The selling of one's body for sexual purposes. The EU has launched several initiatives to fight against the sex trade in women and children. (See Organised crime, website UN)
The exchange of sexual pleasure for money.
offering sexual intercourse for pay
Crime of engaging in a sexual act with another in exchange for money or other compensation.
Providing sexual acts in exchange for payment.
An act of sexual intercourse for gain.
n. the profession of performing sexual acts for money. Prostitution is a crime throughout the United States, except for a few counties in the state of Nevada, where it is allowed in licensed houses of prostitution. Soliciting acts of prostitution is also a crime, called pandering or simply, soliciting. Pandering on behalf of a prostitute is called pimping.
the selling of sexual services
exchange of money for sexual favors
The act of supplying sexual favours for money.
The term prostitution refers to the act of having sexual intercourse or performing other sexual acts, explicitly for material compensation—normally money, but also other forms of property, including drugs, expensive clothing, jewelery, or real estate. Having multiple clients at the time is not required for being classified as prostitute, but normally is included; a woman who engages in sexual intercourse with one man for support may be distinguished as a mistress. The term may be used, loosely, to indicate someone who engages in sexual acts that are disapproved of -- whether acts outside of marriage, or as a means to an affluent life style or the status associated with the customer (sometimes inside marriage).
In criminology, the research and analysis of prostitution falls within the topic of public order crime. The legal treatment of the social phenomenon is not equal, reflecting differing standards of morality as to the pursuit of pleasure, differing attitudes towards gender roles, and more general concerns with inequality, exploitation, and violence. In some jurisdictions, the commercial arrangement between customer and service provider is considered intrinsically criminal.
