A passel of whores

Friday, 11:24 am

By Kate

Aug

26

2005

I’ve been out and about in the blog fields this morning and I came face to face with the realization that my mother’s fetish for word propriety rubbed off on me. She would smile.

The word of the day is whore. I’ve come across self-described blog whores, book whores, music whores, food whores, and a coffee whore.

But not one in-the-biblical-sense whore to my knowledge.

Because, I am sure, these fine folks would wither at the thought of calling themselves in-the-biblical-sense whores.

But attaching a qualifier to the word lends it a certain naughty dash.

I read it. I understand it. I even see a certain humor in it. But the expression still jars me no matter how qualified it is. Stodgy me, I suppose, but there it is.