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procuring

Facilitation or provision of prostitute

EntityactivityQ43437

Also known as pandering · pimping

Instance of: activity
Subclass of: procurement

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Procuring, pimping, or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or other sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. A procurer, often called a pimp if male, or a procuress, often called a madam if female, or a brothel keeper, 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 solicit clients. Like prostitution, the legality of certain actions of a madam or a pimp varies from one region to the next.

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Practiced by: procurer
madam
brothel owner
pimp
Main regulatory text: Strafgesetzbuch country: Germany · section: § 181a Zuhälterei
Nordic model approach to prostitution
Said to be the same as: procuration

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AIDB. (2026). procuring (Q43437). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/procuring-Q43437