In Bangladesh women chose sex work over work in the garment industry. In many places there is a less desirable work than sex work. Is was U.S. centric, and glib, but illustrated a great point.

Except (contrary to what the opposition is saying) this isn’t about legalization, which most sex workers oppose. This is about decriminalization, which is a very different thing.

‘Amnesty proposes that “consensual sexual conduct between adults—which excludes acts that involve coercion, deception, threats, or violence—is entitled to protection from state interference.”’

It should absolutely be legalized, with regulations and protections in place for workers, just like any other profession. Dragging sex work out into the light of day is bound to — eventually — save lives, lift a whole lot of women (and men!) out of poverty and its accompanying socioeconomic disadvantages, and possibly…

Not that it’s terribly important, but for some cultural context: for middle-class Torontonians, going up north to cottage country is a yearly ritual in summer. If your family doesn’t have a cottage, it’s likely that you’ll know someone who does. For a lot of kids, visiting friends at their cottages represents, for…

Every day I’m forced to add new names to the list of people who piss me off.

Because there’s basically no chance at all she could get infected. Tattoo parlors are SERIOUS about needle care. If it turns out she got a tattoo from an unlicensed idiot using dirty needles in an area with a high HIV infection rate, then we can talk risk.

I wanted to make the point about breastfeeding with Hepatitis because it had not come up yet. And I understand the window period. But again, the odds of contracting HIV via a tattoo are much lower than Hep C. HIV is not nearly as resilient outside the body as HCV. Also, a NAAT test can detect HIV within 7-10 days of…

Is Hepatitis transmittable through breast milk? The CDC says nay.

No, actually the gist from the meta analysis is that tattoos and piercings received in licensed facilities do not increase HCV risk. But they concealed that information right there in the fucking text so you probably missed it.

If we can’t get working adults to save their actual income for their very imminent futures, how on earth are we going to get horny teenagers to consider an abstract percentage of their theoretical future income and how much of it might be spent on something that hasn’t happened yet, and expect it to profoundly affect…

LOL. Yeah, that is really going to work on us of the poorer demographic. Like WTF is college when you dropping out as a sophomore in high school?

Also consider the factors that led this man to undertake this sort of behaviour. People don’t exist in a vacuum. As a black man he was probably exposed to the same shit growing up, and growing up in the culture of fatherlessness probably informed his position.

That’s a joke about motherhood, not a joke about Elizabeth Smart. She is an amazing individual, as mentioned in a lots of comments to this article. There’s room to have a joke, as well.

Bullshit

But there are multitudes of studies and a great deal of testing a research. Anti-vaxxers just fail to accept them as being legitimate, as they dismiss everything that disagrees with their viewpoint as “big pharma” propaganda.

We don’t reuse needles in Mexico, it’s illegal, we have enough needles since they are provided by the government. Vaccination is mandatory here which is why the government provides vaccines for free for everyone. They say the problem was this is such a poor region that the hospital has almost no resources and could…

This is exactly why the anti-vaxxers are such assholes.

I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but in NYC dishwashers are only for the ballin-est of ballers. It’s not like I LIKE to wash dishes by hand, I just have no other choice.

You and a lot of the commenters apparently. I feel there would be a bigger outrage if she killed six kittens. What is wrong with you people?