Thread:Euji/@comment-22439-20160212201204/@comment-3406131-20160214113904

I had this discussion on gay and lesbian: The word is offensive if you choose to empower it with offense. Same way some communities appropriated deragoraty terms for themselves.

"Prostitute" isn't an offensive term. Its direct equivalent in French is almost the technical and juridic term. "Sex worker" is used

But let's be honest "full service sex worker" is kind of ridiculous. Kaine wasn't an "outlaw spider-themed costumed vigilante adventurer".

Prostitute or "sex worker" are both fine to me, given both terms are the same action of prostitution, and are the mostly used technical terms for that activity.

That said, and even if both terms are available for both gender, most people would say "male prostitute", so I guess the category "Category:Sex Workers" would be better, also given it would include the different variants of sex workers, including escorts, forced-in-prostitution people, licensed sex aids (don't know if it is the right term).

But I will keep using "prostitute" on the infoboxes when it is appropriated.