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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

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

A skeleton covered in red ochre, which is naturally occurring iron oxide, Prof Buckland presumed The Red "Lady" to be a Roman prostitute, or witch.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023

In her alternation of stories, Byatt created a kinship, and a narrative equivalency, among princess, peasant, prostitute and professor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

Botero early in his career seized on sharp visual contrasts: Tiny snakes, parrots, flies and bananas adorn his portraits of blimpy bullfighters, bishops, prostitutes, acrobats, ballroom dancers and politicians.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

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

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

An Irish immigrant ministers to prostitutes from a South Bronx project.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2021

Would someone bury them, or would they believe they were really thieves and prostitutes?

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

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

They propose to except from this communion none but those who, be it in their own or be it in the other camp, have prostituted thought to the work of hatred.

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain

It isn’t about prostituting our pain of, you know, “Great. I’m going to go out there and purge all my emotions because I’m so damaged.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

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

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