The greatest damage done by advertising is precisely that it incessantly demonstrates the prostitution of men and women who lend their intellects, their voices, their artistic skills to purposes in which they themselves do not believe and that it teaches the essential meaninglessness of all creations of the mind; words, images and ideas.
I have been exploring [Mexico City's] La Merced, [a public market famous for prostitution,] on and off for the last 23 years. The prostitutes and their world have been the main subjects of my photographs.
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.
Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.
I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.
The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.
Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.
How is it that we have sodomy protected under that due process but prostitution unprotected? It's schizophrenic.
Making prostitution legalized gives our society a message that sex is not sacredprivate between two adults - that sex can be bought and sold just like any object. But prostitutes are people, not objects to be consumed, used and discarded like trash when they are no longer doing what each clienttrafficker wants.
Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.
What is art? Prostitution.
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
Prostitution will always exist in every society, so I believe in a fair trade. Open the doors for women to earn their money without having pimps. The worst thing is to criminalize it, because then you open the doors for pimps, criminals, and trading.