Prostitution
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a standing army of public women · common prostitutes · prostitution · prostitution both public and private · public prostitution · the wages of iniquity
in the texts
The Communist Manifesto
Public and private prostitution, cited as the existing complement to bourgeois marriage and a form of exploitation to be abolished.
, of prostitution both public and private.
But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.
Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives.
Law in a Free State
The practice of selling sexual access for payment, discussed as both a consequence of restrictive marriage law and a category treated inconsistently by State recognition of agreements.
which calls into being a standing army of public women;
To begin with, a death-blow would be struck at prostitution;
A girl who throws her personal charms into the scale against her suitor's money-bags, and sells herself into life-slavery for hard cash, is surely not less a prostitute than one who makes a time-bargain of a like nature.