Is Prostitute Acceptable?

spathiphyllum | 17:51 Fri 15th Mar 2019 | Phrases & Sayings

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it seems the term sex worker is the preferred term nowadays

it the word prostitute becoming taboo?

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jno

prostitute is something of an insult. Sex worker is (so far) a fairly neutral job description that need not involve prostitution at all (strippers, for instance).

Ken4155

You shouldn't take everything you watch of Ricky Gervais to heart, spath. I don't suppose they really mind what you call them as long as you pay for their services.

Old_Geezer

Not that I know. Surely prostitution is a sub-set of sex working ?

maggiebee

My son works with an organisation which supports "working girls" and won't have the word prostitute said in his hearing.

Ken4155

Wonder if any of those 'working girls' he helps support belong to The English Collective of Prostitutes, founded 1975, maggiebee? To me the term 'sex-worker' is ambiguous - could mean a stripper, a pole dancer, etc. 'Prostitute' does what it says on the tin.

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Ken i don’t there are people on twitter who use the term a lot

Old_Geezer

You don't pay them for their services !
Shocking.

maggiebee

Afraid not Ken4155, we are in Scotland.

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