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

[Jonathan Lighter]

I thought we were supposed to say "sex worker."

JL

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
> 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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