sex work
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Research
91,961 papers- Sex Work and Parenthood: The Experiences of Female Sex Workers Who Are also Parents or Caregivers: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024
- Sex work research: methodological and ethical challenges.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2005
- Sex work and the law.Sexual health · 2005
- Sex work-related homicides: Insights from the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2012-2020.Journal of forensic sciences · 2024
- Whose role is it anyways: Knowledge generation within the scope of sex work.Global public health · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
The red light district in Amsterdam Sex work is the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation. It includes activities of direct physical contact between buyers and sellers as well as indirect sexual stimulation. Sex work only refers to voluntary sexual transactions; thus, the term does not refer to human trafficking and other coerced or nonconsensual sexual transactions such as child prostitution. The transaction must take place between consenting adults of the legal age (generally 18 and older) and mental capacity to consent and must take place without any methods of coercion, other than payment. The term emphasizes the labor and economic implications of this type of work. Furthermore, some prefer the use of the term because it grants more agency to the sellers of these services.
Types
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