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adjective (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 &
- 39;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 &
- 39;Scarlet collar&
- 39; 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, Dí 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,
- :"&
- 39;Scarlet collar&
- 39; workers are the feminists of the modern age, say psychologists, free from coercion and the dangers of the traditional, male dominated business."
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.
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