ThermalTide

It's not as common as you're making this out to be- if it was, waaay more women would be involved in the industry. Yes, pay pigs and sugar relationships exist without any sexual exchanges, but they're exceptionally rare. Even if it starts out that way, eventually the bill will be expected to be paid. I'm saying this as someone who has been involved in the sex work industry for over 3 years.

Nothing is "good" or "bad" really, but seeing as I've sold my body for a price, I might have something of interest to add here. Prostitution pretty much only occurs in desperate circumstances, by providers and patrons. Providers desperate to get money, patrons desperate to feel desired. In this way, its a very low consciousness activity. It also promotes sex trafficking, so theres that. I suppose some people would say 'well, I was feeling horrible about my life and then I saw a hot escort who told me all I've wanted to hear, blah blah blah, life saving, blah.' On the other side, some women say that the sex industry saved them financially or made them love their body finally or whatever. The arguments for it being "good" are pretty stupid to me, when compared to the nasty parts of it.

actually yes but who cares?

Women should give birth to babies if they want to. I agree it's painful and theres too many humans, but (most) women have an innate desire to have children, and I'd reckon most would want to do so vaginally, epidural or no. I do think adoption is a great thing and I wish more people would look into this, however as humans with egos, most would want their children to be their own genetic offspring.

My biggest lesson I learned in 2024 was that nobody really cares or thinks about you that much. I have this tendency to overthink about what others think of me, when in reality they're not thinking about me at all. I carried around so much stress at the beginning of the year, just being in my head worrying about others opinions. So, ultimately, it doesn't matter what I do or say; what matters is if what I do and say is in alignment with my higher self and the person I want to become. Part of this is knowing who I want to become, so this lesson was learning to be present, learning to really carve out what my values and ambitions are and make them very clear to myself, so that wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I can be confident that I'm being authentic to myself. This also involved creating self trust. One of my goals going into this year is to develop more self trust.

so sad that screens have warped people so badly lmao

I have several tattoos that are not exactly as I wanted them to be... I just got more. Lower your expectations and just laugh about it, theyre not that serious

Interesting take, I haven't thought about it in this way but I agree that there seems to be a sort of revolution underway. I'm hopeful it doesn't blow up in our faces, feminism really took a wack ass turn a while back

Makes people feel in on something that makes them better than others

Could be because typically women take on a nurturing role in a long term relationship and when men feel that is absent they're not sure how to emotionally process because they themselves are not the most nurturing. I think women have just as hard of a time as men with breakups though, its not really a gender based thing

@Frylock yeah the fact that any of that even bothers you is just flaccid to me like who cares?

wookish cbd indeed

The vitriol for Trump has always struck me as nuclear cringe ngl

Destiny is worth looking into, he is an intellectual black belt of sorts. I commend you for broadening what you listen to, especially given the results of the election lol

lmao