analog recording
videocassette format developed by Akai
in the late 1970s, that is capable of recording and playing back black & white (and later color) video in either EIA
(aka RS-170, the 525-line NTSC
video standard for North America, Canada, Mexico, & Japan) and CCIR
(the 625-line PAL
video standard for Europe and other parts of the world).
The format employed 1/2 in magnetic tape
loaded into a small cassette, and had two video record heads on the scanner.
Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this—that there is no horror!
I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
[in Kenya]...any woman who is single and has multiple male sex partners is considered to be a prostitute, whether or not money changes hands.
[in India] Any sexual intercourse outside socially acceptable unions is likely to be regarded as prostitution.
[In Iran] Under mut'a, it is possible to be 'married' for as little as half an hour.
Egyptian law states that a man who is caught with a prostitute is not imprisoned; instead, his testimony is used to convict and imprison the prostitute.
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
Prostitution is organized rape.