prostitution:
To engage in promiscuous sex for money .ETYMOLOGY: From the Latin prostituere , to place before, expose publicly, offer for sale.
See prostitution [SYN] for synonyms.
QUOTES:
(1) Madeline/Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich) to Doc/Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook) in Shanghai Express (1932): ' It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily .'
(2) Ruby (Mae West) in Belle of the Nineties (1934): ' A man in the house is worth two in the streets .'
(3) Would-be model-actress and part-time prostitute Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) to her therapist (Vivian Nathan) about seing her friend, an ex-prostitute, now a junkie living in squalor in Klute (1971): ' I was trying to get away from a world I had known because I didn't think it was very good for me and I found myself looking up it's ass .'
(4) George Segal, a writer, to his neighbor Barbra Streisand, a hooker , in The Owl and the Pussycat (1970): ' You're a fine example of capitalism at-its most efficient. You merely take natural resources, add the cost of labor, and sell the product for a reasonable profit .'
(5) Lawyer (Donn Whyte) and Xaviera Hollander (Joey Heatherton) appearing before a Senate Committtee on 'Sexual Excesses in America' in The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977):
-- Lawyer: ' Please state for the committee your business .'
-- Xaviera: ' Pleasure .'
(6) Claudia Draper (Barbra Streisand) prefers prostitution to handouts from her parents in Nuts (1987): ' It hurts less to sell yourself to strangers .'
(7) Tamara Broder (Anjelica Huston) in Enemies. A Love Story (1989): ' Men love virgins. If every man had his way every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin .'
(8) Oriental saying: ' Woman cannot make living with left leg / Woman cannot make living with right leg / But between them she does all right .'
(9) (Max) Kleinman (Woody Allen) and the prostitute (Jodie Foster) in Shadows and Fog (1992):
-- Kleinman: ' I never paid for sex in my life .'
-- Prostitute: ' You just think you haven't .'
(10) Robert Reisner. Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing : ' Wipe out male prostitution ; adopt a hustler today. Get murdered tonight .'
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one's back, sell one's bacon, sell one's body, sell one's butt, sell one's charms, sell one's desires, sell one's favors, sell one's flesh, sell one's hips, sell oneself, selling customhouse goods, seraglietto, seraglio, seventy-eight, sex ring, a, sexploitation, shebang, shine stand, short timer, sightseer, sin bin, sinful commerce, sink of iniquity, sit for company, skanky, slaughter house, slow strack, slut hut, smoongy, snake pit, snake ranch, snoozing-ken, snuggling-ken, social evil, social vice, solicit someone, soliciting, spoiling house, sporting house, springer, square up, stand up job, star of the line, state prostitution, stew(s), straight date, straight trick, street of shame, street-tricking, streets, streetwalking, strut one's stuff, stud-service, sugar hill, tail around, tail trading, tail-biz, take out insurance, talk game, tea room trade, tearoom trade, telephone trade, temple of love, Temple of Venus, thirty-three, tom, TOS, track one, trade, trading on her bottom, 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Quotes Containing prostitution:
Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ''Heavily reinforced by advertising, which uses women''s sexuality to sell everything from razo blades to cars, this concept has had invidious results: prostitution , rape, laws and societies that "protect" women and relegate them to the status of children, words and attitudes that label women solely by their sexuality, even murder when the mythic cultural promise that women exist for the sexual pleasure of men goes unfulfilled.''
Rosalie Maggio, The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage (1991): ''Heavily reinforced by advertising, which uses women''s sexuality to sell everything from razo blades to cars, this concept has had invidious results: prostitution , rape, laws and societies that "protect" women and relegate them to the status of children, words and attitudes that label women solely by their sexuality, even murder when the mythic cultural promise that women exist for the sexual pleasure of men goes unfulfilled.''
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