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[–]JasonNecks 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But it's not a euphemism, it's a subcategory. I guess it does have sort of a euphemistic effect if people don't believe sex surrogates are prostitutes but they are, but... I still feel my point stands. If you get rid of the term "sex surrogates", then you now lack a term to distinguish the subcategory from the broader whole.

From my perspective it feels like you're manipulating the language by claiming that two words with different definitions are actually identical. I'm not saying you should have a different moral opinion of the two things, but they do have different definitions, objectively.