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Old 09-20-2011, 12:23 PM  
okok
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I feel like the author is really stretching to push the idea that cams customers are getting off on the idea of dominating underpaid workers. It's her preconception and a weak premise. Then drawing comparisons to vile sex slavery in Cambodia?

I feel like this article is really about that terrible experience she had in Cambodia and how it seeps into her views on sex-workers in general. Notice how she dances around sex-work issues in an effort not to offend sex-positive feminist Alternet readers.

It's an incoherent piece that seems to be grabbing at straws (for building strawmen, natch) to evoke a response from the reader.

Call me cynical but I'm a little tired of Alternet/Huffpo/et al having degenerated into pageview machines instead of putting out solid progressive-slanted journalism and opinion. This article made me feel dumber for having read it.
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