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Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by blattimwind on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:06PM (#19394793)
> The former covers most every commercial activity whose objective is orgasm

I don't think that's technically true.

Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by michaelt on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:32PM (#19394982)
Certainly, a farmer manually collecting bull semen isn't engaged in sex work.

But I would say at the very least "sex work" covers dominatrices, pre-recorded and live-streaming porn performances, strip club and lap dance performances, as well as escorts. So "sex worker" isn't precisely equal to "prostitute"

Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by hopler on Thursday March 14, 2019 @08:22PM (#19395260)
The objective of fertility work is sperm/egg/embryo/whatever, not orgasm. If they could efficienctly stick a needle in the gonads and extract the reproductive cells, they would.
Re:Gwern's Law: Ads cost you a tenth of your users by JohnFen on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:01PM (#19401648)
Strippers are sex workers, but most of them aren't trying to make their customers orgasm. At least, not in the moment.