I just want to say, as an uninvolved party that just read this entire thread, that you consistently come off as arrogant, hateful, rude, and just plain shitty. You have yet to provide any backup whatsoever for the critical point of your argument (that women who willingly engage in prostitution promote rape culture).…

"I refuse to support a system that turns human being into commodities"-

Well, the escorts are providing a service. Pretty much every other job where you provide a service for someone else has some kind of review site. I'm not really sure I see a problem with clients giving an opinion on that quality of that service, not matter what it is.

And your perspective would put a lot of us who don't have other choices, who choose this job because of mental health or financial issues that lock us out of normative jobs, as folks on the streets going hungry and without shelter. Furthermore, criminalization actually hurts both sex workers who are there by choice…

As an escort reviews are great. It lets hobbyists know that I'm a real person. That I'm independent and what kind of time they are likely to get. The amount of good clients that I get is much higher for at least a month or two after I get a review. And most customers don't post reviews.

I totally get your passion on the subject, and am not trying to pick a fight. I'll also acknowledge my privilege as a straight-indentifying cisgendered male with plenty of non-sex-work options and zero risk of being forced into sexual slavery. If for you that disqualifies me from taking part in the conversation,…

You can be uncool with it all you fucking want, it's a legitimate job for thousands of women and they are happy with the life they've chosen for themselves whether you approve of how they market themselves or not.

what's wrong with it? When i need a good plumber, i go to Angie's List. When i need a good escort, i go to one of these sites. They're both people who provide a service for compensation.

They are providing a service, sexual or not, what's the big deal if someone reviews that service? It's only a problem if you view sex as something either bad or sacred, neither of which are realistic, when people employ a gardener, they aren't buying the gardener, then why is it that people claim that people buy women…

Hmmm. That depends. Was your marital issue cannibalism, by any chance?

I'm confused, if someone is electing to commodify their own body then why is it unethical for consumers of that product to then be smart/conscious about their consumption practices?

They say these sites are safer for both escorts and clients, as Escorts can verify that the client isn't an axe murderer by his standing on the escort review and his reviews on site. On the flip side the client can make sure he/she is making a sound investment based on how well the escort is reviewed. In a sense both…

Wait, so what's the problem with clients reviewing and sharing information about the products/services they use?

yeah, really. i would like a drug that makes me want to have sex more in the first place. if i want to have sex, most of my physical responses will follow suit.

this isn't really about whether or not pink is still a slut, it's about her use of the term "reformed", which by definition means that she sees something bad in being a slut. maybe she's just being ironic, but it seems like she's reifying the whole patriarchal notion of "slut" instead of reappropriating it for good by…

i agree, the notion of a slut necessitating "reform" troubled me. the only possible explanation i can think of that would be favorable to pink would be that she probably believes promiscuity of all kinds to be bad. i.e., a woman should not be demonized for being promiscuous, although promiscuity (in all sexes) is…

But if being a slut isn't bad, then why is she "reformed"? To get all semantic, you can really only be reformed from things that are considered to not be good activities.

I'm not surprised at all the driver didn't say much. I would bet working in Afghanistan would mean you seen equally terrible events occur on several different occasions. I didn't read his "fuck" as an "oh no!" but more as a "god dammit, more terrible things happening."

Is it wrong that I feel more sorry for the dog more than those Jenelle and Keiffer?

I think that really depends on who you were and what your political beliefs were. My parents are white (one middle class the other working class) and they both described MLK's assassination as horrible at the time (they were seniors in high school in the SF Bay Area so still idealistic). My mom was heavily involved in…