Sex as service is the core problem. In exchange for declaring sex a service, we’ve also declared the body a property that can be rented, bought, and, as history reminds us, sold. Separating sex from emotional entanglement when money is not exchanged, when it’s for mutual pleasure is not at all the same as sex for…

Sex work isn’t harmless. The commodification of our bodies doesn’t come without personal and social ramifications. Only sociopaths can separate feelings and thoughts from the body. That separation isn’t real, it’s a belief based on denial of the nature of existence. Total isolation of this circumstance from effect…

“made sex much more mainstream”

Of course men are perpetually virile, except for “the age-related increase in acquired medical conditions, decreases in semen quality, and increasing rates of DNA fragmentation seen in sperm. In addition, there is an association between age of the male partner and the incidence of birth defects and chromosomal…

I doubt that any of these fervent people bother to engage with local political organizations. How many ran for office themselves, or worked with another organization or politician besides Bernie Sanders? I suspect they imagine the presidency is a dictatorship, forgetting how stymied Obama has been by Congress.

Huma Abedin was 16 when Bill Clinton was elected president. While she may have been able to look up details about law and women, she would not have had a first hand experience of or even known about the secretarial pool default, or the grimy details of the fair housing act. As someone who experienced all of this,…

What line?

SAG AFTRA contracts do not distinguish between genders. The contracts specify work hours, working conditions, and ancillary, work related activities. For example, if an actor has to to publicity, that is paid as part of the contract.

While speaking up is important, until these already rich actors who can afford to make movies they want to make, start naming names, and taking studios and directors to court over workplace abuse, sexual harassment, and unfair treatment, I’ve got to think talking is the easy part.

Spacey’s production company and friends are executive producers. They set up the pay scale. Why would they not automatically pay the leads the same amount?

I’ve studied martial arts for 25 years and the idea of teaching chidlren kickboxing is abhorrent. Children should be learning basic
sets and forms as a way to learn discipline and a method of training the body to remember. The idea is to link body and mind.

After WWII, every industrialized country where war had taken place was broke and full of injured and sick people. Hawaii, the only place in the US that had been attacked, was a territory that did not become a state until 1959. The scale of the destruction and the types of injuries led European governments to create an…

And that’s exactly what’s rightfully getting airbnb in trouble.

RE:rich people

The modern use of chastity is foregoing sex, but the original meaning was morally pure, not non sexual. The Church would declare people chaste to allow for useful re-marriages. This allowed for sexual congress, for example in first marriages for royalty or for a variety of sexual acts to not be considered intercourse.

If they’d had decent sex ed, the sisters would know that celibacy is a kind of abstinence, and abstinence is what they should practice, so abstain from interfering with other people’s conception of sexual practice.

St. John knows that making art is still work, yes? He’s probably paid a lot of money for art work, so somewhere inside his apricot pit of a heart and dried up brain matter he knows that he’s being cruel and taking advantage of people. I beleive psychopaths know they’re being awful, they just enjoy being that way.

Indignation isn’t the same as being insulted. Neither is working out an unfinished joke the same as saying something mean. When an audience member complains about being mistreated, that doesn’t mean she’s too sensitive or lacks a sense of humor, it means that the “joke” isn’t funny and the comic is failing. Instead of…

In his act, he went on about what women should wear and how “fat” and “older” women are unattractive. This from a sweaty, overweight man, wearing ratty jeans and a giant, black t-shirt. He said to a female audience member who didn’t find his misogyny amusing, “Laugh, lady, laugh. You miserable fuck.”

Have you seen his act? He says terrible things about women, but mostly when in smaller venues in smaller towns.