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My partner had been a stripper for 5 years before she just quit to start her own business making candles and my mother was a stripper when she met my dad. Two of my closest friends were escorts for a few years. Being a sex worker is a lovely thankless job that sucks worse than you can possibly imagine (in America, at least). Even when you’re making potentially thousands of dollars in cash in a single day you’re still dealing with basically the grossest and most entitled members of the population at their horniest and most disrespectful. You have basically no safety net so if someone gets violent or sexually assaults you even if there are bouncers in the club they are there to keep the police out of it, not to necessarily protect you. If you meet 100 sex workers in your life maybe 5 of them will feel empowered by it and in control and the other 95 feel hopelessly trapped by it, feeling that their looks and their bodies are the only things of worth that they have. Depression, addiction, and sex work go hand in hand, almost as a rule. Sex workers find themselves in terrible and abusive relationships because your dating pool becomes incredibly limited if you’re honest with anyone about your income. Some of these issues would absolutely get better if it were regulated and sex workers were better protected and cared for, but the truth is that our society doesn’t really engage with the emotional and psychological implications of transactional intimacy, sexual health and responsibility, learning to value yourself as more than your softest and squishiest parts, etc. and as a result we don’t really understand what something even as “harmless” and “safe” as stripping can do to someone’s mental and emotional health, let alone any normal day at a busy Manhattan brothel where you might just zone out on pills while 10-15 dudes gently caress you over the course of like 10 hours, and then you go home to sleep for 3-4 hours before you hit your day job at the coffee shop. So before you judge someone for being a sex worker, try to put yourself in their shoes and imagine what’s going on in that they feel like selling their bodies is the only option.
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Solice Kirsk posted:It shouldn't be illegal to charge for something that's perfectly legal to give away for free. There are pretty good moral and practical arguments against paid organ donations. Giving a kid up for adoption probably shouldn't have a financial incentive. I personally think prostitution should be legalized and regulated but that's not a good argument for it. You're straying away from selling things and into selling people and that compicates it a lot.
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Oct 10, 2019 20:05
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As noted in another thread I helped someone get out of that industry and I am still having nightmares about her reality. That it is ever glamorized is horrifying.
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Oct 10, 2019 23:33
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Pick posted:As noted in another thread I helped someone get out of that industry and I am still having nightmares about her reality. That it is ever glamorized is horrifying. And do you think that if prostitution was legal, your friend would've gotten in as bad of a position?
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Oct 10, 2019 23:36
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Ain't nothing glamorous about working at the blowjob factory but at least we got a union!
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Oct 10, 2019 23:47
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My Spirit Otter posted:And do you think that if prostitution was legal, your friend would've gotten in as bad of a position? Legality wasn't actually the huge concern and I think is completely separate from most of the ways it was horrific and damaging by her own admission.
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Pick posted:As noted in another thread I helped someone get out of that industry and I am still having nightmares about her reality. That it is ever glamorized is horrifying. There's a not a small amount of people (where I live) who entered prostitution by their own volition because it was elegant and glamorous and they were rich and had really no interest in studying. What terrifies me the most is that some of these people didn't see the glamour despite the terrible aspects that some less fortunate people had to endure, but rather because of it. I saw some weird, weird poo poo.
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I read somewhere that the crackdown on Backpage and similar sites has lead to a disconnect that makes it harder for sex workers to get help.
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But what's important is that nobody sees it! It's like bulldozing hobo canps, a perfect solution.
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Oct 16, 2019 20:01
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Maybe if we get rid of sex we can nip this problem in the bud.
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DandyLion posted:Maybe if we get rid of sex we can nip this problem in the bud. I guess sugar free jazz was right all along.
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Rad-daddio posted:I guess sugar free jazz was right all along. What's the female equivalent of cutting your penis off? Stitching your vagina up?
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A Strange Aeon posted:What's the female equivalent of cutting your penis off? Stitching your vagina up? Gross, that's not healthy or sustainable. Fill that bad boy up with plaster and smooth over the whole thing with a coat of skin grafts.
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I apparently have content again  quote:I stopped showering 4 months ago and I haven't been evicted yet, it's great! gross quote:My current confession is that I appreciate the animated childrens show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. My wife collected MLP when she was a kid, and introduced her daughter to MLP: Friendship is magic when it started running on Netflix. The kid is eight now. Yeah honestly "I have an eight-year-old daughter" is pretty much the only valid reason to watch that show considering what it usually implies Non-anonymous confession, I tried watching episode 1 of it back when it was a New Internet Thing, before the brony culture really metastasized, and I just did not see the appeal. It's a kid's show  Customary third fesh since the first one was short quote:I drive for UberEats and you’d better believe I stick my hand in people’s food and help myself to some french fries or chicken wings that won’t be missed. I’ve been doing it for years and never got caught. The only thing that stops me is when they seal the bags with a sticker to protect it from people like me, but sometimes I can maneuver my hand into the bag without breaking the sticker anyway. I never order UberEats myself because I don’t trust my driver to not do the same thing. UberEats has always seemed like peak gig-economy hellworld poo poo to me so I fully support you in your efforts 
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Oct 17, 2019 00:43
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If you wife was old enough to watch mlp as a kid you're both too young.
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Audax posted:If you wife was old enough to watch mlp as a kid you're both too young. She might have watched one of the older ones, the post doesn't specify
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Oct 17, 2019 00:49
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When I used to deliver pizzas for a living I don't think a single customer ever got all six of their cheese sticks.
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Oct 17, 2019 00:53
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I love imagining someone going too far and delivering a pizza with a missing slice.
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My friend got wings from Uber Eats recently and only 5 of his 8 wings were there and you could clearly see the spots of sauce where they had been sitting.
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loquacius posted:She might have watched one of the older ones, the post doesn't specify
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gently caress y'all I tip well. Keep your hands off my poo poo.
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I've watched MLP with my 7 year old daughter and we both think it's a poo poo rear end show. It's loving garbage.
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a new study bible! posted:gently caress y'all I tip well. Keep your hands off my poo poo. Postmates/Doordash/Grubhub have killed the regular delivery driver business. When I delivered things I would remember the good tippers and not eat their food/toss their food around much/make pit stops to see my friends at their job so the food was cold/etc. Now you get a random person every time even if you order from the same place. And tip with cash! Half the time the drivers don't get the whole tip you typed into Grubhub.
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Oct 17, 2019 04:18
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As a person with a car, I never ever have food delivered unless I’m like mid-bone and don’t wanna have to put pants back on.
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Oct 17, 2019 04:29
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Every time I’ve ever ordered from one of those apps it’s been more trouble than if I would have just gone and picked it up myself.
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Oct 17, 2019 05:38
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I like watching the delivery driver circumnavigate the whole loving city before dropping off my order.
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Oct 17, 2019 05:41
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The postmates guy yesterday circled my place twice, I saw him stop and peek through the glass doors in the front and pull out. wtf? I tried to text him to come back, but dude wasn't accepting texts. I saw my food drive away last night.
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Bust Rodd posted:As a person with a car, I never ever have food delivered unless I’m like mid-bone and don’t wanna have to put pants back on. That's weird. Personally I'm too intoxicated to operate a motor vehicle pretty much every night
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promising carl posted:I like watching the delivery driver circumnavigate the whole loving city before dropping off my order. Bonus points if you've ordered from somewhere close enough that you could have walked there and gotten back with your order sooner.
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Audax posted:If you wife was old enough to watch mlp as a kid you're both too young. I remember MLP from when I was a kid in the 80s. I'm pretty sure there was a tv show and all that, not just the toys. Also, I usually order a small pizza from Dominos online, not through some app or whatever the gently caress. Usually get the same delivery guy.
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wesleywillis posted:I remember MLP from when I was a kid in the 80s. The cringiest hardcore bronies hate the 80s version. Because it’s for girls. That’s seriously the reason.
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Bargearse posted:The cringiest hardcore bronies hate the 80s version. Because it’s for girls. That’s seriously the reason. Yeah, they're obviously real men and don't want to watch that girly poo poo.
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wesleywillis posted:Yeah, they're obviously real men and don't want to watch that girly poo poo. A thing they seriously unironically believe
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Bargearse posted:The cringiest hardcore bronies hate the 80s version. Because it’s for girls. That’s seriously the reason. Doesn't help that most of it has aged about as well as most 80s cartoons have and doesn't even have as much explosions to make up for it. Much like Transformers, it never actually went away, the cartoon everyone knows about is considered the fourth incarnation of the franchise.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Doesn't help that most of it has aged about as well as most 80s cartoons have and doesn't even have as much explosions to make up for it. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will always be the best Power Rangers.
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Theophany posted:Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will always be the best Power Rangers. Let's face it, you can't improve that theme song. It's a bit funny with 80s and 90s childhood franchises; some of them have actually lain dormant ever since with only the occasional ill-received reboot/revival/adaptation, while others have been going more or less nonstop or at least regularly in various incarnations the whole time. Every kid since the 90s has had their own version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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I never get delivery personally because your choices are usually either "get takeout and be eating in 20 minutes total" or "get delivery and somehow it takes an hour"
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One time when I was smoking weed with some friends we were planning on going to an ice cream place 3 blocks away, but then one of them discovered it was on GrubHub, so we got 4 pints of ice cream delivered 3 blocks. That was the highest thing I've ever done
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loquacius posted:One time when I was smoking weed with some friends we were planning on going to an ice cream place 3 blocks away, but then one of them discovered it was on GrubHub, so we got 4 pints of ice cream delivered 3 blocks. That was the highest thing I've ever done I Favored a pack of smokes in the middle of the day once because I was high enough I didn't want to get up and walk/ride the mile to the gas station Once.
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Goddamn check out the Rockefellers here, eating out and paying a runner to deliver it to their homes. Do you pay extra for them to daintily blow on your food before they feed it to you so you don't hurt your delicate rose petal lips
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