sex work

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Noun

sex work (uncountable)

1. 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.

Related terms

• sex worker

Translations

job in which sex is involved

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性工作 (zh) (xìnggōngzuò)

• 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
• 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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