Portal:Prostitution

The Procuress by Jan Vermeer

Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. A procurer, colloquially called a pimp (if male) or a madam (if female), is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where the prostitute may engage clients. Like prostitution, the legality of certain actions of a madam or a pimp vary from one region to the next. (read more...)

Examples of procuring include:

• trafficking a person into a country for the purpose of soliciting sex
• operating a prostitution business
• transporting a prostitute to the location of their arrangement
• deriving financial gain from the prostitution of another

Mata Hari in 1906

Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (/ˈmɑːtə ˈhɑːri/), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France.

Margaretha Zelle was born 7 August 1876, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. She was the eldest of four children of Adam Zelle (2 October 1840 – 13 March 1910) and his first wife Antje van der Meulen (21 April 1842 – 9 May 1891). She had three brothers. Her father owned a hat shop, made successful investments in the oil industry, and became affluent enough to give Margaretha a lavish early childhood that included exclusive schools until the age of 13. (read more...)

A party of fashionably dressed young people is interrupted by intruders with masks and a lighted torch suggesting that these revels take place during Carnival. Well-bred young ladies did not join parties in public inns; these smiling women are prostitutes

• ... that art historians often find it difficult to judge whether 17th-century merry company paintings (example illustrated) show scenes of prostitution?
• ... that Peg Plunkett, brothel keeper, had the leader of the Pinking Dindies gang sent to jail after she lost her baby?
• ... that clam juice and aspirin were served at the Everleigh Club brothel as a starter for breakfast, which began at 2:00 in the afternoon?
• ... that taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell has opened a brothel to fund his bid to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
• ... that the brothel Bon Ton is described by BBC as "an ideal showcase for New Zealand-style liberalisation"?

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  • 1957: The Prostitution Prevention Law, which outlawed Prostitution in Japan, came into force.
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  • 1888: Murder of Emma Elizabeth Smith. Her killing was the first of the Whitechapel murders.
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  • 1836: Murder of Helen Jewett, a New York prostitute, whose alleged murderer, Richard P. Robinson, was tried and sensationally acquitted.
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  • 1946: Brothels were outlawed in France by the passing of the Loi Marthe Richard.
  • 2016: Paying for sex in France became illegal by Law 444 (2016) coming into force.
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  • 2009: Iceland enacted legislation to adopt the Nordic model of prostitution which criminalises the buying of sex.
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  • 1891: Murder of Carrie Brown, a New York prostitute who was murdered and mutilated. She is occasionally mentioned as an alleged victim of Jack the Ripper.

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