US teens often forced to trade sex work for food, study finds | US news
theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/12/teens-ame...
theguardian.comPosted Sep 12, 2016, 8:48 AM UTC
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theguardian.comI've never traded sex for food, but I'd be willing to give it a try.
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Where was this when I was a teen? I feel like I missed out.
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If they are totally broke they are eligible for food stamps.
They just need to prostitute to pay the rent.
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Food stamps does not give what it used to. Also they probably sell the stamps for 50 cents to the dollar for rent and then make up any food shortfall by hooking, so they have to hook less. BTW teens don't pay rent.
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"Teens" can mean anything from 13-19. We are mostly talking 18-19 here, and they do pay rent.
Food Stamps buy you enough food to live on if you know how to shop and have a place to cook your food. I wrote a whole series on this and lived on a Food Stamp budget for 3 months to prove it.
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Did you even read the article or my reply. If they sell their food stamps they do not get food. Also, from experience I know it is not enough to live on and buy food if you sell your stamps. My mom did that crap. Always made life hard.
I didn't write a paper about this crap, I lived it.
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You can't sell your stamps anymore. You get the money on a SNAP debit card and you need to show ID with it. You would have to buy the food then sell the food.
If they are selling the food and prostituting to buy the food again, that is just plain stupid and they deserve Darwin Awards.
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On the other hand, a plumber can be elbow deep in shit, a vet up to his armpit in a cows vagina etc and that's ok... but some grad student gives a dude a reach around.. sacrè bleù
and I had to pay my doctor to stick a finger in my arse, I am sure the local hooker would have done it for less :)
Fucking puritans... :)
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ages 9-18...that's what the article stated.
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Another stop-and-stare article from the guardian. They are legitimizing the exploitation of the most vulnerable, by equating it with "work" this time. Good times for the global rich, pimps and social "workers"
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They're not equating sex with work to legitimize it, you dope. They're being politcally correct about the fact that these girls have to whore themselves out for a sandwich. No where does it read that these are ideal propositions for these kids.
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have to whore themselves out for a sandwich
righttttt... a sandwich.
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So are you saying it's for more than a sandwich? I don't disagree. Are you disagreeing that they fuck for food also? I would disagree.
I think we can all agree on one thing though. When one writes the word 'right' but wants to elongate the vowell sound so that the reader reads it in a sarcastic tone, as I'm sure you meant it, one should always repeat the vowell as in 'riiiiiight'. When one repeats the 't' instead, the reader is left to wonder if the speaker/ writer intends sarcasm or is conveying a stutter, which I would then contend could still be better written as 'right-t-t-t'.
As it stands, 'righttttt' represents no real, speakable word. Like dividing by zero it presents an impossibility.
I'm sorry. I've rambled. Now what were you saying?
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Or maybe they didn't want to call desperate girls whores or prostitutes.
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What do you have against social workers?
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They're usually employed by government agencies so they brain wash you to be pro state monsters! Haha /s
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Depends on the sector and country you live in I guess. What's the alternative? For-profit social workers? Somehow I doubt that will improve the quality of help for those in need as the company seeks to cut costs at every corner.
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Oh dear, my post was meant to be sarcasm, should have that /s thingy at the end I guess. I think social work is necessary and should be carried out by the state.
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just so! this has happened to me!
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All you did was read the headline
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Just how all these Rich Elite Predophiles like it.