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sweetmilf

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Re: the term prostitute?
« Reply #150 on: 17 April 2017, 02:55:10 pm »
I honestly don't care myself - I'm too old, got far more pressing issues like planning for touring.  But I don't call you or anyone a prostitute in case it offends!   

SheilaStar

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« Reply #151 on: 17 April 2017, 03:09:12 pm »
I honestly don't care myself - I'm too old, got far more pressing issues like planning for touring.  But I don't call you or anyone a prostitute in case it offends!   

I'm the same. It's not the word prostitute escort or hooker but how you use it.

Jessiegirl

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« Reply #152 on: 17 April 2017, 04:03:12 pm »
The only reason I can think why they get offended is maybe they think of streetwise as such and just being snobby.
A bit like people who like to dress up their job title e.g toilet attendant as a sanitation administrator.

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« Reply #153 on: 29 April 2017, 11:36:29 pm »
The word "Prostitute" carries a negative connotation, I don't like the vibe around it...  and i find it quite "reductive"...

I don't know... this is my feeling.

Emma_C

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« Reply #154 on: 30 April 2017, 10:26:55 am »
The word "Prostitute" carries a negative connotation, I don't like the vibe around it...  and i find it quite "reductive"...

I don't know... this is my feeling.

I agree, I find it an exposing word & it means just that interestingly, from Latin prostitut- ?exposed publicly, offered for sale?, from the verb prostituere.

meetingdiversity

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« Reply #155 on: 30 April 2017, 11:12:51 am »
At an outcall Friday night I could tell the client was struggling how to phrase me like prostitute but stopped short and said escort. I told him I am a prostitute and am aware with what I am doing in flirtatious way smiling.

To me I think if a banker doesn't want to be called a banker but still wants to be a banker. It doesn't make sense to me where is the logic in that?.

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Re: the term prostitute?
« Reply #156 on: 06 July 2017, 09:03:09 pm »
Amongst us, I don't mind the term because it is what it is  :-*

The word "Prostitute" carries a negative connotation, I don't like the vibe around it...  and i find it quite "reductive"...

I don't know... this is my feeling.
^^^^^^^^ I agree ^^^^^^^^

Call me petty, or a snowflake, or whatever but in general I prefer the terms escort / call girl / sex worker as I feel they takes away the stigma. Being a prostitute has always been portrayed like it's the worst thing you could ever do. Prostitution is a crime in many countries and when many people use the term, they do it with the intention of 'hurting' you. They say it with contempt, and use it as a slur. They want to make you feel as if you're a criminal and are somebody who is beneath them. There is a lot of social stigma around the term. Just because one person doesn't like it doesn't make them a snowflake. Everybody is different.

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Re: the term prostitute?
« Reply #157 on: 07 July 2017, 09:44:11 am »
The word "Prostitute" carries a negative connotation, I don't like the vibe around it...  and i find it quite "reductive"...

I don't know... this is my feeling.

Like exactly this. I'd actually prefer to be called a whore, prostitute just has too many connotations with poverty/disease/drug addiction because of how the media have portrayed the word but call girl/escort (for whatever reason) are portrayed like they're higher class

meetingdiversity

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« Reply #158 on: 07 July 2017, 05:16:18 pm »
Like exactly this. I'd actually prefer to be called a whore, prostitute just has too many connotations with poverty/disease/drug addiction because of how the media have portrayed the word but call girl/escort (for whatever reason) are portrayed like they're higher class

We are defined by society with what we do. I should try calling the bank manager a toilet cleaner to see how he takes it probably with not well.

Lunar Moon

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Re: the term prostitute?
« Reply #159 on: 07 July 2017, 05:30:10 pm »
I agree, I find it an exposing word & it means just that interestingly, from Latin prostitut- ?exposed publicly, offered for sale?, from the verb prostituere.

I agree I don't like it at all, makes me think of girls walking the streets, none of my clients would ever refer to me as such.  For me I am a 'Sex Therapist' and honestly from all the men I see I think that is the best term to describe what I do .... it is not all about the physical act.
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Kay

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« Reply #160 on: 07 July 2017, 05:31:49 pm »
If you have sex for cash, you're a prostitute. Makes no difference whether it's on a street corner or in a five-star hotel. It's just a word.
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« Reply #161 on: 07 July 2017, 05:59:32 pm »
Better than the word whore, not that I mind that either, or rather I am a hoor.
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« Reply #162 on: 07 July 2017, 06:52:21 pm »
Better than the word whore

I agree, but mostly because whore has been commandeered by tedious shouty folk who spend a lot of time making up stupid portmanteau words with it and using it to describe themselves at every possible opportunity on Twitter and suchlike, because They're Soooo Edgy! Aren't You Shocked? Pleeeeease Be A Bit Shocked!

Oh, do fuck off.

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Re: the term prostitute?
« Reply #163 on: 08 July 2017, 01:08:35 am »
I'm not a huge fan of it but it's factual. I think of myself as more a professional bill payer cause I spend more time doing that than anything else  ;D I pride myself on being self sufficient, I provide for my family, we live very well and I contribute towards my country. For that alone, I reckon I could cope with any label that's put on it.

As someone else has stated though, if my children ever heard me and prostitute in the same sentence I think I would die on the spot.

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Re: the term prostitute?
« Reply #164 on: 08 July 2017, 04:21:31 pm »
The word "Prostitute" carries a negative connotation, I don't like the vibe around it...  and i find it quite "reductive"...

I don't know... this is my feeling.

Totally agree