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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by roguecoder on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:16AM (#20995336)
You are describing sex work. Both of those are other terms for sex work. Which is fine once the sex workers are of age and haven’t been coerced, but neither of those was true here.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by falcolas on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:38AM (#20995634)
Not just sex workers - some women marry just for access to the money and power (and I'm sure some men do as well).

But the coercion is very true, and hence my explicit callout. The question becomes did Minsky know that? Did he have any reason to suspect it?

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by frabbit on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @10:56AM (#20995890)
How would you know whether someone was coerced?

Would they tell you?

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