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Definition Commodification is the transformation of goods and services (or things that may not normally be regarded as goods and services) into a commodity. Although also used of natural resources, it is a word primarily used in terms of human trafficking and the sex industry when people and/or sex have been assigned economic values and these market values have replaced social values. Relationships, formerly untainted by commerce, have been modified into purely commercial ones. "The sex industry, previously considered marginal, has come to occupy a strategic and central position in the development of international capitalism. ... Industrialization of the sex trade and the mass production of sexual goods and services structured around a regional and international division of labour have resulted in the commodification of women and children."
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