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It looks like you typed in Spanish and did google translate on this (given you are talking about Chile). The translation output does not make a lot of sense. I think you meant "immoral marketing techniques" while the translation says prostitution. Looks like it is a Chilean idiom that does not translate well.

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Haha, it's not a Chilean idiom. No google translate. The dowsing rod thing I was talking about Chile, but the rest was about mostly America.

Get real, medicine is a matter of life and death. Multilevel marketing is harmless if you're selling handicrafts, yeah then it's an immoral marketing technique. In medicine immoral marketing technique are prostitutions. Plural. Not an abstract noun, several counts of the transgression.

Like in Dr. Seuss, "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish":

One prostitution, two prostitutions...

And if google translate turns "técnicas inmorales de márketing" into "prostitution", general Artificial Intelligence is here. And don't think your English is that amazing, vaidhy.

Well, here's this:

prostitution (noun): 1. ... 2. the unworthy or corrupt use of one's talents for personal or financial gain. (credit: oxford dictionary of English)

I am somewhat surprised that someone did not think to look for an archaic or disused definition already...

I wonder if it's a bad machine translation of 'in bed with' or a similar idiom for corruption, as in 'the government is in bed with the oil industry when it comes to environmental policy'?

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