Trafficking certainly does still occur in countries with the Nordic Model. What’s important is that it has declined in those countries, and that in countries where prostitution is legal it has increased.

Perhaps “renting a body for the purpose of sex” would be more accurate? I’m not trying to be funny or snarky. It seems that the terminology is important to you, and I don’t wish to offend.

It makes me giggle to think what legalized sex work would look like once corporations got involved. You want fries wit dat?

??? Do u not understand that u live in a world that is materially inequal between men and women?

It seems like all arguments in defense of sex work use the logic of labor — that it’s a perfect right to perform work in exchange for money, and that sex shouldn’t be treated any differently. The thing is, we don’t really believe that, and the difference shows up viscerally when we talk about children. If you pay your…

He’s not

And unfortunately if you look at countries with legalized sex work sex trafficking has not disappeared... it’s just easier to hide. There are more men who want to buy sex than there are women willing to sell sex, and there are awful people willing to take advantage of that.

This is the thing I’m always trying to tell people who say they don’t get it: You don’t have to. Either it resonates with you or it doesn’t.

“Even when I worked in PC World I would sometimes walk up to people and nip at their shirt. I got in trouble once; someone walked into the PC repair centre and I had part of their dad’s computer in my mouth. But the other staff knew I was like that to everyone. They didn’t find it weird.”

How would that even work? Assuming you didn’t just pull your gun on every trucker who gave you a ride, you’d have to wait for them to take hostile action first. If that action is drawing their own gun you’re probably fucked.

Makes me want to go up there and get vigilante...me and my SIG 220.

There can be a fine line between being challenging and just being an asshole. This veered into the latter territory (and I don’t even mean the boner poke, which was just insecure and weird).

Translation - “I’m awesome, I’m always right, ALWAYS and don’t you tell me otherwise! I also expect nothing but perfection from the men I deem worthy of my presence, b/c I’m also perfect in any way. Have I told you that I’m never wrong about anything? Compromise is not for me, let THEM compromise to me, since…

what the fuck did i just read

Anybody else kinda burned out on Bourdain’s schtick? I liked his first few books a lot, but he seems to simply be doing the culinary version of mansplain.

When it first launched the tagline was “where women go when they want to be selfish” but a more true statement would be “where vapid women go to be petty”

I am very concerned about the wage gap which clearly exists between me and Jennifer Lawrence.

They have been hinting at the return of an old friend, this is about vampires... It’s gotta be Regis. I hope it’s Regis. Even if he got pretty much obliterated in the last book... He did survive beheadings and being buried earlier, so I don’t think it’s that much of a stretch for him to pull himself back together.

The Niners will probably lose more regular season games than the Warriors.