Models protest against the use of the word ‘model’ to refer to the call girl

A group of models is manifesting against the misuse of their professional title to refer to call girls.

Euphemism, used for decades, has become evident again – and irritated the professionals – in recent days, after a supposed Neymar party with sexual workers. Any Awuada, who calls himself a model, told a podcast having received $ 20,000 to spend the night with the player (he denies).

Anderson Baumgartner, director of a modeling agency, complains about the press, who has been using the word irresponsibly, he said. “I have read numerous stories with the call: ‘Model received value x to have sex with so -and -so. So it’s not a model. To really work in this industry is to sell products, clothing, shoes and cosmetics,” he tells her F5.

The agent reiterates that, to work in parades, campaigns and photographic essays, professionals in the area must have the so -called DRT, ie registration at the Regional Labor Police Station.

On social networks, the Brazilian tops Cintia Dicker, Amira Pinheiro and Lola Gleitch reproduced part of Baumgartner’s speech.

“No one tells the teacher that he is a gymnast. No one tells the architect that he is a teacher. Each one has his occupation. It’s okay to be a call girl, just need to be called correctly,” says an excerpt.

Hugo Gross, president of the Union of Artists and Technicians in Suit-RJ, which also houses fashion professionals under their umbrella, adds: “Nowadays everyone says she is an actor, actress, model, influencer. “When the worker is unionized, he has the backing of a serious institution that protects him.”

‘Nomenclature is the least’

Model since the 1980s, Luiza Brunet says that the craft was marginalized at the time. “The models were judged as easy-to-life girls. There was a belief that it was really possible to hire them for programs.”

Baumgartner also remembers the strong stigmatization of the 1980s and 1990s. “It was a prejudiced way of shaking the profession of genuine models. Mothers and girls were afraid of the fashion market. It was done all industry work, which is a very important industry for the Brazilian economy, professionalization and change of labels,” he says.

If this situation has changed today, Brunet says, however, not to bother particularly with the nomenclature issue. “Outside Brazil, call girls are registered, pay taxes, it’s a profession like any other. Many call themselves models because they are well cared for, beautiful and feel entitled to call themselves like this. This is not a concern for me. What worries me is the exposure of these women, the fact that many are still putting themselves in this state of vulnerability.”

“The nomenclature is the least. We are fighting for gender equality, so that women are recognized in the positions they occupy. We fight for economic parity, parity of respect. It is not the nomenclature that bothers me, but the state of devaluation in which some young women still put themselves,” she tells Ao F5.