Prostitution is legal, but running brothels and pimping are illegal. Prostitution is legal but pimping and operating a brothel are illegal. Trafficking, forcing people into prostitution and most forms of pimping are illegal. These dealt principally with pimping, procuring, operating brothels and soliciting. Organised prostitution (brothels, prostitution rings, pimping, etc.) is illegal. Consequently, organized prostitution (brothels, prostitution rings or other forms of pimping) is prohibited. Paying for sex, pimping and keeping a brothel are illegal. Prostitution is legal in some locations (including pimping and maintaining a brothel). She closed brothels and made pimping a criminal offense. Lacey and Larkin were charged with conspiracy to commit pimping. I've never believed in pimping my personal life out for publicity. Jagga takes his revenge by getting Satya arrested on false charges of pimping. Gene Rivers, a Boston minister, has accused gays of "pimping" the civil rights movement. In 2004, Amsterdam authorities commissioned research into pimping and human trafficking in Amsterdam. The pair returned to Marseille in 1919, where they engaged in pimping and opium smuggling.