prostitution quotes

A man wants what a woman hassex. He can steal it (rape), persuade her to give it away (seduction), rent it (prostitution), leaseit over thelong term (marriage inthe United States), or own it outright (marriage in most societies).

- Andrea Dworkin
  In Ms, vol.5, no.6, Dec. Collected as 'Phallic Imperialism: why economicrecovery will not work for us'in Letters from a War Zone (1988).

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

- Andrea Dworkin
  In The A.B.C.s of Reading, winter issue. Collected as 'Feminism:  An  Agenda' in Letters from a War Zone (1988).

Prostitution. Selling one's body to keep one's soul†one might say of most modern marriages that they were selling one's soul to keep one's body.

- Sir (Edward Montague) Compton MacKenzie
  The Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, bk.2, ch.5.

Necessity never makes prostitution the business of men's lives; though numberless are the women who are thus rendered systematically vicious.

- Mary also known as Mrs Godwin Wollstonecraft
  AVindication of the Rights ofWoman, pt.1, ch.4.