So were the majority of adults.

His numbers are most definitely bullshit; however, VV is not unbiased here, and using numbers of women the police found and determined to be trafficked is not the same as the full number of women trafficked either. It would be like saying that if 4 drug dealers are arrested in a neighborhood that year, that the…

It is not that Ashton's numbers weren't terribly off, as well - but the VV ones were super disingenuous. Like, "these are the number of trafficked women the police found", as if that is the real number of trafficked women out there...

As someone said above, not to the john there ain't. Men who patronize sex workers are seeking physical gratification in an environment where many if not most of the people selling themselves are coerced into it, and some are children. Contributing to that industry is wrong. Contributing to it as a form of…

Yeah. But there's not necessarily any difference between the subjective experience of the man whose patronizing a sex worker and a person forced into human trafficking. (Most sex workers look like they could be in their teens even if they're not. They wouldn't be getting work if they didn't.)

You make the excellent point that it is impossible to coerce an adult woman into sex work, particularly a poor woman from underprivileged circumstances who doesn't speak the language. That definitely doesn't happen hourly.

From the point of view of the sex worker. Not so much from the point of view of the person purchasing sex, who tends not to care whether the sex worker is willing or not. (Unless, of course, he's specifically purchasing underage sex for the kinks, in which case that's part of the package.)

Fuck these thieves. Would you be cheering if a bunch of Christian activists had stolen a whole set of atheist or muslim calendars, leaving a message behind about how "walking past those calendars everyday insulting their religion was too much and they couldn't take it anymore"? I think not.

the poor woman who is making money off the exploitation and objectification of women. Fixed it for you.

Even if the "Troll" is making a very valid point.

She did get away with murder. This is not a court where we have to obey arcane rules of evidence.

Fucking A+, my good sir or madam. I must have looked like my cat when I try to explain something to it when I read that crap comment from a "lawyer."

What I don't get is—was the accusation that was forced to perform oral sex? I thought it was that she raped vaginally. Why are we talking about her performing oral sex as if it matters? If she gave him a blow job first that doesn't mean he didn't rape her. Just like if she consented to vaginal sex and he wanted to…

You're obviously lying about being a criminal attorney. No one could pass any bar exam in this country with your lack of reading comprehension. No attorney, nor even a paralegal, in any field of practice could have read this article and then written your comment. Certainly no criminal attorney. I won't spend the time…

You must be a defense lawyer. You guys are fucking shameless. Here's the deal: your job is to present the best case consistent with the evidence, not MAKE UP a defense for a defendant. I have watched this for far too long. Also, your job is to test the confines of the constitution, not warp it.

What in flying hell is a trial for, if not to decide if it was or wasn't a crime?

Funny how nobody demands of men the shit they demand of women. You act like women have not been savaged by black and white men alike in their chummy view that women lie about rape.

I used to be a huge football fan, but I can't really watch it anymore. The QB for my favorite team (Steelers) is a rapist. James Winston, rapist. Penn State and Penn State supporters? Rape enablers. Notre Dame? Rapists. A local sports commentator in Pittsburgh said during the Mike Vick dog fighting scandal that it was…

Fragmented memory is also a symptom of trauma - like, say, from being raped. Police interviewing techniques focus on getting a linear timeline and key facts, but this is actually a horrible technique for trauma victims, not only because they tend to have trouble coming up with linear memories but because it can put…

They found a serial killer with those rape kits——after he switched to rape and murder because apparently getting away with serial rape was too easy.