I also felt like the guy that won is probably a fantastic director, but not for this project. He isn’t a comedy director. He doesn’t even like directing comedy, evident from his answers and his 3 minute submission. His version of the speed dating felt like a light, ‘comedy’ scene out of an otherwise dark existential…

So you’re ok with women selling sex if its in a relationship “of a continual nature” with one man, but not if it’s a series of one time transactions with different men? It seems like what you really hate is sluts, not sex work per se.

What about sex with your husband who pays for a ring and a house? Also paid rape? Go home Ms. MacKinnon.

Rape is sex without consent. To say that consensual sex is automatically rape if money is exchanged for it changes the definition of rape to mean 'any time a person's motives for having sex are motives I'm morally opposed to.' Then we go back into humankind's nasty little habit of choosing what kind of consensual sex…

Everyone who works sells their body. That’s what work is.

Have you ever actually met any of them? I have. Several different, lovely women, all of them different, lovely human beings. One of them was working as a sex worker to pay her way through college, support her son, and get away from drugs and an abusive relationship. She works at an all-female place run by a pair of…

So you (obvious conservative MRA Bible-Thumper) believe that a person’s value as a human being is determined by their sexuality? Chastity is the measure of a woman’s worth? You have the same ethics of the Taliban, the Duggars, and Westboro Baptist Church. Congrats! Female genital mutilation, honor crimes, and hate…

Have you actually met or talked to a sex worker? Ever? I have. Fascinating people who get into it for all different reasons.

She’s not even making any sense. “This business isn’t legitimate! Therefore we should treat this as a business transaction!”

I haven’t seen much peer reviewed evidence that supports the idea that a great many sex workers are sex workers non-voluntarily.

Right, or I went to a deli shop and forced them to make me a sandwich at gunpoint. Because they normally sell sandwiches, it isn’t theft. Uh....hmmmm.....what?!

With sex work you are consenting to sex within the condition that payment will be rendered for the sex act. Its sort of equivalent to consenting to sex with a condom, only to later discover that the penetrator took it off secretly. With conditional consent rescinding the conditions under which the consent was given…

I’m a firm believer that rape by deception is rape. I know someone is going to pop up by claiming that everyone lies to get sex, but a) no, and b) there are lies and lies. Saying ‘Oh man, I also totally love the Rolling Stones, we have so much in common!’ in order to butter up someone who is already sexually…

Unfortunately, the way this case is being handled makes it look like sex trafficking is a workers are legitimate business human beings.

Our high school senior class quote was along those lines, “work like you don’t need the money, dance like no one is watching.” One of my good friends was valedictorian. She got drunk for the first time at a graduation after party, and I remember her slurring, “it’s SO true. You should work like no one is watching, and…

You know, a weird thought just occurred to me: maybe, and hear me out on this one, but maybe they take high school football too seriously in Texas.

Sex worker here (stripper & escort for 20 yrs). Thank you for this. I could write a book about the misconceptions not only of the general public but these Jez commenters.

I’m curious if you also worry about long haul truckers and female bartenders’ safety, as those are two of the most dangerous jobs for women. And do you feel angry for models, dancers, and athletes who also use their bodies as objects? One knee injury and a dancer is no longer of value to anyone. Her body and skill are…

Criminalization facilitates human trafficking and other abuses. Legalization won’t immediately make the world a perfect place overnight, but it will pull the industry out of the shadows and into the light, where we can do a much better job of addressing all of those problems. You say, without evidence, that…

Read the entire article, it’s worse.