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Pirate has multiple meanings in sexual slang. Several of them emerged in the 20th century and play off the tradition that pirates took whatever they wanted, including sex, which was "seen as a conquest."
“P IRACY , n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.”
“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
“When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.”
“Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.”
“[The United States] has gone to the extent of carrying out modern acts of piracy, stopping ships in the middle of the ocean and stealing cargo that was paid for by the Venezuelan people.”
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
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