sex industry
Paid physical services
The sex industry encompasses businesses and workers providing sexual services or products for profit.
This includes prostitution, pornography, strip clubs, phone sex lines, escort services, and erotic massage parlors.
The term often appears in discussions of labor rights, trafficking, and regulation: She worked in the sex industry for years before becoming an advocate for decriminalization.
- sex workPaid erotic labor
- oldest professionSex work, historically
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- full serviceComplete provision of amenities
- brothelsEstablishments for paid sex
red light district · legalization · escort services · decriminalization · harm reduction · sex trade · camming · massage parlors · sex trafficking · human trafficking · stigmatization · organized crime · pimping · labor rights · sex tourism · call girls · escort · vice laws
sex industryromantic love
Deep amorous attachment
marriage · domestic partnership · dating · courtship · intimacy
sex industryvictim services
Support for those harmed
child protection · safeguarding · social work · rehabilitation programs · women's shelters
sex industryholy matrimony
Sacred rite of spousal union
marital relations · family values · traditional marriage · chastity · sexual purity
industry, sexual, pansexual, sexuality, bisexual, homosexual, asexual, industrialist, heterosexual