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["Wanda Viento" <>]

Hi Eric,
I worked specifically with women in prostitution for a while in my
career and use terms like Wendy mentioned. I was careful never to call
someone or refer to someone as a "prostitute" but would put their
humanness first, e.g. "women in prostitution" or "people in
prostitution." 

Wanda

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Boise State University 
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eric
 
 there are important differences among types of commercial activity you
describe -- and it is not appropriate, in my opinion, to use the term
"commercial sex workers" for illegal activity -- (which means, I guess
it's an appropriate term in certain areas of Nevada)
 
 I use the term "prostituted women" to connote the slave-like nature of
the "work" - 
 
 wendy murphy
    
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Dear colleagues,

I was talking to a group of graduate students about a particular
British health 
iniative that was designed to end violence against prostitutes. 

A young student said, "Excuse me, but you mean commerical sex
workers."

To which I, a feminst and sex researcher, said, "No, their program is
not geared 
to end violence against all CSWs, but rather just against
prostitutes."

As a feminist and a sex researcher trained in the UK (under mostly a
mostly 
female professorship who taught me that distinction)), was I wrong in
the United 
States for using the terms "prostitute" or "prostitution" in referring
to one 
specific segment of commercial sex work/commercial sex labor (that
includes 
telephone sex operators, magazine models, adulty industry actors,
etc)?

While I can see that CSWs who walk the streets are indeed CSWs (just as

pineapple, oranges, and lemons are all "fruits" or even more general, 
"produce"), if I am discussing an intervention specifically for that
cohort, 
what term would I use to distinguish them from a phone sex operator or
Penthouse 
model?

Thank you for your help.

Eric

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