Trump supporters gather outside courthouse and ask: Who among us hasn’t paid for sex?

They legitimately believe it should be fine to pay for sex, but should be illegal to be paid for sex.

That old post that posited conservatism is "ingroups to protect, outgroups to bind" was really on the mark.

Let's say it together: they don't actually care about fiscal responsibility.

Their only consistency is inconsistency.

It's not a homogenous group. You've absolutely got libertarians on one end, wanting to dissolve the state and legalize a market for children as sexual commodities on one end. And then you've got the Holy Rollers on the order end, who think coffee and cigarettes need to be next on the chopping block.

They formed an alliance of convenience to crush the labor movement. But now they are very awkward bedfellows.

Gotta keep women in their place and under control, even if we say it’s the wrong place. It’s all about control and restricting their autonomy.

Not sure what you mean. Soliciting a prostitute is already illegal in most states.

Human trafficking is there, anyway. The victims tend to be afraid, because they're forced to do otherwise illegal things, and therefore don't want to come forward. So what often happens under legalization is that a whole bunch of victims suddenly come out, which is now recorded as an increase in human trafficking.

“Uneducated”

I think you need to do some reading, friend. Human trafficking is already a big problem. Legitimizing sex work and regulating it removes t some of the incentives to operate behind the scenes, just like legalizing pot, and frankly you get rid of the whole under-age thing because no government entity is going to allow that.

S/he's right.

Don't forget election interference

It's exactly why Republicans cried "purgery trap" when people wanted to have Trump testify as president. They knew what they did during the Clinton investigation and just assume Democrats would somehow "force" Trump to lie about something completely unrelated...

The Clinton investigation was over real estate and somehow made it's way over to blow jobs.

Exactly. He got impeached for lying about questioning unrelated to the investigation on him after the actual subject of the investigation bore no fruit.

Most countries remove their moron politicians. The United States just allows them to remain president until the end of term.

That made my physically ill when I read about it. That's some serious theatrics and/or mental illness.

Oddly specific, weird example

I would say it depends on the type of crime and the amount of detail. If you say out loud, "I murdered John Smith last Tuesday" and John Smith had been murdered last Tuesday, I think you should probably get investigated for the murder of John Smith.

If you say "I've had sex with a prostitute" but don't go further than that in terms of any details, definitely not.

IIRC, the person who owns the production company can't be the one getting it on. Even that's probably not enforced much.

What an amazing little carveout, and since almost everyone has a phone with a camera...

Actually, prostitution is not legal in Clark County (where Las Vegas is). It is legal in the rest of Nevada, though. The sex workers that advertise in Vegas are based just outside of the county lines and travel into the city when called. The cops pretty much just look the other way so it seems legal there.

If you're rich, they let you do it.

It's an easy mistranslation to make, especially when you had a large group of scholars reading hundreds of accounts of stuff that happened hundreds of years earlier written in several different languages and deciding which stories were "real" and worth putting in one book. Then a thousand years later you had another group of people translating THAT.

I'm surprised there aren't more stories about Jesus falsifying his business records after trying to cover up a sex scandal.

She is married to Donald. Every day of her life, she pays.

Totally agree with you. But this:

this view holds the client up as a victim and the sex worker as some kind of intrusive parasite who has failed to know her place.

Is because their golden god can do no wrong. That every law he broke was somehow not his fault, and clearly the fault of the accuser or corrupt prosecutors. They will shift the focus away from an argument they can't win, campaign funds being used for non-campaign purposes, to anything they can get the base whipped up about.

But my complaint isn't even about that. My problem is that this article demonizes these Trump supporters for one wrong reason. That characterizing customers of sex work as weirdos for admitting it, regardless of their presidential candidate of choice, hurts the effort to legitimize sex work. There's a lot of fish in the barrel of criticism for this group, no need for the author and OP to support a conservative anti-sex work narrative at the same time.

Conservatives don't like sex work because it ruins the "wife will submit to her husband" power dynamic around sex they were taught is the norm.

Sex work being illegal, and as a result inherently ripe for exploitation, is the feature not a bug to conservatives.

Only in Nevada, in the form of brothels. And they only operate in a handful of counties.

I agree, but I think there are hints here and there.

For example-

“What do you think I do in Thailand, just sit in a chair?” he asked, incredulously. “That’s what we do as men, you know?”

Thailand isn't really famous for it's ciswomen prostitutes...

Is Skit the North American equivalent?

Not irrelevant, but it's not the illegal thing he's on trial for.

It's just reality.

Can you point out what I said that wasn’t true?

Nah, it was sexist already without the dehumanizing language.