"The rise of Christianity to political power produced little change in policy. The leading fathers of the Church tolerated prostitution. Brothels under municipal protection are found in the thirteenth century. They constituted a sort of public service, the directors of them being considered almost as public servants."*英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
"Pope Sixtus IV. was more practical; from one single brothel, which he himself had built, he received an income of 20,000 ducats."英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Much as I should like to, my space will not admit speaking of prostitution in Egypt, Greece, Rome, and during the Middle Ages. The conditions in the latter period are particularly interesting, inasmuch as prostitution was organized into guilds, presided over by a brothel Queen. These guilds employed strikes as a medium of improving their condition and keeping a standard price. Certainly that is more practical a method than the one used by the modern wage slave in society.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
The excuse given for the conditions in Panama is that there are no brothels in the Canal Zone. That is the usual avenue of escape for a hypocritical world that dares not face the truth. Not in the Canal Zone, not in the city limits,--therefore prostitution does not exist.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Until 1894 very little was known in America of the procurer. Then we were attacked by an epidemic of virtue. Vice was to be abolished, the country purified at all cost. The social cancer was therefore driven out of sight, but deeper into the body. Keepers of brothels, as well as their unfortunate victims, were turned over to the tender mercies of the police. The inevitable consequence of exorbitant bribes, and the penitentiary, followed.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
While comparatively protected in the brothels, where they represented a certain monetary value, the girls now found themselves on the street, absolutely at the mercy of the graft-greedy police. Desperate, needing protection and longing for affection, these girls naturally proved an easy prey for cadets, themselves the result of the spirit of our commercial age. Thus the cadet system was the direct outgrowth of police persecution, graft, and attempted suppression of prostitution. It were sheer folly to confound this modern phase of the social evil with the causes of the latter.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
We wouldn't have to go car-to-car anymore, we could actually open a brothel.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Wait, if brothel's on the table, why don't we just forget about this cupcake thing?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Uncle Maurice took me to a brothel on my fourteenth birthday.美剧 · 《Billions》
And of brothels where children are forced to receive 15 clients per day, and of brothels where children are forced to receive 15 clients per day,演讲 · 《Tales of passion ~ Isabel Allende》