So is it just my body that is ‘rented out’ (actually fuck you for saying that, you’re literally disgusting) or is it construction workers too? Professional athletes? What is the litmus test? Terminology is important and not just to me. Words matter. They have meaning.

That is such bullshit. The Nordic model is a joke. Your ideology of criminalizing clients HURTS SEX WORKERS. Don’t slap us in the face and say you’re doing it for our own good. Fuck off.

No shit, Sherlock. Legalization is a fucking joke. That’s obvious, what is your point?

Why do you think that sex work is selling a body? My body is mine. Was since the day I was born, will be until I die. The selling of human bodies for labor is called slavery. Sex work is a service, not a good.

Because all these people believe that sex work is **selling your body.** It is not. Bodies are not for sale. That is called slavery. Sex work is a service, but these people don’t think of sex workers as autonomous human beings so...

Criminalizing clients hurts sex workers. How is that so hard to understand? If your clients are going to go to jail for seeing you, they’re not going to pay for your services. Seriously. I know it doesn’t effect you so you don’t have a stake in it, but this actually impacts people’s lives so think on it a little.

Sex workers and trafficking victims are two different groups. Why does sex work have to be empowering in order for it to be acceptable? Frankly, I don’t know any person in any job who feels empowered by their role.

Why should it be empowering? Why does a job need to be empowering for it to be acceptable? The vast majority of people are not ‘empowered’ by their jobs. Why is sex work held to a different standard?

Why does sex work need to be empowering? It’s a job. The vast majority of people are not empowered by their jobs.

this made me laugh for twenty years, thank you so much, nice reference

As the existentialist Kierkegaard said: do it or do not do it. You will regret both.

Nice comparison of an honor code violation to murder.

That’s exactly how it is. Roommates, friends, and family rat each other out like the Hitler youth brigade looking for dissidents. It’s wild.

The Rumors explicitly admits they truly don’t give a fuck about sex workers so there’s really no point in discussing it with them, but yeah, they’re straight up lying but that’s nothing new for anti sex work folks.

And where will workers turn where they can’t get clients because they’re afraid of being arrested?

Why do women need to be heartbroken and upset in order for an abortion to be justified? Seriously?

Thanks for saying that. It’s very frustrating that even in attempts to ‘fight the stigma’ depression still gets painted with a very broad brush.

While there is an obviously pervasive and damaging stigma around mental illness, I think it’s a bit of a red herring. Yes, if there weren’t stigma people would talk about it more and seek help in greater numbers, but that doesn’t change the illness itself. It doesn’t change the fact that therapy and medication are…

But they did fail to protect them. By definition, they failed. My mother was abused by my father as were my siblings and me and she didn’t do a single. damn. thing to stop him from hurting us. Ever. She’d ask us what we did to provoke him and say, well, you know how he is. It’s the same story with other people in my…