The Procuress by Jan Vermeer. Xaviera Hollander , a former madam, call girl , and author, at one time New York City's leading madam. Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. 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. Procuring can take abusive forms. In the U. Where prostitution is decriminalized or regulated , procuring may or may not be legal. In jurisdictions where procuring is allowed, however, the forms permitted do not involve threats or other forms of non-consensual acts towards the prostitute or other persons; all procuring regulations differ widely from place to place.
In Canada , there was a legal challenge to prostitution laws, which ended in the ruling of Bedford v. In , Ontario Superior Court Judge Susan Himel overturned the national laws banning brothels and procuring, arguing that they violated the constitution guaranteeing "the right to life, liberty and security".
In , Ontario Appeal Court reaffirmed the unconstitutionality of the laws. Template:As of , the Canadian government began working on replacing those regulations with ones that do not violate the Canadian constitution.
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The United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others requires state signatories to ban pimping and brothels, and to abolish regulation of individual prostitutes.
