Sex Workers ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29697037

Is it just me that finds the term Sex Worker for a prostitute, rather in the line of "Newspeak", invented by George Orwell for 1984 ? To me, sex workers are the NHS Staff that work in VD clinics, or perhaps the volunteers that give out free condoms in our streets in order to try to combat VD and AIDS.

I don't have a problem with people that sell sex for a living, albeit that most of them do so to feed drug habits, but what is wrong with the good, old fashioned word "Prostitute" ? Do these people, mostly women, think that by using another word instead of the dictionary definition of their trade, people will think their activities sound more respectable.

[mikey4444]

Not according to my dictionary it isn't :::::

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hussy

" A woman considered brazen or immoral "

[WELSHYORKIE]

Or as Ma Boswell would put it ' She is a tart' !!

[Psybbo]

Was AOG ahead of his time
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question972224.html

[WELSHYORKIE]

Good research, Psybbo. Yes they should be paying NI and tax - particularly the female highlighted in the link

[BlackadderV]

Depending on which dictionary you have, if you read to the end of the entry it gives the etymology as derived from hussif, obsolete for housewife.

[DTCwordfan]

I wonder what the rate of inflation and deflation HMRC apply to the industry.....

[Slapshot]

Bet there would be some stiff penalties for non payment

[DTCwordfan]

Come again on that one, slappy?

[baza]

you know when you have picked up a ladyboy ......they can park the car properly.

[Slapshot]

Wonder if they have to work "lying time" before getting paid

[gness]

Dammit! That's were I'm going wrong.....I can park a car well.....

Must rectify that....... ☻

[Slapshot]

It's maybe a new was of "outing" ladyboys.... how well do they drive... ;0)

[baza]

We used to refer to the ladies of the street in the Kings Cross area as the back shift.

[hy4web]

Let me make it easy: all prostitutes are sex workers, but not all sex workers are prostitutes. This has nothing to with PC, but with the need to define a number of new profiles emerging in the sex industry. These new profiles are indeed created by market demand.
Some examples are here: https://www.vivastreet.co.uk/blog/6-types-of-sex-work/