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"ref": "1999. Peter Aggleton, \"Men who sell sex: international perspectives on male prostitution\", Page 44",
"text": "Many were initiated into sex work through friends who were already sex workers, but others took the initiative themselves."
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"ref": "2006. Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Gayle Michelle MacDonald, \"Sex workers in the Maritimes talk back\", Page 105",
"text": "Social Control, Policing, and Sex Work I think it was the first, no second, time I got arrested."
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"ref": "2010. Ronald John Weitzer, \"Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry\", Page 1",
"text": "Sex work involves the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation."
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"text": "My mother distributes condoms and outreach materials to those that do sex work for a living in the Tenderloin and Mission."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xìnggōngzuò",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "性工作"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "seksityö"
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"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"roman": "seks-samušao",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-სამუშაო"
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"roman": "seks-mušaoba",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-მუშაობა"
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"roman": "seks-biznesi",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-ბიზნესი"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "seks-indusṭria",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-ინდუსტრია"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"feminine"
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"word": "Sexarbeit"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "sexergasía",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"word": "σεξεργασία"
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"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"word": "секс-инду́стрия"
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"word": "интим-услу́ги"
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"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"word": "секс-би́знес"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
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"word": "trabajo sexual"
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}
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"word": "sex work"
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"ref": "2006. Leslie Ann Jeffrey, Gayle Michelle MacDonald, \"Sex workers in the Maritimes talk back\", Page 105",
"text": "Social Control, Policing, and Sex Work I think it was the first, no second, time I got arrested."
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"ref": "2010. Ronald John Weitzer, \"Sex for sale: prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry\", Page 1",
"text": "Sex work involves the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation."
},
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xìnggōngzuò",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "性工作"
},
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "seksityö"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
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"word": "travail du sexe"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "seks-samušao",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-სამუშაო"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "seks-mušaoba",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-მუშაობა"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "seks-biznesi",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-ბიზნესი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "seks-indusṭria",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "სექს-ინდუსტრია"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sexarbeit"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "sexergasía",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σεξεργασία"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "szexmunka"
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"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"word": "nussutöö"
},
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prostituição"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sɛks-indústrija",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "секс-инду́стрия"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sɛks-industríja",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "секс-индустри́я"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "intim-uslúgi",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "интим-услу́ги"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sɛks-bíznɛs",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "секс-би́знес"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "job in which sex is involved",
"tags": [
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"word": "trabajo sexual"
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"word": "sex work"
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