sex worker

Noun

 * 1) A person who supplies sex work (short-term sexual services) in exchange for compensation.
 * 2) * 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
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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 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, although "sex worker" has a much broader meaning.

Translations

 * Arabic: عامل بالجنس, عاملة بالجنس
 * Bengali:
 * Catalan: treballador sexual, treballadora sexual
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: sexarbejder
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sekslaboristo, amoristo, amoristino
 * Finnish: seksityöntekijä
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: სექს-მუშაკი
 * German: Sexarbeiter, Sexarbeiterin
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: सेक्स वर्कर
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: oibrí gnéis
 * Japanese: セックスワーカー
 * Korean: 성 근로자
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: trabalhador sexual
 * Romanian: lucrător sexual, lucrătoare sexuală
 * Russian: рабо́тник се́кс-би́знеса, рабо́тница се́кс-би́знеса
 * Serbo-Croatian: seksualni radnik, seksualna radnica
 * Spanish: trabajadora sexual, trabajador sexual, sexoservidora, sexoservidor
 * Swedish: sexarbetare
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:, gái làm tiền, , gái đứng đường