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“Pay my tuition just to kiss me on this W-A-P” -Cardi B’s WAP Preposterous University & College Tuition hikes are normalizing the face of all Commercial Sex Work including prostitution. Laugh me off, but it‘s now coming for members of all our families: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Aug 10, 2020

I'd like to present the lyrics from the recently released song WAP, which has 62 million views on youtube already. Tldr; "woooo prostitution" genius.com/Cardi-b-wap-ly h/t @EricRWeinstein re: the discussion of normalizing sugar babies, the song does reference paying tuition

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Eric Weinstein

@EricRWeinstein

Aug 11, 2020

As I have said many times before, there are adult women who opt for sex work. That is *not* my issue here. The issue instead is about young people unsuited to sex work who are guided deep into debt they can’t handle by well meaning teachers, parents and school administrators.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

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I'd like to see a sex work course in college so young people can get a good sense of whether it's the right career path for them

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Do you see a sex work masterclass anytime soon?

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oh man i would love to teach the *fuck* outta that

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In that vein, I might begin by taking a look at Cleo Odzer’s PhD dissertation on prostitution at the New School of Social Research.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Aug 11, 2020

I think the point is that sex work is much higher variance in outcome, and table waiting isn't. Tbf I still don't support outlawing sex work at all. Decriminalize it! But giving young women better education around how to navigate it seems like a good idea.