Dennis Miller

Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

American Comedian

Theresa May

It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery.

British Politician

Julie Burchill

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

British Journalist

Bradley Cooper

I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.

American Actor

Ben Hecht

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

American Writer

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

Yannick Noah

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

French Athlete

Arthur Koestler

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Hungarian Novelist

William Blake

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

English Poet

Stephen Rea

I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

Irish Actor

Using 'brothel' might imply illegal activities, as prostitution is illegal in many places.

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'Brothel' often carries a negative moral judgment and can offend.

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Be aware of cultural attitudes towards brothels, which can vary widely.

Cultural Sensitivity

 I was exhausted and my life was going nowhere. Like many others before me, I decided sex for money was a better option. Now don't get me wrong -- I would have loved to have won the lottery instead. But it wasn't going to happen anytime soon, and my rent needed paying. So I signed up for my first shift in a brothel.

The laws that sex...

 years when he was little living in a brothel after he'd been abandoned there but when he was old enough to train as a trapeze artist he was taken back into the circus and he went on to become one of the best performance that the trapeze world has ever had he's the only person

Emily Ainsworth: Inside...

 besides the victims and the perps I wanted to show the women who were who were trying to help who were trying to save the girls this was in Bosnia it was a shelter for the women who had been rescued from the brothels and it was run by this very brave Bosnian woman it was

Jodi Cobb: Human Bondage...

 that Capone had earned from illegal gambling, bootlegging, brothels, and extortion, would have served as evidence of his crimes. But the money was nowhere to be found. Capone and his associates had hidden it through investments in various businesses

How does money...

 child prostitution when she was 14 years old her grandfather sold her to a brothel she told us of little girls raped by men who believed that having sex with a very young virgin will cure them from aids and of brothels where children are

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 the one who's goes in the brothel yeah so Chloe assist pack leader I'd like to think we are but I what if a dog is attacking somebody or chasing you or not otherwise it would be like this you know sniffing around and this when you're the

Horse & Dog Whisperers...

 Madame Zheng commanded 1800 vessels, made enemies of several empires, and still lived to old age. Madame Zheng began her life as a commoner working on one of the many floating brothels, or flower boats,

The most successful...

 protects us. Now, with my job, there's above-average amount of risks that are involved. I've been temporarily detained. I've been accused of running a brothel, accused of being a spy.

Kimberley Motley: How I...

 My anger at the age of 27, to free that girl who was about to be sold to a brothel, has given me an idea to go for a new strategy of raid and rescue,

Kailash Satyarthi: How...

 But this characteristic rhythm pattern comes from Africa. In the ninth century you could find it in the brothels of Persia, and in the thirteenth,

Brothel

A place where people pay to have sex with prostitutes.

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