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    I think you misunderstand. We protect single cells and blastomeres. Once they’re out, our job is done.

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    He’s such a pervert.

    Says he’d date his daughter if she wasnt his daughter

    Marries a woman who does soft porn shoots

    Rapes a child and then the case ‘disappears’

    Gets charged for sexual assault and then slanders the woman who won the case. Ordered to pay her over 80 million in damages which of course he wont

    Sexually assaulted a woman who was trying out for the Apprentice

    Says ‘you can grab them by the pussy’

    His first wife accused him of rape during their divorce proceedings

    TWENTY FIVE women have publicly accused him of sexual assault. One or two could be a conspiracy but 25?!!

    This perverted asshole should be behind bars NOT pretending to be king of America.

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      Including “Marries a woman who does soft porn shoots” is a little sad, there’s nothing wrong with that. Everything else on that list is fucking heinous though

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        I wish I could do soft porn for a living. But I’m an ugly looking guy. But those who can should be allowed to. It’s a job.

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        Well might be ok with you, but I think the average woman has more respect for herself than doing porn shoots and I certainly wouldn’t date someone who didn’t have a higher standard than that. All those girls doing Only Fans are finding out the hard way that it comes back to bite you in the long run.

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          Meanwhile you’re probably perfectly OK with people selling their body to do labor I assume?

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            Are you really arguing that putting in a hard days work in a factory is the SAME as having sex with strangers for money? REALLY?

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              I would argue just that. Its acting and there’s a demand for that job so yeah. And its definitely not easy that anyone can do it. Plus it takes preparation and they do known each other and have to pass their STD check.

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                Real “acting” doesnt involve exposing yourself to someone for money and then doing the most intimate thing two people can do so that ONE person can gratify themself and the other can be used. Ive talked to a sex worker who was 18 and she grew up being abused by her father and her uncle. Her comment was, “people are going to fuck me anyway, I may as well get paid for it” Does that sound like someone who is happy to be in sex work? Or just an victim of abuse who has given up on trying to protect herself.

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                  See my other comment below. I’m talking about porn. Prostitution on the other hand can be made safer but its currently not.

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              Sex work, whatever form it takes, is real work.

              Flipping burgers is real work. Construction is real work. Writing code is real work. Growing pot is real work. Sitting in meetings all day is real work. Professional sports is real work. Having sex for money is real work. Unclogging toilets is real work. Streaming is real work (nude or clothed).

              If it pays the bills and isn’t harmful then it is real work.

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          Sex work is real work. It takes no less respect for oneself to do sex work than it does to do any other work. The only reason it “comes back to bite” people is because society still stigmatises sex workers.

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            Really. So the only reason that sex workers hide what they do is ONLY because they will be stigmatized by others? But they are inherently happy with selling their bodies to lusty men for money cause that makes them feel fulfilled and legitimate and empowered?

            Huh. Thats kinda preposterous.

            NO ONE is happy with being a sex worker because they have to do mental gymnastics to pretend that its not degrading and soul crushing work. And NO ONE stays in sex work long term because it’ll kill your self esteem after awhile. Even OnlyFans, who say they feel safer online, get disgusted with trying to please gross men online because it never ends and always degrades to worse acts til they’ve had enough of being treated like a piece of meat. Selling your soul for a dollar. Its not legitimate work in any way, you can only pretend that it is for so long and then reality sets in.

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            And WHY does society stigmatize sex workers? Because its degrading to women, its manipulative, and its generally used by men who USE people for their own gratification which is completely disrespectful. NO women (or man) ever grew up as a child thinking “I sure hope I can be a sex worker some day” because its a job of last resort.

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              I would do a safe gangbang way before I get into a space X rocket and either blow up or fly into space.

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                Are sewer workers USED (and often abused) by other people for their own pleasure when they do their work? Completely different scenario.

                The only people who think sex work is fine are those who dont do it and havent talked in depth to someone who has. I spent five years on the street making friends with girls and boys who did it to survive. There is NOTHING good about it. NOTHING. Its degrading, its soul crushing. Its VERY often accompanied by physical or psychological abuse which is why sex workers kept ‘bad date’ lists to warn other workers of the really creepy guys. Its a horrible way to make money but they did it because they didnt have any other way to survive. Next time you have rose colored glasses on about sex work, give me a call and Ill put you in touch with a 12 yr old girl who was pimped out by her 16 yr old sister and you can have a long discussion about the joys of sex work. Or with a 16 yr old boy who ran away from home and ended up getting sodomized by a man in a park because he needed 40 bucks to get a meal. Its really glamorous stuff, everyone loves it.

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                  Has it ever occured to you that those abuses happen because of people’s attempts to delegitimize it? Despite attempts to make it illegal or to otherwise shame those who participate in it, it hasn’t ceased to exist for as long as humanity has existed. Prohibition didn’t make people stop drinking alcohol, it just created more crime and unsafe scenarios. Drug use being illegal doesn’t stop overdose. The fentanyl crisis is a direct result of drugs only being available from non-legitimate sources. Onlyfans has created a very safe space for sex work. It’s not perfect but it is leaps and bounds better than an alternative where it is illegal.

                  I believe your experience that everyone you met on the streets found it to be degrading. Have you ever thought that was because of the environment that you were in? Sex work performed by homeless people usually only exists because no legal alternative exists for their clients. Also it becomes a last resort for income for desperate people and as a result can put them in not safe scenarios.

                  As far as it being degrading, that’s also attributed to the unsafe conditions that many women and men are forced to work under. It really isn’t hard to find sex workers who are proud of their life style and live happy lives due to their success in the industry. Unfortunately they are in the minority because of all of my previous points listed. Most of the negatives that you talk about are a direct result of your and others shaming, not anything that is inherently wrong or immoral with sex work itself.

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                  And you think these issues are limited to sex work? You don’t think office workers are used and abused by c-suite?

                  I have friends who do sex work, but you’re free to lecture me all you like since you’re the expert, allegedly.

                  Part of the massive issues in sex work is to do with poor rights and protections for sex workers, because it is stigmatised and not seen as real work. Obviously trafficking and child abuse are unacceptable but they are not inherent to the job, they are an issue in the same way child labour is in many other fields. There are simply more protections in place in other fields to prevent it from happening as much.

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      To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with marrying a woman who does soft porn. It’s only worth mentioning in the context of the rest of the stuff.

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        To me, it’s only “worth” mentioning in the context of political hypocrisy.

        Outside of that, I don’t like it being demonized either.

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        In your humble opinion, sure. I know a lot of guys who wouldn’t date a porn ‘star’ because they usually have other issues that make them undateable. And Im speaking from experience. I worked with sex workers for five years in a street outreach in a major city. Every single one of those girls/guys were there because of bad circumstances in their lives - and it was very often abuse or drugs that kept them locked into sex work. The whole idea that its a victimless job if you do it online is a joke. Its a sick world and it only destroys people’s souls in the long run. Only the inexperienced and horny men want to believe there are no personal consequences. There most definitely are.

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          First, she wasn’t some prostitute on the street. She was a model who did some nude modeling. I don’t recall her ever having done sex work.

          Second, like the other person says, it’s because those jobs lack protections and support, and are looked down on by our society. Only the most desperate end up in those positions usually. The problems aren’t cause by the sex work. Rather the sex work is done because they have problems, and the problems surrounding the job compound these issues.

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            She was a nude model AND she ran in the same circles as Epstein and Maxwell AND she ended up with Pedo Donnie and you dont think she did sex work? That woman sold her soul to get with Donnie and given all the testimony from other women about how degrading Donnie treated them, she worked HARD to get to be his side piece and then wife. I feel sorry for her.

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              Eh, maybe. Not what the person above was saying. They said soft-core porn. She did nude modeling. She may have also done sex work in private, but we don’t have any evidence of that. Regardless of if she did or didn’t, the above comment is wrong (or purposefully misleading —maybe some would say nude modeling is soft-core porn) about their claim.

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          That is not a problem with sex work, it’s the lack of protection and regulation causing that symptom.

          You same problems in other professions that are not respected by society.

          I think the root cause is free capitalism with only minor regulations. This grows into oligarchy cancer real fast.

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        Nothing wrong with it, but it lacks the class and dignity generally associated with a head of state and/or their partners. Though it is of course fitting right in with the rest of the shitshow.

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      I absolutely agree with everything you said, and I also wholeheartedly agree that the orange idiot is a pervert and most likely a pedophile. However, being with a person who has worked as a sex worker does not make someone a pervert.

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      Hell, even if 24 were a conspiracy, just the last remaining one makes him a rapist. And at least one was held up in court.

      Our country should not be run by a rapist.

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      Suppresses Epstein list for completely unknown and certainly not ulterior motives.

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      I am not sure what to highlight from there, but there’s a lot of info here: https://medium.com/@mistagrinch/an-unsettling-pattern-a-comprehensive-look-at-trumps-sexual-controversies-and-underworld-a876887ecd85

      There’s also sources, which might be worth checking. There’s at least one unconfirmed thing from some Washington post draft that was later removed from the final article.
      The only response about it seems fo be “We (or the Washington Post Writers Group, our affiliated syndicate) edit every column to try to make it as good as it can be. We don’t think it would be fair to our writers to discuss the editing process, and don’t see what is to be gained by talking about things that are not published — there are countless drafts that never see the light of day.”

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    The same Republicans who think adolescent legal marriage age is fine just as it is? Those Republicans?

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      It really sucks, hypocrisy and can’t be held to the same standards.

      Imagine if so and so said or done anything trump has.

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    “But what if…I were to put on a wig and pretend to be a woman so I can watch women in the restroom even though there are stalls and I wouldn’t be able to see anything? Oh ho ho ho ho, delightfully devilish, Seymour!”