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Stinky The Clown

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Mon Mar-10-08 10:45 PM
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Since this is PC Central ......

... the preferred term is "sex worker".

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Rick Myers

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Mon Mar-10-08 10:47 PM
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1. Hooker?

Or is that too 'Confederate!'???

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Buzz Clik

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Mon Mar-10-08 10:53 PM
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2. Nah. I like whore. Harlot.

Edited on Mon Mar-10-08 10:54 PM by Buzz Clik

B-girl, bag, bawd, bimbo, blower, broad, call girl, camp follower, cat, chicken, chippie, concubine, courtesan, fallen woman, floozy, hooker, hostess, hustler, loose woman, midnight cowboy, model, moll, nymphomaniac, painted woman, party girl, pickup, pink pants, pro, scarlet woman, slut, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, tomato, tramp, trollop, white slave, working girl

I really prefer "pink pants"

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Ghost Dog

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Tue Mar-11-08 03:42 AM
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6. "Concubine" has no more this meaning than does "Wife".

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/concubine
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concubine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concubinage

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Buzz Clik

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Tue Mar-11-08 08:03 AM
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9. What's this? You parsed the thesaurus entry for "prostitute" yet....

... you didn't notice that courtesan was part of the definition for concubine?

I've known obsessive compulsive, anal-retentive DU posters. And you, friend are not an obsessive compulsive, anal-retentive DU posters.

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mondo joe

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Mon Mar-10-08 10:55 PM
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3. But "sex worker" doesn't refer exclusively to prostitutes. NT

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Der Blaue Engel

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Mon Mar-10-08 11:35 PM
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4. If this is PC Central

I'd hate to see Rude Asshole Central.

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Tesha

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Tue Mar-11-08 06:53 AM
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8. That's over in GD:P... (NT)

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genie_weenie

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Mon Mar-10-08 11:46 PM
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5. Brazen Strumpet

has a ring that pleases to my ear.

Not that I'm into ear pleasing or anything...

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SeattleGirl

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Tue Mar-11-08 03:45 AM
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7. Damned strumpet!

You vile woman, you!

How DARE you breach the sacred Puritanism of this great country!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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OmmmSweetOmmm

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Tue Mar-11-08 08:08 AM
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10. Continuing to be PC here, how about Call Woman/Person?

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