Prostitution
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
In its most general sense, the setting of one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power. In the more restricted sense (very common), it is the act or practice of a woman offering her body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; the lewdness of a woman with men generally for hire. It involves the idea of intercourse with The offence of abducting a woman for the purpose of prostitution is not completed by abducting her for the purpose of having illicit sexual intercourse with her one's self.
Osborn v. State, 62 Ind. 626.
The defendant, by false representations, induced an unmarried female to accompany him, and, having got her intoxicated, had repeated sexual intercourse with her. Held, that an indictment for enticing her away " for the purpose of prostitution " could not be sustained.
State v. Stoyell, 64 Me. 24.