[Bacchus]

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.

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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.'

[Hotwheels]

[JJ Roberts]

(06-26-2014 10:02 PM)Bacchus Wrote:  

Like all euphemisms, sex worker is a lifeless term. It doesn't sting like prostitute.

First of all 'sex worker' is not a euphemism. It is a simple and accurate description.

Second of all what makes you think that 2 consenting adults consenting to have sex is wrong?

Third of all prostitute is a 2.0 relationship duress term. One designed to force people to live their lives by other people's values.

What gives you the right to force other people to live by your values?

[BortimusPrime]

Maybe they can call the gay sex workers the prolapseteriat.

[iknowexactly]

moralizers gonna moralize. and castigate those who WON'T moralize!

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

The problem is that ridiculous and malicious people like Belle Knox or Octomom are taking shelter under that label, but in itself the label is just fine. I don't see "prostitute" or "escort" as something degrading either, though.

[zanetti]

Dude, the term ' sex worker' has already been in use for a long time. After i came back from my trip to thailand in 2006 i got my dick checked out in a clinic. One of the questions they asked me was if i had been w a sex worker.

This is in the UK. Maybe its different where you live. I have come across the term dozens of times

[germanico]

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sex work has long provided a reliable source of income to gender nonconformists who face discrimination in other forms of employment.

I had to read that a few times to understand what it meant.

Basically, the message is that "sex-worker" should be the appropiate term so they dont have to call tranny hookers a she or a he.

[The Beast1]

Most girls in college are sex workers.

[Parlay44]

There's a class of women who sell sex for short term gain and there's a class of women who sell sex for long term security. Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. Meaning you better make some serious scratch if you want a woman to be faithful. Don't hate the prostitute and love the good girl. They're all the same when nobody is watching.

[Bacchus]

(06-26-2014 11:50 PM)JJ Roberts Wrote:  

First of all 'sex worker' is not a euphemism. It is a simple and accurate description.

Second of all what makes you think that 2 consenting adults consenting to have sex is wrong?

Third of all prostitute is a 2.0 relationship duress term. One designed to force people to live their lives by other people's values.

What gives you the right to force other people to live by your values?

There's a lot here that I'm not going to address since I don't want to get into an argument about the merits of prostitution. I wanted to talk about the softening of language to suit an agenda. And that discussion overlapped with prostitution, a practice it seems that you vigorously support. So I'm going to limit my response to your first point (the only one relevant to the original topic) that 'sex worker' is not an example of euphemism.

Euphemism is the substitution of one term with a milder word or phrase. The milder phrase is not necessarily inaccurate. Enhanced interrogation is also a simple and accurate description of torture, but it doesn't have the negative associations that the latter term does. Non-consensual sex, as it is now referred to on campuses in the US, is also an accurate description of rape, but lacking the stigma associated with rape, it too is a euphemism.

Job titles routinely contain euphemisms. Administrative assistant for secretary. Flight attendant for stewardess. And now sex worker for prostitute.

So you're right in that sex worker is " simple and accurate description" of what a prostitute does. It's also a milder phrase than prostitute, therefore it's a euphemism. So what's the problem with euphemism?

Here I refer to Carlin.

Basically, soft language hides reality and obscures the truth. It's being used to avoid gendered discussions of prostitution and to include transsexuals and other assorted freaks. It's a neutral term that conveys a minimum of information. It glosses over the distinction between paid sex and other activities. But I don't think it's cam girls the World Health Organization has in mind when they talk about HIV and sex work. And finally, it fits better alongside the word rights, as in 'Sex Worker Rights,' instead of 'Prostitute Rights.'

[xpatplayer]

Sex Worker has been there for a while. And what's wrong with it, or prostitution? Prostitutes have always helped keep a society healthy by catering to male sexual desire. Without prostitutes, civilization collapses and decays.

Look at simps in America today. Would they take shit from their women if prostitution was legal and they could fuck whoever they wanted for $100 if their GFs were withholding sex? Would we have had Eliot Rodgers and Sodinis if prostitution was legal and not castigated? Probably not. Castigating it helps women become more powerful because they now hold a sexual monopoly.

Also, sex worker as an umbrella term is very useful. It allows for more effective legislation, since a lot of legislation regarding STD testing can be applied to pornstars, prostitutes and sexual therapists.

All women have a price. The lower the general price, the healthier society is. Now we are experiencing a bubble, but soon it will fall. And we should be advocating for a fall in the price, not a status-quo. Making paying directly for sex illegal makes men powerless.

[JJ Roberts]

(06-27-2014 01:52 PM)Bacchus Wrote:  

Basically, soft language hides reality and obscures the truth.

In this case the difference between 'prostitute' and 'sex worker' is that prostitute or whore are mud slinging terms and sex worker is simply a truthful term so you see it does not hide truth.

As for Carlin, he would hate the point that you are trying to make.

PS Don't confuse my position on this subject with me being a "big fan" of sex workers. I am just a big fan of self-determination and freedom of choice, that's all.

I also hate 2.0 relationship duress which is what this is.

[Bacchus]

(06-27-2014 02:48 PM)JJ Roberts Wrote:  

I also hate 2.0 relationship duress which is what this is.

I don't understand what you mean here.

The choice between using terms like the prostitute and sex worker is a clear one. Prostitute means one who offers sex for money and has existed in the English language for hundreds of years. What sex worker means I don't know, and the phrase has only recently gained traction.

By the way, the crusaders pushing for 'sex worker' are the same who will turn around and call the men who frequent prostitutes 'johns.' They are pushing for the rights of women (plus homosexuals and genderfreaks) to sell their sex, not of men to purchase it easily.

This is the last I will say on this subject.

[Ziltoid]

I really don't think 'sex worker' is a euphemism, if anything it conceals the nature of the profession even less than does the term prostitution.

Progressives/feminists will never legitimize or euphemize prostitution because they don't want it to be legal or acceptable in the first place. The narrative must be maintained that John's who hire prostitutes are sickening pigs taking advantage of the poor wimmin, who are of course hapless victims of 'the patriarchy'.

Which is not to say that women don't want money and gifts in exchange for sex, they absolutely do, they just want it to remain as abstract and implicit as possible. I think it's logical to say that the legitimization of prostitution as a job would make many men wonder why they're providing some broad with mediocre looks and a cold attitude with free meals and financial support in exchange for (possible, conditional) sex, when they could pay $300 an hour for guaranteed sex with a more attractive women who at least has good acting skills.

TL;DR, women overall stand to lose from prostitution being legalized or losing it's stigma.

[placer]

(06-27-2014 05:22 AM)zanetti Wrote:  

Dude, the term ' sex worker' has already been in use for a long time. After i came back from my trip to thailand in 2006

Indeed. I first heard the term "sex worker" back in 2000.

[la_mode]

They'll try to ban strip clubs next for all we know.

[MMM]

∧ You mean gentleman's club.