Samantha Morton Quotes

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

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.

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.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.

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.

I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

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.

Prohibiting something doesn't make it go away. Prostitution is criminal, and bad things happen because it's run illegally by dirt-bags who are criminals. If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, unions, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.

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

It would be a sign of society changing if we did finally legalize prostitution. Once it's legal, it doesn't mean your daughter's going to run out and be a ho. The more we sort of bring these things into the light, you bring these hidden vices into the light, the less power they have over our society. You make it legal, it tends to go away.

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.

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

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.

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

Prostitutes go to jail. Their customers go home and read the New York Times. In this country you're allowed to buy anything. If you need a shirt, you have a right to buy it. If you need sex, you don't. What's more important, sex or a shirt?

A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio.

Right now in Oregon anybody can open a saloon, and hire people to come in and have sex in front of their patrons.

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

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

I find prostitutes vastly important.

I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.