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He has to pick McDonald’s to save face.

He has to examine how much worse it would be to be fucked in the arse instead.

He has to consider how he feels, as a man. As a human. He wouldn’t like being fucked in the arse. By strange men.

That’s level one.

Furthermore, he might realise that comparing “sex” with being fucked for money isn’t entirely accurate. Bindel didn’t offer him the option to penetrate women for money. She offered him the option of being penetrated.

He might well think that penetrating women he doesn’t find attractive isn’t that much of a hardship.

But in making him the passive partner to an assumed male client, “sex” isn’t what he’s selling. Suddenly it’s his bodily integrity.

Level two.

Men often think prostituted women enjoy the sex they are being paid to endure. That it’s a series of not very good sexual encounters similar to those he might have experienced himself. Sub-optimal, but harmless.

Imagining himself being used by men, specifically for anal sex, destroys the image of the gigolo in his head and makes him into a wank sock. It’s servicing a client, not a mutual endeavour.

Rugby and other sports may have to reassess their policies on transgender players after evidence has emerged that muscle strength stays relatively high after hormone treatment, according to a scientific consultant for World Rugby.

The issue of transgender women playing in female sports is becoming increasingly controversial. This week, it was revealed that a transgender rugby player is aiming to play in a Welsh women’s league this season, with her coach joking that she has injured several team-mates in training.

Most rugby unions now have policies that players who were born male and now identify as female must have testosterone below 5nmol/litre for at least a year.

Ross Tucker, a South African who carries out research for World Rugby, said recent findings of which he has been made aware indicate that the testosterone suppression may not be enough to create equal physiques. “Sports are going to need to move with a lot more caution, especially in those such as rugby where there are player-welfare issues,” he said. “There is evidence now that when males transition to female and undergo testosterone suppression, they do not lose that much strength.”

Women’s rights groups are unhappy about the situation. In cricket, Maxine Blythin plays for Chesham Second XI men’s team, where she averages 15.1 with the bat, and St Lawrence & Highland Court women’s team, where she averages 123 and is targeting a place in the England’s women’s team.

A US judge has awarded $13m in damages to 22 women who were defrauded by the owners of GirlsDoPorn, a website specialising in “amateur”-style pornography.

The women were coerced and tricked into making pornography that was released on to some of the biggest adult sites in the world without their consent, leaving some of them suicidal.

The San Diego superior court heard evidence from the women, Jane Does 1 to 22, in a case their lawyers say has “exposed the rotten underbelly of the San Diego sex industry”.

GirlsDoPorn is an adult subscription service launched in 2006 by New Zealander Michael Pratt and operated by Ruben Garcia and Matthew Wolfe. Filmed in homes, hotels and trailer parks, videos on GirlsDoPorn specialise in promoting the image of the “ordinary” college girl who is making her first and only pornographic film.

The women told the court they had replied to ads on Craigslist asking for “beautiful college-type preppy girls” aged 18 to 22 interested in modelling.

After applying for the modelling work, they received phone calls from other women who have been described as a key part of the business – “reference women” who pitched the idea of making porn and assured them that it would never go online.

The women all said they were pressured into taking part. Those who tried to back out once it was clear what was involved were threatened, plied with alcohol and told they would have to pay for their own way home from San Diego.

They were promised that the footage would go straight to DVD for wealthy buyers in other countries, in particular Australia and New Zealand, where the defendants come from.

The videos were in fact uploaded to some of the most used adult sites in the world and have been viewed more than a billion times. Anonymous emails were sent to their families, universities and friends, linking them to the videos.

In her evidence, Jane Doe 1, who was studying law when the videos were released and seen by fellow students, family and friends, said: “I felt ripped apart, piece by piece. Honestly I wanted to commit suicide when it all came out … I tried moving away. I have tried going places people don’t know me and it just follows me everywhere.

“I’m always paranoid when I meet new people that they have seen my video or [when I] meet new people [they] are going to say, ‘I know you.’”

Judge Kevin Enright described in his findings how the need to keep finding young women new to the porn industry drove the “deceptive, coercive and threatening behaviour” used by the defendants.

He said: “Subscribers [to GirlsDoPorn] are meant to be left with the impression that the women in [the] videos are everyday women that they could encounter in their communities, campuses and daily lives.

“In accordance with this ‘one time only’ paradigm … business is dependent on recruiting a constant stream of new models. The court finds … that fraudulent practices [were used] to facilitate such recruitment.”

After the films were released details of the women were published on WikiPorn.

Enright said: “Defendants’ tactics have caused the videos to become common knowledge in [the women’s] communities and among their relations and peers – the very thing that [they] feared and that defendants expressly assured them would not happen.

“Collectively, they have experienced severe harassment, emotional and psychological trauma, and reputational harm; lost jobs, academic and professional opportunities, and family and personal relationships. They have become pariahs in their communities. Several plaintiffs have become suicidal.”

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During the course of the civil trial, Pratt, Garcia and Wolfe were criminally indicted for sex trafficking, among other charges. Garcia and Wolfe are currently in federal custody. Pratt is a fugitive.

Jane Doe 1 also gave evidence about the enormous impact online publication and subsequent WikiPorn leak had on her life. She has since had plastic surgery to try to disguise her appearance.

“I’ve gotten cheek fillers to try and change the structure of my face and microbladed my eyebrows to try and change my appearance,” she said.

At one point, the judge asked her if she needed a break from talking, as she described holding a loaded gun and thinking about taking her own life.

“I shake, I throw up from anxiety. I am on four different pills a day for anxiety. In law school I couldn’t focus.”

In November 2015 60 emails and phone calls called for her to be expelled. The emails went to the dean of the law school, and to the head of the student body with links to the video. “I felt ripped apart, piece by piece. Honestly I wanted to commit suicide when it all came out … I tried moving away. I have tried going places people don’t know me and it just follows me everywhere.

Her life, she says, is irrevocably changed, and her hopes of a legal career have been ended.

Among the obvious issues in this case, I think it’s important to discuss this point. Porn has gotten to the point where it requires a continuous stream of new, “virgin” performers. The experienced performers are no longer novel, they’ve already been consumed. Porn users are trying to collect the whole set, to establish that every woman they see or know is potentially consumable.

That is also why you have dudes begging/extorting you for your nudes even though they have all of the internet porn to choose from.

There is something about the pornsick mind that wants every last one of us to participate.

Black women were excluded from groups of white women because of racism and bigotry. Trans women and men are excluded from women's only groups because they're male, and pose a threat to women's safety.

Stop acting like white people invented biological sex, aside from being blatantly inaccurate, it's wildly racist and discounts the experiences of misogyny and violent oppression women of color have faced at the hands of men (of color or otherwise) for hundreds of years. Men in other countries knew exactly what bodies gave birth and carried children, they knew exactly which bodies to have sex with, they knew which bodies were "weaker". Any idea that tries to imply that woc weren't/aren't horribly oppressed because of their biological sex is not only misogynistic but it's racist.

Stop using woc as pawns in your game, it's disrespectful and insulting. Woc experience misogyny just like any other woman, except they also experience racialized womanhood which adds to the depth of their oppression in our racist society. It's completely unforgivable to erase these stories because you want to find some crutch to fall back on to justify letting men in women's spaces.

Most differences don’t matter to me. I only really consider the endocrine system and the structure of the face and the skull, but those things are important.

In my daily life? I’d like to say it’s not relevant, but I know for a fact that if I’m walking home at night, I’d feel uneasy if a tall person with wide shoulders was walking behind me.