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21 " 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. "
― M. Thomas Gammarino , Big in Japan: A (Hungry) Ghost Story
22 " The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'. "
― Richard von Krafft-Ebing , Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
23 " The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need of a brothel, to exercise their profession. "
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24 " Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.) "
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke , The Eclipse: A Memoir Of Suicide
25 " Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out. "
― David Foster Wallace , Infinite Jest
26 " You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. " Why? I'm all those things and more." I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel. "
27 " Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do? "
