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The act of performing sexual acts for money or other goods. Most prostitutes (also known as "whores", "harlots", "trollops", "hookers", or "strumpets") are women, although some men and (unfortunately) children are also in the trade.
This largely illegal profession is one of the oldest markets in the world and, despite efforts, will probably exist for as long as humans (and other animals) exist. Still, while prostitution is argued to be the "world's oldest profession", child abuse is just as old and nobody justifies that.
Contrary to the glamor that the media gives to the image of prostitution (such as films like "Pretty Woman"), there is hardly anything at all glamorous about the trade.
Most women who have become prostitutes were raped as children, came from unstable or abusive homes, suffer from addiction, any number of traumas, and often ended up as runaways before entering the sex trade. Low self-esteem is also a major risk factor, whether or not the girls come from poor familes.
Other women have been tricked or outright forced into prostitution; pimps, who can easily be described as men who have no respect for women and care only about their own gain, are the ones who recruit girls as young as twelve to work for them. The pimp usually lures the young, impressionable runaway by acting as a boyfriend or a father-figure to her, offering support to her... and training her like a dog all the while; once she's under his power, she has little chance to escape.
Even those who willingly turn to selling themselves do so out of desperation to survive rather than because they like the work. Mothers (especially poor, unmarried ones) who have fallen on hard times and are desperate to support their children have also ended up in the trade (like Fantine from "Les Miserables").
The idea of the "happy hooker", who likes her work, comes from the fact that the women usually are putting on an act; it helps them to attract buyers if they're smiling and happy instead of crying and upset. Plus, to quote "Moulin Rouge", they're "paid to make men believe what they want to believe".
Prostitutes range from the high-end call girls and courtesans in the legal brothels with rich clients to the homeless, drug-addicted streetwalkers who prowl the streets and the truck stops at night, shivering in their skimpy clothes, hoping that they will survive the night. The women are often looked on with disdain, disrespected, harassed and attacked, and treated as if they weren't even human. By and large, most prostitutes do not want to be prostitutes.
This largely illegal profession is one of the oldest markets in the world and, despite efforts, will probably exist for as long as humans (and other animals) exist. Still, while prostitution is argued to be the "world's oldest profession", child abuse is just as old and nobody justifies that.
Contrary to the glamor that the media gives to the image of prostitution (such as films like "Pretty Woman"), there is hardly anything at all glamorous about the trade.
Most women who have become prostitutes were raped as children, came from unstable or abusive homes, suffer from addiction, any number of traumas, and often ended up as runaways before entering the sex trade. Low self-esteem is also a major risk factor, whether or not the girls come from poor familes.
Other women have been tricked or outright forced into prostitution; pimps, who can easily be described as men who have no respect for women and care only about their own gain, are the ones who recruit girls as young as twelve to work for them. The pimp usually lures the young, impressionable runaway by acting as a boyfriend or a father-figure to her, offering support to her... and training her like a dog all the while; once she's under his power, she has little chance to escape.
Even those who willingly turn to selling themselves do so out of desperation to survive rather than because they like the work. Mothers (especially poor, unmarried ones) who have fallen on hard times and are desperate to support their children have also ended up in the trade (like Fantine from "Les Miserables").
The idea of the "happy hooker", who likes her work, comes from the fact that the women usually are putting on an act; it helps them to attract buyers if they're smiling and happy instead of crying and upset. Plus, to quote "Moulin Rouge", they're "paid to make men believe what they want to believe".
Prostitutes range from the high-end call girls and courtesans in the legal brothels with rich clients to the homeless, drug-addicted streetwalkers who prowl the streets and the truck stops at night, shivering in their skimpy clothes, hoping that they will survive the night. The women are often looked on with disdain, disrespected, harassed and attacked, and treated as if they weren't even human. By and large, most prostitutes do not want to be prostitutes.
The world of prostitution is very dangerous; by and large, the practice is illegal in most of the world and the women are seen as criminals and thus their rights are pretty much forfeit.
The pimps and human trafficking rings have full power over the women; the pimps usually take all of the money that the women earn (beating the tar out of them if they make less than the pimps demanded or simply from the littlest act of defiance), force addiction onto them to keep them dependant on the pimps, and generally degrade and demean the women without compassion or concern for their well-being.
The risk and spread of STDs among streetwalkers is almost a nuisance compared to the dangers of the streets.
As criminals themselves, protitutes (especially streetwalkers) are less likely to be looked after by the police than the law-abiding; if she is harassed, attacked, raped, or threatened in any way, the woman in question usually cannot go to the police for help or she'll be arrested; if her pimp is arrested instead and she testifies against him, her life and the life of her family could be at risk.
The women must be on the defense all the time against their abusive pimps, corrupt cops, and the clients who use them; a major cause of death for prostitutes is murder. The woman will climb into the cars of clients (known as Johns) as disceetly as possible to avoid trouble from the police and go with these strangers to secluded places where they won't be interrupted, making her easy prey for serial killers. The disappearance of a prostitute may go unnoticed for weeks before anyone says anything.
Jack the Ripper, the Green River Killer, and Arthur Shawcross were just a few serial killers who targeted prostitutes.
How, pray tell, is it "hard out here for a pimp"? For a man who disrespects and actively exploits and destroys women?
Interstingly, in Sweden, it is legal for the women to sell themselves but it is illegal to buy from them; the punishment goes to those who deserve it: the pimps, traffickers, and Johns. The women themselves have legal protection, rehabilitation, and escape routes.
At the end of the day, prostitutes are human; they were human long before they were used and disrespected and will still be human.
The pimps and human trafficking rings have full power over the women; the pimps usually take all of the money that the women earn (beating the tar out of them if they make less than the pimps demanded or simply from the littlest act of defiance), force addiction onto them to keep them dependant on the pimps, and generally degrade and demean the women without compassion or concern for their well-being.
The risk and spread of STDs among streetwalkers is almost a nuisance compared to the dangers of the streets.
As criminals themselves, protitutes (especially streetwalkers) are less likely to be looked after by the police than the law-abiding; if she is harassed, attacked, raped, or threatened in any way, the woman in question usually cannot go to the police for help or she'll be arrested; if her pimp is arrested instead and she testifies against him, her life and the life of her family could be at risk.
The women must be on the defense all the time against their abusive pimps, corrupt cops, and the clients who use them; a major cause of death for prostitutes is murder. The woman will climb into the cars of clients (known as Johns) as disceetly as possible to avoid trouble from the police and go with these strangers to secluded places where they won't be interrupted, making her easy prey for serial killers. The disappearance of a prostitute may go unnoticed for weeks before anyone says anything.
Jack the Ripper, the Green River Killer, and Arthur Shawcross were just a few serial killers who targeted prostitutes.
How, pray tell, is it "hard out here for a pimp"? For a man who disrespects and actively exploits and destroys women?
Interstingly, in Sweden, it is legal for the women to sell themselves but it is illegal to buy from them; the punishment goes to those who deserve it: the pimps, traffickers, and Johns. The women themselves have legal protection, rehabilitation, and escape routes.
At the end of the day, prostitutes are human; they were human long before they were used and disrespected and will still be human.
by Lorelili May 22, 2009
Get the Prostitution mug.A French noun.
1. A daughter, female offspring. Derived from the Latin word "filia".
2. A girl, although jeune fille ("young daughter") is often used. The diminutive "fillette" is used to denote a little girl.
3. Slang for a prostitute, as a shortening of terms like "fille de joie", "fille de la rue", and "fille publique".
1. A daughter, female offspring. Derived from the Latin word "filia".
2. A girl, although jeune fille ("young daughter") is often used. The diminutive "fillette" is used to denote a little girl.
3. Slang for a prostitute, as a shortening of terms like "fille de joie", "fille de la rue", and "fille publique".
1. Après elle a licenciée de son travail, Fantine était désespérée gagner l'argent à sauver sa fille aimée, sa petite Cosette(After she was fired from her job, Fantine was desperate to earn money to save her beloved daughter, her little Cosette).
2. Deux garçons et trois jeunes filles ont courus à travers le parque (Two boys and three girls ran through the park).
3. Il courait les filles au lieu d'obéir les souhaits de ses parents pour se marier (He chased the girls instead of obeying his parents' wish for him to marry).
2. Deux garçons et trois jeunes filles ont courus à travers le parque (Two boys and three girls ran through the park).
3. Il courait les filles au lieu d'obéir les souhaits de ses parents pour se marier (He chased the girls instead of obeying his parents' wish for him to marry).
by Lorelili May 24, 2009
Get the fille mug.From the novel and film of the same name, an impossibly difficult choice, especially when forced onto someone. The choice is between two unbearable options, and it's essentially a no-win situation.
"Sophie's Choice" is centered on a scene in Auschwitz where Sophie has just arrived with her ten-year old son and her seven-year old daughter and a sadistic doctor, presumably Doctor Mengele, tells her that she can only bring one of her children; one will be allowed to live while the other is to be killed.
As a mother, Sophie adores both of her children and can't make this agonizing choice... until several soldiers force her and she hastily gives her daughter to them, sobbing as they take her little girl away.
As a mother, Sophie adores both of her children and can't make this agonizing choice... until several soldiers force her and she hastily gives her daughter to them, sobbing as they take her little girl away.
by Lorelili March 9, 2010
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Now it refers to a woman with a full figure, voluptuous curves and generously endowed in the bust and hips (as opposed to the bone-thin supermodels shown in the media).
Think of Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Sara Ramirez, Queen Latifah, Kate Winslet, Marilyn Monroe, Anna Nicole Smith, Mia Tyler, Chloe Agnew, America Ferrera, among others.
Now it refers to a woman with a full figure, voluptuous curves and generously endowed in the bust and hips (as opposed to the bone-thin supermodels shown in the media).
Think of Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Sara Ramirez, Queen Latifah, Kate Winslet, Marilyn Monroe, Anna Nicole Smith, Mia Tyler, Chloe Agnew, America Ferrera, among others.
Why the craze with these androgynous stick figures on the runway?! After thousands of years of worshipping buxom, full figured women with wide hips and lots of curves, we're down to admiring these starving waifs who can barely sustain themselves, much less a baby?
by Lorelili November 4, 2009
Get the buxom mug.The simplest drawing of a human being; one where the torso, arms and legs are just lines (hence "stick figure") while the head is a circle with a simplified face on it.
By extension, an actual human being who is extremely thin, if not anorexic, owing to their slender arms and legs and slight torsos. Plenty of supermodels are called stick figures because of their often bone-thin frames, whether or not they are naturally that thin.
By extension, an actual human being who is extremely thin, if not anorexic, owing to their slender arms and legs and slight torsos. Plenty of supermodels are called stick figures because of their often bone-thin frames, whether or not they are naturally that thin.
With these two definitions in mind, how could I draw a stick figure of a stick figure?
And why are rich countries trying to emulate poor countries where there's plenty of starvation and fat is the ideal? Why are these wealthy men and women trying to look like stick figures?
And why are rich countries trying to emulate poor countries where there's plenty of starvation and fat is the ideal? Why are these wealthy men and women trying to look like stick figures?
by Lorelili November 15, 2009
Get the stick figure mug.Adjective. Of a body: thick and solid, although not necessarily fat. That is, nicely filled out and sensually appealing, voluptuous.
Of a woman: buxom and shapely, with broad hips and lots of sensuous, womanly curves (as opposed to a twiggy, androgynous, stick figureed waif)
Of a man: broad-shouldered and barrel-chested and often muscular (big and butch instead of a willowy pretty boy)
Of a woman: buxom and shapely, with broad hips and lots of sensuous, womanly curves (as opposed to a twiggy, androgynous, stick figureed waif)
Of a man: broad-shouldered and barrel-chested and often muscular (big and butch instead of a willowy pretty boy)
Kate Winslet, famously full-figured, once said "I'm not a twig and I refuse to be".
"Full-figured" does not mean "fat", per se, just a nicely filled and sensually shaped figure: nice, shapely legs; broad-shouldered and barrel-chested men; broad-hipped women generously endowed in the butt and breasts.
"Full-figured" does not mean "fat", per se, just a nicely filled and sensually shaped figure: nice, shapely legs; broad-shouldered and barrel-chested men; broad-hipped women generously endowed in the butt and breasts.
by Lorelili November 15, 2009
Get the full-figured mug.1. Very pleasing to the senses.
2. Very sexually/sensually appealing
3. (of a woman's body) Broad-hipped, well-endowed in the breasts and butt, plenty of womanly curves; Marilyn Monroe, Crystal Renn, Sara Rodriguez, and Jennifer Hudson as opposed to Twiggy and Calista Flockhart
2. Very sexually/sensually appealing
3. (of a woman's body) Broad-hipped, well-endowed in the breasts and butt, plenty of womanly curves; Marilyn Monroe, Crystal Renn, Sara Rodriguez, and Jennifer Hudson as opposed to Twiggy and Calista Flockhart
1. The bed with its plentiful blankets and voluptuous white pillows beckoned me to rest my head.
2. His arms were well-muscled and his shoulders broad avove his furred chest. His voluptuous torso, ample butt, and strong, masculine legs teased me as he jogged.
3. Her creamy complexion contrasted the raven black tresses that flowed down her back; her amber eyes as piercing as those of a cat; the low neckline of her bodice emphasised her full, voluptuous figure.
2. His arms were well-muscled and his shoulders broad avove his furred chest. His voluptuous torso, ample butt, and strong, masculine legs teased me as he jogged.
3. Her creamy complexion contrasted the raven black tresses that flowed down her back; her amber eyes as piercing as those of a cat; the low neckline of her bodice emphasised her full, voluptuous figure.
by Lorelili November 15, 2009
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