“Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job” SchoolJobsSexPartyCreativeGrowing UpGrowingCrimeBe Creative Author:David Byrne
“History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.” ChildrenDoneLyingSexWifeDoorsCrimeHusbandMurderMalesAbortionRobberyInfanticide Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage
“When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.” MenUsedSexCrimeMessagesWeaponsVictimAssaultProstitutionSexual AssaultCourtesans Author:Margo St. James
“Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.” OrderSexDifferencesCrimeDegreesAggressionPolarization Author:Freda Adler
“There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.” StatesCultureSexSportsUnitedUnited StatesCrimeSceneEnglandInstanceFranceMaking MoneySundayPhilanthropyEasterPropositionsBelgiumHollandEaster Sunday Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.” IfsHappensSexWomenLibertyVirtueWiseCrimeReaderLuckyGood ThingsDeniedForbiddenBeing Wise Author:Marie de Gournay
“Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.” KnowsMeanUsePoliticalHateSexCrimeDependsPressesConstantFinancialNewspapersAdvertisingMaking MoneyPropagandaExceptionHonorableScandalRevenueCirculationFree PressInnuendoSensationalism Book:The Long Goodbye: A Novel Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.” IfsThinkingMightSexEnjoySituationCrimeConnectionsShameCome UpSpainPornographyLiberatingHardcoreHollandDenmarkArousalIncidence Author:Alan Moore
“Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions.” TwoSexGenerationsCrimeSolutionsDisappearCriminalsRationalOutlaw Book:Napalm & Silly Putty Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!” NeedsStoriesSexCrimeBeing TrueGenreRapperStoryteller Author:Lauryn Hill