She mentions BDD and she also lives in LA where the standards are stricter.

Hey, Bride:

I had a best friend do this! Her long-distance boyfriend visited and naturally we hung out. I thought he seemed fine enough and was quite surprised when she later told me that he didn’t like me. This resulted in me not liking him. He later pulled all kinds of fuckery, giving me plenty of more serious reasons to…

I’ve had this convo with two friends. One dumped me for it but messaged me a year or two later apologizing, saying that I’d been right. The other time resulted in a friendship that cooled off considerably and never really got back on track (although I think there were also a lot of mundane growing apart reasons for…

You don’t even know if you like this mouth-breather yet!

The Rentboy raid was preceded by the shutdown of Redbook and payment option bullshit with Backpage. Male sex workers have historically been left more or less alone by the law. Complaints about sexism mostly refer to the response — people are so much more outraged by the Rentboy shut down than they were about Redbook,…

This is the most condescending fucking bullshit.

So punishing men is more important than women’s safety?

I highly recommend you read up on the Indian sex worker’s rights movement. Durbar, SANGRAM and VAMP are the three big players. They’re enormous and they’re almost all poor women of color working in less than ideal conditions. And they all support decrim.

That statistic about the average age of entry being “11 - 13” has been SO widely disproven that even the mostly vaguely reputable anti-trafficking agencies no longer cite it. Anyone who does is either lying or ignorant.

Lots of desperately poor people slave away at fast food restaurants to support their families, but no one talks shit about middle class kids who pick up minimum wage jobs for pocket money. On the contrary, we approve of them for having a work ethic at a young age and/or we congratulate their parents for making them…