Top 10 Oddball News Stories
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#8. A Synonym for Streetwalker
British legislation is calling for the removal of the word "prostitute" from
criminal statutes. The term has been around for 180 or so years, but in July
the Justice Ministry argued that the word carries too much social stigma.
Ministry officials are pushing to replace it with the phrase "persons who
sell sex persistently," which is defined as twice or more within a
three-month period. And the bill would do more than just play with nouns: It
would decriminalize less frequent selling of sex and introduce new measures
to try to get sex workers out of the industry.
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