Mom fired as sex-ed teacher after being exposed as convicted prostitute, working escort

“No officer, you don’t understand! I offered her a large grant for her to do research. Not research for me, it’s for the high schoolers! How else are they supposed to learn proper technique? Jail? For what? Providing a proper education?!”

I dated an ex-escort for a while and the relationship was just fine. I think you're talking without any real experience.

A woman who has sex for work would be very concerned about doing so safely. She is likely going to know about STDs and pregnancies as well as how to prevent them and how to deal with them if/when they come up.

She has experience in setting expectations, limits, and breaking off sex when she needs to.

She is going to have more experience with the human body, what's "normal" physically, what warning signs are for various STDs.

She'll likely be the least judgemental person for someone to talk to when it comes to sex and sexual relationships.

Wouldn't this kind of be like drug addicts telling children why drugs are bad?

Very few ways to better learn why something is right than far reaching consequences for doing it wrong.

Yeah, you’re talking out of your ass.

You need to actually research this topic instead of believing conservative talking points about the sex work industry.

Sex-as-industry is a deeply fucked up field that is almost guaranteed to build resentment and unhealthy associations with sex.

It’s literally not. In fact, some people who do sex work develop an almost therapeutic relationship with their clients, since the intimate environment promotes emotional sharing.

It’s literally one of the oldest professions of human society, and the stigma against it is entirely rooted in puritanical religious attitudes, which have been proven to be antithetical to healthy relationships, if not actively promoting abuse.

To be fair, throughout history most marriage have been completely transactional.

The idea that a marriage should be based on romantic love is a new concept that would have been seen as unhealthy throughout most of human history

Victim blaming. Wow.

They are experts in the industry and it’s not a justification. If it was your justification I’ll just let your next doctor know that you don’t want a lecture by an expert in the field but someone else entirely. I’ll just grab today’s horoscope. Holdup.

Conservatives need prostitution to be illegal. If anybody with some cash could go out and get laid then the right would quickly run out of incels to recruit.

One of the best arguments for legalizing it.

I don't think hurting women is the point, more like a bonus or icing on the cake.

The point is to maintain a facade that our culture is 'above' such kind of behavior, even though everyone with a brain knows it's not.

Same kind of sentiment that allows Christians/Catholics to have sex out of wedlock but still think they're 'holier than' everyone else who does the same.

It's all just hypocrisy and insecurity.

You think it's possible for something to be a crime and not be stigmatized?

But, why? This feels about as effective of a strategy as ‘thoughts and prayers’…

Do porn directors? No? Stupid Question? Yes.

Probably not as that would be advertising sex work within an area frequented by minors. I bet it would fall under the same laws as consuming or selling pornography close to schools and parks.

You act like that's absurd, yet we allow the military to come and recruit children. That's far worse.

Well, we should eliminate every government agency then.

Very well you don't trust the government. Can you detail to me how you use this in real life? For example do you conduct your own water testing and inspect the watersheds around waste water treatment plants? Do you take your electronics and subject them to FCC type testing for safety and non-interference? Do you perform your own bacteria culture tests on all food prior to eating?

The government is far from perfect but it can in general regulate industry when the legislative branch allows it too.

Ok, I'm curious. What kind of abuse are you imagining that could possibly be worse than the status quo?

To cut back on the hyperbole that you're receiving for your comment: Even badly managed oversight would be better than none at all.

Amazon warehouse workers are being exploited brutally in a system that needs fixing, but there's much less trafficking and violent coercion involved.

I can trust them to abuse their power, and by keeping it illegal you give them the power to abuse.

My money's on a petulant john outing her after recognizing her from their kids school.

Only when they're consenting adults doing no harm to anyone.

Obviously she should have joined the military and shot brown kids instead.

That's not how logic or reasoning works. They said sex work is work, they said literally nothing else about any other kind of work.

Come on dude, that's like the most boring fallacy ever.

Your logical fallacy is both juvenile and tired.

Why would you assume she was "promoting sex work" instead just teaching kids "normal" sex ed? That's a very strong assumption, and the article says nothing about that. Do you have an alternative information source that says otherwise?

Active shooter drills? Super chill.

Woman had sex? Mind blown and values changed forever!

I wish you could see how you sound.

Especially when her "Ways to Spot A Dangerous John" course wasn't approved by the principal.

It’s always a sign that you have a great argument when you straight up make up facts.

It is massively naive to think that zero of the people who are students right now will ever do sex work at some point in the future. Some of them definitely will. Even if you don't agree that sex work is valid and honorable work (which you clearly don't agree with) there's no way to stop people from doing it despite how vilified or illegal it is in any society.

Given that reality, a course teaching people how to avoid the dangerous elements of a job that some of those people will eventually do, sounds like a great course. Having a sex worker who knows WTF she's talking about teach it? That's fucking amazing.

You're acting like she introduced herself to her students as a former prostitute. The kids never would have known if these asshole adults didn't dig into her past like it mattered.

Maybe that is why she was fired "you are too qualified for this job"

You need to have a camera and a website to upload the video to.

No.

Name a society that doesn't have sex work. I'll wait.

Go peddling your bullshit to your church friends

It's always downhill, for Israel and Gaza a downhill fireball because when you attempt to victimise the very patriarchy that gives you freedom you shouldn't decry losing your freedoms, you see what happen to Afghanistan? No civilization just gangs of terrorists. You get what you asked for, paedophiles and cunts run society like a pack of wolves, no seven wonders for you.

we were like 14 years old when dude said "well, today's the day". then he took a banana out of one drawer of his desk, and a condom out of another drawer. like they had always been there. like they belonged there. like the box his desk came in said "sturdy construction, faux wood grain paneling, and advanced banana and condom storage solutions." he then took ten minutes to explain to us that condoms don't work, and we shouldn't trust them, and that only by not fucking will we be safe from wrath, rack and ruin. He then tried to put the condom on the banana, struggled with it being upside down for a bit, and BROKE THE FUCKING BANANA.

This was the state of sex ed in the wilds of Pennsylvania circa 2000

"Perfect, all he needs to teach is abstinence anyway" -evangelicals

Yeah, or if you’re in [MY LOCATION] the gym teacher who decides to show his junk to his [SPORTSBALL TEAM] and gets nominated to our hall of fame….

I'm so sick of people bringing up trafficking whenever prostitution is mentioned. I just don't understand it. What do cars have to do with any of this?

Oh, look... the puritan sex hater brigade has shown up.

Globally there's way mor illegal trafficking in construction than in prostitution. So should wo do something there too?

And yes, legalizing will not eliminate human trafficking, but it would put the blame (and criminalization) away from victims.

Oooooo sex scary

Yeah, like they don't want a cop with too high of an IQ.

someone on the board wanted her to lower her prices

Man, your cousin is kinda hot lmao

I AM a teacher. I teach English as a foreign language and Computer Science (just CS right now). I have a gross income of slightly more than 60k a year (59k €). That’s about 3.850€ net a month after health insurance and taxes. I also have a not too shabby pension guaranteed as long as I don’t quit the job. That’s included in “my package”. Also I am tenured. I can only be fired for gross neglect or having an affair with a (minor) student, bribery or things of that nature.

The “catch” (some say advantage): That’s in Germany, not in Retardistan.

And especially a degree in a stem field.

I do expect that. I expect teachers to be very well compensated. You are talking about educating future generations and the sustainability of the country. Not about selling microwaves (nothing against it, it's just that I consider teachers to be as important to society as firefighters and healthcare workers).

It does. But it shouldn't. There's absolutely no reason.

Nobody wants to deal with the short term issues it raises, aside from the moral police issue. Legalizing it actually increases trafficking in the legalized area, while reducing it in a larger area outside the legal one. This only happens because it's an island of legality, if it was legal everywhere then trafficking would drop much more everywhere. But Nobody wants to invite the temporary increase by being the first. Germany, for example, has higher sex trafficking than most of Europe. It also ignore the difficulty of regulation, there's a reason it is so prevalent, even where illegal. There is always going to be a strong pressure on vulnerable women, and enforcing the regulations can be incredibly difficult.

That's not to say it shouldn't be legalized. But these are the challenges it faces.

Yea sure, but the problem is that it it villainizes her when all she was doing was sex work, which is only illegal because of puritanical religious meddling.

Sex work is work, and she’s done nothing wrong other than break a morally ambiguous, at best, law. The phrasing is bullshit.

And the only reason it's still a crime is The Bible Thumpers who vote for The Mammon Worshippers would vote them out if they legalized it. The Mammonites (Republicans) would LOVE to get their cut of those fuck profits.

That is very true, but there are still some things that they can do to prevent soccer mom next door who can barely use a search engine.

I wonder if a escort has said no to someone and legally kept the money.