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China’s Hottest New Rental Service: Men Who Actually Listen. Sept 02, 2021 [Full article is freely accessible at the link] Chinese women are fed up with dating self-absorbed men. Now, “butler cafés” are offering them more attentive male company — for a fee...

Maybe of interest: Syukuro Manabe & Anthony J. Broccoli: Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change. Princeton University Press, 2020 https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Global-Warming-Numerical-Revealed/dp/0691058865...

So Sol Tee Nutz hates the carbon tax. It's not clear to me why [Is it just because its a policy pushed by the Trudeau government?]. With his post # 340 he seems to be all over the place. He tells us that "climate change is a scam as the climate has always changed at various rates before [the]...

EB, when the media reported about Incels [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel ] a while ago, one could also read online that the social utility of sex workers was that they could satisfy the sexual needs of incels who often hold mysogynistic views.

Article from Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil: Meurtre dans un hôtel de Sainte-Foy: «Elle se pensait en sécurité» https://www.lesoleil.com/actualite/meurtre-dans-un-hotel-de-sainte-foy-elle-se-pensait-en-securite-photosvideo-a788cd2578bb46cf20cb8266278c6d03 Extracts: - the victim (Marylène) knew...

Take a look at this hilarious SNL (Saturday Night Life) sketch entitled "Where'd Your Money Go?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d-EyX5r_lk

Boeing Can’t Fly Its 737 Max, but It’s Ready to Sell Its Safety The company knows travelers are wary of its plane, so it has prepared presentations with strategies for airlines to help win back the public’s trust. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/24/business/boeing-737-max-survey.html

The new puritans. The Economist, June 15th 2019 The idea of criminalising prostitutes’ clients is spreading Prostitutes hate it https://www.economist.com/europe/201...s-is-spreading "... Over the past two decades the Swedish model has been taken up by nearby Norway and Iceland, and beyond, by...

The new puritans. The Economist, June 15th 2019 The idea of criminalising prostitutes’ clients is spreading Prostitutes hate it https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/06/15/the-idea-of-criminalising-prostitutes-clients-is-spreading "... Over the past two decades the Swedish model has been taken...

Patron, - I read that Madalena and who you call her Sugar Daddy are actually in love, it's not sex for money. Am I too gullible or are you too cynical (or playing favorites with Sunshine and Cinnamon) ? - What about New Zealand? Sex work was decriminalized there, what?, a decade ago.

STN, you are wrong in saying that nobody on the political right wants to ban something he/she does not agree with. Take Stephen Harper for instance. He is politically on the right. He wanted to ban prostitution. It's very easy to name other examples. Many people on the right would like to ban...

Curly, you are focusing on the wrong thing: the sex. On that score, you seem no different from your significant other's (SO) clients. But: 1) Your SO does not demand money from you for sex. 2) You write that "we [you and your SO] tell each other the real things". Does your SO does the same thing...

Opponents of the legalization of sex work usually try to advance their cause under the shield of a barrage of fake statistics (average entry into sex trade; level of violence; how many sex workers have a pimp; etc.). See: Ronald Weitzer: Sex trafficking and the sex industry: the need for...

Controversial decision: Quebec feminist group and prostitution. Radio Canada International, 29 October, 2018 http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/10/29/controversial-decision-quebec-feminist-group-and-prostitution/ La prostitution reconnue comme un travail par la Fédération des femmes du Québec. Le...

I recommend reading: David M. Buss: The evolution of desire: Strategies of human mating. revised and updated edition, New York, Basic Books, 2016 https://www.amazon.ca/Evolution-Desire-Strategies-Human-Mating/dp/0465097766 if you live in Montreal, you can borrow the book from BAnQ...

Hugh Eakin: The Khashoggi Killing: America’s Part in a Saudi Horror. New York Review of Books, Oct. 18, 2018 https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/18/the-khashoggi-killing-americas-part-in-a-saudi-horror Excerpt: Shortly after I met al-Qahtani and al-Khair, I asked President Obama’s...

New York Stories: A ‘Sugar Date’ Gone Sour. New York Times, Oct. 15, 2018 In the fuzzy space between jobs and relationships, there’s a lot that can go wrong. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/style/sugar-dating-seeking-arrangement.html

The Pros And Cons Of Legalizing Prostitution. August 31, 2015 http://www.theonion.com/graphic/pros-and-cons-legalizing-prostitution-51209 Several global advocacy groups, including the World Health Organization, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, are calling for the decriminalization...

Forum Research Inc.: More than half want prostitution legalized. January 15, 2015 http://poll.forumresearch.com/post/212/majority-disapprove-of-bill-c36/ In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1741 Canadians 18 years of age and older, more than half believe...

Justin Ling: Governments have failed Canada’s sex workers—and they’re running out of patience. MacLean's, Sept. 6, 2018 https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/governments-have-failed-canadas-sex-workers-and-theyre-running-out-of-patience/