get a real job
What? How does this contribute to the discussion?
Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground
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so you're advocating for regulatory capture? That'll go just like the legal pot industry; prohibitively expensive licensing that only goes to the already big players in the game.
Wow, if prostitution is legal that means we can have prostitution startups, and prostitution IPOs! Corporate prostitution backed by SoftBank and Saudi sovereign wealth! What a world we're making!
Is that what's happening in Canada?
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#333As the article says, lots of sites in a mad panic did a purge of sex and dating related content since SESTA/FOSTA was passed. I've launched Libr, which won't be doing any such purge. It was built as a replacement for Tumblr. I'm in Australia, SESTA/FOSTA is an American law. https://librapp.com
Will you have American customers? If so, how will they pay you?
There are already American users, but they're not paying anything for the service. I don't have ads yet.
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Parent says she didn't want to go to jail. Do you know her preferences better? ISTM most people don't want to go to jail.
It seems to me that the legal trouble would have come from continuing to operate the site, and by selling the site instead of deleting the database and shutting it down, she sold out those women. But supposing she was being threatened with imprisonment unless she sold it, biting that bullet would have been the honorable thing to do. She owed that much to the people who trusted her with data of that nature.
A person in the situation described above is dealing with corrupt and capricious police and prosecutors. Honest cops would have just charged her and asked the courts to shut her down, if they really felt she had broken laws.
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Some feminists surely do, but conflating some with all is a fallacy of composition that hinders discussion. Your reasoning in the rest of the comment seems rather questionable and veers into seeming even more like a generalization.
However GP didn't say "all feminists", only "feminists". If I say "Germans eat bread for breakfast" that's generally understood to mean "In general Germans eat bread for breakfast" or "A majority of Germans eat bread for breakfast". Treating it as if I said "Every German eats bread for every breakfast" would be constructing a straw man. People generally understand that there is variation in every group, even if they…
I'm not convinced the comment I replied to is a valid generalization capturing what the majority of feminists believe.
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The article paints a sad picture ...although your conclusion seems far fetched. Even marriage can be made into paid rape by the wordings of that article. AFAIK ... decriminalization allows for 1. The sex worker to approach authorities without any fear of prosecution. 2. To set up freelance sex work without pimps and brothels. There shouldn't be a debate about this. Criminalization makes things worse at the expense of…
> From what I know the nordic model has a large number of social services that help sex-workers quit the profession if they wish to. Interesting. Do they have social services for those that wish to quit computer programming? Or quit hair dressing? The fact that there needs to be a social service around this particular profession is indicative that this particular profession is probably harmful to the service provider…
Maybe they should have for jobs that are physically dangerous/have a high incidence of workplace physical or mental harm. Like, say, working on a mine.
The argument goes like this:
Person A is in such a bad situation that A will accept a job that is terrible!
Prohibiting the job has a good chance of making A worse off (usually, A will accept the job if A thinks it is an improvement over the current situation)
However, we can let A accept the job, and then try to offer A even better alternatives!
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As someone who has lived here (US) for close to 15 years, what I find baffling is that some of the voting isn't even that myopic. It is so strongly ideology based that a poor coal miner would vote for a politician who would gut his healthcare and scream "socialism is bad" at any alternative which might actually be beneficial to them in the short term.
The reason it’s baffling to you is because you’re viewing it through your own ideological bias. Maybe, just maybe, that poor coal miner knows exactly what he’s voting for because that’s what he wants?
Well, yes, they are voting for what they want: to really hurt other people at their own expense.
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Please take this as friendly. It sounds like maybe you're setting your expectations too high, and not giving other women a chance. In my experience women take what you write in your profile seriously. Spend what you would consider an inordinate amount of time perfecting it, like you would a resume for big job prospect. Get great photos taken of yourself, this doesn't require money or a professional service. Find good…
You still need to be somewhat attractive for all of this to matter. Not everyone is.
Not really a serious advice but there it is: if you can fix some of it with some light photoshopping, do it.
Plenty of women do it too and for many of them it's not at all light.
Think of it as polishing your CV by omitting some embarrassing stuff and putting forwards the things you want. Your goal shouldn't be to be 100% honest when writing your profile/CV. Just to make it enticing enough to get your foot in the door.
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That's what it's called if the person you are paying for sex with is not an adult.
Reasonable mistake, must happen all the time when people have sex with someone with no breasts, hairless in the pertinent areas, and don't talk at all with them.
"I just thought she was a late bloomer your honor, her manager assured me she was 18 going on 19"