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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 .'
See Also: old firm, on the stroll, on the street(s), on the pavement, pussy game, on the back, on the hip, on the bat, necessary evil, night job, old patrol, on the battle, sell one's charms, sell one's flesh, sell one's hips, sell one's favors, sell favors, sell one's body, sell one's desires, soliciting, state prostitution, street-tricking, tail-biz, tail trading, tricking, trading on her bottom, ass business, bi-trade, flesh trade, flesh peddling, harlot's trade, horizontal life, love for sale, life of infamy, life of shame, in the business, in the biz, in the line, in the trade, into the trade, harlotry, hawking her meat, hawking, go into the streets, go on track, fluttering her skirt, fast life, do massage work, do escort work, be a pro, be a professional, be in the life, turn tricks, turning tricks, social evil, strut one's stuff, social vice, sell one's butt, sell one's bacon, sell oneself, sexploitation, sinful commerce, slow strack, sell one's ass, sell one's back, on the block, on the grind, on the turf, on the bottle, on the business, on the batter, man's perdition, pound the block, peddling her hips, wholesale, work the street(s), turned out, work, work the door, zoo, white meat turkey on pumpernickel, whore-shop, window-tapping, women's house, vanilla, chocolate and pecan, vanilla and chocolate, peter pan, onery house, orbit, out-call service, poontang palace, public house, put (one) on the block, put (one) on the corner, pussy palace, Minnesota strip, meat factory, old fashioned, second oldest profession, rig a jig, road game, rose among thorns, RR 3, RR 2, RR 1, Rural Route 2, Rural Route 3, Rural Route 1, sink of iniquity, slut hut, shebang, shine stand, sex ring, a, solicit someone, sporting house, springer, square up, stud-service, track one, tail around, turn a date, turkey money, take out insurance, talk game, telephone trade, assignation house, basis, bat house, accommodation house, beat a trick, blue chamber district, break luck, car-hop, cast the net, champagne trick, do the milk run, choose(-up), clit closet, commercial trade, commercial sex workers, creep, crib district, cruise for trade, curb service, georgiaed, drive one's hos, extras, Georgia, get stiffed, getting down, go below 14 th Street, hot house, Greek trade, head date, house of all nations, house of enjoyment, house of sale, house of ill fame, house of convenience, house of delight, house of pleasure, house of lewdness, house in the suburbs, house of ill repute, house of profession, house of call, house of fame, house of ill delight, income tax, house of sin, house of shame, house of vulgar resort, house of civil reception, house of tolerance, immoral house, lighthouse, kiddy freak, lay the note, lewd house, loose-love center, hooking, life, maison de joie, maison de tolérance, main avenue, knocking-shop, knocking-joint, knocking-house, live by the trade, live one, in-call, house of prostitution, hurry whore, jag house, jelly bean, kick for trade, house of joy, hook house, hook joint, hard-leg (whore), hot hole, go on the batter, goosing slum, goosing ranch, hawk one's pearly, hawk one's brown, hawk one's meat, hawk one's mutton, hawk the mutton, family hotel, fast track, enforcer, gentoo house, flash panny, forty/five, freak trick, fuck-house, gaff, cop and blow, double, cow-bag, cow yard, dirty spot, disorderly house, dive, chippie house, chippie joint, chippy-house, chippy-joint, cat house detail, cat house, cavaulting school, casa, cake-shop, blind tiger, blind pig, bayadere, bawd's house, band-house, band-box, big dick from Boston, big legs, temple of love, Temple of Venus, turn a trick, traffic in flesh, unbetty, unslough, turnpike, sugar hill, spoiling house, snuggling-ken, scatter, seraglietto, sightseer, smoongy, snake ranch, round house, menace to decent women, menace to society, menace to decent society, milk cow, missionary, marathon, mother damnable, nautch house, nautch joint, no freak, notch joint, notch house, occupational hazard, precheck, red scatter, pull a trick, push ponies, out-call, ownio, pheasantry, play center, peddle one's meat, patriotute, peddle pussy, peddle one's wares, peddle one's ass, peddle one's hips, peddle one's butt, vaulting house, vaulting school, Victory girl, walk-up, walk the pavement, wank house, warm shop, work a crib, work from the book, wop shop, whoremistress, works, the, world's oldest profession, work in a brothel, whoredom, palliardy, part-timer, pound the pavement, pound the sidewalk, pound the street, red-light house, rent-a-body business, red-light, Mrs. Warren's profession, moonlighting, night work, on the bash, on the loose, sacking, see company, selling customhouse goods, stew(s), straight trick, street of shame, streets, streetwalking, turf, bitchery, biz, be on the loose, be on the game, battle, cover the waterfront, curb crawling, curb crawl, gay life, house, horizontal, in the game, loose,
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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