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Meretricium
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Meretricium,[1] vel in lingua post-classica prostitutio,[2] est actus coitûs aliarumve rerum veneriarum pro pecunia faciendarum. Qui hoc facit variis nominibus potest: meretrix, scortum, lupa, prostibulum, prostitutus, prostituta, quaestuaria, publica. Quaestus meretricius diu per orbem terrarum factus est. In aliquibus iurisdictionibus scelus habetur et varie punitur, sed alibi legale est et a civitate sub variis condicionibus permittitur. Meretricium pars industriae veneriae (vel sexualis) habetur.
Vide etiam paginam discretivam: Meretrix (discretiva).
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