Melissa Farley (1942) American psychologist
"Attitudes toward Prostitution and Acceptance of Rape Myths" in Journal of Applied Social Psychology Vol. 32, issue 9 (2002), p. 1790 - 1796; co-written with A. Cotton, and R. Baron
“All memoir is prostitution.”
After reading the first draft of a biography about himself, March 2011, as quoted in [Matt, Taibbi, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-julian-assange-case-wikileaks-758883/, Why You Should Care About the Julian Assange Case, Rolling Stone, November 23, 2018]
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