Sex work is "the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation. It includes activities of direct physical contact between buyers and sellers as well as indirect sexual stimulation". Sex work only refers to voluntary sexual transactions; thus, the term does not refer to human trafficking and other coerced or nonconsensual sexual transactions such as child prostitution. The transaction must take place between consenting adults of the legal age and mental capacity to consent and must take place without any methods of coercion, other than payment. The term emphasizes the labor and economic implications of this type of work. Furthermore, some prefer the use of the term because it grants more agency to the sellers of these services. (Full article...)
A sanky-panky or sanky is a malesex worker, found in the Dominican Republic. A sanky-panky solicits on beaches and has clients of either both sexes or only women. When with men, the sanky-panky assumes an active (a.k.a. top) role, but when with women, assumes the role of an ideal lover.
While strictly speaking they are not prostitutes, since they do not directly negotiate money for sex, sanky-pankies are more likely to develop a pseudo-relationship which can be continued after the guest returns home. They then might attempt to ask for money to be sent to them primarily by wire transfer, often using elaborate stories of need, involving (for example) sick relatives. A sanky's ultimate goal is often to obtain a marriagevisa to the tourist's native country, and marry the tourist before abandoning her.
Another word used for a sanky panky is chapeador (or chapi chapi) A lady is called a chapeadora. This word is derived from the verb "chapear" (to trim or cut, especially with a machete). (Full article...)
Image 6Statue to honor the sex workers of the world. Installed March 2007 in Amsterdam, Oudekerksplein, in front of the Oude Kerk, in Amsterdam's red-light district De Wallen. Titled Belle, the inscription to the piece says "Respect sex workers all over the world." (from Prostitution)
Image 14A prostitute and her customer illustrated on an ancient Greekwine cup; the act of prostitution is indicated by the coin purse above the figures. (from Prostitution)
Image 15A street prostitute talking to a potential customer in Turin, Italy, 2005 (from Prostitution)
Although previous murders linked to Jack the Ripper (then known as the "Whitechapel murderer") had received considerable press and public attention, the murder of Annie Chapman generated a state of panic in the East End of London, with police under increasing pressure to apprehend the culprit. (Full article...)
Famous nude painting of Emma Dupont by Jean-Léon Gérôme on his original canvas with scratches
Emma Dupont (fl. 1876–1890) was a French model, known for posing for paintings and sculptures for various 19th-century artists, mainly Jean-Léon Gérôme. She is known for modeling for several of Gérôme's famous works depicting scenes from antiquity, including Pool in a Harem, Omphale, Tanagra, and Pygmalion and Galatea. Dupont began modeling out of necessity after being abandoned in Paris as a teenager but went on to have a successful career posing for celebrated artists of the era. Her regular income allowed her to maintain a modest apartment that displayed artworks gifted to her by the painters and sculptors she modeled for. (Full article...)
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Pearl "Polly" Adler (April 16, 1900 – June 9, 1962) was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was posthumously adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Debby Applegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age with Doubleday. (Full article...)
Marc Stevens (September 2, 1943 – January 28, 1989) was an American erotic performer. He is sometimes credited as Mark '10½' Stevens or Mark Stevens. (Full article...)
Ayu Sakurai (桜井 あゆ, Sakurai Ayu, born 15 April 1991) is a former pornographic (AV) actress. She was born in Miyazaki Prefecture, she was formerly represented by T-Powers. (Full article...)
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Tuppy Owens in 1998
Rosalind Mary Owens (born 12 November 1944), known as Tuppy Owens, is an English sex therapist, consultant, campaigner, writer and former adult model. (Full article...)
Jordan entered the adult film industry as a clerk for a video store. While working in sales, he recruited models and began shooting amateur scenes. In 2006, he launched his production and distribution company Jules Jordan Video. Jordan has been inducted into the AVN and XRCO Halls of Fame. (Full article...)
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Mélanie Coste in a screenshot from the 2003 film La Menteuse, directed by Fred Coppula.
Faith Bacon (born Frances Yvonne Bacon; July 19, 1910 – September 26, 1956) was an American burlesque dancer and actress. During the height of her career, she was billed as "America's Most Beautiful Dancer". (Full article...)
Sex workers demonstrating for better working conditions at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City (from Sex work)
The red light district in Amsterdam (from Sex work)
Prostitution Information Centre in Amsterdam (from Prostitution)
World map of prostitution lawsDecriminalization – No criminal penalties for prostitutionLegalization (regulation) – Prostitution legal and regulatedAbolitionism – Prostitution is legal, but organized activities such as brothels and pimping are illegal; prostitution is not regulatedNeo-abolitionism (Nordic model) – Illegal to buy sex and for 3rd party involvement, legal to sell sexProhibitionism – Prostitution illegal in all aspects (selling and buying)Legality varies with local laws(from Sex work)
Stickers affixed to a payphone in São Paulo, 2006 (from Prostitution)
Statue to honor the sex workers of the world. Installed March 2007 in Amsterdam, Oudekerksplein, in front of the Oude Kerk, in Amsterdam's red-light district De Wallen. Titled Belle, the inscription to the piece says "Respect sex workers all over the world." (from Prostitution)
An Ancient Greek urn depicts a prostitute and her client. (from Sex work)
A detail from plate 1 of William Hogarth's (1697–1764) The Harlot's Progress, showing brothel-keeper Elizabeth Needham, on the right, procuring a young woman who has just arrived in London (from Prostitution)
A liberated Chinese girl who had been forced in to sexual slavery by the Japanese military sits on a stretcher and speaks to a British military serviceman. (from Prostitution)
World map of pornography (18+) lawsPornography legalPornography legal under some restrictionsPornography illegalData unavailable(from Sex work)
A prostitute and her customer illustrated on an ancient Greek wine cup; the act of prostitution is indicated by the coin purse above the figures. (from Prostitution)
A street prostitute talking to a potential customer in Turin, Italy, 2005 (from Prostitution)
An oiran preparing herself for a client, ukiyo-e print by Suzuki Haronubu (1765) (from Prostitution)
Prostitute c. 1890. (from Prostitution)
De Wallen red-light district in Amsterdam (from Prostitution)
Women in an early San Francisco bordello in 1870 (from Prostitution)
A prostitute in Amsterdam's red-light district talks with a potential customer. (from Prostitution)
Kisaeng women from outcast or slave families. (from Prostitution)
A sex worker in Berlin in 2001 (from Sex work)
News report about three brothels operating in Albuquerque, New Mexico that were raided by police in 1922 (from Prostitution)
A political cartoon from 1787 jesting about the notion of taxation affecting prostitutes (from Prostitution)
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