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Prostitution vs Strumpetry - What's the difference?

prostitution | strumpetry |

As nouns the difference between prostitution and strumpetry

is that prostitution is engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods while strumpetry is whoredom; prostitution.

prostitution

English

(wikipedia prostitution)

Noun

(-)
  • Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for compensation, such as money or other valuable goods.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2013-07-29 , author =David Ingram (reporting for Reuters), Howard Goller & Bill Trott (editing for Reuters) , title = FBI arrests 150 in three days in sex-trafficking sweep , site = news.yahoo.com , url = http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-says-arrested-150-three-days-child-prostitution-154521080.html , accessdate = 2013-07-29 }}
    The FBI typically does not investigate adult prostitution', leaving it as a state and local matter, but in recent years it has made child ' prostitution a priority in a program the FBI calls Operation Cross Country. The program includes highway billboards asking people to call the FBI with tips.
    Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.
  • (by extension) Debasement for unworthy profit or motives.
    • The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.

    Synonyms

    * harlotry * oldest profession, world's oldest profession * whoredom

    Related terms

    * prostitute * child prostitution

    strumpetry

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Whoredom; prostitution.
  • * 1940 , Sydney Horler, Malefactors' Row
    • However, these abandoned women had other prospects besides mere strumpetry ...
  • * 2001 , Tibor Fischer, Under the Frog
    • ...how capitalism had taken young male proletarians to be slaughtered in wars for markets and how their sisters were thrust into strumpetry .
  • Behaviour suited to a strumpet; brazenness, sluttishness.