house of prostitution
Commercial sex establishment
A house of prostitution is a building where sexual services are sold—a brothel or whorehouse.
The term appears primarily in legal contexts and formal writing: The property was shut down after police determined it was operating as a house of prostitution.
Everyday speech prefers brothel or euphemisms like massage parlor.
- brothelCommercial sex establishment
- sex workPaid erotic labor
- oldest professionSex work, historically
- working girlEmployed female, or euphemism
- lady of the nightSells sexual services
bordello · sex trade · cathouse · legalization · prohibition · consent · stigma · madam · harm reduction · penal codes · licensing · commodification · clientele · back alley · pimping · escort agency · stew · decriminalization
house of prostitutionchurch
Place of Christian worship
house of worship · temple · cathedral · monastery · synagogue
house of prostitutionhomeless shelter
Temporary housing for vagrants
orphanage · hospice · soup kitchen · mission · almshouse
house of prostitutionfamily home
Residence shared by kin
marital home · household · homestead · hearth and home · wedding chapel
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