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Craigslist Agrees With State AGs To Curb "Erotic Services" Ads
The New York Times reports that Craigslist has reached an agreement with 40 state attorneys general to tame its notoriously unruly "erotic services" listings. Clever diplomacy: according to the article, Craigslist "said that it will charge erotic services vendors a small fee for each ad — about $10, Mr. Buckmaster said — and require that they use a credit card for the payment. It will donate the money to charities that combat child exploitation and human trafficking. This, theoretically, will let the company confirm not just a phone number but also an identity." I hope they work on cleaning the weird spammers from the ordinary personal ads, too.
Amen. The spammers from the ordinary personal adds are really dirty and urgently require cleaning of any kind. You'd think these guys are allergic to showers...
The last line in the article is awesome: "There are very few prostitutes who want to be called by Craigslist and asked to give additional identifying information."
This immediately made me think 'so you are saying that some prostitutes want Craigslist to call them?'. Now that's kinky.
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As long as they don't mess with continued additions to the best of craigslist I'm ok with the changes
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The illegality of each of those things is negative. So, when you multiply them together, you are bound to wind up with a result that has positive illegality, duh. It's pretty basic arithmetic. Of course, it does lead to the little known fact that doing any two legal things together is illegal. Aside from selling fucking, driving while blindfolded is another relatively obvious example. Most minor cases of doing two legal things at the same time are never prosecuted, but standing while muttering is technically not legal, thanks to math.
Of course, the circumvent the issue, you just need to do a third legal thing while you whore yourself out, like read a book. Then the extra minus sign multiplies through and they can't do anything to you.
There goes my social life.
Well, I doubt they're allergic to golden showers. :-)
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I'm anti-prostitution, and I'll tell you why:
At some point, some pointy-haired boss type will realize that, if prostitution is legal, that means they can add sexual services to whatever job description they want.
After that sucking corporate cock won't just be a metaphor for hating your shitty job, it'll be the literal truth.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!