I fucking love Coco. There I said it. She seems like that friend that is super nice but will go from 0-100 real quick when you need her to.

Pimping evolved out of the illegality of sex work in the first place, and logically, we can assume it would peter out or evolve back into a stand manager-employee relationship under legalization.

Rachel Moran?

Who wore her cloak of invisibility to stand on the street and work 15 yards (I measured it in 2013) from me for two years from 1991 to 1993?

I doubt if the calculated opinions of professional confidence tricksters are any more relevant to sex work than the uninformed ones of Hollywood “A” Listers.

This is…

Honestly, I don’t really give a fuck about Rachel Moran. She’s one of the many trauma porn slingers who paints a very black-and-white picture for people who are too dim witted to comprehend nuance and too emotionally stunted to empathize with anyone but the most pitiful victims, and people eat that shit up. As for the…

Jesus, where do you want me to start?

On Rachel? OK:

No, it doesn’t. With legalization, the state is your pimp, even if you’re one of the many sex workers who didn’t have a pimp to begin with.

Not really, but OK I guess, if you don’t mind forcing sex workers to register with the state and only allowing them to work under an employer to whom they must pay not only room and board and required fees, but a huge portion of their earnings.

Fuck you, some of us would rather “take random dick” (you realize our clients are real fucking people, right? Or do you think only monsters enjoy intimacy?) than wait tables for $2.13/hour plus whatever pocket change some shitbag customer decides to leave.

Then criminalize hotel housekeeping, au pair-ing, restaurant work, and farm labor, because those are the sectors where most human trafficking happens. Oh, but then you might have to pay more for a hotel, or for organic veggies, or for a dinner at a romantic restaurant. And that’s out of the question, right?

You ARE sitting here rattling off your opinion. I know a hell of a lot more about trafficking in Eastern Europe than you do.

I appreciate your willingness to be educated, but I am, I think understandably, extremely emotional about this topic because it directly affects ME and many, many of the people I know, work with,…

Please explain how sex workers are supposed to do their jobs if their clients are in jail. I’ll wait.

I don't know if I agree with you there. Melbourne, Australia had a drop in sex trafficking and street sex work after legalisation. That's not to say sex trafficking doesn't happen here, it does, but it seems to get stamped out and prosecuted pretty quickly. Illegal brothels are shut down pretty quickly too. The legal…

Oh bite me, idiot. I was a sex worker in my youth. Whenever you busybodies decided to make it more difficult to be an escort, where I lived.. all it did was make some of the formerly independent girls have to turn to pimps..... and the number of massage parlors staffed by girls who thought they were getting seamstress…

They are not pro-decrim. Jesus, what the hell is going on here? Can no one read? They are pro-Swedish model, which puts sex workers in danger and is NOT decrim.

Join what? It's not a fucking club. It's a job.

The increase in human trafficking comes about because the human trafficking stats count women who illegally but voluntarily cross the border to engage in sex work, not because they are victims.

The opposition does not strictly support criminalization for sex workers, but it does support the “Nordic model”, which in theory is supposed to ‘end demand’ for prostitution by criminalizing solicitation. The problem is that in the countries where this has been implemented, it has not worked out at all as intended.…

There’s a huge difference between ‘pimping’ (which I would define as exploitative) and legally running a brothel, agency, parlour or other establishment.

I agree with you entirely about the current laws, and thank you for your explanation of the definition of pimping. I had a vague idea that landlords could get some kind of hassle if they are found to be in the know about illegal activity but I did not understand how these laws are effectively denying sex workers safe…

It’s because pimping gets defined in an overly broad manner that is meant to remove any and all support systems the sex worker has. Landlords who rent to sex workers who use that apartment for sex work are “pimps”, making landlords evict anyone found engaging in sex work in order to avoid their own criminal charges.…