sex worker
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person who provides sexual services from their body as an occupation
Research
23,844 papers- Sex Worker Health Outcomes in High-Income Countries of Varied Regulatory Environments: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
- Sex Worker Homicide Series: Profiling the Crime Scene.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2019
- Which psychosocial interventions improve sex worker well-being? A systematic review of evidence from resource-rich countries.BMJ sexual & reproductive health · 2022
- Reframing the interpretation of sex worker health: a behavioral-structural approach.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2011
- MATCH: A New Approach for Differentiating & Linking Series of Sex Worker Homicides and Sexual Assaults.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2019
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Encyclopedic overview
A sex worker in a German brothel in 1999
A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis. The term is used in reference to those who work in all areas of the sex industry. According to one view, sex work is voluntary "and is seen as the commercial exchange of sex for money or goods". Thus it differs from sexual exploitation, or the forcing of a person to commit sexual acts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sex worker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.