Fornication vs. Prostitution

Fornicationnoun

Sexual intercourse, especially on the part of an unmarried person.

Prostitutionnoun

Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.

‘Her addiction brought her to the point that prostitution was the only means she had to survive.’;

Fornicationnoun

(legal) The act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman which does not by law amount to adultery.

Prostitutionnoun

(by extension) Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.

Fornicationnoun

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

Prostitutionnoun

(by extension) Debasement for profit or impure motives.

‘The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.’;

Fornicationnoun

Adultery.

Prostitutionnoun

The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.

Fornicationnoun

voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other

Prostitutionnoun

The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.

Fornicationnoun

extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations;

‘adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce’;

Prostitutionnoun

offering sexual intercourse for pay

Fornicationnoun

sexual intercourse between people not married to each other

‘laws forbidding adultery and fornication’;

Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g.

‘sexual activity’;

Fornication

Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other. When one or more of the partners having consensual sexual intercourse is married to a third person, it is called adultery.