Prostitution
[,prɒstɪ'tʃuːʃn;,prɒstɪ'tjuːʃn] or ['prɑstə'tʊʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
(n.) The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.
Edited by Daisy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Misuse, abuse, perversion, profanation.[2]. Unlawful sexual intercourse (on the part of a woman, for hire), harlotry.
Typed by Justine
Examples
- No one would take a census of prostitution, illegitimacy, adultery, or venereal disease for a statement of reliable facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So when their report puts at its head that absolute annihilation of prostitution is the ultimate ideal, we may well translate it into the real intent of the Commission. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- From them we can gather some hint of the enormous bewildering demand that prostitution answers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Nor is there any need of insisting again that the ultimate ideal of annihilating prostitution has nothing to expect from the concrete proposals that were made. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A strict divorce law would, of course, diminish the number of divorced women, and perhaps keep them out of prostitution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This evil is totally different from the first: in one case divorce contributes to prostitution, in the other, prostitution leads to divorce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For those earnest men and women in Chicago did not set out to find a way of abolishing prostitution; they set out to find a way that would conform to four idols they worshiped. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- What is to be absolutely annihilated is not alone prostitution, not alone all the methods of expression which lust seeks out, but lust itself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The members give the impression that they think of prostitution as something that can be subtracted from our civilization without changing the essential character of its institutions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Commission hopes to wipe out prostitution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The evils of prostitution are seen as a series of episodes, each of which must be clubbed, forbidden, raided and jailed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But even public prostitution is so varied that nobody can do better than estimate it roughly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If you don't, then confess that you will not abolish prostitution, and turn your compassion to softening its effects. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was despicable, a very insidious form of prostitution. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Low wages, fatigue, and the wretched monotony of the factory--these must go before prostitution can go. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Pearl