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15.15: Glossary

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    1. Burlesque: a variety show, typically including striptease.
    2. Camming: the internet streaming of adult content” (Dictionary, 2022)
    3. Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA): adds penalties for hosting illegal sex work-related content
    4. Kink: consensual, non-traditional sexual, sensual, and intimate behaviors such as sadomasochism, domination and submission, erotic roleplaying, fetishism, and erotic forms of discipline
    5. Pornography: the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the purpose of arousal
    6. Professional Dominatrix: paid professional who takes the dominant role in BDSM/kink activities, sometimes referred to as a pro-domme.
    7. Sexological Bodywork: body-based educational modality that supports individuals, couples, and groups to learn to direct their erotic development and to deepen their erotic wellbeing and embodiment” (Association of Certified Sexological Bodyworkers, 2022)
    8. Street-based sex-work: a form of sex work in which a sex worker solicits customers from a public place, most commonly a street, while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, but also other public places such as parks, benches, etc.
    9. Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA): The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act are the U.S. Senate and House bills that as the FOSTA-SESTA package became law on April 11, 2018
    10. Surrogate Partner Therapy (SPT): is based on the work of sex researchers Masters and Johnson and uses their technique of sensate focus (touching for one’s own pleasure) as a basis for exploring physical intimacy

    This page titled 15.15: Glossary is shared under a CC BY 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Susan Rahman with Nathan Bowman, Dahmitra Jackson, Anna Lushtak, Remi Newman, & Prateek Sunder.