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Letter from a prostitute

2013-02-23 03:56:00.627859+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I could swear I've linked to a different version of this, but it bears re-reading: Letter from the prostitute that didn’t want saving, 1858

Now, what if I am a prostitute, what business has society to abuse me? Have I received any favours at the hands of society? If I am a hideous cancer in society, are not the causes of the disease to be sought in the rottenness of the carcass? Am I not its legitimate child; no bastard, Sir? Why does my unnatural parent repudiate me, and what has society ever done for me, that I should do anything for it, and what have I ever done against society that it should drive me into a corner and crush me to the earth?

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