[ebooktalk] Re: LANGUAGE QUESTION
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:20:17 +0100
Both generally applied to homosexuals - not straight. But good suggestions
nevertheless.
Steve
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: LANGUAGE QUESTION
Rent-boy? Rough Trade - or is that one a particular sort of rent-boy? Clare
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From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:23 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] LANGUAGE QUESTION
> Hi all
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> Not exactly book related but it came up in a discussion about books last
> night. In the English language there are loads of words and expressions
> for
> a prostitute but not one word or prhase that can be used to describe her
> customers. I can think of lots of socio-istorical reasons for this lack
> but
> one would have expected that the modern women's liberation movement might
> have come up with one.
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> Also we could not think of a word that descried a man who performs act of
> sex for cash apart from male prostitute. Not sure why this is but they
> have
> apparently been about since Roman times.
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> Steve
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>
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