,

A little-told tale of...

 Paul was not a drug dealer in the usual sense he was an activist he believed that drug use was like prostitution and ingrained aspect of any advanced culture that could never be wiped out by

Prohibition criminalizes...

 who'll later become a full citizen. Needless to say that music is the number one prevention against prostitution, violence, bad habits, and everything degrading in the life of a child.

José Antonio Abreu: The...

 Geographic until then so in the end maybe I didn't change the world but that world changed me profoundly and irrevocably I don't I don't look at prostitution as a victimless crime

Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...

 prostitution penguin style histones they will mate with single males in return for the small stones essential to build their nest