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Upton

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2. Excellent piece..

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Original post)

Fri Nov 23, 2012, 10:41 AM

Nov 2012

love the way she talked about her disabled client, Phil, and how she had other such clients who got their only sexual intimacy through paying. I'm sure there are literally millions of cases like Phil..and it's an issue the anti-sex worker crowd likes to dance around.

Then her conclusion says it all..

This “friend” of mine claims to be a feminist. But, in my understanding, the word “feminism” it is about allowing women to have the right and freedom to make their own choices. Whether it has to do with work, voting, sex, autonomy, money, whatever. It is about choice and, in my opinion, that should not be conditional. It should just be.

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Sex worker & mother: ‘Yes, I AM empowered by my job.’ [View all] Warren DeMontague Nov 2012 OP

Oh that's going to ruffle some feathers 4th law of robotics Nov 2012 #1

Hmmm... discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2012 #4

On the far right it takes the form of religion 4th law of robotics Nov 2012 #5

Excellent piece.. Upton Nov 2012 #2

Her quote gets to the heart of the matter 4th law of robotics Nov 2012 #3

Oh, some don't dance around it at all ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2012 #6