Chapter 14: Youth Involvement in Systems of Sex Work Flashcards
Bill C-36
Individuals communicating and performing the commercial exchange of sex were no longer criminalized
Nordic Model
An approach to legislating sex trade activities that criminalizes the buying of sex and third party profit from prostitution without imposing punishment for selling sex
Sexual Exploitation Trade
A term for the systems of sex work and the sex trade industry
Sexual Exploitation
The abuse, particularly of children and youth, through the exchange of sexual activity for money, drugs or basic needs
Child Welfare
Describes a set of government and private services intended to protect children and encourage family stability. The main purpose is to safeguard children from abuse and neglect
Survival Sex
The exchange of sexual services for food, shelter and other necessities
Gay for Pay
A person who is straight who works as a homosexual
Straight for Pay
A person who is homosexual who works as a heterosexual
Causation of Sex Work
Childhood sexual abuse
Homelessness/running away
Acquiring money
Substance use
Protective Confinement
A type of detention to protect a person from harm, either from outside sources or themselves