Velma

A corporation lied so they could harm people in the name of profit? Wow. I’m shooketh.

Seriously though, good on these guys for uncovering this and good on The Lancet for retracting.

It’s one thing to be racist individually - it’s another to be used as a megaphone for said racism. His actions have made this world worse unfortunately.

What an asshole.

Epstein was already building something similar. Look at Musk. I’m positive they aren’t the only ones working towards having breeding stock.

Because many other professions also do a lot of prep work and advertising that gets built into their pricing. Like…most professions do that, not just sex workers.

But Maria said the government’s efforts to pull Russia out of its demographic rut were “pathetic”.

“Tightening the screws, making safe abortions inaccessible, brainwashing people, bragging about supposedly huge benefit payments, sending them to a psychologist. It’s cruel and completely ineffective,” she said.

“Everyone understands what women really want: social guarantees, an adequate income, the ability to afford housing, and, most importantly, tranquility and security,” she said.

The US is on this exact same path. Horrifying.

Your argument that sex work is different from any other work because of the prep time is faulty.

Again, you’ve taken a shower thought way too literally.

There’s many careers that one builds the cost of prep into the final product. Do you think wedding photographers are only charging for their time on site? No, they build their time editing the photos and paying for equipment and marketing into the cost. Same as sex workers.

No one actually thinks this is a valid way of figuring out cost of living in an area. It’s a shower thought.

You’re taking a shower thought way too literally.

It depends lol

The sex worker is still the one setting the prices and what services she offers in this comparison.

The example isn’t that a rapist is setting the cost of raping a victim.

Margaret Atwood - Cohabitation

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent

it is before that, and colder:

the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert 
                    the unpainted stairs 
at the back where we squat 
outside, eating popcorn

the edge of the receding glacier

where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far

we are learning to make fire

My dad picked up bow and arrow hunting for a few years. He never snagged a deer, but I’m sure he spent a lot of pleasant time smoking weed in the woods with his buddies.

My sister and I were chit chatting about our kids and their milestones, etc. Super normal type of conversation, especially for us since we don’t get along well to begin with and we try to stick to topics that aren’t inflammatory. The topic of what age we were when we started menstruating came up.

She stopped me mid-sentence in order to correct me about what age I was when I started my period. Not her age, she stopped me to correct my own retelling of my own personal history because “she remembered better”.

It was one of the only times I told her to her face that she was being rude.

Welcome! It definitely is quieter in ways here, but I find that actually engaging in conversation is better. There’s more real people here.

But this place also has the downfalls that early Reddit and 4chan had. Still better than current Reddit by miles!

You’ve never been in a restaurant that’s 21+?

They could already have existing partners and wouldn’t be exclusive, but have an agreement to inform if there are new partners being added.

Also being exclusive is a more serious type of relationship than just friends with benefits imo.

How would they be exclusive if additional sex partners are allowed? It’s not an asking for permission scenario, it’s just keeping your partners informed of who is involved.

I’ve mostly done so for health reasons.

I think you’re underestimating how many parents may be here lol

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Parenting in a nutshell.