HSCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sex Worker, Depersonalization, Paraphilia
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Commercial sex worker: a person who engages in sexual acts in return foro money or drugs and does so in a fairly non-discriminating fashion; prostitute. Common bawdy-house: a place used by one or more persons to engage in prostitution or indecency (illegal) Call girl: the most expensive and exclusive category of sex workers (illegal) Middle-class background, university graduate, dresses expensively and lives in upscale neighbourhood. Brothel: a house of prostitution where sex workers and customers meet for sexual activity (illegal) In-call service: a residence in which sex workers work regular shifts, selling sexual services on an hourly basis (illegal) Massage parlour: a place where massages as well as sexual services can be generally purchased. Our-call service: a service that sends a sex worker to a location specified by the client to provide sexual services. Streetwalker: a lower-status sex worker who walks the streets selling sexual services. Pimp: a sex worker"s companion, protector and master.