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Sex work has been understood as a trade in the body itself, whose service is common and offered for the sexual satisfaction of countless people, especially men. According to the Ministry of Labor and Employment, many women who offer this type of service experience the freedom of their bodies to obtain profit and income, when serving and accompanying customers, as they break with the sociocultural determinism of female sexuality, as they do not restrict sexual practice to the private space of marriage 1 - 2.
Sex work is considered the concept proposed by progressive feminist theorists, which defines it as a work activity in which the practice of sex is consensual and remunerated, in which women offer sexual pleasure to customers in exchange for income that enables them to provide for their families 8. Thus, when looking at the sexual service performed by women, one must break with common sense and fundamentalist and stigmatizing positions as well as with the prejudice and judgment of value perpetrated against the profession 2 - 8.
Such factors foster the various social inequities suffered by sex workers sex, race and class , which are built by the patriarchal system of countries that do not have this legal work activity, cooperating for the invisibility of the profession by the State and maintenance of situations of vulnerability 3 - 5.
Therefore, to consider that sexual service is a profession that only provides pleasure is to contribute to maintenance of social exclusion of people who do not have their profession regulated, compromising assessment and representation of quality of life 1 , 6 , 9. The notion of quality of life QoL is broad and marked by subjectivity, whose concept goes beyond biologist, positivist and reductionist considerations, not just the presence of disease or absence of health.
