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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

I should mention that the saintly striver is all the while giving support to a former prostitute, hoping to open a hospital and enduring a lung condition with a terminal prognosis.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

What exactly made him cut off part of his ear and give it to a prostitute in Arles, in the south of France?

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 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

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

Always allergic to the lofty and the monumental, he proved a brilliant observer of life, especially life on the margins: He wrote with empathy of refugees, prostitutes, thieves, drunks and the homeless.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 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

He took characters normally portrayed in thick stereotype — prostitutes, gay men, addicts, housewives, trans women — and made viewers care about their happiness.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2021

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

He suggested, instead, that the prostituted should be offered a way out of the business, via housing, job training and other services.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019

If you follow the Nordic model, you are obligated to offer services and alternatives to the people who are prostituted.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 17, 2015

Sweden and other Nordic countries plus France have decriminalized and offer services to those who are prostituted, and criminalize the pimps and brothels who sell them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2014

If I am free to own that my occupation was not very dignified, I am equally able to assert that I never prostituted any influence I obtained in this way to personal objects of profit.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

Mr. Russell promised to be “as balanced as is humanly possible, without prostituting myself,” adding, “There are so many controversial issues that I have to double up to save time.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

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 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