Gail Sheehy Quotes

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.

What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me.

Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven’t changed.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.

I find prostitutes vastly important.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

You could imagine writing about a prostitute, for instance, but if you haven't spent time with prostitutes then you're going to get all these details wrong. But if you have a lot of sex with prostitutes and you're friends with prostitutes and you interview prostitutes, then maybe after many, many years you might be able to create prostitute characters.

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

It seems strange to put prostitutes in prison for selling something that is perfectly legal to give away for free.

I think pimp, therefore i am.

Taking a call girl to an STD fair... there's a joke here.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

I've always been fascinated with the idea of people paying for sex and what goes on with that and why that happens.

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long line of victims, beginning with the most obvious and least understood - the prostitute herself.

Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

It's a hard life to have sex with eight to 10 men a night. That's hard physically, let alone emotionally.

I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: It represses women, it's generally illegal.

there are scores of thousands of women who are denominated prostitutes, and who are supported by hundreds of thousands of men who should, for like reasons, also be denominated prostitutes, since what will change a woman into a prostitute must also necessarily change a man into the same.

I wasn't sure exactly how prostitutes determined price, but if men bought hookers by the pound, these two would be doing okay.