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• n  offering sexual intercourse for pay

• Sociologists as well as fiction writers often deal with the problem of prostitution, but there have been remarkably few psychological studies of the subject.
• In the basest effect of the burgeoning sex trade, the search for newer thrills has chained increasing numbers of girls and boys to prostitution.
• The backlash against prostitution could escalate, however.

• harlotry
• whoredom

News & Articles

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• Police: Prostitution Suspect Claimed To Be in CIA, Threatened Officer, Then Sang “Rudolph”
  Police say a western prostitution suspect asked an undercover officer to sing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with her before other police swooped in to arrest her.
  June 13, 2013 - CBS Pittsburgh
• Task force crafting prostitution ordinance debates punishment or treatment for sex workers
  Should sex workers caught by Atlanta Police be given a chance to escape prostitution with treatment, sentenced to jail time, or both? That was one of the questions addressed by a task force that's trying to help city officials create "tools to fight prostitution" during its third monthly meeting earlier this week at City Hall. The Working Group on Prostitution, or WGOP, was formed by Mayor Kasim ...
  June 13, 2013 - Creative Loafing Atlanta
• Cops: Prostitution suspect sang 'Rudolph'
  AMBRIDGE, Pa. -- Police say a western prostitution suspect asked an undercover officer to sing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" with her before other police swooped in to arrest her. The Beaver County Times reports Thursday that 45-year-old Marcia Settles asked the Ambridge officer to sing the carol during an odd verbal exchange just before her arrest June 4.
  June 13, 2013 - The Arizona Republic

Quotes

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• James Tedisco in International Herald Tribune
  We're very encouraged that Craigslist is doing the right thing in eliminating its online red light district with prostitution and pornography in plain sight. We'll be watching and investigating critically to make sure this measure is more than just... Richard Blumenthal http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Blumenthal&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEVF-3jd-FHABHMp-0Add3rCPYObQ FOXNews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520032,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHnosF5Xk48n2M7QHBCPqpJCxHqpg May 13, 2009 78324 105328 prostitution Today's news that Eliot Spitzer was likely involved with a prostitution ring and his refusal to deny it leads to one inescapable conclusion: He has disgraced his office and the entire state of New York," said Assembly Republican leader James...
• Kamala Harris in International Herald Tribune
  The crime of prostitution does not exist by itself,Harris said. "Along with it come pimps, johns and other crimes that really impact the safety of neighborhoods."