Then don’t.

But you know, you always have to treat brown people with kids gloves. You don’t want someone to think you’re a racist, do you?

Which excuses FGM how exactly?

I think weebleswobble was crystal clear. It’s not about the girls seeking out FGM - it’s about the adults in their life forcing them to undergo FGM in horrifying conditions and by someone who is not a professional.

Moral relativism and excuses are so much better.

Heavens forfend someone criticize a Third World culture...

So sex workers are allowed to sell, but their customers are not allowed to buy? That makes absolutely no sense, and it in no way protects sex workers. But yeah, keep believing your holier-than-though bullshit.

“You slut! You’re making it worse for the rest of us! You’re teaching young boys and girls horrible things about sex! Won’t you think of the children?”

“Your criticisms make me feel guilty, so you’re an imperialist!”

Criticism of Brazil is not criticism of you or of all Brazilians. You shouldn’t take criticisms of your country personally - you should be lucky that someone cares enough to criticize a problem and not sweep it under the rug. As I wrote in another comment, if these criticisms were directed at my country (and many of…

They’re teenagers, not fucking toddlers... “The porn made them do it!”

Let’s assume that the boys had no clue about her past.

Whatever...

We’re gonna have to disagree. It’s true that women are often seen as lesser to men, and this definitely affects the issue. What is also true is that men are often seen as disposable. If a man has to serve in the military even when he doesn’t want to, he is cannon fodder. Look up the white feather girls - a lot of the…

So the belief that women should not be able to work in the sex industry is not regressive... Yeah, keep telling yourself that.

But why is sex work different than any other line of work that people have to do when in tough times?

I still disagree with you regarding financial abortions, but we’ll agree to disagree on it.

Very insightful comment regarding Stockholm syndrome. And yeah - most people would look at this differently had the genders been switched, but I am not most people.

I mostly agree with you, except for the last word. Women of course face more negative consequences than men do, but there are certainly instances where being a man puts you at a disadvantage as well. Issues such as circumcision, military drafts that affect men specifically (and I am talking in a world-wide context),…

Which is why there’s a difference between trafficking and legitimate sex work.