prostitution
IPA: prɑstʌtˈuʃʌn
noun
- Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.
- (by extension) Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.
- (by extension) Debasement for profit or impure motives.
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Examples of "prostitution" in Sentences
- They brought the punishment of stoning to death for what they called prostitution adultery.
- This kind of prostitution is legal and no less lucrative than the standard, unlawful variety ....
- If prostitution is a form of rape, as radical feminists have asserted, then how can anybody in prostitution have a wonderful experience with it?
- The term prostitution itself is controversial -- most groups working with persons who sell or trade sex for money use the terms "sex work" and "sex worker," rather than
- If you find the term prostitution too upsetting of a term to see used for something nice guys and their decent, upstanding wives do, perhaps you would prefer “transactional sex?”
- Marie, as we have seen, was only seventeen, unformed and wild, full of youthful passion and social despair, on the verge of what we call prostitution; reckless, hopeless, with a deep touch of sullenness and hatred.
- A rather typical story about the “rise” of prostitution (this time, in Hawaii) quotes without comment the following two statistics: Here are a few more statistics on prostitution from the FBI: The FBI states the average age of entry into prostitution is 14-years-old.
- JEFFERSON COUNTY - KFDM News has obtained documents and information from investigators who are probing what they call a prostitution operation in which they say a man employed two women who targeted workers and set up meetings at Jefferson County motels and other locations.
- Although it is conventional to refer to 'the world's oldest profession,' the term prostitution has never described a clearly defined activity and was constructed by particular social actors at a specific time for specific reasons. [i] Within feminism, the phenomenon called prostitution is the centre of an intransigent debate about its meanings, one aspect of the conflict revolving around what words should be used to describe women who offer sexual services for sale: prostitute, sex worker, prostituted woman, victim of sexual exploitation.
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