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The authors were radical women from various backgrounds—one was an impoverished widow and another a onetime prostitute, while a third had been a princess who chopped off her hair moments before her wedding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

BBC Verify searched all the circulars for 2008 and could find no reference to "informed choice" or "child prostitute" or any phrase similar to the one cited in the social media posts.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025

He was the son of a prostitute, who died when he was 5, and was raised by an aunt in Jacarezinho, a favela in the city.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2023

“I want to humanize her. I don’t want her to be seen as a prostitute or a runaway or somebody that people feel like ‘Oh, well, they live that lifestyle.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

She was also an advocate for “free love,” a blackmailer, an accused bigamist, possibly a prostitute, and a spiritualist who claimed she channeled the spirit of Demosthenes, a statesman from ancient Greece.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

At 24 Debs was elected Terre Haute city clerk, where the extent of his heterodoxy was waiving criminal fines against prostitutes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Fernando Botero, the Colombian whose voluptuous pictures and sculptures of overstuffed generals, bishops, prostitutes, housewives and other products of his whimsical imagination made him one of the world’s best-known artists, died on Friday in Monaco.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023

Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, famously envisioned a “normal” Jewish state, with the ancient priests and seers supplanted by the prostitutes and thieves typical of a genuine nation.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

As Sister Hermann Marie, Sukowa brings to bear the weight of past roles when lecturing on grief and magical thinking: philosopher Hannah Arendt, mystic Hildegard von Bingen, prostitutes and militants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

As far as I can tell, the place isn’t a nest of drug dealers and prostitutes; these are just working people who don’t have the capital to rent a normal apartment.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Key to the Nordic model, now implemented in Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Northern Ireland, Canada, France, Ireland and Israel, is creating an exit strategy for prostituted people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

“Art, music, architecture, literature, all seem to have been prostituted in this commercial age to the greed for money,” Brundage wrote in “The Significance of Amateur Sport.”

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

Pioneered in Sweden and adopted most recently in Canada and France, this strategy involves decriminalizing prostituted women and offering them housing, job training and other services.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2016

“Legalisation keeps pimps, brothel keepers, and sex-slavers in freedom and riches. Criminalisation puts the prostituted in prison,” said veteran women’s rights campaigner Gloria Steinem.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2015

Then for a few minutes he showed how even the noble science of law may be prostituted.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon

Former Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar resigned from his position on the Citizen's Advisory Stamp Committee, stating that the Potter stamps amounted to "prostituting" the US stamp programme.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2017

Police said they do not think Lopez Aguilar was involved in trafficking or prostituting of the girls, but the investigation led police to the missing girls.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2017

Last month, Benjamin Bailar, a prominent stamp collector who served as postmaster general from 1975 to 1978, angrily resigned from the committee after accusing the postal service of "prostituting" its stamps program.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2014

At Penn State, it was even worse than prostituting education for the sake of a football powerhouse.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2011

At night he began to have trouble sleeping, to feel he was prostituting his conscience and his editorial responsibilities.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin