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Charliethefeminist · 22/08/2018 13:02

What a neutral word between sex worker and prostitute? Is there one?

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Italiangreyhound · 23/08/2018 00:22

placemats I am not saying anything about the sex in relation to what people normally might do sexually.

Maybe it is more accurate to say they are selling access to their bodies?

I am not making any judgement here, the OP said ' neutral'.

I am very anti-prostitution.

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Charliethefeminist · 23/08/2018 09:27

The thing about using the word pay is that quite often the women don't get paid, there is a man somewhere who gets paid.

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sociopathsunited · 23/08/2018 09:31

I don't know if this has already been suggested or not..

Service provider

That seems fairly neutral.

NothingOnTellyAgain · 23/08/2018 09:40

If she just says service providers no one will know what she is talking about.

NothingOnTellyAgain · 23/08/2018 09:42

It all depends who your audience is. Stuart message you want to convey. What their starting point is.

There is a good reason that there is no generally agreed term - because it's not a neutral "job". Plus highly political.

sociopathsunited · 23/08/2018 11:57

Nothing

Exactly. I don't think there IS a neutral term. What real term you use will depend on which side of the line you are on. I don't think there's a mid point that also allows a full understanding of what is going on (as that understanding varies, depending on perspective).

thebewilderness · 23/08/2018 20:09

Sex workers are pimps and traffickers while the people they sell are prostituted women and children.

FreezerBird · 23/08/2018 23:09

Prostituted women

or

Women exploited in prostitution

WhatTheWatersShowedMe · 24/08/2018 14:28

Another vote here for "prostituted women/ children".

"Men who pay to rape women"

piearesquared · 24/08/2018 14:35

I don’t like the tern sex worker as it is imprecise-it could mean cam girls, lap dancer stripper (or as abolitionists like to say pimps or managers).
There was a long thread on SAAFE (a forum where prostitutes talk about things of concern to them) here a while back where prostitutes discussed whether “prostitute” was stigmatizing-some thought it was others embraced the term .

The tem that prostitutes reject is “prostituted women” as that denies them agency and is used by abolitionists and radical feminists opposed to prostitution.

I think it’s best to stick with prostitutes and prostitution-as it says what it is.

placemats · 24/08/2018 14:48

Men who pay to rape women are rapists. The exchange of money has nothing to do with it.

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