This paper deals with the psychoanalyses of two women who had been prostitutes. Both patients had been taught by their mothers that sexuality was a relationship of bodies and not of persons. The author feels that, in his patients, prostitution could be compared with hypochondriasis because both conditions are only one step removed from a completely objectless state (like that seen in the first six months of life) in which people are regarded only as providers of relief from physiological tensions. Both patients showed a dependent and hostile attachment to their mothers and lacked a sustained father figure with whom they could relate.