prostitutelike
Prostitutelike is an adjective used in sociological and criminological discourse to describe actions, arrangements, or social dynamics that resemble prostitution in that money or material compensation is exchanged for sexual services or sexual access, but that may not be categorized as formal prostitution under law or official policy. The term is typically employed to discuss blurred boundaries between paid sex, transactional dating, and other forms of sexual exchange, as well as to analyze power, consent, and economic coercion.
In scholarly contexts, prostitutelike is used to describe patterns such as negotiated exchanges that resemble commercial
Critics warn that the term can be stigmatizing or vague, and its use may depend on jurisdictional
See also: prostitution, sex work, transactional sex, commodity exchange, stigma.