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Like I've said before, the vast majority of people using surrogates are rich heterosexual couples (case in point, Olivia Munn and John Mulaney) and I have zero qualms saying that I find the practice absolutely reprehensible because I simply don't think having a child with your genes is a human right.

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um sorry. He said what

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halt! you must pay the fujoshi tax. slip your comrade a little tongue, then you may pass o'er this bridge.

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my cat is a gamer. he loves to play classic games such as "crinkle ball" and "string"

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I think every celebrity that does sports betting ads should be strung up by their finger nails and pelted with rotten fruit and veg

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modern art exhibit titled "I bet you won't kill yourself" that is just a loaded gun on a podium in a museum

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mmm collecting data... excel sheets to store my data.... scrying, organizing,,, sorting. compiling and aggragating. oughhghhhgghhhhvg

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For centuries brothels were part of military planning, prostitution seen as an auxiliary service, vital for the men’s morale. The French army had Bordels Militaires de Campagne, trailer trucks each containing ten women which followed battalions servicing, in order of rank, soldiers who’d line up with a ticket, a condom and a towel.

In France’s colonial campaigns these mobile units were staffed by young Algerian or Vietnamese women, sold by relatives into servitude. The Japanese imperial army rounded up “comfort women” in occupied Korea or China, local girls who believed they were to become nurses. Throughout the Second World War Germany had its official military brothels stocked with pretty Polish or Russian girls snatched off the street.

These women, who were brutalised, forced to have sex with 50 men a day, made pregnant and then ostracised by their families so they could never return home, are rarely mentioned in military histories. Their purpose was to keep the troops biddable. Besides, with a cadre of designated women to rape, it was hoped soldiers might leave civilians alone and not catch venereal disease.

The British Army approach was less formal: tolerate but don’t condone men who far from home might line up outside “red lamp” knocking shops in the Somme. Even in this decade, it turned a blind eye to hundreds of troops deployed to Kenya for hot weather training having sex with prostitutes through chain-link fences or taking a brace of girls off to £10-a-night hotels.

When Agnes Wanjiru, a hairdresser driven into sex work to feed her baby, was killed and stuffed into a septic tank, squaddies at a British base in Kenya covered up the death, then laughed about it on WhatsApp groups. The army washed its hands and the murder remains unsolved.

It took this scandal, brilliantly exposed by Sunday Times journalists, to bring the British military into the #MeToo era. The MoD has announced that from now on it will prohibit “all sexual activity which involves the abuse of power, including buying sex while abroad”.

This has been met with much derision: how can it be policed, why should “consensual” acts be subject to court martial, what about men’s sexual needs? But as the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, says: “Life has moved on, it is a different generation”.

Indeed it would be hypocritical for the government not to act. After Oxfam was involved in a series of sex abuse scandals following the 2010 Haitian earthquake, including trading sex for basic supplies and hiring locals for staff orgies, it was denied UK aid contracts. When further Oxfam scandals emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the ban remained. How can it be wrong for charity workers to exploit vulnerable women but fine for British soldiers?

The Oxfam scandal exposed the sexual impunity of staff at many NGOs operating in developing nations. There is something particularly grotesque about a western aid worker, high on his own virtue, bartering with a young mother after a natural disaster: sleep with me and here’s a box of baby milk. But is it any better if money is traded instead?

The United Nations classes such prostitution as exploitation. From Haiti to Sierra Leone, its peacekeeping forces have been implicated in sex scandals. In the 1990s blue helmets were found to frequent brothels in Bosnia and Kosovo staffed by trafficked women, and in Cambodia where girls were under age. Peacekeepers in the DRC were found to have bought sex with two eggs from their ration packs. In Liberia, a 2016 report found half of women in Monrovia had turned to prostitution, with 75 per cent of clients being peacekeepers. UN presence was debasing a whole community.

It is almost 20 years since the UN secretary-general Kofi Annan announced peacekeepers should be “discouraged” from engaging in sexual relations with locals they are supposed to be assisting, since there is an “inherently unequal power dynamic”. Not that Annan’s words stopped the abuse. But it is right that the British Army is now pledging the same.

Inherent in the tolerance of soldiers buying sex is the belief it prevents rape, as if prostitutes are a buffer zone, dehumanised to protect virtuous women. But research shows men who buy sex are more likely to rape: trading money for consent reduces empathy, makes a man believe only his pleasure counts and increases his likelihood of partner abuse.

Sarah Everard’s killer, Wayne Couzens, a prolific punter who paraded escorts to his police colleagues, tried to book a prostitute just after he’d disposed of Sarah’s body. Read any review on “punter” websites where men rate women’s bodies, obedience and enthusiasm, marking them down if they balk at painful demands.

The question is not why soldiers should be banned from foreign brothels, but why only abroad. What prostitution is not a “sexual activity that involves the abuse of power”? In Germany’s legalised super-brothels, women, many trafficked from Romania or Africa, must sleep with six men a night before they’ve even paid their brothel rent. It is not a “job like any other” if basic health and safety — from avoiding contact with bodily fluids, unwanted touching or even violence — cannot be enforced. The vast majority of prostitutes are not swinging Belle de Jours but were abused as children, lured in by pimp-boyfriends and muffle their pain with drugs or alcohol.

Ben Wallace is right: this is a new generation. It is time that the Nordic model, which decriminalises sex work but makes buying it a crime and has been adopted in France, Ireland and Sweden, is debated in parliament. No man should have impunity when buying a woman’s body, whether out on a stag night or serving his country.

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really sad a new ice age movie wasn't coming out this summer because we could've had a horrible tweet from some official ice age twitter account declaring it "scrat summer" and potentially turning people off the whole thing. or not. i frequently hit my shin or toes on the really sharp bedframe a lot despite knowing it's there and i worry it's because i no longer have brain elasticity

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Pro choice rally, 1989, San Francisco. Phyllis Christopher

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Oh but as soon as I talk about the fact that meme culture has forced + normalized porn and extreme sexual content onto minors, and has also pushed for the oversexualization of women as a whole, I get told I’m crazy.

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This is one of the thai restaurants in my hometown and i can tell you first hand this lady is wonderful

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Queen - I Want to Break Free

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why is petplay always dogs and cats and shit. put your man in a hamster wheel