VICE.com Story on Review Boards

[Tabitha]

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-real-deal-with-sex-worker-review-forums​

 

[escapefromstress]

along with:

We Spoke to a Sex Industry Hobbyist, the Worst Kind of John
June 11, 2015
by Brigitte Noël

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/we-spoke-a-sex-industry-hobbyist-the-worst-kind-of-john

(I copied both of these into the C-36 Sticky thread too.)

 

[westwoody]

A lot of plagiarism in the Brigit Noel article. Cut and paste right from the reddit forum on prostitution that was talked about here recently.
Best example is the very merb post she quotes which is also quoted on that reddit forum. Noel supposedly wrote the article recently as it is dated yesterday. Did she really read all the posts back to 2013? Or just skim through reddit for one she liked?

I disagree with almost everything in the second article and wonder if the interview was fabricated.
First, "the boards are simply atrocious to all girls". That's simply a lie. Lots of guys post only good reviews. Other guys immediately defend their favourites. Many women are extremely popular on here and on other boards.
Second "critics are simply brutal and if a girl has one bad date they will fry her". Nobody gets fried over one bad date. If someone who usually gets good reviews gets a bad one most guys are sceptical. Nobody clicks with everyone else, YMMV.
"Once a girl hits her early 20s she has to start lying about her age to get clients". More lies. My own faves are listed at more than ten years older than that and so are many well liked ladies. I took a lady to a tropical paradise in February who was older still.

 

[badbubba]

The documentary embedded in the article is interesting. Joy Smith's argument is that sex work should be illegal since young girls are trafficked. Though I'm preaching to the choir, the analogy is that if women are trafficked to be nannies then nannying should be illegal. If children are forced to work in factories sewing soccer balls, we should make producing soccer balls illegal.

 

[treveller]

Thanks for the comment on the term "hobbyist". I see your point and will drop that one from the vocabulary.

With the trash talk from some of the client/posters and and the garbage from the likes of Joy Smith, soon to receive much of Harper's (tax payers) $20 million, and the new C-36 laws, I fear we may eventually see an attack on the boards in Canada, like the one that shut down Red Book in San Francisco. Even when the police action is unconstitutional or violates the Charter it can do a lot of damage.

What can we do to to protect the boards besides vote out the Harper Government?

 

[Tugela]

The documentary embedded in the article is interesting. Joy Smith's argument is that sex work should be illegal since young girls are trafficked. Though I'm preaching to the choir, the analogy is that if women are trafficked to be nannies then nannying should be illegal. If children are forced to work in factories sewing soccer balls, we should make producing soccer balls illegal.

Yeah..."young" girls who are actually more like in their late 20s/early 30s.

While there are some minors involved in the sex industry, the numbers of them are vastly overstated. If you have ever followed these stories about the periodic nation wide anti-prostitution sweeps they have down in the US, and look at the actual numbers they report, it is pretty damned obvious that there are not a whole lot of these minors out there.

 

[Tugela]

Many women in the industry find review boards offensive.

Far too often, the conversation denigrates to one in which women are spoken about as though they are mere commodities. When this happens, it has the potential to affect how men actually treat women when they see them. As you can no doubt imagine, that is certainly problematic and has many negative consequences for women.

I think that the first step has to begin with nomenclature. By calling oneself a "hobbyist" a gentleman infers that an experience with a woman is something to collect as opposed to something which should be cherished as special.

Perhaps we should all reflect upon our behaviour on these boards. Just maybe, we might discover that we can all do a whole lot better.

I agree, the term "hobbyist" is weird and you have to wonder about people who describe them selves like that.

 

[ReedRothchild]

It takes a very special kind of presumptuous arrogance to take ones own experiences and preferences and blatantly apply them to an entire group of broad ranging diverse individuals. Megalomaniac.