18.2-346 - Being a prostitute or prostitution. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-346. Being a prostitute or prostitution.

A. Any person who, for money or its equivalent, commits adultery, fornicationor any act in violation of § 18.2-361, or offers to commit adultery,fornication or any act in violation of § 18.2-361 and thereafter does anysubstantial act in furtherance thereof, shall be guilty of being aprostitute, or prostitution, which shall be punishable as a Class 1misdemeanor.

B. Any person who offers money or its equivalent to another for the purposeof engaging in sexual acts as enumerated above and thereafter does anysubstantial act in furtherance thereof shall be guilty of solicitation ofprostitution and shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-194; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1980, c. 534; 1993,c. 609.)