Here's a link to an article in Parade Magazine by Andrew Vachss, titled "Watch Your Language". It's not what you think.
http://archive.parade.com/2005/0605/0605_watch_your_language.html

The point of the article is that what we call things does make a difference, and that the language often being used about sexual predatory activities often "softens" the horror of what is happening. For example, calling a 13 year old girl - being held in bondage and sold to adult males for sexual use - a child prostitute implies that she is prostituting herself, rather than the hard truth of what has been forced up her.

Or, and this is what caught my mind because the article appeared right after that teacher married the man/boy she had seduced when he was 12:
• A teacher is arrested for sexual intercourse with a minor student in her class. The newspapers describe the conduct as “a forbidden love affair.”

I agree with the author - what we call things does make a difference. And softening the words or using euphemisms (like "lost my virginity" instead of "had sex"). In my opinion, when news media uses the softened words, they only support the kinds of activity involved. And yes, I do agree that people who want to participate in sexual exploitation of children have every reason to try to get the rest of us to accept the softened descriptions.

By Crystal915 on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 05:14 pm:

Bump!

By Nanaoie on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 06:54 pm:

I read this on Sunday.I agree with him 100%!