sex workers
Commerce in intimacy
Sex workers are people who exchange sexual services for money or other compensation.
The term is preferred in advocacy and policy contexts because it frames prostitution as labor rather than crime or moral failing, emphasizing workers' rights and safety.
Sex work encompasses prostitution, escorting, pornography performance, and erotic dancing.
The organization provides health services for sex workers.
- prostitutesThose who sell sex
- working girlsWomen who sell sex
- call girlsProstitutes contacted by telephone
- courtesansCompanions to powerful men
- hookersSex workers for hire
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- prostitutionbrothel, brothels, bordello, bordellos, prostitutes
- HIV/AIDSHIV, AIDS, AIDS crisis, AIDS quilt, antiretrovirals
- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
- sexual compulsivityhypersexuality, porn addiction, nymphomania, relapse, twelve-step programs
- Fictional CourtesansFantine, Camille, Nancy, courtesans, fallen women
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Romantic partners
volunteers · hobbyists · spouses · boyfriends · girlfriends