sexual marketplace

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A notional place where people's desirability as sexual or romantic partners is evaluated.
    — Central among the institutions she must encounter in her life is that of the sexual marketplace, where human beings are viewed as having a price, and not a dignity, and where the price of women is fixed in a particular way. Women, as things, as items in the sexual marketplace, have a market value that depends in part on whether they have been used. Virgins fetch a higher price than second hand goods.
  2. Prostitution; the sex work industry. euphemistic
    — The chart that lists United Nations estimates of the number of persons under 18 working as prostitutes does not distinguish between freelance or professional girlfriends and those in an organized industry, between those who enter the sexual marketplace voluntarily or who are kidnapped, raped and exploited, and between sexually mature persons, adolescents and children.
  3. A location or situation in which people are looking for sexual or romantic partners.

词形变化

sexual marketplaces plural

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