Awww thanks :)

So sorry that happened to you.

OK, but you don’t get to base policy on a “gut feeling.”

Regardless of whether sex work (or modeling, or being a stay-at-home-mom, or being a surrogate for another couple, or selling her eggs to an infertile couple, or having sex with multiple partners, or fad dieting, or choosing to forego evidence-based medical…

Um...yes? And this is how we survive in it.

Wikipedia is not a valid source. At best, it’s a summary of reliable sources on a given topic, unavoidably tainted by the summarizer’s bias. Read and evaluate the sources those articles cite, and try again.

I don’t hate anybody. Except myself.

I’m not sure you’ll see this, but this video (made by an organization of sex workers called APNSW-Asian Pacific Network of Sex Workers) explains how both legalization (in this case, a law that requires condom use by all full service sex workers) and criminalization both hurt sex workers and trafficking victims in…

I convinced you off nothing, and on the other hand you made some points I will have to mull over.

You’re lying. You don’t know the difference, otherwise you wouldn’t have said that full service sex work is decriminalized in Germany, which is patently false.

It’s OK to admit ignorance. No one expects you to be 100% up to speed with this. It’s a subject that few people know much about; it’s not common knowledge and…

Are we really going to get into the “rape/really really a rape” distinction?

These people make me want to cry into my fucking martini.

Look, I know we disagree, but you said you want data and reports, and that is a valid request (I hate it when people don’t evaluate their sources and instead cite long-debunked rumors, faulty research, and anecdata). So, here’s a good explanation—with real data—of why criminalization of clients is not the solution.

This…

Sex work is not decriminalized in Germany. Jesus F-ing Christ, you don’t even know the difference.

If EVERY CLIENT I see is a rapist, and every time I meet with a client for sex I’m being raped, then what the fuck do you call it when I’m, ya know, *actually* raped by a client?

Why do you insist on denying women agency?

Strawman. I’m not an objectivist or a randian. More of a socialist, actually. And I never said anything about “absolute freedom” working well for everybody. I support labor rights for all.

It’s always nice when someone who has more privilege than I do reprimands me for showing respect for those who are less privileged…

You’re a shitty person.

But trafficked women are not your peers.

Please cite your sources.

I can cite many, many, many sources that show that decriminalization is by far the best solution to the problem of violence against sex workers and trafficking for the purpose of sexual labor.

It’s cute that you think this is all a joke. You can walk away from the computer and you don’t have to think about this at all if you don’t want to. But some of us live this. We do work that’s stigmatized, and the vast majority of society thinks of us as either tragic victims or evil, self-serving, heartless…

It is not my responsibility to set an example for your child. That’s your job. What I do with my body and who I have consensual sex with has absolutely nothing to do with you or your child.

I don’t tell you to stop buying Apple products or H&M clothing because those companies’ labor practices send a terrible message…