forbidden word(s): commercial sex worker
commercial adj. 1 He wanted to make his living in the arts rather than in the commercial world. Christmas has become too commercial: business, trade, mercantile, buying-and-selling, sales, profit-making.
—n. 2 The TV show was interrupted by too many commercials: advertisement, ad.
Ant. 1 artistic, professional; nonprofit-making, charitable, philanthropic, eleemosynary.
from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.
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sex n. 1 What sex is the baby?: gender, sexual classification, sexual identity, reproductive function; masculinity, maleness; femininity, femaleness. 2 “The birds and the bees” is euphemism for “sex”: sexuality, generation, reproduction, procreation; sexual urge, sexual instinct, libido, Eros; sexual intercourse, love, lovemaking, coitus, coition, copulation.
from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.
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worker n. The plant employs 500 workers. The charity drive needs some more good workers to collect funds: workingman, workman, laborer, laboring man, proletarian; hired hand, hand; employee, job holder, artisan, craftsman; doer, performer, producer, achiever, Slang hustler, eager beaver; drudge, plodder, grind.
Ant. employer; unemployed person, retiree; idler, loafer, good-for-nothing, do-nothing, Slang goldbrick, deadbeat, bum.
from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.
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commercial sex worker n. Sex workers are adults who receive money or goods in exchange for consensual sexual services or erotic performances, either regularly or occasionally. Sex workers are women, men and
transgendered people who receive money or goods in exchange for sexual services, and who
consciously define sex work as a source of income.
The term commercial sex worker is derogatory and implies that the sex work industry is regulated
and sex workers are able to unionise. Additionally, it has a connotation that sex work is not just working, but an exploitative trade.
from — Admin, & Admin. (2022, March 21). Terminology Guide on the terms used in sex Work – ASWA ALLIANCE. ASWA ALLIANCE – ASWA ALLIANCE.
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example sentences: commercial sex worker
The Trump administration has offered a series of post-facto excuses for why this father and union apprentice should be denied the opportunity to ever see his family again, centering on the claim that he was a member of MS-13; as with the barber, that too is an allegation that relies on the testimony of an unreliable cop — one who later pleaded guilty to giving confidential police information to a sex worker, according to The New Republic.
From Salon
This name was in part due to suggestions that Molly Malone worked as a fishmonger by day and as a sex worker by night.
From BBC
In 2009, court records show that a man by thename of Andre Cobbs was charged with robbing and assaulting a sex worker in Lynwood as she walked to her car.
From Los Angeles Times
Over the months, the two of them bonded, Soriano said, talking often about Becerra Moran navigating life as a trans woman of color who supported herself as a sex worker while living on the streets.
From Los Angeles Times
“Anora,” director Sean Baker’s $6 million film about a sex worker’s impulsive, ill-fated romance with the son of a Russian oligarch, has taken in $16 million in domestic ticket sales.
From Los Angeles Times
from — Synonyms and Antonyms of Words | Thesaurus.com. (2025, April 16).
April 18, 2025
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I think sex working depends on choices and people that does it shouldn’t be treated as trash, rather government should atleast introduce and empowerment program for those that wants to repent from it
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Interesting. I recall the song about Molly Malone. Never put the two ideas together.
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Sex work is labeled / the oldest of professions / and deserves respect
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It is the oldest profession but also needs moderation because if everyone enters the profession, who will be left to be working on academics, production and transport.
The the same.they are humans and deserves respect really
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