streetwalkers
Sidewalk sex workers
Streetwalkers are prostitutes who solicit customers on the street, as opposed to working in brothels or through agencies.
The term evokes a particular image of sex work—walking sidewalks at night, approaching passing cars: Police arrested several streetwalkers during the crackdown.
The word is mildly derogatory, emphasizing the public and vulnerable nature of this kind of prostitution.
Actively seeking responses
- hookersSex workers for hire
- red-light districtZone of sex commerce
- pimpsSex trade profiteers
- johnsToilets or solicitors' customers
vice squad · working girls · tricks · stroll · track · sex workers · ladies of the night · hustling
Pedestrians crossing unlawfully
- crosswalksMarked street-crossing zones
- foot trafficPedestrian movement volume
- urban explorationRecreational infiltration of derelict structures
- commutersDaily work travelers
nightlife · downtown · boulevard · curb · intersection · passersby · roaming · loitering
soliciting
Actively seeking responses
- hookersSex workers for hire
- red-light districtZone of sex commerce
- pimpsSex trade profiteers
johns · vice squad · working girls · tricks · stroll · track · sex workers · ladies of the night · hustling · proposition
jaywalkers
Pedestrians crossing unlawfully
- crosswalksMarked street-crossing zones
- foot trafficPedestrian movement volume
- urban explorationRecreational infiltration of derelict structures
commuters · nightlife · downtown · boulevard · curb · intersection · passersby · roaming · loitering · vagrants
- prostitutionbrothel, brothels, bordello, bordellos, sex work
- Fictional CourtesansFantine, Camille, Nancy, courtesans, fallen women
streetwalkerscourtesans
Companions to powerful men
call girls · escorts · sugar babies · kept women · companions
streetwalkershousewives
Women who manage households
ladies · socialites · church ladies · matrons · debutantes