UNITED STATES
Columbia Journalism Review
By Merrill Perlman
APRIL 4, 2016
ONE SURE SIGN OF SPRING is the sighting of new entries for The Associated Press Stylebook.
For the past few years, changes in the AP Stylebook have been announced to coincide with the annual conference of the American Copy Editors Society. (Full disclosure: This columnist is a member of the ACES board.) …
AP now recommends that writers avoid using the word “prostitute” when a child is involved, as in “child prostitute,” “teenage prostitute,” and so forth, because it implies that the child “is voluntarily trading sex for money,” Kent says, and a child, by definition, cannot do so.
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