(n.) A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.
(2) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(3) The law will decriminalise street sex workers, who will no longer be charged for soliciting, but it will still be illegal for two women to work together, or to run a brothel.
(4) I had no money and he threatened that I would end up in a brothel."
(5) A documentary about Femen, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel , premiered at a film festival in September, and revealed the involvement of a man behind some of the ideas for the groups protests.
(6) Historical revisionists – including Abe – have angered South Korea by undermining the widely accepted narrative of the “comfort women”: tens of thousands of mainly Asian women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels in the 1930s and 40s.
(7) Brothels in the capital were ignored while others were being shut down an hour away in Glasgow.
(8) Meanwhile a report from New Zealand – where selling sex was decriminalised in 2003 – found the law had "little impact" on numbers, although some residents complain about a proliferation of explicit advertisements for brothels on local radio, and are opposing a 15-storey "super brothel" in Auckland.
(9) Tens of thousands of young women from regions devastated by the earthquake in Nepal are being targeted by human traffickers supplying a network of brothels across south Asia, campaigners in Kathmandu and affected areas say.
(10) The discovery of a 44% (44 out of 100) prevalence rate of HIV infection among female prostitutes working in brothels in Chiangmai in Thailand in June 1989, prompted this follow-up study in August to confirm the high prevalence rate and to look for risk factors for infection.
(11) Two girls returned after a year of exploitation in brothels in the Midlands.
(12) Beijing reacted angrily after the outspoken nationalist mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, said this week that Japan's forced recruitment of Asian women to work in military brothels before and during the second world war had been necessary to maintain discipline among soldiers .
(13) The chilling claim that we are all surrounded by an invisible peril was the prelude to evoking an evil that we had long thought was behind us, with May declaring: "It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery."
(14) A judge has ruled that a Soho brothel shut down by police earlier this month can reopen for business.
(15) Other neighbours have radically different approaches: in Germany, prostitution is legal and municipally regulated; in Spain, vast borderland brothels in places such as La Jonquera in Catalonia are frequented by French clients.
(16) The findings of this study prompted intensive health education programmes among prostitutes, their customers, and owners of brothels.
(17) Investigators would discover many girls and young women living under the control of men who forced them to work in brothels or who drove them around the city, sometimes to as many as 20 assignments a day.
(18) As far as I have understood one girl and one maid is not illegal, it's not a brothel."
(19) We recently had a client who was in domestic servitude, forced to work in a nail bar during the day and every evening taken to a brothel and exploited there all night.” Human traffickers may face life sentence under Britain's tough new slavery bill Read more Methods used to lure children from Vietnam to the UK are also becoming increasingly sophisticated, including use of social media.
(20) Two months later, Elm Guest House was raided by police and its owners, Haroon and Carole Kasir, were convicted at the Old Bailey of running a brothel.
Prostitute
Definition:
(v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
(v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
(a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
(n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
(n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Example Sentences:
(1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(2) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(3) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
(4) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(5) Seroprevalence in diverse Thai groups included 6% of men with sexually transmitted diseases, 15% of prostitutes, and 6% of army recruits.
(6) These results show that in Nairobi prostitutes are a readily identifiable group of high-frequency transmitters of gonococcal infection.
(7) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(8) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
(9) The city, which only allows prostitution in certain areas, also plans to spend SFr700,000 a year to keep the sex boxes running.
(10) Window prostitutes are at higher risk than club prostitutes.
(11) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(12) Two seropositive prostitutes had IgM hepatitis B core antibody suggesting recent infection.
(13) Serological results were correlated with history of intravenous drug addiction, alcohol abuse, homosexuality or prostitution (high-risk groups), and duration and number of internments.
(14) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(15) He did so, the judges asserted, because he was facing related charges in another case involving accusations that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute who was also a "bunga bunga" guest.
(16) The difference in the incidence of ASA between controls (5%) and the prostitutes (43.1%) was highly significant (p less than 0.01).
(17) The increasing number of HIV infected patients in the Netherlands living outside of Amsterdam, would appear to urge more education of psychiatric and other health care professionals concerning specific aspects of HIV infection, homosexuality, prostitution and intravenous drug abuse.
(18) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(19) The article first reviews the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among prostitutes.
(20) These prostitutes represented a reservoir for STDs including HIV.