Noun
sex work (uncountable)
Any job in which sex or eroticism is involved, especially prostitution or pornography.
My mother distributes condoms and outreach materials to those that do sex work for a living in the Tenderloin and Mission.
In Nevada, there was a time when you couldn't get unemployment unless you tried sex work first. Gloria Steinem
Sex work is an economic question, not a moral one: in a world where shame and sexual violence are still hard currency, the normalization of the sex industry is a symptom not of social degeneration, but of the economic exploitation of women on a unprecedented scale. Laurie Penny