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A person who exchanges sex for money, a job shaped by stigma, legal risk, and vulnerability to exploitation.
means Someone who exchanges sex for money.
from From Latin prostituta, past participle of prostituere — 'to expose publicly, set forth for sale' — built from pro- ('before, forth') plus statuere ('to set up, place'). The original image is strikingly literal: putting something out in front, on display, for anyone to take. Latin used the verb broadly for 'offering up' or 'exposing' something shamefully to public use, and by the time it settled into English in the 1500s-1600s, it had narrowed to its current, grimmer meaning.
- legal status
- legal in parts of nevada, illegal almost everywhere else in us
- etymology
- latin prostituere means to expose publicly, to offer
- verb drift
- word now also means selling out any talent, not just sex
- global split
- fully legal in germany, netherlands, new zealand