What is the legal definition for prostitution?
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It depends on the jurisdiction (what laws are being applied), but where I'm at, the legal definition is given by Kansas Statutes Annotated (KSA) 21-3512\n\n(a) Prostitution is performing for hire, or offering or agreeing to perform for hire where there is an exchange of value, any of the following acts: (1) Sexual intercourse; (2) sodomy; or (3) manual or other bodily contact stimulation of the genitals of any person with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of the offender or another.\n\nSo in Kansas, assuming that providing room and board would be considered "an exchange of value"; then yes, it could be prosecuted as prostitution. In this case, it would be a class B, non-person misdemeanor, so long as the people are both 16 years of age or older.
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by become a prostitute
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Prostitution and escort services arent necessarily the same. \n\nFor one, prostitution is only to anybody. A minor could very well walk up to a prostitute, and ask for a "favour". Prostitution is also more open.\n\nEscort services are much more discreet, and are age restricted. Also, sex isnt always implied nor guaranteed with an escort.
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Prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas. Prostitution is legal in the state of Nevada. Las Vegas is in Carroll County I do believe,in that county prostitution is not permitted. The casinos want customers to spend in their casinos not laying flat on their backs or what ever position suits the individual.
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It's not illegal in itself, but brothels (classed as two-or-more prostitutes working from the same address) are.
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HUH? \n\nIF a prostitute quit waking the streets, went to school for paralegal, and got hired somewhere as a paralegal....\n\nWhat difference does it make what she did before school? I'd applaud her for putting the effort in to get off the streets, before I'd question the legality of whatever you are talking about....
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Downfall of mankind n moral decay. These r mere words. Different people make judgment on a particular situation using their own moral standards. Hugging n kissing openly is acceptable to some n abhorred by others. Polygamy is perfectly legal in some c'tries n illegal in others. In some c'tries, prostitution is a legal profession. Sometimes these laws n standards coexist esp in multi-racial, religious n cultural c'tries. Coming back to your question. What standards are u using when u posed this question?
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No, they are not, though I'm sure by the tone of your question, my chances at "best answer" just dramatically dropped.  \n\nVice laws are a reflection of the wants/needs of a community. The problem is that prostitution and drugs bring with them a whole slew of other problems - homicide, robbery, homelessness, all sorts of public disorder/nuisance issues.  Where you have drugs, you are always going to have addicts, and where you have addicts, you are always going to have property crimes.  \n\nIn addition, consider this - There is currently an ordinance in my City that says that I cannot hold a garage sale in my front yard.  Do you honestly think a community that cares where the friggin' garage sale is held is ready to loosen up in regard to vice?
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both sexes can be prostitutes
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Choosing who to have sex with, as long as you do not hurt them and it is consensual, seems to be a basic right.  Say I go out to a bar and buy a lady a drink, and we end up having sex (assume soberly decided and consensual) that night.  Any interference in that would seem to be an infringement of our rights.  Who you relate to and what you consensually decide upon doing is, if you are going to posit rights, a very basic right.  \n\nWhat would we say if the government stepped in and arrested us for having consensual sex because i bought her that drink?  People would be outraged and it would be called an infringement of basic rights.  But if I gave her $50, all of a sudden its a whole different story.  Its not so much about having sex as a basic right as it is about two consenting adults having the basic right to have relations with each other however they choose. \n\nFRAGINAL: who are you to decide what counts as exploitation for another person?  yes there are some women who are exploited and there are some who are not.  Shouldn't it be the woman's call if prostitution is exploiting her?  By telling her what counts as exploitation and what doesn't you're contradicting the whole point of ending exploitation: respecting another person as autonomous and rational, capable of making their own decisions.  \n\nchainreaction: amen! i couldn't have said it better.\n\nTriplestar: 1:surely basic human rights include a right to do with your body as you choose? and to freely and consensually relate with other adults?\n2: prostitution means the exchanging of money or goods for sexual favors\n3: Basic human rights must include the right to freely relate with other consenting adults, and the giving of gifts or money is no more morally relevant to this than is the giving of emotional support or other "goods."  Maybe even less so since emotional connections tend to cause even more harm when they are lost.\n4:So yes, the right to have sex with another human being for money seems to be as basic a human right as having sex for pleasure, or emotional connections, or presents, etc.\n\nProstitution is no more inherently violates the right to live without force than any other form of work does.  I think you're the one that needs to rethink this.  You seem to be assuming that no person can freely choose to be a prostitute without any type of force or slavery involved.  The law on this issue, like so many other issues, is so warped by tradition, power, and misunderstanding that whether or not something is legal has no bearing on whether or not its moral.  In so far as prostitution exploits and enslaves, I totally agree, it should be outlawed.  But when it is freely chosen and consensual, it does seem to reflect a basic right: the right to bodily privacy and autonomy.
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Hire a prostitute to show you what its for.
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UK street slang for prostitute
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Soliciting a prostitute is different than incedent exposure.\n\nSomeone who needs to reveal socially-accepted-sexual body parts has a problem.  The whole "look at my penis in the library" fiasco that's been on the news (around where I live) is just disgusting.  It's an infringement upon the person who's being offended.  People have a right to be in public and not be subjected to that.  So yes - those people are wrong, they're breaking laws that are just, and they need to register.\n\nPrositution....that's a person's choice.  Granted, many prostitutes are "in the biz" b/c they "have to" and feel they have no way out, no other skills to utilize to make a living (sadly). However, it's not the government's job to babysit people and prevent them from making bad decisions which affect their lives.  So, if two adults want to have sex, free or otherwise, that's their business.  The laws governing that realm are absurd to me, and I dislike the fact that it's taken one step further to then label those people as sex offenders as if they somehow sought to hurt someone (obviously if they RAPE...yes you can rape a prostitute...then they ARE sex offenders)...\n\nit's a fine line.
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A prostitute is more associated with sex for sale whereas\na whore is often simply a woman of loose morals....
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Yes, prostitution should absolutely be legalized; let local governments decide if they want it or not and handle it either through ordinances or zoning laws.  Same thing with drugs - decriminalization or outright legalization would allow governments to raise revenues that could be spent on treatments and public health action, and would take away a source of more violent criminal activity that supports these illegal trades.  There's no reason these things should be illegal, and every reason they should be legalized.
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Yes,,,,,,,,there should be an unambiguous law to protect practitioners.........and customers.........as my momma once said..........Prostitutes are a necessary evil.......well im all into legalising a need and a want,,,with some come back...
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As prostitution is illegal, a contract is unenforceable; theft of services does not apply.  Rape is rape.