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Appendix L
Terminology
Blade: A public location where sex workers congregate and solicit clients.
Bottom: A sex worker who has a higher status than other sex workers affiliated with the same
pimp. The bottom’s duties may include recruiting, supervising, punishing, and controlling the
other women. Bottoms may later become pimps themselves.
Cisgender: An individual whose self-identified gender is aligned with their biological sex at
birth.
Concrete: See Blade.
Date: The exchange of a sex act for money, or the individual buying a sex act. A sex worker can
have “dates” or be “with a date.” See trick.
Deep web: Internet content that is not commonly indexed by standard search engines.
Dope: A term used for specific types of drugs, particularly crack cocaine and heroin.
Full service: A commercial sex transaction that includes intercourse.
Honey comb hide-out: A safe place to hang out with friends and party where one doesn’t have
to worry about the police.
IRC (Internet Relay Chat): An online chat service that allows live communication in groups or
one-on-one private messages.
In pocket: A sex worker who follows her pimp’s rules and doesn’t misbehave.
John: The individual client who pays for a sex act.
On automatic: When a sex worker is not in direct contact with her pimp for any reason (such as
the pimp being unavailable due to being in jail or the worker is traveling to a city alone) but
continues to perform commercial sex transactions for him.
Out of pocket: A sex worker who does not follow her pimp’s rules. In this scenario, she will be
asked or forced to leave the “stable.”
Peer-to-peer: A decentralized network of computers where interconnected peer computers share
resources among each other. This is contrasted with a client-server network, where a central
server provides services and resources to clients.
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