http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29697037
Is it just me that finds the term Sex Worker for a prostitute, rather in the line of "Newspeak", invented by George Orwell for 1984 ? To me, sex workers are the NHS Staff that work in VD clinics, or perhaps the volunteers that give out free condoms in our streets in order to try to combat VD and AIDS.
I don't have a problem with people that sell sex for a living, albeit that most of them do so to feed drug habits, but what is wrong with the good, old fashioned word "Prostitute" ? Do these people, mostly women, think that by using another word instead of the dictionary definition of their trade, people will think their activities sound more respectable.