Actually, anyone can say anything they want without your permission. Life is awesome that way.

Is that even possible?

Dateline: East Germany.

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It's also something you'll need if you ever get a job where you have to expense travel through the company. This can actually be great, because if your boss flies you more than two or three places in a year, you suddenly have enough rewards points on your card to fly somewhere interesting for free on your own time.…

All the Kate Upton-loving dudebros in my dorm are going to FREAK OUT

First not serving in the IDF, now this. Natalie Portman, you're OK by me.

For the U.S., that means making aid to Iraq conditional.

That's a very thoughtful point. In my experience of reading those articles, it has looked a lot like they were by women who were saying that prostitution was a way to experience their femininity in a new way, or to self-express in a way that was unavailable to them in their daily lives before that job, which is, I…

No, PROSTITUTION is dehumanizing. The difference is that it's dehumanizing in an ACTUAL way, not in a tone-policing, bad-faith internet way.

Selling access to your vagina because your bad boyfriend thinks it will be a great way to make money while he's looking for a job is a terrible thing to have to do, and people who have to do it need help. And that's a best-case scenario.

And I am convinced that assumptions of good faith on the part of johns everywhere is a completely reasonable stance. Good talk!

Especially since everyone who is being coerced into sex work is totally aware of it at the time and women with other options often choose prostitution as a creative outlet, like macrame, or collecting comic books.

As someone said above, not to the john there ain't. Men who patronize sex workers are seeking physical gratification in an environment where many if not most of the people selling themselves are coerced into it, and some are children. Contributing to that industry is wrong. Contributing to it as a form of…

GOOD GOD YOU ARE SO RIGHT IT HURTS ME JUST A LITTLE

You make the excellent point that it is impossible to coerce an adult woman into sex work, particularly a poor woman from underprivileged circumstances who doesn't speak the language. That definitely doesn't happen hourly.

Can't wait for your next op-ed from a sex worker.

There is really not enough Skip Bayless on this list.

Amazing.

Uh, just a quick note to everyone saying "why can't insensitive mens always sympathize and feel our pain without having to actually see it all firsthand:" it's for roughly the same reason you have no sympathy for him, despite his now being firmly on your side. People are not predisposed to put themselves in one…