sex work
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English
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[edit ]Noun
[edit ]sex work (uncountable )
- Any job in which sex or eroticism is involved, especially prostitution or pornography.
- 1999. Peter Aggleton, "Men who sell sex: international perspectives on male prostitution", Page 44
- Many were initiated into sex work through friends who were already sex workers, but others took the initiative themselves.
- 2006. Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Gayle Michelle MacDonald, "Sex workers in the Maritimes talk back", Page 105
- Social Control, Policing, and Sex Work I think it was the first, no second, time I got arrested.
- 2010. Ronald John Weitzer, "Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry", Page 1
- Sex work involves the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation.
- My mother distributes condoms and outreach materials to those that do sex work for a living in the Tenderloin and Mission.
- 1999. Peter Aggleton, "Men who sell sex: international perspectives on male prostitution", Page 44
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]job in which sex is involved
- Chinese:
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: seksityö (fi)
- French: travail du sexe (fr) m
- Georgian: სექს-სამუშაო (seks-samušao), სექს-მუშაობა (seks-mušaoba), სექს-ბიზნესი (seks-biznesi), სექს-ინდუსტრია (seks-indusṭria)
- German: Sexarbeit f
- Greek: σεξεργασία (el) f (sexergasía)
- Hungarian: szexmunka (hu)
- Ingrian: nussutöö
- Polish: praca seksualna f, sex working m inan
- Portuguese: prostituição (pt) f
- Russian: секс-инду́стрия (ru) f (sɛks-indústrija), секс-индустри́я (ru) f (sɛks-industríja), интим-услу́ги f pl (intim-uslúgi), секс-би́знес (ru) m (sɛks-bíznɛs)
- Spanish: trabajo sexual m
- Swedish: sexarbete n
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