Pimping

The offense of managing, controlling or profiting from another person's engagement in prostitution, typically by arranging clients, taking a share of the earnings, or directing where and how the person works, sometimes also called procuring or living off the earnings of prostitution depending on the jurisdiction's statutory language. It is prosecuted as a distinct offense from prostitution itself because it targets a third party who profits from and often exerts control over another person's sexual labor, and it shades into the more serious offense of human trafficking where the control involved rises to the level of force, fraud or coercion over an unwilling participant. Most legal systems that otherwise tolerate or regulate prostitution between consenting adults still criminalize this third-party management and profit-taking role.