Thread:Euji/@comment-22439-20160212201204/@comment-26732083-20160214204240

Undoniel wrote: 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 the most often used term, but not offensive. "Sex worker" is used more by sex workers associations, and to define stuff that are prostitution but mostly outside of slavery, proxenetism or forced (brutality or social violence/poverty)(but sometimes including also those).

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, without it having an offensive meaning to me.

The only reason I suggested full service sex worker is because I've seen some sex workers say that prostitute has become to stigmatized to be used legitimately anymore. So they prefer the term full service sex workers for sex workers that engage in sexual acts with their clients.

Sex worker is a blanket term for anyone who sells sex like a stripper would be considered a sex worker, but not a full service sex worker. So I agree that it would be good for categories too.

Aids, like sex therapists you mean?