Prostitution definition

Prostitution means procuring or providing any commercial sex act and the “practice of prostitution” has the same meaning.
Prostitution means engaging in, or agreeing to engage in, or offering to engage in a sexual act or sexual contact, as those terms are defined in section 251, in return for a pecuniary benefit to be received by the person engaging in prostitution or a 3rd person;
Prostitution means the sexual exploitation or abuse of persons for commercial purposes;

Examples of Prostitution in a sentence

  • Requests the Secretary-General to invite annually States which have not ratified the 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others and the 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery to commence ratification procedures; 10.

  • The End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) Campaign recommended that governmental authorities should adopt legislation which would allow them to prosecute their own nationals for sexual exploitation of children.

  • The Working Group had before it the following documents: Status of the 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institution and Practices similar to Slavery (E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.2/1994/2); Status of the 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.2/1994/3).

  • Kempadoo K., “State Pimpage: Regulating Prostitution in the Dutch Caribbean”, University of Col- orado, USA, 1995.

  • It was the topic of the 16th Session of the Task Force on Con- temporary Forms of Slavery, which gave rise to a Proposed Plan of Action for the Prevention of the Traffic in Persons and Prostitution of Others.


More Definitions of Prostitution

Prostitution means the act of a female offering her body for sexual penetration for hire, whether in money or in kind;
Prostitution means procuring or providing any commercial sex act and the “practice of prostitution” has the same meaning. “Sex trafficking” means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act (22 U.S.C. 7102(9)).
Prostitution means engaging or offering to engage in sexual activity with or for another in exchange for anything of value.
Prostitution means engaging in sexual conduct with
Prostitution means engaging in sexual conduct with another person in
Prostitution means engaging or agreeing to engage in sexual
Prostitution means an act in violation of AS 11.66.100 ;