Talk:sexual marketplace

RFV discussion: September–December 2023

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sexual marketplace

Rfv-sense "prostitution". I don't see how this could work? PUC – 15:05, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Cited. The most obvious one that occurred to me was "enter the sexual marketplace" = "enter prostitution", which is fairly well-attested. I've expanded the sense slightly to clarify where it applies. The problem is disentangling it from the other senses, but I think the three I added are unambiguous and substitutable. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 00:49, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

@Al-Muqanna: Upon further thought, I'm not convinced the three senses are actually separate. Couldn't we merge them in a single one: "a physical or notional location where transactions of a sexual nature take place"? PUC – 19:32, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

No, sense 2 is distinct I think and a merger would be unnatural: "she entered the sexual marketplace" can be a (creepy) way to talk about a woman who's looking for a partner or it can mean straightforwardly that she's become a prostitute, those are IMO clearly different senses and not just contextual applications of the same sense. Senses 1 and 3 could probably be merged though. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 20:43, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed This, that and the other (talk) 10:24, 3 December 2023 (UTC)