Prostitution in Nashville, Tennessee is the crime of engaging in, or offering to engage in sexual activity as a business or being an inmate in a house of prostitution or loitering in a public place for the purpose of being hired to engage in sexual activity. The Metro Police department has moved stings from street corners to the high tech world of Craigslist.
It is to say the least not an enjoyable moment when a client realizes that they have been caught in a Nashville Craigslist sting for prostitution, (lately there have been many stings using the popular Craigslist). It is embarrassing, it can cost you a job, your automobile, and many other social repercussions. Some people have said to me from time to time that they thought, only the person selling sex can get in trouble, well that is incorrect in Tennessee. Nashville prostitution charges can carry a great many problems for clients, and the government does not care whether you arranged your prostitute by Craigslist or picked her up on the street, it is still the crime of patronizing prostitution. The internet has allowed the police to arrest someone who may not otherwise solicit a prostitute, except that the internet makes it seem so easy, and not like picking a prostitute off the street.
The charge in Tennessee is called patronizing prostitution, it is a class B misdemeanor and can carry with it penalties, fines and jail time. Many people in Nashville who are charged with this crime do not realize that if you are within 100 hundred feet of a church and patronizing prostitution it becomes a class A misdemeanor and can carry with it 11 months and 29 days in jail. I might add that there is another boundary issue to consider in this charge. If you are within 1 and half miles of a school, it then becomes a class A misdemeanor and a mandatory 7 days in jail and a 1 thousand dollar fine. A Craigslist sting within a school zone buffer may put you in danger of doing significant jail time.
There have been some arrests in Nashville for promoting prostitution, that is a class E felony and can carry a sentence in jail of 1 to 2 years. However the vast majority of new prostitution stings have come via Craigslist and the internet in Nashville.
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