prostitution

The oldest profession [prostitution] is the most honest, for it exposes the bare bones of what civilization is all about. It's the root of all professions.

Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex.

He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his anger of dragons on me. They must really like us. They hide behind their Wasp Queen and pretend to hate us dragons, but in truth they love us. Why else would they bother with fucking us? That sentence probably turned you off. Thing is, I'm a very vulgar boy.-Chance Karrucci (the Sweet Dragon)

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That__ what the old woman told me, and I listened.

in this great land of the free we call it human trafficking. And so long as we don__ partake in the luxury, ignoring slavery is of no consequence. It is much easier to look away and ignore the victims. The person who ignores slavery justifies it by quickly deducting the victim is a willing participant hampered by misfortune.

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.)

Then as we passed down this Passage we were knocked against certain Women of the Town, who gave us Eye-language, since there were many Corners and Closets in Bedlam where they would stop and wait for Custom: indeed it was known as a sure Market for Lechers and Loiterers, for tho' they came in Single they went out by Pairs. This is a Showing-room for Whores, I said.And what better place for Lust, Sir Chris. replied, than among those whose Wits have fled?

At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.

I__ jealous _ not of their money to spend, but jealous that, for them, going home is a simple matter of turning down the correct lane.

Part of the problem was that I couldn't seem to get past the fact that I hadn't tried to escape from Kas. Even in France, when he'd left me on my own for several days, I'd carried on working [as a prostitute] and doing all the things he'd told me to d. And although I knew that it was because of the fear he'd so carefully and deliberately instilled in me, I still felt as though I'd somehow colluded in what had happened to me - despite knowing, deep down, that nothing could have been further from the truth.

Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who__ really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place?" - excerpt from: freefalling

On the street there is no tomorrow. There is only here and now and nothing else. And yesterday is just another day you__e trying to forget." - excerpt from: freefalling

Love is a funny thing. It__ not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it__ better not to be in love at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

Some people think it__ a jungle out here. It__ not_ It__ a fucking zoo!" - excerpt from: freefalling

Today I__ going to pretend I__ dead. I wonder if anyone will notice." - excerpt from: freefalling

You know she__ a liar if she says she__ never done it for ten bucks. We__e all done it. Practically giving it away. But sometimes you can__ even give it away." - excerpt from: freefalling