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sex work  

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  • The term sex work encompasses a wide range of commercial endeavors in which sexual acts, images, or conversations are traded for money, goods, and services. Sex work can include, but is not limited to, prostitution, pornography (print and video), stripping, telephone sex, dominance and submission, and fetishism, and combinations and permutations of all these are now available on the Internet. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Sex Work (Prostitution)]

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