[Ads-l] "slave" vs. "enslaved person" revisited?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Since you prostitute yourself, the noun seems strange.
On May 21, 2016 7:21 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> Last week's NYT Magazine had a cover story by Emily Bazelon revisiting the
> criminal status of prostitution.  This weekend's Magazine prints a letter
> to the editor from Gloria Steinem that contains two references to
> "prostituted people" and none to "prostitute(s)".
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/magazine/the-5-816-issue.html?_r=0
>
> Noun aversion again? (A quick browse of Google suggests that others employ
> both terms, although I didn't try to see if they're used interchangeably in
> such cases.)
>
> LH
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