I completely agree. I am not now, nor have I ever been a dominatrix but had many clients/friends who were so I am familiar with the dynamics thereof.

As a person of color who has had to be quite aware of those stereotypes my whole life, I nonetheless think if someone rapes you — they’re a rapist. Regardless of skin color. It’s that simple.

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Yes. I have come to realize that men who pay dominatrixes, are doing so to have their fantasy sex holiday, with hourly rates. Their fantasies/enactments of submission are just a spicy condiment for their unrelenting entitlement. Sigh.

The best advice I can give you is to seriously take it one day at a time AND enjoy it as much as possible. Maybe make a list of all the reasons you want to do this (now) and revisit it when you’re feeling it’s too much.

This is not accurate. Protitution is consensual. Sex trafficking is not. Most people in sex work are not trafficked.

You need more than legalization - you need something like New Zealand’s decriminalization, which came along with regulations that specifically guaranteed the right of any sex worker to refuse to service any client, social services, and was in cooperation with a sex worker organization over there.

Moonie (Bruiser Woods) lived to be 18! Holy shit! But seriously, he was a star and deserves some respect RIP little bud.

Oh for sure both are reasons women use, but I worry that mis-characterizing this as “How dare women not support prostitution” is super harmful.

Plenty of people work perfectly legal jobs that are degrading because they're poor, uneducated, or feeding an addiction. We only get up in arms because of the sex.

I’m old enough where you couldn’t message someone; you had to take time and <gasp> actually put a modicum of thought to what they say to a stranger. Nothing overwhelming. A reference to a book they mentioned and /or a band you like. Maybe a place they visited

How can you not ignore them. I mean, how does one respond to “hey”?

Oh please. Nobody likes hikers.

We shouldn’t compare men to dogs; dogs listen, men don’t.

No offence, but when you enter into an affair with a married man...are you not aware that he is “manipulative, a liar, a cheater, and deceptive”?

Oh, you think Polanski and Allen only had one victim? Ha, sure they did. Sure.

Soooooo, why do we laud Polanski and Allen while demonizing Cosby? The question wasn’t answered. Every Hollywood liberal practically drools over Allen on a regular basis. They still line up to act in his films, and they defend him like hell. Didn’t Cate Blanchett just win an Oscar for acting in an Allen film? Why…

If they lay off the tax responsibility on another part of the trust I think It’s do-able. But I think the problem is that he actually didn’t leave her anything at all in the written will.

There are so many great things about this but I cannot get over the hypocrisy of her bringing R Kelly in on a song called ‘do what you want with my body’. it just doesn’t compute.

Oh man. I really hope the prosecutor gets a fair and credible mental health assessment done before deciding to move forward with a trial or even plea negotiations.