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Basic CSE Terms & Definitions
Sexual exploitation which occurs with a commercial transaction
and/or for commercial gain or exchange, including commercialized
sexual activity that occurs in sex clubs, sexually oriented
massage parlors, prostitution, pornography, trafficking for
sexual purposes, etc.
Commercial sexual exploitation in which the
sexually exploited individual is a minor under the age of
18 years. A majority of those who are victims of commercial
sexual exploitation were abused as children, and trafficked
into the sex trade in adolescence or their early teen years.
The
use of children or youth in systems of prostitution. “Child
prostitution” is presented in quotations, in order to
make clear that whether or not someone is paid for sexual
access to a child’s body, using a child sexually is
not legally recognized as a consensual exchange under any
circumstances—“child prostitution” is always
child sexual abuse, youth sexual exploitation, or statutory
rape. The SAGE Project, Inc.'s belief is that no child can
be a prostitute; rather, prostituted children are children
who have been abused sexually and otherwise by those who traffic,
pimp, and purchase sex with minors.
The ‘customers’ in systems of prostitution, or
individuals who provide money or other compensation in order
to obtain sex acts or access to sex or sexual activities.
Slang for "First
Offender Prostitution Program" restorative justice program
focused on those arrested for the first time for purchasing
sexual services from an adult sex worker. The John's School
is an awareness-raising program that aims to give participants
an understanding of the harm to which they contribute—and
the harm to which they expose themselves and their families—when
they purchase sexual services.
The act of controlling
and selling access to other human beings in systems of prostitution,
in order to make a profit.
A practice in which
money or other material compensation or value is exchanged,
whether with mutual consent or not, for performance of a sex
act or access to sex.
Industries
and practices involving the commercialization of sex, representations
of sex, or sexual performance, including but not limited to
prostitution, stripping, pornography, phone or internet sex
services, live sex shows, peep shows, massage parlors, escort
services, domestic and international trafficking, bestiality
prostitution and mail order brides.
Profiting—economically or
otherwise—by buying, selling or obtaining the sexual
use or someone else’s body who is in turn taken advantage
of or harmed.
Transporting one
or more human beings for use, sale, or profit through sexual
exploitation, labor exploitation, or any form of slavery.
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