So um, do you really think people who have chosen to be adult sex workers support underage sex trafficking?

“Charlie, a 24-year-old who started out doing street-based sex work before going online, spoke directly to the protection the internet used to offer. “My personal experience before I used the internet as a platform for sex work was getting assaulted constantly, getting kidnapped, getting raped, getting drugged,”…

Commenter Adjra deleted my comment but I just wanted to say that I think it’s really “admirable” how they’re so cool with people being raped and murdered not so that trafficking will disappear, but so it will become less visible. Good thinking there.

Everywhere the Swedish model has been applied, it’s led to more violence, more fear and more precarity among sex workers. If you actually gave a shit about the people involved in prostitution, you’d oppose laws that endanger them.

You could try doing the tiniest bit of research.

Congratulations, progressives whose college boyfriend was stolen by some “slutty” girl or who weren’t asked out enough. Your collective case of sour grapes will now literally kill or impoverish my friends.

I’m glad that this movement is gaining visibility, for my whole life I never second-guessed the stigma against sex work. I had always accepted that sex work was an inherently bad thing, and now I’m aware of how much damage that mindset has caused.

I don’t care how crass or bat-shit her blog postings were. If nothing genuinely current and disrupting is happening with her leave her alone. People want this Black woman to lose her job and career. I don’t.

Can we also talk about how asinine it is that she was initially approached because she was drinking alcohol at aged 20? In any other developed country, a 20 year old is an adult and can drink alcohol. This person could go buy a gun, no problem, but God forbid she drink a beer while sun bathing.

Where are all those other cops? The ones who are so ashamed at the bad name the thugs are giving them? Because I never see them police their own for anything short of cannibalism.

I had a former friend from grade school who was a genuinely good, caring person who got into our city’s police department as an adult. Flash forward and she is now a rampant racist who once described eugenics to me as a method to ‘fix the poor’. The whole institution is f’ed and would corrupt anyone, given enough time.

Oh yeah, grown males in positions of authority should not be held responsible at all for losing their tempers and assaulting females over words. It’s woman’s responsibility not to anger men with authority if they don’t want to be physically abused. We can tell what kind of shitty parenting any sons of yours have…

The police force is much less about keeping us safe and much more about generating revenue. Memorial day weekend is a big moneymaker for these cops.

There are no good cops. The Culture doesn’t allow there to be. “Good cops” get fired or harassed and taken off the street and put behind desks. The “good cops” don’t speak up and against these other cops when this happens, instead they cover the body cams and make up stories to get their buddies off. None of this is…

You know they won’t.

He wasn’t there, doesn’t know the situation, but is fine with espousing the police’s justification for the assault. Well done on the statement to the public, Ernie. Nailed it!

It’s a couple centuries past time to end police patrols. No other emergency service operates this way and- surprise- no other emergency service goes around murdering and maiming people in daylit public places.

And here in Ireland the exit polls put the Abortion Referendum passing with roughly 68% of the vote in favour of repealing our 8th Amendment which essentially outlawed abortion while also putting the lives of women at risk seeing as even cancer treatments would be denied to a woman if she happened to be pregnant.

It’s…

Ironically, she was formerly in a military that was killing journalists last week.

This is so fucked. I went to Tulane and still go back to Nola all the time...unsurprisingly, so many of white native New Orleanians are despicably racist. I’d be shocked if Cantrell’s office doesn’t know this. Landrieu wasn’t perfect but he seemed like a genuinely good guy with a lot of the city’s best interests at…