Isn't it the case that the motivations for substituting "sex worker" in place of "prostitute" were similar to the motivations for substituting "undocumented worker" in place of "illegal alien"? That is, replacing a stigma term that dehumanizes and facilitates repression with a term that says, "human being here"? Isn't that relevant? Doesn't it matter?
I'm not saying that Katha P. doesn't have a point. I think she does have a point; mocking the irrational exuberance of pure libertarianism is fair game. But I think that in a context of unnecessary, heavy-handed state coercion, one ought to keep some perspective. Academics aren't raping women in jail. Police are. Which should be the greater focus of our outrage? On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > Quasi-randomly, has an actual argument ever been mounted in favor of > lumping everything from prostitution to Webcam acting together under the > catch-all phrase "sex work"? Could someone point me towards it? Like most > linguistic innovations that reduce clarity without adding any information, > it strikes me as pretty dumb and awful. > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898, extension 1.
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