1 To be caught with a prostitute might mean five years in a forced-labour camp: not more, if you had committed no other offence.
2 Tacitly the Party was even inclined to encourage prostitution, as an outlet for instincts which could not be altogether suppressed.
3 Consorting with prostitutes was forbidden, of course, but it was one of those rules that you could occasionally nerve yourself to break.
4 There was a constant come-and-go of prisoners of every description: drug-peddlers, thieves, bandits, black-marketeers, drunks, prostitutes.
5 There was bribery, favouritism, and racketeering of every kind, there was homosexuality and prostitution, there was even illicit alcohol distilled from potatoes.
6 He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a child's face.
7 There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it was of no importance.