Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in service occupations]

Narrower term/s

• prostitutes[+]
  • courtesans [+]
    • gisaeng [NP]

Anotations

Scope note:

Persons who are paid or routinely employed to provide sexual services, or performances, as in the pornography industry, or as a prostitute. The term is often used to avoid or reduce negative connotations of such work, to indicate agency in the activity performed, or to evoke less charged service industries.