I'll call them anything they want, but is it true that the majority of SWs use the word? Oddly, it sounds kind of elitist. Is that what the, err, working girls on the corner in the bad part of town call themselves, or is it a term thought up by somebody like Susie Bright? (This is not a rhetorical question.)
--- On Wed, 3/11/09, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> I think it's, uh, complicated -- and not it a facebook
> relationship status way :). rather, i don't think
> there's anything wrong per se with the word prostitute.
> i do think that, if people who work in the sex industry ask
> you to use the word sex worker, then you should probably at
> least listen to their reasons and be open to what they have
> to say. i mean, what does it hurt *you* to call people by
> the names they want to be called. this is particularly true
> if you're speaking to activists who work in the sex
> industry. because, seriously?, why the fuck would they be
> unaware that the category lumps a lot of different jobs
> together? given that, they would probably have already
> thought it through and your criticism comes off as
> disrespecting the work they do on the topic already.
>