English
Etymology
From the color traditionally associated with prostitution combined with the word collar in imitation of similar constructs such as blue-collar and white-collar.
Adjective
en-adj|pos=scarlet--collar|collar
- Of or pertaining to female entrepreneurs in the Internet sex industry.
#*1995, Nadine Strossen, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women's Rights, Scribner (1995), p. 190,
#*:"Given the relatively high pay, many 'scarlet collar workers' make an economically rational choice to enter the sex industry rather than to pursue more socially acceptable, but less remunerative, work."
#*2000 August 13, Now, cybersex industry, in The Tribune, Chandigarh, India, The Tribune House (2000), editorial page,
#*:"The new 'Scarlet collar' worker is typically a 25 to 35-year-old former prostitute or lap dancer with young children and a desire to better her income while working from home."
#*2002, Dà nielle De Voss, Women's Porn Sites�Spaces of Fissure and Eruption or "I'm a Little Bit of Everything", in Sexuality & Culture Vol. 6 No. 3, Transaction Publishers (2002), pp. 75�94,
#*:"'Scarlet collar' workers are the feminists of the modern age, say psychologists, free from coercion and the dangers of the traditional, male dominated business."
Related terms
see under -collar
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