Honorverse Euphemisms

Jimmy Lee, executive director of RestoreNYC, which provides shelter for trafficked women, has some theories on why locking a woman up for one’s own pleasure is more newsworthy than locking a woman up in order to pimp her out. “I think it is because of the stigma of being prostituted,” he says. “We too easily lessen our compassion for a “prostitute” even if it comes out that she was clearly not being prostituted by choice.’

Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution, is prostitution or sexual slavery that takes place as a result of coercion by a third party. The terms "forced prostitution" or "enforced prostitution" appear in international and humanitarian conventions but have been insufficiently understood and inconsistently applied. "Forced prostitution" refers to conditions of control over a person who is coerced by another to engage in sexual activity.[1] In its understanding of the distinction between sex work and forced prostitution,[2] the Open Society Foundations organization states: "sex work is done by consenting adults, where the act of selling or buying sexual services is not a violation of human rights."[3]

Forced prostitution is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation.

Social Stigma – The negative social stigma attached to prostitution is commonly exploited by traffickers in order to prevent victims from revealing the ways in which they are being abused and hurt. Survivors of street prostitution recount instances where family or the public treated them differently, limiting their ability to find help and access services in a non-judgmental environment.

Just last week, the FBI rescued 48 teenagers, some as young as 13, who were working in the illegal sex trade. Suffice to say, they weren’t taking bubble baths at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with a Richard Gere look-alike.
Rather, young girls – and sometimes boys – are held hostage by a pimp, who forces them to turn tricks or auctions them off to the highest bidder.
Right here in America.
Consider: Had that FBI sting last week come a few years later, many of those rescued girls would be over 18, and people would argue that as adults they “chose” to become prostitutes – and the girls would be treated as criminals.
In fact, they’re still simply sex slaves. And it is slavery, because they never see a dime of money from the pimps, and they have no freedom of movement.
Advocates talk ominously of the initial “seasoning period” when the victim is repeatedly raped, beaten, starved, locked in a closet and generally forced into submission. The pimp then gives her a new name and tells her she’s now a prostitute.

cthia wrote:If you condemn me. You condemn just about every one in the entire world as well as your own government. Your own government interchanges sexual slavery with prostitution.

Jimmy Lee, executive director of RestoreNYC, which provides shelter for trafficked women, has some theories on why locking a woman up for one’s own pleasure is more newsworthy than locking a woman up in order to pimp her out. “I think it is because of the stigma of being prostituted,” he says. “We too easily lessen our compassion for a “prostitute” even if it comes out that she was clearly not being prostituted by choice.’

http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/09/clevel ... right-now/

Riddle me this. What is the difference of Mesans sex slaves, who perform the sick acts against their will than a young run away on Earth who is approached by a smooth talking pimp promising them paradise only to find themselves forced into prostitution? And beaten when they try to escape. Often killed!

Write your lawmakers and tell them that you don't think these sick individuals should be charged for running illegal prostitution rings because sex slaves aren't prostitutes.

Here's one on the sex slaves next door. Which also refers to the sex slaves as prostitutes.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42233648/ns/u ... n_america/

Forced prostitution, also known as involuntary prostitution, is prostitution or sexual slavery that takes place as a result of coercion by a third party. The terms "forced prostitution" or "enforced prostitution" appear in international and humanitarian conventions but have been insufficiently understood and inconsistently applied. "Forced prostitution" refers to conditions of control over a person who is coerced by another to engage in sexual activity.[1] In its understanding of the distinction between sex work and forced prostitution,[2] the Open Society Foundations organization states: "sex work is done by consenting adults, where the act of selling or buying sexual services is not a violation of human rights."[3]

Forced prostitution is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim's rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation.

Not a single reference fails to equate sexual slavery with prostitution.

Social Stigma – The negative social stigma attached to prostitution is commonly exploited by traffickers in order to prevent victims from revealing the ways in which they are being abused and hurt. Survivors of street prostitution recount instances where family or the public treated them differently, limiting their ability to find help and access services in a non-judgmental environment.

http://www.polarisproject.org/human-tra ... ostitution
Do you still feel that the term sex slave is worse than prostitution?

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/0 ... each-year/

Just last week, the FBI rescued 48 teenagers, some as young as 13, who were working in the illegal sex trade. Suffice to say, they weren’t taking bubble baths at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with a Richard Gere look-alike.
Rather, young girls – and sometimes boys – are held hostage by a pimp, who forces them to turn tricks or auctions them off to the highest bidder.
Right here in America.
Consider: Had that FBI sting last week come a few years later, many of those rescued girls would be over 18, and people would argue that as adults they “chose” to become prostitutes – and the girls would be treated as criminals.
In fact, they’re still simply sex slaves. And it is slavery, because they never see a dime of money from the pimps, and they have no freedom of movement.
Advocates talk ominously of the initial “seasoning period” when the victim is repeatedly raped, beaten, starved, locked in a closet and generally forced into submission. The pimp then gives her a new name and tells her she’s now a prostitute.

Case after case after case. In your own back yard and you are still in denial. What planet do you live on? Your own government calls sexual slavery prostitution. And I have provided you evidence that the young girls in question that had their innocence stolen from them were afraid of being labelled a prostitute, even though they knew they were forced into sexual servitude. Apparently I am not the only one who realizes that society still thinks that prostitution is a much worse stigma.

The stigma is more widespread in our minds than that. A wife gets raped yet she doesn't report it because she is afraid of what her husband and friends will think of her. Why? She didn't choose that?
A daughter is raped, embarrassed to tell her father. A girlfriend embarrassed, etc, etc. They are forced as well, yet what they feel is the stigma of being used like a prostitute.

If after all of this you still can't at least begin to rethink your view then that disconnect you are trying to find is the disconnect you have from life on Earth.

Governments love euphemisms. Bob Schieffer, CBS News' chief Washington correspondent, points out that when inflation was rising in the 1970s, President Jimmy Carter appointed Cornell economist Alfred Kahn to be his inflation czar. Kahn immediately warned that a "serious depression" might be on the horizon.

Of course, the White House didn't like the use of the word "depression," so Kahn said, "OK, I'll just call it a banana."

Schieffer writes:

"That threw the banana growers into a tizzy, so - and I'm not making this up - Kahn switched to calling the downturn a kumquat!"

Euphemisms can be used to obscure much darker truths. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, a NASA technician described it as a "major malfunction." The term "ethnic cleansing" was frequently used to describe the Bosnian genocide of the 1990s.

More recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently upset Japan, a key U.S. ally, by demanding that all official documents refer to women drafted as prostitutes for the Japanese military during World War II as "enforced sex slaves" rather than by the euphemism "comfort women," the term preferred by the Japanese government.

TheMonster wrote:<snip>

But cthia's contention is that "much worse" is an entirely subjective criterion. That we disagree with the hierarchy of "worse" only proves that contention true.

Social Stigma – The negative social stigma attached to prostitution is commonly exploited by traffickers in order to prevent victims from revealing the ways in which they are being abused and hurt. Survivors of street prostitution recount instances where family or the public treated them differently, limiting their ability to find help and access services in a non-judgmental environment.

misinformation

crewdude48 wrote:
Edit: removed personal attack. Sorry, I think I got into this argument a bit to deep.
I still think you are wrong, and the two terms being associated does not automatically make one a euphemism for the other.

MaxxQ wrote:

cthia" quote="crewdude48 wrote:OK. Just so we can go farther in this discussion, what exactly is your definition of euphemism? I flat out do not see how "steward" can be a euphemism. It is a job title and description.

First, you must promise not to tell Honor!

Because Honor herself said something regarding that Mac is much more than just a cook.

Again, it's a very subjective concept.