Silver Lake, Otsego County, New York
Overview
 
Otsego County's Silver Lake is located south of New Berlin
New Berlin (village), New York
New Berlin is a village in Chenango County, New York, USA. The population was 1,129 at the 2000 census.The Village of New Berlin is by the east town line of the Town of New Berlin. The village is east of Norwich....

 in the town of Pittsfield
Pittsfield, New York
Pittsfield is a town in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 1,295 at the 2000 census.The Town of Pittsfield is on the west border of the county, northwest of the City of Oneonta.- History :...

, situated on the eastern bank of the Unadilla River
Unadilla River
The Unadilla River in New York State flows from south of Utica to the village of Sidney, where it flows into the Susquehanna River, which eventually empties into the Chesapeake Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean....

. The hamlet is named for a small lake of the same name along the eastern edge of the hamlet.

Silver Lake is 30 acres (121,405.8 m²) of water, with surrounding wetlands, privately owned by a young family in New Jersey. Surrounding the lake is a former race track from the 20s.
Quotations

Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this—that there is no horror!

Aleksandr Kuprin|Aleksandr Kuprin, The Pit, translation by Bernard G. Guerney.

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.

John Dryden, Imitation of Horace (1685), "On Fortune", Book III, Ode 29, l. 81 - 87.

[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.

New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

[in India] Any sexual intercourse outside socially acceptable unions is likely to be regarded as prostitution.

New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

[In Iran] Under mut'a, it is possible to be 'married' for as little as half an hour.

New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

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.

New Internationalist, Issue 252 - February 1994.

Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.

Jane Fonda, in Thomas Kiernan, Jane: An Intimate Biography of Jane Fonda (1970).

Prostitution is organized rape.

Christine Stark

 
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