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    The document discusses the use of language when referring to sex work. It argues that the term "prostitute" is oppressive towards women forced into sex work due to poverty, and that "sex worker" is a preferable alternative as it avoids moral condemnation. While not suggesting sex work is like any other job, the term sex worker is used because it encompasses the diverse range of activities within the large, multibillion dollar global sex industry, from pornography to live shows to escort services.

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    The document discusses the use of language when referring to sex work. It argues that the term "prostitute" is oppressive towards women forced into sex work due to poverty, and that "sex worker" is a preferable alternative as it avoids moral condemnation. While not suggesting sex work is like any other job, the term sex worker is used because it encompasses the diverse range of activities within the large, multibillion dollar global sex industry, from pornography to live shows to escort services.

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    Critique of the term "Prostitute" as it pertains to women

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    Sex Workers PIC

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    The document discusses the use of language when referring to sex work. It argues that the term "prostitute" is oppressive towards women forced into sex work due to poverty, and that "sex worker" is a preferable alternative as it avoids moral condemnation. While not suggesting sex work is like any other job, the term sex worker is used because it encompasses the diverse range of activities within the large, multibillion dollar global sex industry, from pornography to live shows to escort services.

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    Sex Workers PIC Language K

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    The document discusses the use of language when referring to sex work. It argues that the term "prostitute" is oppressive towards women forced into sex work due to poverty, and that "sex worker" is a preferable alternative as it avoids moral condemnation. While not suggesting sex work is like any other job, the term sex worker is used because it encompasses the diverse range of activities within the large, multibillion dollar global sex industry, from pornography to live shows to escort services.

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    Sex workers PIC

    Language K

    The term prostitute is used to oppress women
    who are forced to sell sex through poverty. Using
    the term sex workers is a preferable alternative.
    Pritchard 10 (Jane, The sex work debate)International Socialist Journal, Issue: 1255-1-10
    http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=728&;issue=130)

    The language itself is highly problematic and emotive. The use of the term prostitute is regarded
    as a denigrating word used for women who are forced into selling sex through poverty and
    exclusion, while the use of the term sex worker is seen as dignifying an activity which
    reflects and compounds womens oppression. This article does not suggest that sex work is a job
    like any otherhowever, the term sex work will be used, first because it avods the moral
    condemnation often attached to the word prostitute. Second, this term is used because
    women who directly sell sex on the streets, in flats or in brothels are only a subset of a
    much larger number of women who work in the sex industry.
    1
    The modern sex industry is a
    multibillion dollar industry, which generates huge profits for both transnational corporations
    and criminal gangs. The sex industry is difficult to define because it encompasses a huge range of
    diverse activities. According to the writer Elisabeth Bernstein:
    The scope of sexual commerce has grown to encompass: live sex shows; all variety of pornographic texts,
    videos, and images, both in print and on line; fetish clubs; sexual emporiums featuring lap-dancing and
    wall-dancing; escort agencies; telephone sex and cyber-sex contacts; drive through striptease venues;
    and organised sex tours of developing countries.
    2

    Accurate figures are hard to come by, but there is a general consensus that the last two decades have seen
    a resurgence in the international sex industry, including street prostitution, the voluntary or forced
    migration of women to work in the sex industry and the proliferation of lap dancing clubs. What is certain
    is that the sex industry is hugely profitable. A European Parliament report from 2004 estimated the global
    sex industry to be worth $5,000 billion to $7,000 billion.
    3
    Some of the transnational corporations
    involved, such as Hugh Heffners Playboy and lap dancing chains owned by Spearmint Rhino and Foxy
    Lady, are well known. However, many apparently more respectable companies make huge profits from
    providing telephone lines and cable and satellite programmes, and being the internet providers for the sex
    industry. These include GM Motors (through DirecTV), Time Warner, News International (EchoStar
    satellite, AT&T) and hotel chain Marriot International.

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