The annoying thing about discussions of cancel culture is that they’re never done — everyone agrees that there are lines you can’t cross without consequence, but no one can agree on exactly where the lines are or what the consequences should be for crossing them. This is why talking about it in the abstract is…

Yes, that is an insane conspiracy theory that is also silly as hell. 

He’s an entrepreneur running on universal basic income and has recently been getting attention for the incredibly thorough policy section on his website and because internet bookies put his chances of getting the nomination as just about even with Beto and higher than a lot more established candidates. At this stage…

It’s what makes money.

“I know you’re having sex with your brother.”

It’s complicated by how many performers shoot low-budget or trade shoots. This gives them more power over their scenes and lets them keep 100% of the profit, freeing them from reliance on the studios. The most ethical way to consume porn is buying straight from performers — but regulations like you’re proposing would…

Some studies define all foreign sex workers as trafficked, which can really skew the numbers against decrim -- if you’re going to migrate somewhere to make money doing sex work, you have a pretty good motivation to choose a place you won’t be criminalized. 

It’s important to note that decriminalization makes conditions better for everyone in the sex trade, regardless of why they sell sex. This isn’t a trafficking victims vs consensual sex workers issue — this is an entire group of people who suffer under criminalization, with trafficking victims and survival sex workers…

I do this with bacon fat and usually a bunch of lemon pepper and it is glorious.

It seems increasingly questionable whether they were in fact victims of human trafficking. Keep in mind that trafficking is incredibly broadly defined and “trafficking rescue” sounds better than “prostitution and immigration sting” so cops tend to take advantage of that. No one’s been charged with trafficking, the two…

I enjoyed the first season when it came out. Rewatched an episode with a friend to prepare for the new season and we both agreed we enjoyed it much less  the second time around. 

Yeah having sex is not the same as undergoing major surgery to remove a kidney. But that really doesn’t matter because if there were overwhelming evidence that everyone selling organs for any reason was hurt by criminalization I’d want to decriminalize organ-selling as well.

Yes, they are currently criminalized. Do you think it would make their lives better if they got arrested?

Do you think any of those women would be helped by criminalization?

Sex work is awful, so sex workers should be subjected to all the harms of criminalization? That makes sense.

I was talking to a New Zealand sex worker about the condom laws there. While technically the law allows cops to arrest sex workers offering natural services, it’s never enforced against them. Instead it’s used to prosecute clients who stealth workers by sneaking off the condom and to prevent brothels from requiring…

A lot of those anti-trafficking measures aren’t actually helping trafficking victims! Take SESTA/FOSTA, for example. It made trafficking victims harder to find, people who are unable to leave the sex industry are now forced to work outdoors and agree to more services for less money, those in debt bondage situations…

Your feelings about empowerment and sex work are utterly irrelevant. So are mine, and I’m a sex worker who likes my job. We don’t criminalize jobs because they’re not empowering enough.

Judge gave her the shortest possible sentence he could, by law. This is why minimum sentences are terrible. 

I will say this: if you’re going to spend life in prison for murder it would be hard to pick a more deserving victim.