But no one is forcing anyone to eat unhealthy food items. There are places that sell organic food.

I agree with this, too. It's one thing to be tolerant, but to encourage something as unhealthy as obesity is disturbing. Why is it considered compassionate to help a strung-out heroin, cocaine, or crystal meth addict towards recovery and healing, but it's "insensitive" to encourage an overweight person to lose the…

No. Please. I can't even...

I neither stated nor implied that all folks working in the sex business are "fragile, damaged people". But many are. And since you seem to think yours is the only worldview that matters, well, then perhaps you really are a solipsist, with your "my way or the highway" attitude. Because...yeah...well.

How could anyone bring their baby into a bar, especially "into the wee small hours"? And what sort of bar personnel would actually allow someone to do this? That's really weird.

Unreal! I'm stunned by your extremely judgmental attitude; you stated, "If atheists want to convince people through example of awesome behavior, they fail in that department." You seem to insinuate that only religiously-inclined people are capable of being good and decent - what a crock!

What a nasty, cruel thing to say.

Enough! My brain hurts from reading this senseless crap.

What a horrible tragedy for this young girl. I don't think I can stomach any more news reports like this. Completely sickening.

I was very fortunate not to have suffered any huge problems during menstruation. I menstruated from ages 10 to 50 (I'm now in my mid-50s), and although it was sometimes uncomfortable, I never experienced PMS. However, I do sympathize with other women who have gone through this.

"Also, my comment was in response to this DismayBot troll person, who said sex work is a result of a traumatic childhood. I don't know who or what you are, but if someone was telling you that you are only the way you are because you were abused or abandoned as a kid (when it isn't true), I'm sure you'd get defensive…

Like all misogynists/MRAs, the guy featured in the article is living in some creepy, parallel universe.

Ah, but I do know what it means, dear: "Solipsistic": "the idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist." And DismayBot's comments are not like that at all. And how do you know DismayBot was making things up?

Very true.

I see what you mean, but I find it extremely difficult to be accepting towards anyone from any culture, religion, or country who holds such cruel and misogynist attitudes towards women.

You do realize we all have the right to express our opinions, well-informed or not, right? You don't really support a dictatorship, in which people who express an opposing opinion are jailed, right?

Actually, DismayBot has made some very good observations, and there is nothing solipsist about DismayBot's observations. Do you really think all people are supposed to share the same opinions about everything? That would be very unrealistic.

I understand what you mean. Certainly, not all little girls who'd been sexually molested get involved in the sex business. And on another note, promulgating the fantasy of the "party girl" or "very erotic person" is how the prosperous business entrepreneurs make their money.

Perfect! I agreed.

After working the streets as a hooker for three years, I was completely burned out; even the notion of becoming a call girl or working in a brothel just exhausted me. Although I initially found the life to be exciting, after three years of having sex over and over with guys who seemed to regard me as a non-entity,…