It’s still the Gulf of Mexico! Trump Exorcises "Prostitution" but is silent on golden showers,

In Orwell’s 1984, Newspeak “differed from most all other languages in that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger every year. Each reduction was a gain, since the smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought. Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all.”

On aesthetic grounds and with my aversion to euphemism, there are many words on this banned list that that I would shun and advise writers to do the same. But I would not ban them or punish the users.

Mostinteresting is that “Prostitute” is on the list where I would expect the euphemism, “sex-worker” to be banned.

Could it be because prostitution is such an apt description of the political and ethical behavior of so many professionals in the law, media and politics at the moment? That is apart from the irony that so many politicians, notably from the GOP, seem to caught engaged in commercial sexual practices. 

https://pen.org/banned-words-list/?ms=20250402PENNews&emci=bab2b21c-e70f-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&emdi=3d76ab9b-0710-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&ceid=2968600