Meanings??

Get a dictionary!!
Here's a novel idea, how about calling them by their name.

Hey Diwata,

Adult Entertainer = Works in Gentlemen's clubs, porno movies

Provider / Escort = What most ladies do for a living in this website. My personal preference is Provider not Escort.

Slut = Street walker with a pimp

Whore = Street walker without a pimp

To sum it up, I call the ladies here on this website Providers and that's the word I have used for many years.

Thanks for a GREATquestion!

Serpius

It's all a matter of semantics and perspective:

Working girls: "I'm an adult entertainer."

Clients: "I need to book an escort."

TER denizens: "Which provider gives the best BBBJ?"

Clients' wives: "I'll kill you if I ever catch you paying for sex with sluts."

Religious types: "You're all going to hell for patronizing whores."

Ha.

I would never call anyone those last two things as it not only demans them but others.

If a person is a virtuous sex worker, then I'd use the term escort, provider, stripper, or even goddess to describe them.

Otherwise, a term like rip-off bitch might me appropriate, no offense to female dogs.

I hate using the term prostitute because that makes both the provides and me look bad..

Escort professionals. LOL

I prefer to be called...

A professional lady of leisure.


Never anything that is disrespectful, like a whore, or a slut.

I use the word "whore" affectionately, just as I use "hooker" and "slut".  
I like all for bed, but when communicating with a client or advertising "companion" or "provider" is fine.
If someone were to attempt to use these words on me as an insult...well, whatever.  
Words only have as much meaning as you give them and these only serve to make me laugh or arouse me.

But I like the formalities ("companion")...and I like when the formalities fall away during sex play.

-- Modified on 4/29/2012 12:30:19 PM

...Sally Fields defined whore as a 16 year old with a bad reputation. In the movie she was an escort. A guy "liked" her.  Attempting to be insulting during an argument he called her a whore. Her response to him was the comment about a 16 year old.
I prefer the terms escort or provider. No I wouldn't call an Adult Entertainer/Provider/Escort a slut or a whore.

A courtesan was originally a female courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.

-In feudal society, the court was the centre of government as well as the residence of the monarch, and social and political life were often completely mixed together. Prior to the Renaissance, courtesans served to convey information untrusted to servants to visiting dignitaries.

- In Renaissance Europe, courtiers played an extremely important role in upper-class society. As it was customary during this time for royal couples to lead separate lives — commonly marrying simply to preserve bloodlines and to secure political alliances — men and women would often seek gratification and companionship from people living at court. In fact, the verb "to court" originally meant "to be or reside at court", and later came to mean "to behave as a courtier" and then "to pay amorous attention to somebody".The most intimate companion of a ruler was called the favourite.

In Renaissance usage, the Italian word "cortigiana", feminine of "cortigiano" (courtier) came to refer to "the ruler's mistress", and then to a well-educated and independent woman of loose morals, eventually a trained artisan of dance and singing, especially one associated with wealthy, powerful, or upper-class men who provided luxuries and status in exchange for companionship.

 The word was borrowed by English from Italian through the French form "courtisane" during the 16th century, especially associated to the meaning of "court-mistress" and "prostitute".

Today, the term courtesan has become a euphemism to designate an escort or a prostitute, especially one who attracts wealthy clients.

I am probably playing mental gymnastics when I rationalize that I am paying to spend time with a courtesan  or escort - much more like consensual sex which our modern society openly condones and accepts.  Why should it make a diffrence if the hookup takes place thorugh a website or internet site as opposed to at a party, in the office  or at a bar.
The other terms, whore, prostitute and slut are demeaning and cheapening

-- Modified on 4/29/2012 5:17:04 PM

The other terms sound like euphemisms for prostitutes. That would be misleading for ladies obviously  in the hospitality industry, and not selling sex.

I don't take it personally anyways. LOL!

But to give my opinion to the OP, I think of an adult entertainer as someone who's going to give a show, so if you want to call me that then bring some popcorn, sit back and relax! I think of whore as someone who's just out to get it by any means necessary and slut just someone who doesn't care, and anyone can have a turn. Provider is a little nicer but then it begs the question, what do you provide? And the term escort, make me think well honey who are you trying to fool? Hilarious!

All the ladies that choose to do this fit into these categories one way or another and it just depends on how they present themselves and the type of company they're trying to entertain. It just is what it is.  

-- Modified on 4/29/2012 6:31:54 PM

Escort, Hooker, Prostitute, Whore....

I don't mind what you call me. That's just semantics.

-Secret Diary of a Call Girl

par·a·mour   /ˈpærəˌmʊər/ Show Spelled[par-uh-moor]
noun
1. an illicit lover, especially of a married person.
2. any lover.

And I like my paramour to be a nymphomaniac slut.

disingenuous

a lady is a lady..hard to believe someone of your beauty and caliber would ask such a question..i enjoy people..i never label them..this whole society is infested with name-calling and stereotyping..i prefer to treat people as people..not classify them..