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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79810</law_id><section_number>18.2-346</section_number><catch_line>Prostitution; commercial sexual conduct; penalties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1627.6</reference><reference>15.2-1724</reference><reference>15.2-907</reference><reference>16.1-69.55</reference><reference>17.1-275.13</reference><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>18.2-346.01</reference><reference>18.2-346.1</reference><reference>18.2-350</reference><reference>18.2-357.1</reference><reference>18.2-361.1</reference><reference>18.2-513</reference><reference>18.2-67.9</reference><reference>19.2-10.2</reference><reference>19.2-327.15</reference><reference>19.2-386.16</reference><reference>19.2-392.12</reference><reference>23.1-506</reference><reference>32.1-58</reference><reference>37.2-314</reference><reference>37.2-416.1</reference><reference>37.2-506.1</reference><reference>4.1-225</reference><reference>53.1-202.3</reference><reference>53.1-40.02</reference><reference>8.01-396.2</reference><reference>9.1-902</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Commercial Sex Trafficking, Prostitution, etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person who, for money or its equivalent, (i) commits any act in violation of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Crimes against nature; penalty" href="/18.2-361/">18.2-361</a>; performs cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus upon or by another person; engages in sexual intercourse or anal intercourse; touches the unclothed genitals or anus of another person with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to sexually arouse or gratify; or allows another to touch his unclothed genitals or anus with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to sexually arouse or gratify or (ii) offers to commit any act in violation of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Crimes against nature; penalty" href="/18.2-361/">18.2-361</a>; perform cunnilingus, fellatio, or anilingus upon or by another person; engage in sexual intercourse or anal intercourse; touch the unclothed genitals or anus of another person with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to sexually arouse or gratify; or allow another to touch his unclothed genitals or anus with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to sexually arouse or gratify and thereafter does any substantial act in furtherance thereof is guilty of prostitution, which is punishable as a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-194; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1980, c. 534; 1993, c. 609; 2013, cc. 417, 467; 2014, c. 794; 2020, cc. 122, 595, 900; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 188.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
