"The Procuress" by Jan Vermeer van Delft

Procuring is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. Pimps are known under the law as procurers. Examples of procuring include: Download high resolution version (2024x2254, 542 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (2024x2254, 542 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A pimp finds and manages clients for a prostitute and engages them in prostitution (in brothels in most cases and some cases street prostitution) in order to profit from their earnings. ...

• bringing a prostitute into a country for the purpose of soliciting sex
• operating a prostitution business,
• transporting a prostitute to the location of their arrangement, etc.

Criminal laws forbiding the procurement of prostitutes also would outlaw the importuning of the customer. The phrase "procure and importune", as used in these laws, could very well be the origine of the word "pimp".

Pandering is one form of procuring. In most places where prostitution is illegal, so is procuring, whether the relationship between the procurer and prostitute is formal or informal. ...