Whores...

In the old days, whores basically meant just that! Whores! Now like everything that is so fluid, it has undergone its own changes also.

First we had camwhoring... I think typically any word that has a suffix of whore sounds so derogatory. But these days it is used without so much of an eyelid bat! Camwhoring basically means taking pics of yourself or your friends excessively. To people like me who lived between two worlds of cameras - roll film cameras and digital ones, this cam whoring thing gives an immediate negative impression. But not so to the young ones. They think it is complimentary to call themselves camwhores... sometimes even cool!

And recently I just learned of shoe whoring... a person who owns excessive pairs of shoes. And oh yes.. there're also attention whore, corporate whore, media whore... A whole wide new world of whores has opened up. Do you think they sound cool? In the old world of whores, we had whoremongers, whoreson, he-whore. And none of them sounded any good back then either. This new gen of whores supposed to be better? Or is this another compromise....

So whatever it is, the term whore is negative... it still leaves behind an impression of someone who flouts cleavage, puckered lips and oh yes... sporting the peace sign. A cam whore is after all also known as a cam slut. Now how positive can that be.. a whore is bad enough. So we are into promoting a 'slutty' lifestyle? Whatever happened to the good and clean lifestyle? *scratch head*

This is one word which behaves more like a chameleon, slowly seeping into our minds, gaining acceptance. If in a butterfly pupa, a metamorphosis takes place and something more beautiful comes out, to me, this feels like an attempt to make-it-sound-right behaviours which are narcissistic, vainglorious, swollen and morally loose. What does it sound like to you?? A camwhore?