The world has gone crazy...

[Ebony Amber]

Haven't seen any discussions here about it so not sure if you guys know but the USA is officially even more f*cked than before

A couple of days ago a bill "FOSTA/SESTA" passed through the house and senate that is set to drastically change the lives of escorts for the worst. It's being posed as an "anti trafficking bill" but realistically we all know thats just code for "anti sex work". The bill itself won't be active for at least 90 days but already it's causing a lot of problems for workers in the US and soon those outside.

In the US several large advertising sites have shut down (voluntarily for now) like TER which was a HUGE free forum for workers to advertise for free on, I myself use it and rely heavily on it when I tour the US, CityVibe which was very popular on the west coast and even Craigslist have shut down their personal sections including bloody platonic encounters. If you're on twitter you'll see how much escorts are panicking and rightfully so. I've been tweeting about it from my account but others have much more to say and say it better.

They are literally having their income sources snatched away from them in the name of a bullshit anti trafficking bill and it's so sad. Imagine if this happened in Ireland to EI (not saying it will just imagine). Sure everyone would work out other ways of working in the end but there would be many left near destitute with no way to work till that happened. Never mind the horny lost clients walking around with boners and blue balls lol.

The bill also threatens basically any of us who have our own private websites with .com domains or who host in the USA, our social media (Twitter is a big source of advertising for many of us) down to even our bloody gmail accounts. It's truly a nightmare and there is so little we can do about it. The worst part is how it's going to effect the most marginalised and least privileged.

Gosh it almost makes the godforsaken Nordic model look harmless (it's not harmless of course). I cannot believe they think this will keep escorts safer? Burning down places to advertise and screen clients safely.

A bloody sad time to be alive and even sadder if you're an escort in the U