If this piece of shit ever got to the point of asking me where my accent came from I would tell him I was from a totally made up place, then watch him excitedly tell me that he's always wanted to go to the South Dorellus Islands, but he's just too busy.

I thought you said not to waste your time with false equivalences? I know he didn't break any laws, but I believe that the global sex trade (whether legal or illegal) harms women and children. I don't believe that a (rich, white, male) person who is on the demand side of this industry can truly understand or advocate…

The problem is that men who buy sex from women shouldn't be given cushy jobs at the Office of Global Women's Issues. The problem is also that this man should never have been given any job at all in the White House, since it seems pretty obvious he got there through family connections. Whether or not this specific…

The most common cosmetic procedure done in Korea is eyelid surgery, designed to make the eyes appear wider, bigger, and more Western. Same deal with skin lightening creams that are all the rage in India. Just because there are not a huge number of white people there doesn't mean that global culture doesn't value white…

I think in a truly equal society no one would feel entitled to use people for sex. Sex wouldn't be used as a weapon or a bargaining chip or in exchange for something else. If people valued enthusiastic consent they would understand implicitly that someone you pay for sex has given the very definition of unenthusiastic…

When you say that the dehumanization of women by men would exist with or without strip clubs, it's almost like you're saying that sexism is inherent in men. Feminists believe that men are capable of stopping dehumanization and rape and violence. The way I see it, either there's nothing inherently sexist about strip…

I dated a guy once who was the child of hippie socialist union organizers. His parents were really open about sex with him and his sister, and one thing that they told him always stuck out to me. When he started asking questions they told him "Sex is a really fun game that grown ups play. You can play it when you're a…

I dated a guy once who was the child of hippie socialist union organizers. His parents were really open about sex with him and his sister, and one thing that they told him always stuck out to me. When he started asking questions they told him "Sex is a really fun game that grown ups play. You can play it when you're a…

Yeah, patriarchy is older than photography.

I grew up in a red light district of midtown Manhattan during the crack boom (yes, midtown Manhattan used to have a red light district. And crack.). From my limited child's perspective the vast majority of the women working in the sex trade in my neighborhood were poor, non-white, and addicted to drugs. What pisses me…

This poor man and his family are just a few more casualties in the endless line of marginalized people temporarily celebrated by white hipster internet culture. Remember the poor gay black man who white people laughed at when his home was broken into and his sister was assaulted? The poor black woman who white people…

After a brutal breakup a few years ago I rebounded with a college student eleven years my junior who I met in a coffee shop. He was really cute and the sex was surprisingly good, definitely better than the sex I was having with 20 year olds back in the cave man days. The first time we had sex I showed him this…