Word: harlots
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...Blaine warns that it wold probably be impossible to return to the old standards now. Doing so, he says, would "bring back the days of the brothel, the harlot and the back-street wife with all the vice and crime that went with them...
...year-old geology lecturer. "It comes from the strains, the poverty, the squalor of our society." And in a series of violent manifestoes, the hungries singled out their enemies, including hypocrites, conventional writers and politicians whose place in society lies "somewhere between the dead body of a harlot and a donkey's tail." To "let loose a creative furor," the hungries last summer sent every leading Calcutta citizen-from police commissioner to wealthy spinsters-engraved, four-letter-worded invitations for a topless bathing suit contest...
...experience. She gets a feeling of independence, a feeling that she has made a free choice and is responsible for her whole life. For the first time she feels she is an individual, somebody special. She finds something much like salvation in prostitution, and at the climax the harlot meets some thing like a martyr's death...
Certainly Fanny was no common harlot. Her Memoirs combine literary grace with a disarming enthusiasm for an activity which is, after all, only human. What is more, she never uses a dirty word...
...class-defying England. The moral decay surrounding the Profumo affair, he tried hard to suggest, must be blamed on the Tories. Referring to Christine Keeler's reported $14,000-a-week nightclub contract, Wilson declared: "There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its Prime Minister...