sex worker

English

Noun

sex worker (plural sex workers)

1. A person who supplies sex work (short-term sexual services) in exchange for compensation.
   • 1995. Lesley Doyal, "What makes women sick: gender and the political economy of health", Page 226

     Most official attempts to monitor the health of sex workers have been designed to protect clients and society

   • 1999. Peter Aggleton, "Men who sell sex: international perspectives on male prostitution", Page 44

     Many were initiated into sex work through friends who were already sex workers, but others took the initiative themselves.

   • 2010. Marshall Barron Clinard, Robert F. Meier, "Sociology of Deviant Behavior", Page 350

     In an unusual move, Florida prosecutors charged not only the sex workers advertised on the Web site, but also the Web site owners and registered users of the site.

Usage notes

This term is promoted along with the idea that what has previously been termed prostitution should be recognized as work on equal terms with that of conventional jobs, with the legal implications this has. It is sometimes regarded as a less offensive alternative to prostitute, although "sex worker" has a much broader meaning.

Translations

person who supplies sexual services for money

• Arabic: عامل بالجنس m, عاملة بالجنس f
• Bengali: যৌনকর্মী (bn) (jōunokormi)
• Catalan: treballador sexual m, treballadora sexual f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性工作者 (zh) (xìnggōngzuòzhě)

• Danish: sexarbejder
• Dutch: sekswerker (nl)
• Esperanto: sekslaboristo, amoristo, amoristino
• Finnish: seksityöntekijä
• French: travailleur du sexe (fr) m, travailleuse du sexe (fr) f
• Georgian: სექს-მუშაკი (seks-mušaḳi)
• German: Sexarbeiter m, Sexarbeiterin f
• Greek: σεξεργάτης (el) m (sexergátis), σεξεργάτρια (el) f (sexergátria)
• Hindi: सेक्स वर्कर (seks varkar)
• Hungarian: szexmunkás (hu)
• Irish: oibrí gnéis m
• Japanese: セックスワーカー (sekkusu wākā)
• Korean: 성 근로자 (seong geulloja)
• Polish: pracownik seksualny (pl) m, sex worker (pl) m, pracownica seksualna (pl) f, sex workerka (pl) f
• Portuguese: trabalhador sexual m
• Romanian: lucrător sexual m, lucrătoare sexuală f
• Russian: рабо́тник се́кс-би́знеса m (rabótnik sɛ́ks-bíznɛsa), рабо́тница се́кс-би́знеса f (rabótnica sɛ́ks-bíznɛsa)
• Serbo-Croatian: seksualni radnik m, seksualna radnica f
• Spanish: trabajadora sexual f, trabajador sexual m, sexoservidora f, sexoservidor m
• Swedish: sexarbetare c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: seks işçisi (tr)
• Vietnamese: gái mại dâm (vi), gái làm tiền, gái điếm (vi), gái đứng đường

See also

• prostitute