"Sex Work" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The act or practice of engaging in sexual relations for money or other benefit.
| Descriptor ID |
D011477
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.802.790 I01.880.735.679
|
| Concept/Terms |
Sex Work- Sex Work
- Work, Sex
- Sex Industry
- Industries, Sex
- Sex Industries
- Prostitution
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sex Work".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Sex Work".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sex Work" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sex Work" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Sex Work" by people in Profiles.
-
Barnert ES, Abrams S, Azzi VF, Ryan G, Brook R, Chung PJ. Identifying best practices for "Safe Harbor" legislation to protect child sex trafficking victims: Decriminalization alone is not sufficient. Child Abuse Negl. 2016 Jan; 51:249-62.