Prostitution

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Prostitution Definition

The common lewdness of a woman for gain. The act of permitting a common and indiscriminate sexual intercourse for hire. 12 Mete. (Miss.) 97; 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 610; 102 Ind. 161; 154 111. 647. In Iowa, the term seems to be used in a wider sense than elsewhere prevails. 56 Iowa, 432; 78 Iowa, 492. In a figurative sense, it signifies the bad use which a corrupt judge makes of the law, by making it subservient to his interest; as, the prostitution of the law, the prostitution of justice.

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The common lewdness of a woman for gain. The act of permitting a common and indiscriminate sexual intercourse for hire. 12 Mete. (Miss.) 97; 8 Barb. (N. Y.) 610; 102 Ind. 161; 154 111. 647. In Iowa, the term seems to be used in a wider sense than elsewhere prevails. 56 Iowa, 432; 78 Iowa, 492. In a figurative sense, it signifies the bad use which a corrupt judge makes of the law, by making it subservient to his interest; as, the prostitution of the law, the prostitution of justice.

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Prostitution in relation to Local Government Regulatory Functions

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  • Local Goverment Regulation
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See Also

Police; Sexual behavior; Sociology, article onthe early history of social research; and the biography ofKinsey

Criminalization and Decriminalization; Deviance; Gender and Crime; Homosexuality and Crime; Mass Media and Crime; Organized Crime; Police: Policing Complainantless Crimes; Rape: Behavioral Aspects; Rape: Legal Aspects; Sex Offenses: Consensual; Sexual Predators; Victimless Crime.

Feminist Jurisprudence; MacKinnon, Catharine.

Sex Offenses; Vice Crimes.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ; American Civil Liberties Union ; Antislavery ; Common Law ; Crime ; Crime, Organized ; Epidemics and Public Health ; Mann Act ; Narcotics Trade and Legislation ; Pornography ; Progressive Movement ; Sexually Transmitted Diseases ; Suffrage: Woman’s Suffrage .

Further Reading (Books)

Acton, William 1857 Prostitution Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects in London and Other Large Cities. London: Churchill.

British Social Biology Council 1955 Women of the Streets: A Sociological Study of the Common Prostitute. Edited by C. H. Rolph. London: Seeker & Warburg.

Bryan, James H. 1965 Apprenticeships in Prostitution. Social Problems 12:287-297.

Bryan, James H. 1966 Occupational Ideologies and Individual Attitudes of Call Girls. Social Problems 13:441-450.

Cousins, Sheila [pseud.] 1938 To Beg I Am Ashamed. New York: Vanguard.

Davis, Kingsley 1961 Prostitution. Pages 262-288 in Robert K. Merton and Robert A. Nisbet (editors), Contemporary Social Problems: An Introduction to the Sociology of Deviant Behavior and Social Disorganization. New York: Harcourt.

Freedman, Mervin B. 1965 The Sexual Behavior of American College Women: An Empirical Study and an Historical Survey. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavior and Development 11, no. 1:33-48.

Gibbens, T. C. N. 1956 Juvenile Prostitution. Unpublished manuscript. _ Paper read before the Scientific Group for the Discussion of Delinquency Problems.

Gibbens, T. C. N.; and Silberman, M. 1960 The Clients of Prostitutes. British Journal of Venereal Diseases 36, no. 2:113-117.

Jackman, N
orman H.; O’Toole, Richard; and Geis, GilBert 1963 The Self Image of the Prostitute. Sociological Quarterly 4, no. 2:150-161.

Jersild, Jens 1958 Amerikanerpiger. Copenhagen: Saertryk af Juristen.

Jersild, Jens 1959 Hvad unge b

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Prostitution in relation to Local Government Regulatory Functions

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  • Local Government Power

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