What is prostitution? Why is prostitution considered a crime? List and define other types of prostitution-related offenses. Should these acts be considered criminal? Why or why not?

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The crime of prostitution is defined as engaging in sexual intercourse or other sexual acts in exchange for money or other items of value. There are four main reasons why prostitution is considered a crime: (1) disease, (2) family, (3) exploitation, and (4) immorality. Other prostitution-related offenses include (1) solicitation for prostitution—asking or requesting another person to engage in prostitution; (2) pimping—procuring a prostitute for another individual, arranging a meeting for the purpose of prostitution, transporting an individual to a location for the purpose of prostitution, receiving money or another thing of value from a prostitute knowing that it was earned from prostitution, or owning, managing, or leasing a house of prostitution or prostitution business; (3) pandering—the encouraging or inducing of another to become or remain a prostitute; (4) living off prostitution—committed by a person other than a prostitute and the prostitute’s minor child or dependent who is knowingly supported in whole or substantial part by the proceeds of prostitution; (5) keeping a place of prostitution—knowingly granting or permitting the use of a place for the purpose of prostitution; (6) promoting prostitution—aiding or abetting prostitution by any means whatsoever; and (7) masturbation for hire—stimulating the genital organs of another, whether resulting in orgasm or not, by manual or other bodily contact exclusive of sexual intercourse or by instrumental manipulation for money or the substantial equivalent thereof. (Students should then explain their rationales for whether these acts should be considered crimes.)