Prostitution involves a prostitute or sex worker providing commercial sexual services to a client. Often this is arranged through a pimp or an escort agency. Prostitution is a main component of the sex industry and may take place in a brothel, at a facility provided by the prostitute, at a client's hotel room, in a parked car, or on the street. When people talked of commercial sex they meant Playboy.' A 1976 article in The New York Times by columnist Russell Baker claimed that 'ost of the problems created by New York City's booming sex industry result from the city's reluctance to treat it as an industry', arguing why sex shops constituted an 'industry', and should be treated as such by concentrating them in a single neighborhood, suggesting the 'sex industry' was not yet commonly recognized as such.
A 1977 report by the Ontario Royal Commission on Violence in the Communications Industry ( LaMarsh Commission) quoted author Peter McCabe as writing in Argosy: 'Ten years ago the sex industry did not exist. The origins of the term sex industry are uncertain, but it appears to have arisen in the 1970s.
