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Prostitution in the Netherlands
Prostitution in the Netherlands is legal for voluntary adult sex work; the brothel ban (1911) was lifted 1 October 2000, with municipal licensing, Bibob checks, and pending reforms raising the age to 21.
Prostitution in the Philippines
Prostitution in the Philippines: criminalized under Revised Penal Code Article 202 until RA 11862 (2022) repealed it; now prosecuted mainly under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (RA 9208), which treats sellers as victims and targets exploiters.
Prostitution in the United Arab Emirates
Prostitution in the United Arab Emirates is illegal but documented in Dubai and other emirates; the country is a sex-trafficking destination from Asia, Africa and the former Soviet Union, governed by Federal Law 51 of 2006, replaced by Decree-Law 24 of 2023.
Prostitution in the United Kingdom
Prostitution in the UK: buying and selling sex between consenting adults is legal in England, Wales and Scotland, but soliciting, kerb-crawling, brothel-keeping, and advertising are criminal offences; Northern Ireland criminalises purchase.
Prostitution in the United States
Prostitution in the United States is criminal in all 50 states except licensed brothels in some Nevada counties. Covers its Progressive-era criminalization, the Mann Act, Nevada's system, and health evidence on criminalization versus decriminalization.
Prostitution in Turkey
Prostitution in Turkey is legal only in state-licensed brothels under the 1933 venereal-diseases regulation, with twice-weekly medical exams, Turkish-citizen-only registration, and criminal penalties for pimping.
Prostitution law
Prostitution law covers the legal models governing sex work: full criminalization, Nordic client criminalization (Sweden 1998), regulated legalization (Germany, Nevada brothels), and decriminalization (New Zealand 2003, Belgium 2022), with health evidence favoring decriminalization.
Prostitution statistics by country
Prostitution statistics by country: estimates of sex worker populations and market size, drawn from HIV-programme methods such as capture-recapture and multipliers, with regional FSW prevalence ranges, European per-capita rates, and GDP shares.
Prosto
Prosto (PROSTO.) is a Warsaw company founded in 1999 by rapper Sokół, combining the hip-hop record label Prosto Label (over 50 albums, WWO, Hemp Gru, KęKę) with the streetwear brand Prosto Wear, active since 2003.
Prostonárodné slovenské povesti
Prostonárodné slovenské povesti (Simple National Slovak Tales) is a collection of ninety Slovak folk tales compiled by Pavol Dobšinský, published in eight volumes at his own expense between 1880 and 1883.
Prostration
Prostration is the devotional act of lowering the body, kneeling or lying face down, in worship. Known as sujud in Islam, proskynesis in Orthodoxy, and pranama in Hinduism, it expresses humility, submission, and purification of pride across religions.
Prosulfocarb
Prosulfocarb (S-benzyl dipropylthiocarbamate, CAS 52888-80-9) is a volatile thiocarbamate, HRAC group 15 herbicide for winter cereals and potatoes; EU-approved 2009, expiring 31 January 2027, with mandatory drift-reduction controls in France.
Prosumer
A prosumer is a consumer who also produces, a term coined by futurist Alvin Toffler in his 1980 book The Third Wave and now common in marketing and energy law.
Prosurf Center Porec
ProSurf Center Poreč (Windsurfing Center Poreč – ProSurf) is a water sports center in Špadići, Poreč, Croatia, on the public beach 1.7 km from the old town, offering beginner windsurfing courses of one to six days, SUP rental, and wingsurf/wingfoil instruction under instructor Dalibor Legović.
Prosus
Prosus, also known as Myriad International Holdings, is a Dutch, Amsterdam-listed investment holding company created by Naspers in 2019, best known for its roughly 23% stake in Tencent.
Prosveta
Prosveta (Serbian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Просвета, meaning "enlightenment") is the name of several Southeast European publishers: the Belgrade house once the largest in former Yugoslavia, a Bulgarian textbook publisher in Sofia, and a Swiss cooperative.
Prosvita
Prosvita (Товариство «Просвіта", "Enlightenment") was a Ukrainian cultural and educational society founded in Lviv in 1868 that became the largest Ukrainian mass organization of its era.
Prosymna
Prosymna, the African shovel-snouted snakes, is a genus of small burrowing or rock-dwelling sub-Saharan savanna snakes, the sole genus of Prosymnidae in some classifications, feeding mainly on reptile eggs with blade-like rear teeth and a rigid fused skull.
Prosystemin/Systemin
Systemin is an 18-amino-acid tomato peptide hormone, cleaved from the 200-amino-acid precursor prosystemin and first isolated in 1991, that amplifies jasmonic acid signaling to induce defensive proteinase inhibitors after wounding.
Protactinium
Protactinium is a dense, silvery, highly radioactive actinide metal, atomic number 91, occurring naturally only as a decay product of uranium and among the rarest elements.
Protagonist
Protagonist: the central character of a narrative, from Greek 'chief actor.' Distinct from hero, narrator, and viewpoint character; opposed structurally, not morally, by the antagonist.
Protagonist of Persona 3
The Persona 3 protagonist, officially Makoto Yuki (Minato Arisato in the manga), is the silent transfer-student leader of S.E.E.S. in Atlus's 2006 JRPG; Persona 3 Portable added the female protagonist Kotone Shiomi, excluded from the 2024 remake Persona 3 Reload.
Protagoras
Protagoras of Abdera (c. 490-420 BCE), earliest and most famous Greek sophist, teacher of rhetoric and argument, author of "man is the measure of all things" and the agnostic fragment on the gods.
Protamine sulfate
Protamine sulfate, a basic polypeptide from salmon sperm (now recombinant), is the only approved agent reversing unfractionated heparin, dosed 1-1.5 mg per 100 units heparin, mainly after cardiopulmonary bypass.
Protamine-2
Protamine-2 (sperm protamine P2, PRM2, UniProt P04554) is a 102-amino-acid human sperm nuclear protein on chromosome 16 that replaces histones, compacts sperm DNA, is matured from a precursor by N-terminal cleavages, and whose P1/P2 ratio marks male fertility.
Protamine-like
Protamine-like (PL) proteins are lysine- and arginine-rich sperm nuclear basic proteins, evolutionarily intermediate between histone H1 and protamines, that condense sperm chromatin in molluscs, tunicates, and some fishes.
Protandim
Protandim is LifeVantage's five-herb Nrf2-activating dietary supplement (675 mg daily), sold via multi-level marketing; it received a 2017 FDA warning letter for disease claims, and small trials show a TBARS marker reduction but no clinical benefit.
Protea
Protea (sugarbushes) is an African genus of about 100 Proteaceae species, 82 in South Africa, named by Linnaeus after Proteus; king protea P. cynaroides is South Africa's national flower.
Protea cynaroides
Protea cynaroides, the king protea or giant protea, is South Africa's national flower, a lignotuberous fynbos shrub of the Western Cape from the Cedarberg to Grahamstown, with artichoke-like flower heads 120-300 mm across, IUCN Least Concern, harvested for cut flowers.
Protea repens
Protea repens, the common sugarbush or Cape honey flower (syn. P. mellifera), is a 0.7-4.5 m South African Proteaceae shrub from the Bokkeveld Mountains to Grahamstown, with cream-to-red sticky-bracted flower heads, bird and insect pollination, and IUCN Least Concern status.