Thread:Euji/@comment-22439-20160212201204/@comment-3406131-20160217083132

Nausiated wrote: Boiling it down, I think "sex worker" is sufficient for people who sell sexual services. Exotic dancer for someone who takes off their clothes for a living at a strip club. Adult film (insert job title here) for someone involved in pornography. I agree for the two others, but for sex workers, there is the problem that the term has a restrictive and a large meaning.

Euji wrote: So, I could just go add to it, like where it says ["escort"] = {"Prostitutes"}, I could change it to ["escort"] = {"Prostitutes","sex workers"}, Like that? Yep but given the prostitutes are a subcategory of sex workers, it isn't needed at all.

AnnabellRice wrote: I would wait on that. Undoniel didn't intend for Category:Sex Workers to be populated when he overhauled it the other day, but Nausiated seems to think we should rename Category:Prostitutes, Category:Strippers, and Category:Porn Actors, so it's probably best to let them sort it out, rather than do work that may be changed soon after when they do decide upon nomenclature going forward.

I think directing Strippers/Pole Dancers to a renamed category that's simply "Exotic Dancers" should suffice as politically correct enough for that, and I'm not sure there needs to be further differentiation between just recategorizing Prostitutes/Escorts/Hookers all into the generic "Sex Workers"; meanwhile, the last group is a bit trickier to name, as print pornography isn't adult film, but I'm sure someone will have an idea of what might be more politically correct and inclusive for still photograph models and live actors alike. Well, the category for porn is only for actors. Given all of those categories are populated using the occupation module, only changing it and waiting (I think to recall there is a general way for the database to update) will be good. Yet again, the problem of the double meaning of "sex workers".

So the categories could be:
 * Category:Exotic Dancers instead of Category:Strippers
 * Category:Adult Productions Actors or Category:Adult Movies Actors or Category:Adult Films Actors instead of Category:Porn Actors
 * Other possible categories but useless currently as far as I know would be Category:Adult Productions Models, Category:Sexual Surrogates (subcategory of both sex workers and prostitutes (waow, we go deep in this subject, and now that I've written that, I must apologize because there was no pun intended)

For the prostitution, I don
 * Category:Prostitution (the activity instead of the profession) or Category:Sex Workers (Prostitution) ("sex workers"+the activity, to clear the ambiguity between both "sex workers" meanings) instead of Category:Prostitutes.