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One movie that I couldn't even stomach when I was a teenager was the blockbuster and award-winning "Pretty Woman," in which a street-walker captivates and wins the heart of a wealthy businessman a total farce of epic proportions, as in reality, no conversations would occur beyond basics for the transaction and the sex would happen in a car, an alley, or an hourly rate motel, not a luxury suite.
Juliet Jeske: Sure, Sleep With Him, But Don't Expect To Change Him Juliet Jeske 2011
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One movie that I couldn't even stomach when I was a teenager was the blockbuster and award-winning "Pretty Woman," in which a street-walker captivates and wins the heart of a wealthy businessman a total farce of epic proportions, as in reality, no conversations would occur beyond basics for the transaction and the sex would happen in a car, an alley, or an hourly rate motel, not a luxury suite.
Juliet Jeske: Sure, Sleep With Him, But Don't Expect To Change Him Juliet Jeske 2011
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This is one of those properties that seems to gain people and lose people, gets put on the shelf and tossed around like a cheap street-walker.
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Not even the lowest class of Venusian street-walker dared come along the waterfronts of Ednes on the nights when the space-liners were not in.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Northwest Smith - 02 Black Thirst Blue Tyson 2008
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Not even the lowest class of Venusian street-walker dared come along the waterfronts of Ednes on the nights when the space-liners were not in.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Northwest Smith - Shambleau Blue Tyson 2008
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"Flâneuse" is plotted on unsignalled time-shifts, landing the reader in Victorian times, the female torso breathlessly squeezed into "stays stiff as armour", "tittuping" through London in shoes like stilts, dragging mud-caked skirts and derided as a street-walker.
Mud: Stories of Sex and Love by Michèle Roberts Stevie Davies 2010
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I distinctly recall discussing Amsterdam's tippelzone (government sanctioned street-walker parks), the profit margins in pornography, and Malcolm Forbes's townhouse lunch in New York, which I attended when I was a lowly reporter, and consisted of 8 male reporter/editors and the "Mayflower Madame," Sydney Biddle Barrows.
Richard C. Morais: Why Joan Collins and I talked About Porn's Profit Margins 2010
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I distinctly recall discussing Amsterdam's tippelzone government sanctioned street-walker parks, the profit margins in pornography, and Malcolm Forbes's townhouse lunch in New York, which I attended when I was a lowly reporter, and consisted of 8 male reporter/editors and the "Mayflower Madame," Sydney Biddle Barrows.
Richard C. Morais: Why Joan Collins and I talked About Porn's Profit Margins Richard C. Morais 2010
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I distinctly recall discussing Amsterdam's tippelzone (government sanctioned street-walker parks), the profit margins in pornography, and Malcolm Forbes's townhouse lunch in New York, which I attended when I was a lowly reporter, and consisted of 8 male reporter/editors and the "Mayflower Madame," Sydney Biddle Barrows.
Richard C. Morais: Why Joan Collins and I talked About Porn's Profit Margins 2010
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Not even the lowest class of Venusian street-walker dared come along the waterfronts of Ednes on the nights when the space-liners were not in.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Jirel and Northwest Smith - Black Gods and Scarlet Dreams Blue Tyson 2008
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