4 - Sex for Sale

Question 1

What are four types of sex workers?

Answer 1

• Prostitutes
• Pornographic models and actors
• Escorts
• Phone sex operators

Question 2

Is buying and selling sex in Canada illegal?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

What are three acts of prostitution that are illegal?

Answer 3

• Communicating in public to sell sex
• Keeping a common bawdy-house
• Living off of prostitution (pimping)

Question 4

Why do some people argue that prostitution should not be illegal?

Answer 4

Because both parties are consenting and it is a victimless crime

Question 5

What are the six types of female sex worker venues?

Answer 5

• Call girl (most expensive and exclusive)
• Brothels
• In-call services (residence in which prostitutes work regular shifts)
• Out-call (escorts go to client, risky)
• Massage parlours
• Streetwalkers

Question 6

What is a prostitute’s madam?

Answer 6

A woman who manages a brothel or escort service

Question 7

What is sex trafficking?

Answer 7

Recruiting, controlling, exploiting sex workers by threat/force

Question 8

What are the first steps in a prostitutes career called?

Answer 8

Entry

Question 9

What are three common reasons for women becoming prostitutes?

Answer 9

• Drug addiction
• Economics
• Force or coercion

Question 10

What is the period of a prostitutes life when she learns skills of the profession called?

Answer 10

Apprenticeship

Question 11

What is a prostitute’s mid career?

Answer 11

When they may transition to managing other sex workers or move out of the bars and onto the street

Question 12

What is squaring up?

Answer 12

Leaving the prostitution life

Question 13

Greater dissatisfaction from prostituting is dependant on ____?

Answer 13

The risks she was exposed to

Question 14

In the past 50 years, has the use of prostitutes declined or increased?

Answer 14

Declined dramatically

Question 15

What term do sex trade workers give to their customers?

Answer 15

Johns or tricks

Question 16

What percent of prostitute’s clients are occasional Johns and what percent are repeat johns?

Answer 16

50% Repeat

50% occasional

Question 17

What percent of prostitution customers have spouses or regular partners?

Answer 17

49%

Question 18

What is a gigolo?

Answer 18

A male who provides companionship and sexual gratification on a continuing basis to a woman in exchange for money

Question 19

What is a hustler?

Answer 19

A male sex worker who sells his services to men

Question 20

What is a transgendered sex worker?

Answer 20

A genetic man that may live full time as a women and serves men.

Question 21

What are 3 differences between transgender sex workers and female/male sex workers?

Answer 21

Female

• Transgender spend less time with each client
• Transgender keeps regular hours

Male
- Rew transgender reported never enjoying sexual activities

Question 22

What is sex tourism?

Answer 22

Where the purpose of travel is to procure sex.

Tourists have the money to purchase sexual services with exotic and often very young sex workers from different ethnic backgrounds

Question 23

What is obscenity?

Answer 23

Something that is offensive according to the community standards of tolerance test in Canada

Question 24

What is erotica?

Answer 24

Sexually arousing material that is not violent, degrading or demeaning to women, men or children

Question 25

What is pornography?

Answer 25

Sexually arousing art, literature or films

Question 26

What type of sex trade is telephone sex?

Answer 26

Pornography

Question 27

Can advertising every be considered pornographic?

Answer 27

Yes!

Question 28

Do women or men make more making x-rated videos?

Answer 28

Women, more if there is rougher or kinky sex involved

Question 29

How many days are most porn videos shot in?

Answer 29

Three

Question 30

True or false? Porn star performance is often chemically enhanced?

Answer 30

True

Question 31

What percent of sites have sexually explicit material?

Answer 31

1%

Question 32

True or false? Chat rooms are normally just for general sexual talk?

Answer 32

False. Chat rooms are usually orientated toward people with particular sexual interests

Question 33

What is the purpose of commercial bulletin boards?

Answer 33

To download images for a fee

Question 34

When did Canada make it illegal to process make or distribute child pornography?

Answer 34

1993

Question 35

What is the only legal type of child pornography?

Answer 35

If a child draws or takes a photo of themselves for artistic merit and photographic depiction

Question 36

What are six common reasons for feminists objecting to porn?

Answer 36

• Pornography debases women
• Associates sex with violence (hardcore porn)
• Glamorizes unequal power relationships (unlike erotica)
• The current structure of industry
• Traditional gender roles
• Objectifies women

Question 37

In laboratory conditions, exposing men to violent pornography had what effect?

Answer 37

Showed more aggression toward women

men already predisposed toward sexual aggression were more effected

Question 38

True or false? Researches found that women who are exposed to violent porn have negative effects.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

Why is censorship not a good solution to violent pornography?

Answer 39

It would make it forbidden and thus more attractive and still available on the black market

Question 40

What is the best solution for the negative effects of pornography?

Answer 40

Education. Debriefing media depictions as unreal, debunking myths (as portrayed in media) that a woman enjoys forced sex