{"quotes":[{"text":"Abel. I can’t let you…sell your body.”“The transaction is closer to a rental.","author":"Claudia Gray","tags":["humor","prostitution","rental","robot","sci-fi"],"id":1615,"author_id":"Claudia+Gray"},{"text":"Dating is no charge prostitution.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["charge","dating","prostitution"],"id":28155,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"...It really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must look at some of those girls and see only the alienation and disaffection that hides their on fears and hurt.","author":"Sophie Hayes","tags":["alienation","disaffection","prostitution","stereotyping","stigma","teenagers"],"id":36442,"author_id":"Sophie+Hayes"},{"text":"She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.","author":"Lauren DeStefano","tags":["dark","prostitution","sad"],"id":55485,"author_id":"Lauren+DeStefano"},{"text":"We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. You sell your body or you sell your mind, and the Cartesian mind/body thing is a fallacy anyway, your mind is just your brain, so it amounts to the same thing really.","author":"M. Thomas Gammarino","tags":["capitalism","mind-body-problem","prostitution"],"id":65790,"author_id":"M.+Thomas+Gammarino"},{"text":"Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["contribution","diploma","education","employment","family","money","prostitutes","prostitution","womb"],"id":74066,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"To live only for pleasure is to die while living.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adultery","advice","die","inspiration","life","living","prostitution","sin","wisdom"],"id":76570,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.","author":"Anne Bishop","tags":["education","prostitution"],"id":78847,"author_id":"Anne+Bishop"},{"text":"Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza...","author":"Lola Smirnova","tags":["luxemburg","novel","prostitution","true-story","ukraine"],"id":115967,"author_id":"Lola+Smirnova"},{"text":"The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called Sheila's Front Porch, Tawny's High Five Ranch and Miss Delilah's House of Holies.'Nice,' Rachel said as we surveyed the scene. 'why are these places always named after women -- as if women actually own them?'You got me. I guess Mister Dave's House of Holies wouldn't go over so well with the guys.'Rachel smiled.'You're right. I guess it's a shrewd move. Name a place of female degradation and slavery after a female and it doesn't sound so bad, does it? It's packaging.","author":"Michael Connelly","tags":["appearances","brothels","degradation","exploitation","marketing","prostitution","slavery","women"],"id":117190,"author_id":"Michael+Connelly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}