impostor
and entertainer who presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa
, when in reality he was born Joseph Howard Lee in Baltimore
, Maryland
. Despite an impoverished start in life and a lack of education, and a series of scandalous arrests related to homosexual activities, mainly involving underage individuals, LoBagola maintained a long and colorful career posing as an African "savage", during which he delivered lectures to many institutions and conducted public debates.
LoBagola published some articles in Scribner's Magazine
in 1929 and the publishers A.A.
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.