I'm all for the colloquial use of whore. I call my industry friends whores. I call some of the male performers whores. Girls call themselves whores. The word's thrown around casually among insiders. It's an inclusive privilege to get down to basics and skip over the formal terms like actress or performer as if they were euphemisms for our job descriptions, almost in jest. Are there times when it's meant to demean? Absolutely. And we know when it is. Context is everything.

You guys 'get' this though you are civilians (non-porn peeps for you n00bz.) That gives you an 'in' to use our jargon.

Whore may have a different meaning to someone else, and within my industry, we respect when someone chooses not to have it used. Even done with harmless intent, if someone doesn't want it used, fine. Cased closed. Deal with the fact that some people have different deal breakers. They may explain why, they may not. They may not know why yet they just feel it resonates negatively. You can cross your arms and be right. Or you can move past it and have them stick around.