I think it is a bad word. It is sort of sexist to women. It affends in a way.

There are many different types of "whores" in my world. It's mostly used to describe somebody who spends all of his/her time doing one particular thing. Sex is no longer the subject or tone of the word. I'm called a "whore" on an almost a daily basis for multiple different reasons. Last time I checked, I am not a woman. I play on CS/TF2 servers with a bunch of other guys, and we call each other whores all the time. If a rare-but-appreciated female should join the game, we'll call her a whore for the same reasons we call each other "whores". It has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word, anymore.

Although the original word is definitely not a good one, the modern Internet-influenced use of the word is just fine. I have no problem with it, and take no offense to it. Every female I know feels the same way about it (and I know more than you'd expect me to).

The word has split into different meanings!

Sums up why I use it on a regular basis.

lol jk kind of

Whore is overused though, which is why I find that slut is more effective.

Its starting to go in a black hole sort of because it is used too much!

Meh. There is no bad word to me. If it offends someone, it offends someone. I'm not here to make people feel good.

It's not sexist, that's pretty silly in my opinion.

I mean it's like saying "bad man" is sexist, it's a legit word for something.

Apparently, according to my mother, it isn't right to call a woman a whore even if she sleeps around alot. Why? Because she says that I wouldn't use the same word to describe a man who sleeps around alot.

However, I disagree. I would.

I use it for girls/women that sleep around a lot, I'll admit. If a guy sleeps around a lot, I just say he's a dog. So in reality, it's kind of equal. Then again, look at my personal text... that's been there for quite some time now.

So its sort of popular?

It's more that its definition has changed from its original meaning for the younger generations. Take for example what Scorp was saying. In a shooter video game, you might call someone a "rocket whore" if they just constantly shoot rockets and that's all they do. It has changed more from a meaning of a girl who sleeps around to someone who uses/does something a lot. Though, if you still called a girl a whore, the definition would be straight forward.