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

[Laurence Horn]

Ah, but you're not *a prostitute* because your sex work doesn't define you!

> On May 21, 2016, at 9:58 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Since you prostitute yourself, the noun seems strange.
> On May 21, 2016 7:21 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> 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)".
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>> 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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