prostitutes
Paid sexual partners
Prostitutes are people who exchange sexual services for money.
The term applies to any gender, though it most often refers to women.
As a verb, to prostitute oneself is to sell sex, but figuratively it means to debase oneself or one's talents for money: He prostituted his gift by writing ad jingles.
The noun prostitute can similarly suggest selling out: a prostitute for the insurance industry.
Provider of paid intimacy
- escortOne who accompanies another
- streetwalkerOne who solicits outdoors
- call girlHired sexual companion
- courtesanPaid aristocratic companion
gigolo · hustler · hooker · working girl · companion · madame · brothel · bordello
Informal toilet term
- trickDeliberate deception
- clientOne who hires professionals
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
fees · services · arrangement · exchange · payment · proposition · pickup · screening
sex worker
Provider of paid intimacy
- escortOne who accompanies another
- streetwalkerOne who solicits outdoors
- call girlHired sexual companion
courtesan · gigolo · hustler · hooker · working girl · companion · madame · brothel · bordello · red-light district
john
Informal toilet term
- trickDeliberate deception
- clientOne who hires professionals
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
negotiation · fees · services · arrangement · exchange · payment · proposition · pickup · screening · booking
- prostitutionbrothel, brothels, bordello, bordellos, sex work
- Elizabethan theaterBlackfriars, Globe Theatre, groundlings, heavens, trap door
- FelliniLa Dolce Vita, Casanova, Roma
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- night workersnight owls, night watchman, night auditor, night crew, security guards
- Edwardian BritainEdward VII, Queen Victoria, country houses, manor houses, servants
prostitutescelibates
Those avoiding sexual activity
virgins · abstainers · monks · nuns · asexuals
- forced prostitutionCoerced commercial sexual exploitation
- male prostituteMan paid for sex
- prostitution ringOrganized criminal sex trade
- street prostitutionOutdoor commercial sex trade
- house of prostitutionCommercial sex venue
- child prostitutionSexual exploitation of minors