Prostitution in the United States
In the United States, only one state, Nevada, permits prostitution to be practiced, but only in some counties of the state, and only inside licensed brothels. Prostitution is otherwise illegal in the US, although Maine has adopted a specific legislative framework where selling sex is decriminalized but buying sex is illegal. Prostitution nonetheless occurs in all states. A 2008 report by the National Institute of Justice estimated that 15–20 percent of men in the US have paid for sex. The Constitution does not grant the federal government a general power to regulate commercial sex, and such regulation is therefore, per the Tenth Amendment, exclusively the domain of the states except as it pertains to interstate commerce, which Congress may regulate with laws such as the Mann Act. In most states, prostitution is considered a misdemeanor in the category of public-order crime. Prostitution was once considered a vagrancy crime. Nevada is the only state that allows legal prostitution in the...
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