Sex worker

Bronze statue Belle in Amsterdam's red-light district De Wallen, reads "Respect sex workers all over the world".

A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis.[1] The term is used in reference to those who work in all areas of the sex industry.[2][3]

According to one view, sex work is different from sexual exploitation, or the forcing of a person to commit sexual acts, in that sex work is voluntary "and is seen as the commercial exchange of sex for money or goods".[4]

  1. ^ "Clearing Up Some Myths About Sex Work". www.opensocietyfoundations.org.
  2. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, "sex worker"
  3. ^ Weitzer 2009.
  4. ^ Burnes, Theodore R. (2017). "Sex Work". In Nadal, Kevin L. (ed.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender. SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1467–1470. doi:10.4135/9781483384269.n494. ISBN 9781483384283.