That the influence thus exerted by preventive methods would suffice to abolish prostitution it would be foolish to maintain, for prostitution has other grounds of support.
Although there are not yet any very clear signs of the decay of prostitution in civilisation, there can hardly be a doubt that civilisation is unfavourable to houses of prostitution.
The idea is cherished by many, especially among socialists, that prostitution is mainly an economic question, and that to raise wages is to dry up the stream of prostitution.
As regards prostitution in England and its causes I should like to call attention to an admirable little book, Downward Paths, published by Bell & Sons, 1916.
In a yet wider sense, it may be said that the question of the causes of prostitution is essentially social.
It is possible that at some period in the world's history, not only will the White Slave Traffic disappear, but even prostitution itself, and it is for us to work towards that day.
If we wish to influence prostitution we must re-make our marriage laws and modify our whole conception of the sexual relationships.
This method has long been practised by those who exploit prostitutionfor profit.
There is, therefore, a tendency to the natural and spontaneous decay of organised houses of prostitution under modern civilised conditions; the prostitute and her clients alike shun such houses.
She madeprostitution ridiculously cheap; fifty sen; which is twenty-five cents in American money.
The system of prostitution is run by the Government and the largest income that the Government has, comes from the sale of Sake, the national drink, and its houses of prostitution.
Nor is she blamed; for it is not at all an uncommon thing for a Japanese girl to marry out of a house of prostitution into a fine family.
It meant extermination by introducing prostitution in Korea.
Prostitution is so much a part of the acknowledged life of Japan that Temples for prostitutes exist where they may go and pray.
Schoefield spoke against Prostitution the Japanese papers declared that he had made a virulent attack on the Government.
The demoralizing tendency of this religious prostitution can scarcely be overrated.
Before Cook's time these people did not know what prostitution was.
The reign of the priest is the death of our schools; it is the degradation of our wives, the prostitution of our daughters; it is the reign of tyranny—the loss of liberty.
She was the doorkeeper of the convent, and having placed the keys of the monastery at the feet of a statue of the Holy Virgin, she boldly went out, then led a life of prostitution during fifteen years in a far off place.
So it is that early reformers create for the reformers of a later day the task of humanizing prostitution afresh.
Old World and the New, among whom the young women have practiced prostitution to obtain a dowry.
St. Louis was unable to put downprostitution even in his own camp in the East, and it existed outside his own tent.
The difference between the woman who sells herself in prostitution and the woman who sells herself in marriage, according to the saying of Marro already quoted, "is only a difference in price and duration of the contract.
The contract of prostitution in the opinion of prostitutes themselves," Bernaldo de Quirós and Llanas Aguilaniedo remark (La Mala Vida en Madrid, p.
There seems no clear relationship between prostitution and insanity, and Tammeo has shown (La Prostituzione, p.
So long as we are incapable of such methods we must be content with the prostitution we deserve, learning to treat it with the pity, and the respect, which so intimate a failure of our civilization is entitled to.
It is well known that religious prostitution has been practiced in some form by Christ's devotees from the earliest ages of the church down to the present time.
Deuteronomy bears witness that both the one and the other brought the hire of their prostitution into the treasury of the temple of Jehovah.
But in their appointment was evinced the most reckless prostitution of their sacred order.
Prostitution among the Mexicans was tolerated, but at the same time was restrained within certain bounds; that is, the law took cognizance of the practice as regarded the women engaged in such traffic.
Public prostitution was tolerated, if not encouraged, among all the Maya nations.
I object to it, that I may be in no manner responsible for the prostitution of their office (once called holy and sacred, with them no longer so) in the face of the Senate and of the American people.
As in the city in the houses of prostitution and with the rowdy boys running through the streets at night, so in Winesburg among its citizens he had always the power to be a part of and yet distinctly apart from the life about him.
He began to tell of a night when he with two men from Winesburg went into a house of prostitution at the county seat.
No more pitiable condition can be imagined than that of the helpless Indian women and girls who were devoted by their husbands and fathers to prostitution among vile whites.
The results of prostitution are found in reports of physicians of the various agencies, who almost always speak of venereal diseases as common.
The facts disclosed by the records are wholly inconsistent with Herodotus's story regarding the sacred prostitution of the unmarried women.
As a matter of fact, the causes of prostitution are so largely economic that the other factors are hardly worth mentioning.
For my part, the world's greatest evil is poverty, the cause of crime, prostitution and war.
Everywhere throughout modern civilizationprostitution is an enormous and lucrative industry.
The probability is that prostitution is practised at even younger ages than this.
A recent official plea for licensed prostitution in the Cantonments of India declares: "The efforts to teach the soldiers habits of self-control" have "signally failed.
The advocates of licensed prostitution for India are fond of insisting as an excuse for licensing the evil, that it does no great harm because the recruits come from "the prostitute caste.
Immediately the advocates of the abolition of licensed prostitution took alarm, and began a vigorous remonstrance; for they saw great danger in any law which put large discretionary power into the hands of officials.
It is called the Quick Abatement Act, and provides for an immediate trial to be given, when it is believed that prostitution is being carried on in any house.
If prostitution is proven against a house, that house is closed for one year, the owner losing the rent for that time.
It ceased to be more disconcerting that he should have workers whom he could dismiss at a week's notice to want orprostitution than that he should have a servant waiting behind his chair.
All business is a sort of prostitution, all prostitution is a sort of business.
This prostitution of the offices of the country to the Presidential will can be upheld only by unhesitating partisan zeal, discarding reason and patriotism.
It is easy to believe that this prostitution of the head of the Church was one of the abuses which excited the cry for Reform, and awakened even in Rome the echoes of Martin Luther.
The meaning of this cult is, of course, reinterpreted in the Gnostic sense: by this unbridled prostitution the Gnostic sects desired to prevent the sexual propagation of mankind, the origin of all evil.
Too often have reformers reversed the relationship, believing that alcohol caused prostitution and crime.
Legalized prostitutionin most countries, illegal prostitution in the United States and England, in addition to the enormous amount of clandestine relationships, are a sufficient commentary on the results.
A custom which shows even more clearly that prostitution was held as a sacred duty to women was that in Babylonia every woman, of high rank or low, must at one time in her life prostitute herself to any stranger who offered money.
With her "new religion" she has provided herself with an argument in favor of a life of desultory prostitution and general vagabondage.
This worship consisted of the prostitution of women.
At a later interview, however, she admitted recent acts of prostitution with no embarrassment whatever.
Although no strictness of principle, nor strong sense of moral restraint, prevails in the intercourse of the sexes, prostitution is not common, except in the capitals.
No professed prostitution or promiscuous intercourse is the consequence of this weakness of the nuptial tie.
Her select patrons had contributed much towards this improvement in her circumstances; but the luxuries in which she could now indulge, were provided for her by the prostitution of her young victims.
Prostitution has its written and unwritten laws, its resources, its various resorts from the lowliest, to the glittering palace, its countless degrees from the lowest to the most cultured and refined.
It was admitted that prostitution could not be suppressed and that it would therefore be better to limit it to certain places and to control it.
Therefore the apostles and fathers of the church regarded marriage as a necessary evil, as prostitution is regarded at present.
The state that seeks to regulate prostitution by police control forgets that it owes equal protection to both sexes, it degrades and demoralizes the woman.
Prostitution differs from free sexual intercourse by the fact that the woman yields her body in return for material gain, be it to one man or to a number of men.
Prostitution thus becomes a necessary social institution of bourgeois society, just as the police, the standing army, the church and the capitalist class.
It is indestructable because it serves the sexual impulse and springs from human nature and because in many cases the tendency to prostitution is due to an innate vice of some women.
Prostitution in the nineteenth century from the standpoint of police sanitation.
Marriage constitutes one phase of the sex relations of bourgeois society; prostitution constitutes the other.
If prostitution is the complement of monogamic marriage on the one hand, adultery of wives and cuckoldom of husbands are its complements on the other.
To satisfy the demand for mercenary women, especially among the younger men, prostitution developed, an institution that had not been known during the dominance of the matriarchate.
She has her choice between an enforced continence, with its health-wrecking consequences and its constant aggravation of domestic discord, and the sort of prostitution legalized by the marriage ceremony.
Does it not drive the girls to prostitution and the boys to crime?
She cannot pay it with palliatives--with child-labor laws, prohibition, regulation of prostitutionand agitation against war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prostitution" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
