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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

John Rykener, also known as Eleanor (fl. 1394), was a 14th-century transvestite sex worker arrested in December 1394 for performing a sex act with another man, John Britby, in London's Cheapside. Although historians tentatively link Rykener to a prisoner of the same name, the only known facts of his life come from interrogation made by the mayor of London. Rykener was questioned on two offences: prostitution and sodomy. Prostitutes were not usually arrested in London during this period, while sodomy was an offence against morality rather than common law, and so pursued in ecclesiastical courts. There is no evidence that Rykener was prosecuted for either crime. Rykener said that he was introduced to sexual contact with men by Elizabeth Brouderer, a London embroideress who dressed him as a woman and may have acted as his procurer. (read more ...)

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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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