sexual marketplace
English
Noun
sexual marketplace (countable and uncountable, plural sexual marketplaces)
- (uncountable) The way in which people's desirability as sexual or romantic partners is evaluated.
- 2000, Christina Hoff Sommers, Frederic Tamler Sommers, Vice and virtue in everyday life, page 196:
- Central among the institutions she must encounter in her life is that of the sexual marketplace, where human beings are viewed as having a price, and not a dignity, and where the price of women is fixed in a particular way. Women, as things, as items in the sexual marketplace, have a market value that depends in part on whether they have been used. Virgins fetch a higher price than second hand goods.
- 2008, Kathleen A. Bogle, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus, page 197:
- They argue that people possess a collection of qualities that place them on a continuum of desirability in the sexual marketplace.
- Prostitution.
- (countable) A location or situation in which people are looking for sexual or romantic partners.
See also
- sexual market value