sex slave

noun

plural sex slaves

: someone held captive and forced to perform sexual acts usually under threat of violence and often for the purposes of commercial prostitution : slave sense 3

Some victims are literally held under lock and key as sex slaves. Others are threatened with violence if they don't cooperate, or are told that their relatives will be harmed. Some are obliged to work to pay off financial "obligations." It is common for immigrants to be forced into prostitution after being lured to the U.S. …

—Bob Herbert

Word History

First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined above