Right, but that doesn’t bear at all on my primary point, which is that the cultural view we take toward sex work doesn’t *only* affect sex workers, but affects the entire way we view sex, and so long as women are perceived as the sex class, the entire way we view women. That’s the stance Carter is being mocked for,…

Ideally all sex workers would be autonomous human beings, operating their own business how they please. But that’s just not how it plays out a lot of the time. Women are sold, coerced, beaten and drugged into sexual compliance all the time. And my feeling is that allowing men to pay for sex gives them the idea that…

HULK RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

Perhaps “renting a body for the purpose of sex” would be more accurate? I’m not trying to be funny or snarky. It seems that the terminology is important to you, and I don’t wish to offend.

People do understand that. The issue is that it seems like a near impossible reality to separate legal sex work from all the seedy crime that follows it.

I agree with Carter and am not a previous wave feminist. I’m not sure what wave we’re technically in now, but suffice to say I’m an educated, thoughtful woman who has no problem providing her thoughts.

It seems like all arguments in defense of sex work use the logic of labor — that it’s a perfect right to perform work in exchange for money, and that sex shouldn’t be treated any differently. The thing is, we don’t really believe that, and the difference shows up viscerally when we talk about children. If you pay your…

Everything he’s saying applies to sex workers who are trafficked, coerced, or forced by desperate circumstances into an industry they don’t really want to be in, but it doesn’t apply to sex workers who are working safely, legally and by choice. To be fair to President Carter, there are more in the first category.…

Agree. I feel like calling Carter’s editorial “bad” and “awful” is a gross simplification of a complex issue. While I don’t necessarily agree with Jimmy, there are a fair amount of feminists and organizations that do.

And unfortunately if you look at countries with legalized sex work sex trafficking has not disappeared... it’s just easier to hide. There are more men who want to buy sex than there are women willing to sell sex, and there are awful people willing to take advantage of that.

I’ll admit that I agree with parts of what he’s saying. I don’t think it’s as cut and dry as legalization = great, everything’s fine now. I’m definitely not down with sex workers being punished in any way. It also really doesn’t sit well with me that legalizing sex work perpetuates the idea that women’s bodies are…

Yeah. At least he actually seems to care about the well-being of sex workers, which is a hell of a lot more than you’d get from any Republican.

I don’t think we should insult people for carefully thought out opinion pieces that slightly differ from our own opinions. This is a complex issue.

The problem with constantly mentioning Rolling Stone and Duke is they indicate how rare false allegations are. People always mention these same few cases over and over to show that false allegations happen. But when you consider that tens of thousands of domestic violence incidents and rapes are reported to police…

I liked your sewing joke. She got some excellent supplies and I only expect she stole them daily as a stash from Littlefinger. That man knows his outfits.

My heart sank when I read the “best friend” part.
I know that most of the time it’s a close associate, but i never get used to it.
I have so many beautiful, wonderful, unique girl friends, one who called me (a guy) their best friend. Multiple times, for years, I help bring them home when she was really drunk, but it…

Johnny Depp has for years thought he was Hunter S. Thompson. I’m just gonna say it. It’s fucking embarrassing as shit. Hunter also beat up women. Johnny Depp is a drama kid gone sour. Good riddance, you hammy shitheel.

I respect her so much. She has some very biting things to say about purity culture in general and it is wonderful.

diss court, or dat court?

Sorry, I’ll see myself out.