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1The psychiatrist is often called upon to treat patients who (a) practise prostitution or (b) have phantasies about prostitution.
2On the basis of psychiatric experience, the dictionary definition of prostitution is modified as follows. According to the dictionary prostitution means sexual intercourse (a) for hire, (b) indiscriminately, (c) among a certain class of women. Psychiatric experience shows that in prostitution (a) promiscuousness implies an intentional, defiant indifference in the selection of partners ('Anyone at all will do'); (b) no limitation to class was observed; (c) the relationship is usually marked by brevity; (d) the partners are contemptuous of each other; (è) the partners remain incognito; and (f) their incognito is fortified by fictitious tales about themselves and their families.