Okay, but acknowledge that a lot of “anti-traffickers” do work that directly harms people who sell sex, including survival sex workers and trafficking victims. It’s especially sad because those groups do need help, but they’re not getting the kind of help they actually need. Which is Melissa’s entire point.

It’s not simple, especially when a lot of anti-traficking advocates mix traficking with sex work so that the two are indistinguishable.

You seem to be confusing sex trafficking with sex work. Sex trafficking involves coersion and nonconsent. It should definitely not be legal.

Yes, it’s rape by deception. Similar to if a person consents to sex under the condition that their partner uses a condom but then they don’t, it’s considered rape by deception.

Now that is a business that definitely dehumanizes its workers.

And you know what, even if they are sex workers by personally informed choice, no one fucking deserves to be be raped. This editor is just the absolute worst.

No, that would be legitimizing the retail business.

I know there’s a lot of talk about how poorly the civil war and the issues around it are covered in schools, but I do think everyone gets the ‘slavery is no longer legal in this country’ part. Maybe we need to define it better? For the Mary Mitchells if the world: you cannot own people, and you cannot lease them. If I…

I’m not one of those women who believe rape victims are at fault because they dressed too provocatively or misled some randy guy into thinking it was his lucky night.

Unfortunately, the way this case is being handled makes it look like sex trafficking is a workers are legitimate business human beings.

I’ll never understand how some women can hate other women so much.

Unfortunately, the way this case is being handled makes it look like sex trafficking is a legitimate business.

So, you rape someone at gunpoint, and it should be theft. If you rob a retail store at gunpoint, is it shoplifting?

This guy wants a girlfriend as if it's like a toy on a high shelf. He just wants someone to give him a girlfriend, rather than understanding that a relationship is something you work for. And that once you are in a relationship that it still takes work. It will never be perfect and it will never be "drama free" as he…

Is this you?

"I’ve had over 15 failed dates this year. 2 of them were with girls I liked, and they didn’t like me, something I didn’t thought possible till about a month and a half ago – I thought there is either mutual attraction or no attraction"

That and the overwhelming desire to avoid someone who most likely means us real harm.

Just so you know, no one here will sleep with you, we have self esteem.

What's great is that if you read more of his blog, he's actually going on several dates a month and is pissed they haven't turned into something more. MAYBE BECAUSE THEY MEET YOU AND GET SERIAL KILLER VIBES. (And he has a fuckbuddy he calls a simpleton. Such a charmer, it's hard to imagine he's not finding anyone).

So we know that women have been raped while wearing jeans, skirts, dresses, shorts, suits, lab coats, nun's habits, burqas, scrubs, etc. So what exactly does a person have to wear to be "dressed properly" and avoid rape? An iron lung?