That having been said, the classroom isn’t the place for that. Usually.

There was a case here in Germany a couple of years ago where a guy who was 80 died in the Sauna of one of the better known “mens clubs”. It made the papers and pretty much every man I knew said “now THAT is how I would like to go at 80!”

I presume this does happen to older men. But I doubt too many would want to be “saved” from such a fate.

Extreme porn was a temptingly easy target, and the obvious choice for a trial run. After that, who knows what subjects could be hit? All porn/erotica? Atheism? Advice on sex or birth control? Economic criticisms? The Occupy Movement? Donations? Just about anything would be fair game, justified simply by “The owners of Paypal don’t like it.”

And why limit it to the written word or video? What about contraceptives, generic medicines, just about anything. Paypal couldn’t stop such things from being sold, but it would make internet commerce much more difficult, especially if the credit card companies joined in once it was clear that Paypal could get away with it.

It doesn’t even mean there was a particular right or left wing agenda. It would have simply made Paypal into a useful tool for covert censorship and social control for anyone with political influence.

re: Maggie in the Media

Good to see that your campaign for world domination is proceeding apace Maggie

If you follow some of the links in that story, it says she made these videos for one pornographer about six years ago. He claims he did more than a dozen shoots of her while she was in college getting her teaching degree. Oh – and, this evil lady was also working as an EMT at the time.

He estimates he paid her about $10,000 for all the shoots – that seems low to me (but this was six years ago).

Oh and yeah – the dude still operates websites and now he’s adding more of her nudes to the member-only sections of his pages. He’s trying to milk her situation for more money.

I think she has a case for a lawsuit, personally. She wasn’t engaged in any illegal activity and the activity they question happened before she became a teacher. There’s no way they asked her about any kind of a porn past when she applied for the job … so this is an “ex post facto” rationale for terminating her.

One one hand, if you have the training no one should be prevented from teaching. I’d way rather have Maggie teaching than many people. But on the other, is a career where your background is going to be heavily scrutinized a good choice for a former sex worker?

In my day, we never assumed that it would be so easy to track us. If you wanted that kind of entertainment, you had to go to one of those kinds of stores, and buy it. Then came the internet and the rules changed. Now everything is for ever. Hell, I know there’s still some of my stuff out there, and that’s ancient days. And stuff like porn Wikileaks doesn’t help. I just assume I’ll never get any job where they do serious background checking. (Lacking the education, it’s not as if I’m going to get a big job anyway.)

Still, there is no reason why a former sex worker shouldn’t be able to teach, or do any job.

As for the anti-AIDS drug, I’m not surprised. If tomorrow a drug were invented that made one totally immune to hiv, there would be plenty of people wanting to make sure dirty queers, whores, and promiscuous women didn’t get it. It’s not about disease, it’s about punishment.

You know, I’d be way more insulted if someone called me a politician than a whore.

This prophylactic treatment has gotten positive results through THREE clinical trials. In most cases – people get excited when the results of a trial are merely reproduced in one other. Three trials is significant.

It would appear that AHF WANTS more people to be infected so that they can stay in business.

By the way – I think I’ve also seen something similar here with the prevention of HSV-II … that the drugs used by infected persons to control outbreaks also have some amount of prophylaxis when used by the uninfected.