It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers.

Bellafront (the titular "honest whore") is sitting in front of a mirror as she prepares her make-up.

Bellafront swears that she is an "honest whore."

Claiming that there could never be such a thing as an "honest whore," Hippolito offers to "teach" Bellafront "how to loathe" herself.

Like more than one of my customers, Mei-Ling used to be a player herself once-before her conscience started bothering her, and she retired to respectability as an honest whore.

In contrast, Mr. Edwards's 19 monologues often seem familiar (an honest whore, a gardener who has staked out a patch of the city for beautification) or strained (Charles Brown as a man who worries that he may be a latent homosexual).

For my part, I'll take the good old honest whore.

I have no argu­ment with honest whores who are old enough to make up their own minds, but that swine sells children.

A man could do worse than marry an honest whore like Esseta, in this Dimension or any other.