About The Word Prostitution
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Prostitution
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What's The Definition Of Prostitution?
[n] offering sexual intercourse for pay
Synonyms | Synonyms for Prostitution: harlotry | whoredom Related Terms | Find terms related to Prostitution: See Also | vice crime Prostitution In Webster's Dictionary \Pros`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. prostitutio: cf. F.
prostitution.]
1. The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body
to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness
of a woman.
2. The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to
infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the
prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.
``Mental prostitution.'' --Byron.
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