Sexual relations exchanged for payment.
Questions tagged [prostitution]
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Does discrimination law apply to prostitutes?
Bob is a male prostitute who only services female clients. Charles is a homosexual male who would like to solicit his services, but Bob being straight and so finding this proposition unenticing, refuses. Has Bob unlawfully discriminated against…
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Hypothetically walking the line between pornography and prostitution
Throughout this question I will reference the Texas Penal Code for concrete examples as Texas is my home state.
The Texas Penal Code clarifies explicitly what is considered prostitution in the state in Section 43.02, which I will quote in part here…
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Is prostitution in Canada legal or not?
I'm confused, is prostitution in Canada legal or not?
I've been looking, but have up till now only gotten mixed messages when it comes to it's legality; just a jumble of legislative actions, court rulings, and public statements all wrapped in a…
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Why must victims of 'sex-for-rent' arrangements be legally defined as prostitutes to seek justice?
This Morning Star article describes attempts by Labour politicians to make it easier to prosecute 'sex-for-rent' arrangements, where landlords "demand sex from tenants in lieu of rent".
The article includes the following paragraph:
Under current…
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Prosecuting a citizen for hiring a sex worker abroad where it is legal
Consider that a citizen of Nation A physically travels to another nation, B, where they hire a prostitute in a transaction that is entirely legal in B, but would be illegal in Nation A only due to the monetary part of the transaction, i.e. the…
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If prostitution is legal in the UK then why do people get arrested for talking to prostitutes in the street?
There is some kind of non-official red corner close to Paddington station in London, people get arrested all the times there for talking to undercover prostitutes who are actually police officers.
Why would they get arrested when prostitution is…
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Is there a government department in the Netherlands regulating sex work?
Do the Netherlands have a government department that specializes in understanding and analyzing sex work, and is tasked with maximizing the legal rights, ethical conditions, and positive outcomes for all parties involved, similar to the departments…
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Assuming there is no human trafficking or any form of coercion, is there a difference between the penalties on pimp/madam and prostitute in the U.S?
I was reading https://prostitution.procon.org/us-federal-and-state-prostitution-laws-and-related-punishments/ and unfortunately it only shows the difference in prostitute vs. client/customer. For example in New York, customers will get higher…
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Does a sex-for-food/protection arrangement qualify as rape?
The situation I'm thinking of is the one depicted in A Woman in Berlin. The setting is the end of World War 2 with Soviet armies in Berlin engaging in mass rapes. The woman in question, after being raped several times, decides to seek protection…
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Are CuddleFix participants engaged in prostitution?
Is CuddleFix (http://www.cuddlefix.com) prostitution, or not? If not, where (or at what actions) is the line drawn exactly?
In brief: you pay them to come to your house and lie in bed with you and spoon. With clothes on. No kissing.
Regarding…
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Does the legal definition of prostitution exclude gifts as a type of “fee”?
This is a really interesting and great question:
Hypothetically walking the line between pornography and prostitution
I wanted to add one question to the general one of where the conceptual “boundary” of prostitution is.
That post quotes this Texas…
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Can a USA federal employee use a prostitute in a Las Vegas where it is legal?
We got into an interesting debate at work today after someone joked that a prostitute would be cheaper than dating someone. The crutch of the debate was whether Federal employees or military could use a prostitute if they went to Las…
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Does it violate equal protection for the prosecution to use crossdressing as evidence of intent to commit prostitution?
In Short v. City of Birmingham
At trial, evidence presented by the City showed that, on May 10, 1980, at approximately 2:15 A.M., two Birmingham police officers assigned to Vice Detail saw the defendant dressed in female clothing in the vicinity of…
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What's the limitation of sexual consideration?
Prostitution is defined to be sex in exchange of consideration
http://definitions.uslegal.com/p/prostitution/
The term "prostitution" generally means the commission by a person of
any natural or unnatural sexual act, deviate sexual intercourse,…
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Is hiring a dominatrix legal in Canada?
According to Wikipeidia it is illegal "to purchase or advertise sexual services". This statement seems very broad and would include more than copulation.
I noticed on a dominatrix website, they asked for photo ID and payment by credit card. If the…
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