If you meant Backpage, they actually made pretty serious efforts! To the point where anti-trafficking activists protested the shut down because it was harder to find victims when Backpage wasn’t calling them up and sending them links. And even if Backpage hadn’t put in the effort (which, again, they totally did) being…

Punishing a highly marginalized group of people in order to teach men a lesson is gross as hell, stop glossing over it.

They can’t call it rape because of payment processors. It’s super gross but that’s one thing that’s not actually their fault.

Still nope. Age is reasonable, as long as you’re not actually punishing underage workers. But as for the other two, nope nope nope nope nope.

Like virtually all sex workers, I support decriminalization over regulation because I don’t want to be stuck working in a Nevada-style nightmare and there’s not a government on earth I trust to pass reasonable regulations that actually help people in the industry.

Trafficking is a complicated problem, but shutting down ad sites doesn’t make it go away — and in fact makes it worse for those being trafficked. I nearly tore my hair out reading articles post-Backpage shutdown in which cops expressed surprise at the uptick in outdoor workers. Like, what did you morons think would…

It looks terrible when it’s done badly or when you see someone IRL wearing a heavy contour that’s only meant to look good on camera.

10 years in NYC has made me like dogs far more than I did when I lived in California because city-dwellers have to train their dogs by necessity and Cali dog-owners don’t.

I read a lot of Mercedes Lackey in middle school and she does like to toss a page or two of explicit sex into her books.

Yes, and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is a poem about a guy looking at some snow. Moby Dick is about a whale. No work of writing has ever had subtext or employed a metaphor.

Yeah, this is what annoyed me the most about the whole Aziz thing. “He’s not a mindreader, he apologized, what more does she want???”

Current pro-domme, did not intentionally focus on findom but marketing myself as a humiliation specialist has resulted in me having a whole lot of findom clients who now make up most of my income. Co-signing.

Okay, but anyone shooting straight porn would have to go through the straight porn testing procedures anyway and that includes an early detection HIV test. Furthermore, most gay porn companies now do that same testing anyway and also a lot of the performers are on PrEP.

Nah, she made a reasonable statement about a recurring issue in the porn community that was all over porn twitter that day and she wasn’t nasty about it. Discussing an issue is not the same as bullying — and it didn’t seem like August Ames wanted any more direct messages about it, anyway. There was some actual…

From what I saw — and I may have missed something — her response to August Ames was pretty reasonable and did not qualify as bullying.

He’s been out of the Church for ~9 years and if they’d had all that info since before he left I don’t think they’d have sat on it this long. Which of course doesn’t mean the accusations are false.

This is also very useful if you have a wax/laser appt you don’t want to cancel, or if you are peeing on someone for money.

He probably isn’t ovulating.

I remember reading about Rose Christo’s upcoming memoir and getting pretty excited. I missed it entirely when the story came out that it was all/mostly lies. Catching up now and it’s fascinating.

The Catholic church might oppose abortion and birth control, but they’re also very firmly fiscally liberal. The church’s official stance has enormous disagreements with both parties. I just looked up the stats, because I was curious — About a fifth of Catholics are independent, the rest lean slightly democratic which…