Prostitute, 'prostitute' means a female who offers her body for promiscuous sexual intercourse for hire, whether in money or in kind. State of U.P. v Kaushailiya, AIR 1964 SC 416: (1964) 4 SCR 1002.
A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Solicitation by prostitutes is punishable in towns by the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28 (in cases where the town is subject to a special Act incorporating that Act); in London by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54, and generally by the Vagrancy Act, 1824.
A licensed retailer of intoxicating liquor permitting his premises to be the habitual resort of reputed prostitutes, whether their object be prostitution or not, is, if he allows them to remain longer than is necessary for the purpose of obtaining reasonable refreshment, liable to a penalty under the Licensing Act, 1910, s. 76.
A man who lives on the earnings of prostitution may be dealt with as a 'rogue and a vagabond' by the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1898, amended by the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912. See VAGRANTS.
As to the sending of children associating with prostitutes to approved schools, etc., see (English) Children Act, 1933, s. 62.
Words imputing that a woman or girl is a prostitute are actionable without proof of special damage; see the Slander of Women Act, 1891.
As to the repealed (English) Contagious Diseases Acts, see that title.
Means a woman who offers her body to indis-criminate sexual intercourse, especially for hire, Razia v. State, AIR 1957 All 340: 1957 All LJ 347.