streetworker

See also: street worker

English

Alternative forms

• street worker

Etymology

From street +‎ worker.

Noun

streetworker (plural streetworkers)

1. A social worker who engages with people on the street.
   • 2002, Gary S. Katzmann, Securing Our Children's Future:

     They are streetworkers, gang outreach specialists employed by the city of Boston. There are about two dozen of them.

2. A prostitute (who works on the street).
   • 2005 (1991), Tim Robinson & Peter Davies, London's Homosexeual Male Prostitutes: Power, Peer Groups and HIV, in: AIDS: Responses, Interventions and Care, Peter Aggleton & Graham Hart & Peter Davies (eds.), The Falmer Press / Taylor & Francis, p.105:

     Thus for many streetworkers, the cost of refusing client's demands is greater, and their power to resist the requests of the client, including a possible desire for high risk sex, is substantially reduced.

   • 2005 (2000), Joanna Brewis & Stephen Linstead, Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticizing organization, Taylor & Francis (first edition: by Routledge), p.214f.:

     A streetworker also offered unsafe sex but only orally, and again at her discretion. All other workers were fastidious, especially the parlour workers, and one streetworker claimed that she always used two condoms.

   • 2005, Robert Pool & Wenzel Geissler, Medical Anthropology, chapter HIV-related risk practives among Glasgow male prostitutes: reframing concepts of risk behavior, p.66 & p.68:

     Participants included a nonstreetworker, as well as streetworkers, those who identified as being gay and those who were not, those who were injecting drug users and those who were not, those who were novice prostitutes and those who were not. [...] Getting the money up front was the universal practice among the female streetworkers.

Related terms

• streetwork