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Because sex work is a business, and if the clients are shamed or punished it makes it harder for sex workers to earn a living.

I don’t know many specifics about the family because it frankly disgusts me too much to read about it. I don’t even know how old the children Josh is known to have abused are at this point or how many there are; I do know he’s got a couple sisters who are adult-aged and starting their own quivers-full and while I…

I can and do expect any adult to try pretty hard not to have children with a child molester, actually.

Poverty isn’t a moral failing. Standing by while a child molester is given children to abuse is a moral failing. I think the reasons for that distinction are obvious.

Looking down on clients doesn’t help sex workers.

Well, if they decide to stay in and start squeezing out babies at the pleasure of known child molesters, yeah, it will be.

Yeah, but they’re participating in providing children just to be victimized in this fucked up cult. It’s hard for me to remain sympathetic to people who have decided to participate in hurting other innocents.

How is that relevant? Whether or not it’s polite to say something doesn’t have much bearing on whether it’s true.

Well, some people in cults leave them. We can always speculate on why others don’t. I don’t think it’s much of a mystery why Josh stays with the family, for example.

So . . . she does have the option to leave, and she has support if she does, she just chooses not to.

They didn’t choose not to?

Um, pretty sure they had the option of leaving the child abuse cult. They chose not to.

On paper, probably security.

Woman here. I DO NOT attach moral judgment to sex work, so long as everyone is an adult, participating freely, and choose to make the transaction. If sex work were legal and regulated, workers would have protections. Customers would have protections. Women and men who were assaulted by a customer could go to the…

I don’t see how incarcerating prostitutes can help them in any way. They are the victims or they are there by their own decision. If they are victims, being a victim is not a crime. If they aren’t, they aren’t harming anybody. For that reason in some countries, pimping is illegal, but prostitution isn’t.

Shockingly, making something illegal does nothing to keep the workers marginalized by those laws safe and protected from workplace violence and employer/client abuses.

Legalizing prostitution would hurt women? How, exactly?

Right?! Legit conversation that once happened with my husband...

Me: So if we’re looking at houses and we’re like “This price is too good to be true” and the realtor is like “Oh, 5 people were murdered here”... you’d still live in the murder house, right?

Him: Obviously.

Me: Exactly. Good. I was going to kinda lay into…

None of them should be on TV anymore.