A sex worker in Germany.
Prostitution is the sale of sexual services. A person selling sexual services is a prostitute, a type of sex worker. In a more general sense of the word, anyone selling his/her services for a cause thought to be unworthy can be described as prostituting him/herself. In the United Kingdom a prostitute might be considered as any individual, "who allows his/her body to be used for lewd purposes in return for payment".
Ronald Weitzer (ed.), Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry. New York: Routledge, 2000. Ronald Weitzer, "New Directions in Research on Prostitution," Crime, Law, and Social Change, v.43, no.4-5, 2005. Ronald Weitzer, "Moral Crusade Against Prostitution," Society, March-April, 2006.
Pinoy Bar on Reeperbahn in the red-light district of Hamburg, Germany.
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