Predictably, the way mongers rate sex workers is dehumanizing-they require a different scale than “normal” people: * An “8” on the “streetwalker scale” is a “6” on the “normal” scale. The use of a term like mileage that is typically used for automobiles is demonstrative of the perception that sex workers are offering a service. Specifically, johns would also use the term mileage to refer to women whose appearances reflected the physical and emotional toll that sex work takes on prostitutes. * Other fun terms that treat people like objects: On the forums, skinny sex workers are “spinners” older sex workers have got “mileage”:įor example, some johns used the term spinner to refer a petite female, “a girl who is so tiny in proportion that you can put her on top of your bone and “spin” her like a top.” Posters would also use a letter to denote the race of the sex worker, including WSW for white BSW for black and LSW, HSW, or MSW for Hispanic. For example, posters used the term streetwalker or SW to describe a prostitute who works the streets looking for clients. At the same time, these terms treat sex workers as items, rather than individual human beings. This language may be perceived as respectful and a way to neutralize the negative perspectives of their practices, mirroring their use of terms such as mongering or hobbying. In place of derogatory terms for people, mongers used derogatory terms for objects, often referring to sex workers by their make, model, and build: According to the study, forum users shied away from calling sex workers “hookers,” “hos,” or even “prostitute.” Aww, how sweet. * “Mongers” tend to avoid offensive terms for prostitutes. Thus, active involvement in both the sex trade and online resources played an important role in indicating status among johns across the forums. I don’t need to know details (if you are worried about LE), only about ones that are half-way reliable.” Asking for assistance from more senior or experienced members in this fashion could increase the likelihood of information sharing. For example, jester from the Atlanta forum posted a question seeking information about escorts: “I was looking for recommendations about agencies from pooners who have used them. This term was meant as a sign of respect and status and was used to identify those with clout in the forums. Mongers who were very involved in discussion forums and review boards were often referred to as a pooner. If someone calls you a “pooner,” that means you’ve achieved online prostitution forum street cred. It is simply an interest or pastime that they enjoy.
Thus, the terms used to describe the customers of prostitutes reflect the notion that the customers find nothing wrong in paying for sex. Online, johns prefer to refer to themselves as “mongers,” “trollers,” or “hobbyists.” According to the study:įor example, a user in the Inglewood forum described a successful night identifying and soliciting several prostitutes and closed by writing, “I cant wait to monger again like the sadistic one that I am.” Another Inglewood poster wrote, “Saturday morning, 10:30 am, and it was time for this dedicated hobbyist to pursue another adventure.”. * First off: Don’t call them “johns.” On the online forums studied by Blevins and Holt, terms like “john” and “trick” were considered derogatory to prostitution enthusiasts. Here’s what they discovered about the language of johns: Holt, examines the “argot,” or coded language, of the prostitution enthusiast’s “virtual subculture” in order to discern what these communication strategies indicate about the men who engage in-and report on-prostitution.
The study, conducted by researchers Kristie R. Now, a study in this month’s Journal of Contemporary Ethnography has attempted to decipher these sex codes for real for real. My pick for the most offensive code-word? “CCL.” That means that your sex worker of choice has got the “Concentration Camp Look.”
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The code ranges from straight acronym ( BBBJ is “Bareback Blow Job”) to schoolyard joke ( Ed Zachary Disease is code for “A woman with an unattractive face”). On the Internet, dudes who pay women to have sex with them communicate in an absurd code in the hopes of eluding law enforcement officers (that’s “LEOs” to them). This summer, I discovered the many ridiculous sexual euphemisms employed by johns who frequent online prostitution forums. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription.
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