Livre d'Or

That's fair, and I do tend to default to saying sex worker. Clearly prostitute in the original reported conversation was in fact a slur, and I was intending to mention it rather than using it in my reply, but I realize I kind of skirted the edge. I need to get better at the terminology on this, but my understanding was that sex worker was a very broad term that includes porn performers, people who do phone or webcam sex, strippers and erotic dancers, pro-doms, potentially even writers of erotica etc, as opposed to specifically people who have sex with clients for money. And given it's such a broad term then talking about people "dressing like sex workers" would make even less sense. But maybe there isn't a specific non-offensive word for that line of work, and if so it definitely behoves me to stick to the approved sex-worker even if that's broader than what I was trying to talk about.