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You don't think that being molested by your grandfather might have something to do with replaying that molestation obsessively throughout your life, and trying

by Drupon 9mo ago

You don't think that being molested by your grandfather might have something to do with replaying that molestation obsessively throughout your life, and trying to come up with hypotheticals in which it can actually be ok? I'm just operating at the preponderance of evidence level here, and it seems far more likely to be to case that extreme childhood sexual caused the extreme sexual deviation. Do your P(A|B) work here, it's not hard, given the small probability of both of those things.

JasonADrury 9mo ago
Even if you're correct that her being abused in her childhood is related to her choice of career, what do you think you're adding to the conversation by bringing that up? What are you actually trying to do here besides shame her for having been abused as a child? That's really the only takeaway from your comment here, that people shouldn't read her writing about prostitution as a business because she was abused as a child. That seems particularly nasty on your part, even if unintentional.
- Drupon 9mo ago
  >related to her choice of career Didn't imply this. However, the science is that childhood sexual abuse is an antecedent to prostitution. >What are you actually trying to do here besides shame her for having been abused as a child? Warn others that she is dangerous and shouldn't be taken seriously.
  - JasonADrury 9mo ago
    >Warn others that she is dangerous and shouldn't be taken seriously. Is this post dangerous? You certainly didn't refer to any particular dangerous content, just shouting about a couple of weird tweets doesn't seem very useful. I really don't get it, unless you're specifically upset by her quite reasonable post about AI generated child pornography, but that'd be weird. > However, the science is that childhood sexual abuse is an antecedent to prostitution. Even if a causal relationship has been proven, that doesn't mean any correlation implies causation.
    - Drupon 9mo ago
      >Even if a causal relationship has been proven, that doesn't mean any correlation implies causation. This is HN, not a psychology conference or a therapy session. Feel free to accept or reject my level of epistemological rigor. I just know my priors, and honestly I don't see the value in continuing this conversation if you don't (or pretend you don't). If a lifetime alcoholic died of liver failure, it's entirely possible that he got hepatitis, but I'm going to go ahead and say it was the alcohol and treat any quibbling about causation and correlation as an irrelevant diversion.
      - JasonADrury 9mo ago
        Even if you were correct, none of that really seems relevant wrt the actual content of this blog post.
    - cess11 9mo ago
      It's a bog-standard guide to escorting, similar to how some people post how-to:s on LinkedIn or corporate blogs. You can find hundreds or thousands of these floating around, commonly among ex-escorts who are trying to pursue some adjacent but less corporeal career. I'm sure some of these are written by more sensible people.

by Drupon 9mo ago

JasonADrury 9mo ago

Even if you're correct that her being abused in her childhood is related to her choice of career, what do you think you're adding to the conversation by bringing that up? What are you actually trying to do here besides shame her for having been abused as a child? That's really the only takeaway from your comment here, that people shouldn't read her writing about prostitution as a business because she was abused as a child. That seems particularly nasty on your part, even if unintentional.

Drupon 9mo ago
>related to her choice of career Didn't imply this. However, the science is that childhood sexual abuse is an antecedent to prostitution. >What are you actually trying to do here besides shame her for having been abused as a child? Warn others that she is dangerous and shouldn't be taken seriously.
- JasonADrury 9mo ago
  >Warn others that she is dangerous and shouldn't be taken seriously. Is this post dangerous? You certainly didn't refer to any particular dangerous content, just shouting about a couple of weird tweets doesn't seem very useful. I really don't get it, unless you're specifically upset by her quite reasonable post about AI generated child pornography, but that'd be weird. > However, the science is that childhood sexual abuse is an antecedent to prostitution. Even if a causal relationship has been proven, that doesn't mean any correlation implies causation.
  - Drupon 9mo ago
    >Even if a causal relationship has been proven, that doesn't mean any correlation implies causation. This is HN, not a psychology conference or a therapy session. Feel free to accept or reject my level of epistemological rigor. I just know my priors, and honestly I don't see the value in continuing this conversation if you don't (or pretend you don't). If a lifetime alcoholic died of liver failure, it's entirely possible that he got hepatitis, but I'm going to go ahead and say it was the alcohol and treat any quibbling about causation and correlation as an irrelevant diversion.
    - JasonADrury 9mo ago
      Even if you were correct, none of that really seems relevant wrt the actual content of this blog post.
  - cess11 9mo ago
    It's a bog-standard guide to escorting, similar to how some people post how-to:s on LinkedIn or corporate blogs. You can find hundreds or thousands of these floating around, commonly among ex-escorts who are trying to pursue some adjacent but less corporeal career. I'm sure some of these are written by more sensible people.