Immoral purpose
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From 242 U.S. 470 - Caminetti v. United States · 1917Most cited · 5,300 citing opinions
It refers to women who, for hire or without hire, offer their bodies to indiscriminate intercourse with men. ... Now the addition in the last statute of the words, 'or for any other immoral purpose,' after the word 'prostitution,' must have been made for some practical object. ... the immoral purpose referred to by the words 'any other immoral purpose' must be one of the same general class or kind as the particular purpose of 'prostitution' specified in the same clause of the statute. ... The prostitute may, in the popular sense, be more degraded in character than the concubine, but the latter none the less must be held to lead an immoral life.