As a sexworkers myself, I’ll tell you sexwork is a lot like serving coffee naked from your own independent coffee cart, assuming you’ve chosen the profession. Some customers are better than others, but you’re in charge so you can refuse to serve anyone you want and roll your cart away at any time.

It doesn’t “commodify women’s bodies” per se, in the sense that we are already commodified so legalizing sex work won’t necessarily add to that. I’m commodified at my desk job (even in a gendered way, re: women who wear makeup getting paid more) and elsewhere as long as I live in a capitalist system.

As a former sex worker, I don’t understand what is so hard for people to understand. We want our work to be legal, but pimping and human trafficking to be illegal.

I feel as though he’s coming from the right place. And unfortunately sex work is not something that has one easy answer. I fully support anyone who would CHOOSE this profession but the issue is that it is hard to separate those who didn’t from those who do. And keep people safe from being trafficked against their…

“But her apology isn’t going to do anything for your life.”

I think he meant he wanted there to be a way so the poor woman didn’t have to sit at the table with her friend who tried to drug her for the better part of an hour. The restaurant did review the tapes, call the cops, and stall them. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that the manager wished they could have done more.

You can substitute coconut for the potato if you’re stranded on a deserted island.

Frankly I think it’s about time! This is an industry that goes largely unregulated precisely because most people are uncomfortable talking about it. On another note, I'm told there is a whole community of DIY vibrator hackers who either come up with clever solutions to overcome some of the design flaws in some…

I demand this be made into a proper British comedy.

I thought the highlambs were in Scotland, not Wales.

I figured you did, since I saw it even with ads blocked - very appropriate!

Well played, sir. Well played.

It’s there because I put it there.

This ad is under the article about the Depp-Heard divorce (on my end anyway), and I find it extremely appropriate.

It is conceivable she was so obnoxious and inappropriate over such a long period of time that the handcuffing is justified.

It’s like he’s a bad person and his eyes are trying to get away.

I just read the transcript, and it doesn’t look like she ever interrupted him. He continually interrupted her, though. Unless she had a really nasty tone of voice, I don’t see that she did anything wrong.

Even if she was in contempt, I believe there are proper legal procedures to be followed instead of treating her like a child and making her sit in a corner?

Isn’t kinda disrespectful for a judge to address lawyers by their first names rather than Counselor? This is clearly not a friendly working relationship, so seems like a breach of ettiquette on his part. True, or nah?

As an attorney, the method for bench bullies I was always taught was to say, “You’re Honor, if you’re going to hold me in contempt, I demand that the charges against me be particularized on the record as proscribed in the Judicial Canon, that a hearing be set on notice of no fewer than thirty days as due process…