Hi Holden, I’m not SlutPanic but I’m another ex sex worker. I’m guessing that SlutPanic’s anger comes from the inevitability of someone coming into this conversation and making a self-righteous comment about damage and self-harm. To me your comment came across as dismissive and ill-informed. Here’s why: I was a hooker…

Did you mean eisegesis?

Decriminalisation: give the same rights and protections as for other forms of work.

Hello *waves hand* we have safe, legal sex work in parts of Australia and in New Zealand. How it works is you have to first get politicians to agree that sex work is work, and should be subject to the same checks and balances as other forms of labour. Trafficking (tricking people to bring them across borders to work…

We played the Solomon Linda version at our wedding (my husband is Tanzanian).

The entire plotline of why the brothers need to find dates is lifted from Sione’s Wedding.

Maybe go with ‘worker’ rather than ‘inmate’. Sex workers have homes to go to...unless the bunny ranch is a residential place (I don’t know). Even so, ‘inmate’ sounds like they’ve got no choice. In my experience in brothels in Australia there is a strong incentive for management to back staff up, especially re condom…

I agree it’s got to be fake. I’m an ex- sex -worker, my maximum was 9 clients in an 8-hour shift (all with condoms of course) and I was sore and a bit swollen after that.

I think maybe this is a cultural difference. Alannah's Australian, so I assumed the son and his mum are too, and in Australia it's perfectly possible to say 'OMG little shit' quite casually - it's more of the flavour of "that irritating little jerk, wait till I get my hands on him" than what you're reading into it.

As a white woman who's been accepted by her Gujarati partner's family, I understand your concern, but I hope our story gives you hope! We now have a beautiful son (that helped for sure!)