The law is pretty straight forward on this one.
It is a Class E felony to pimp (make money from a prostitutes earnings) or promote (facilitate) prostitution in Tennessee.
These activities include:
owning, controlling, managing, supervising, or in any way keeping, alone or in association with others, a business for the purpose of engaging in prostitution, or a house of prostitution
procuring an inmate for a house of prostitution
encouraging, inducing, or otherwise purposely causing another to become a prostitute
soliciting a person to patronize a prostitute
procuring a prostitute for a patron, and
soliciting, receiving, or agreeing to receive any benefit for engaging in any of these activities
(Tenn. Ann. Code § 39-13-512.)
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