There are many terms for a woman who gets paid to have sex. Whore. Prostitute. Hooker. The list goes on.
But the newest item on the progressive agenda is to replace them all with the term 'sex worker.' Here's the explanation for why progressives are adopting it.
Like all euphemisms, sex worker is a lifeless term. It doesn't sting like prostitute. Apparently, society can't shame a whore for her choice of occupation. And by lumping together the myriad ways of doing something strange for some change, it provides no real information. Porn whores, strippers, high-end escorts, street-walking hoes, and trannies are all sex workers.
The mainstream media has picked up 'sex worker' too. Here's an article that Jay Millz brought to my attention. In it, you'll find no mention of 'prostitutes', but there are plenty of 'sex workers.' That's one example, but a google search on prostitution gets 13 million results, while sex worker returns 46 million.
In other words, the term may have already caught on, but push back against it. Use one of many colorful epithets reserved for prostitutes, anything but the euphemism 'sex worker.'
But the newest item on the progressive agenda is to replace them all with the term 'sex worker.' Here's the explanation for why progressives are adopting it.
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Grant, like many sex worker activists and advocates, uses the terminology of ‘sex work’ rather than the language of ‘prostitution’. This avoids the gendered language and framing of sex work as a women’s issue: sex work has long provided a reliable source of income to gender nonconformists who face discrimination in other forms of employment. The terminology also helps shift the debate from the moral sphere to the economic, where sex work covers the range of sexual acts that people perform for money: sex, companionship, intimacy, stripping, pole-dancing, live sex on a web-cam; many sex workers supplement their income doing more than one of these.
Like all euphemisms, sex worker is a lifeless term. It doesn't sting like prostitute. Apparently, society can't shame a whore for her choice of occupation. And by lumping together the myriad ways of doing something strange for some change, it provides no real information. Porn whores, strippers, high-end escorts, street-walking hoes, and trannies are all sex workers.
The mainstream media has picked up 'sex worker' too. Here's an article that Jay Millz brought to my attention. In it, you'll find no mention of 'prostitutes', but there are plenty of 'sex workers.' That's one example, but a google search on prostitution gets 13 million results, while sex worker returns 46 million.
In other words, the term may have already caught on, but push back against it. Use one of many colorful epithets reserved for prostitutes, anything but the euphemism 'sex worker.'