another language quibble

[graymalkn]

I can see both sides of legalizing prostitution but isn't it insulting to women to speak of prostitution as "buying women"? We don't speak of builders as "buying men" when they hire day laborers. At most prostitution is renting women, paying them for an admittedly intimate job. This suggests that the transaction pays for the entire woman ("buys her") whenever her sex services are solicited - and thus that this is the entirety of womanhood.

I admit this sounds horribly deconstructionist and for that I should do penance by reading some Martin Gardner and Bertrand Russell.