That's what all food services tell employees.

Cue people arguing that this will cause an increase in armed robbery at Chipotle because "now, they know they can get away with it."

I think that in a lot of cases, the workers are left out of the conversation, but I have also read studies that indicate that they don't want to be a part of the discussion for a number of reasons. Regardless, they certainly should be and a lot of them are. I think Stoya and Dana Vespoli and Sasha Grey and Sovereign…

I totally think talking about it is good. When the discussion is that sex abuse is "par for the course" in sex work, I take issue. I think that needs a conversation and not just the false dichotomy of "yeas, it is" v. "no, it isn't."

I equally hate to think that sex workers would be assumed to be abuse victims. That can't be fun.

The history of those ideas being linked is what lends that interpretation, not any assumption that I am making. Further, this isn't the comment of a person who is empathizing v. concern trolling:

From what I have read, the biggest impediment to having large sample sizes in studies of porn actresses is that they do not wish to participate in the discussions because of the "damaged goods" attitude that society holds. You are right that sex workers need more spaces to develop their own narratives.

Don't you think there is a difference between "many of the abused children I worked with ended up in sex work," which operates from a population of abuse, and "sex workers have largely been abused," which operates from the sex work population? Of course, if you work with abused people who largely go into sex work,…

Well, we're all dealing with opinions here, except for the commenter in this thread being called a troll, who is actually providing factual data.

I know. I don't think that commenter is sympathetic.

You like better with dinosaur?

Julia Roberts' teeth are terrifying.

That's not what I get from the OP or the subsequent comments.

Ah, ok. So, the Playboy companion tapes where the girls have fun without clothes on, but there's no sex? Got it.

You mean the two tapes that were clearly created for personal use and not to be released into the sex industry? Or do you mean something else?

I loved VIP!

I would totally hate watch this video, but since I have been getting Pitbull and Kesha's "Timber" stuck in my head on the weekly for about 6 months, I can't take the risk. It's like I mocked the taste of the Gods and this is my Sisyphean task.

No. Seriously. I can't. Other people? Maybe. Me? No.

If I agreed with you about everything except what the article is about and you find that not only argumentative, but unnecessarily so, we have different definitions.

So, about those letters...