Ok so... we can’t have abortions, we can’t miscarry, we have to give birth, adoptees have to jump through hoops, but... our rapist can get us pregnant and then take partial custody?

Frankly, I think it’s just stunningly childish and irresponsible that these people would get on airplanes without up to date Cooties vaccinations in the first place.

I am basically crying laughing thinking of eating nothing but a single lime for breakfast for seven days. You know, like the common man. Mmmm. Tart.

The people who harp on about subsistence benefits being ‘too much’ here in the UK should try the same thing. Someone on Jobseeker’s Allowance who is under 25 (for some reason the UK government thinks you get a special young persons discount on rent/electricity/water when you’re under 25) gets £57.90p a week to live…

Dude, Gwyn, you’re on a budget, you don’t need so many god damn limes

PSA: For fuck's sake, please please please do not reply to trolls. They are already here. I am so tired of seeing thoughtful, amazing conversations get pushed lower in the comments because people feel the need to educate a troll. Just don't. Please.

I do think that porn contributes towards personal and social sexual expectations, to a certain degree. But this line?

Okay, you have to be a troll, right? RIGHT?!?!

They went with the “your so stupid, look at these numbers” route. Being forced into sex work =/= willingly being employed in sex work. Sex work, like abortion and recreational drug use will not be disappearing anytime soon. No matter how much anti-sex worker people huff and puff.

Yeah. What I always find myself coming back to is, if there’s a single mom of 3 somewhere who has a choice between (a) working (legally and safely) in a brothel five day shifts a week, or (b) working four day shifts at a supermarket plus three night shifts for a cleaning company for the same or lesser pay..... I just…

I am working autonomously and willingly, somewhere in the mid range of the industry. I need some extra money right now, and I prefer doing this to the other levels of job I’d qualify for, in which I’d be working longer hours on more shifts, for about the same pay.

Why are you telling me these things? Where did you get the very misguided idea that I don’t support sex work/workers? Why do you think I’m not aware of these things?

Dude, please. You’ve been prattling on about your campus feminist group all goddamn day. Trollololol, you got a bunch of people on Jezebel to pay attention to you and this fake brand of feminism that’s based around gender essentialism.

I would point out that you can be a feminist sex worker. But I know I’d have about as much luck convincing you that mermaids are real.

Uh. I have seen many, many self-proclaimed feminists on this very site argue that sex work is morally wrong. You’re lucky you’ve never seen that, or you’re intentionally oblivious.
Cute response though, trying to make me into the one who’s not a feminist for supporting sex workers. A+ for effort.

I second Iceland!! It's fantastic. And about as cold as NYC in winter.

I just looked up the weather for Scandinavia and it's not as cold as I would have expected, so it's going on the list! Thank you!

Totally of topic but your story at the beginning just reminded me of when me and my sister used to pretend to get married.

I feel like it's trendy (or perhaps generational?) to hate on weddings and I kinda don't get it. Yes, the wedding industrial complex is rather ridiculous but I feel like it's so easily ignored. Or maybe I just feel this way because I am in my 30s?