What the FOSTA/SESTA Anti-Sex Trafficking Bill Means

Two bills that proponents claim will curb sex trafficking online overwhelmingly passed the Senate last Wednesday, on March 21, causing ripples of concern across the Internet. While the desire to end sex trafficking and hold those in charge responsible is a valid one, many fear the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) will instead further criminalize sex workers and put them and sex trafficking victims at even more risk. The bill now awaits the president’s signature to make it official.

FOSTA/SESTA was birthed thanks to a case against Backpage.com, a classifieds website. In 2016, executives of Backpage were arrested on charges of pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping. Prosecutors claimed that Backpage was primarily developed to facilitate illegal sex work, but the court dismissed the case citing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. From that came FOSTA/SESTA.

In the past, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was often used to protect websites from legal consequences of what their users posted online, though they would still be accountable to liability under federal criminal law. Section 230 says that ISPs and websites publishing third party content would be protected against laws that would otherwise hold them responsible for the speech of their users. It’s because of Section 230 that we have the freedom to post reviews on Amazon or complain about politics on a WordPress site. Wikipedia and the Internet Archive exist in part because of Section 230. Granted, that mostly hands-off stance is also claimed as the reason sites like Twitter and Facebook have been loath to do anything about violent threats from white supremacists or the misogynists of Gamergate.

How, then, does FOSTA/SESTA attempt to create that accountability? Well, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act will be amended to note that websites can be prosecuted if they engage in the “promotion or facilitation of prostitution” or “facilitate traffickers in advertising the sale of unlawful sex acts with sex trafficking victims.” The bill seemingly conflates sex trafficking survivors with consensual sex workers, something that many sex work activists say make both less safe.

The Internet Association, which includes media giants like Amazon and Microsoft, initially was against the bill, but withdrew their opposition in exchange for some minimal changes in language. Most notably, Facebook agreed to back down for the addition of the word “knowingly” to the bill, meaning sites would be held liable if they were found to have known about their site being used for the facilitation of sex trafficking or sex work and done nothing about it.

“For years, thousands of women and children have been exploited online, while the websites where they have been sold have operated as business as usual — making millions off of the exploitation. Let’s be clear— we are talking about websites where 12 year olds are sold for sex,” Lauren Hersh, national director of World Without Exploitation, told Teen Vogue in a statement. “FOSTA-SESTA is a response to a grave injustice that disproportionately impacts women and girls of color, most who have landed in the sex trade not because of choice, but because of lack of choices or coercion. Trafficking survivors and their families have worked tirelessly with lawmakers to shine a light on the violent, sometimes lethal, reality of online sex trafficking and pass a bill that holds websites that knowingly facilitate trafficking accountable.”

Sex workers have been some of the most vocal about the negative impact this will have on their lives. And their fears are not hyperbolic — when Rentboy and myRedbook were raided by federal authorities for promoting prostitution, many sex workers who were screening clients and getting names of dangerous bookings were forced instead to go onto the street. Many worry about law enforcement and their historical failure to protect vulnerable sex workers, and these raids additionally appear to have a negative impact on exactly what they’re meant to help — getting sex trafficking victims the help they need. One New York Times piece from 2017 quotes a sergeant in the San Jose human trafficking unit as saying that with the removal of Backpage, street-based sex workers were more common, and that the department got far fewer tips, making his job even more difficult.

It’s not just about how sex workers safely book clients, either. Since FOSTA/SESTA is retroactive, even people who have left the sex industry could find themselves banned from a platform if they openly discussed their work years prior, leading some workers to create threads on how to clean up your social media. Many sites have been known to banish sex workers before, whether or not they were using the platform for advertising. Multiple websites that functioned as forums for sex workers to give each other support and advice have also disappeared almost overnight after FOSTA/SESTA passed. Most recently, Craigslist removedall of their personals, citing the legislation as the reason. Craigslist had previously removedtheir erotic services section because of pressure — recently, a study indicated that access to the site had helped reduced female homicide by 17%.

Human trafficking, whether sexual or the less publicized but more common examples like forced labor or debt bondage, does need to be addressed. The real question is, will punishing the forums on which sex workers find community and safety be effective in preventing sex trafficking?

How To Hookup On Tinder And Get First Night Sex

It has two main sections, how to hookup when you are on your Tinder date, and how to use Tinder to get laid. 2 different things, I’ll explain but read the hookup strategy first because you will understand woman a lot more.

A good date story allows girls to have enough detail to cover a potentially slutty image with a blanket of respectability

Guys want to hookup and have sex with hot, sexy attractive women but sadly most men have no idea of how to make that happen, especially on Tinder, if you have ever seen the Tinder messages girls get – its embarrassing for all men.

Girls equally love the excitement of having a sex with a new partner, and are usually willing to have hookups and one night stands with a man who makes them feel good, but girls won’t if it makes them look or feel like a Tinder slut.

Hookup – The importance of the Story

Most girls have one night stands and hookup with guys from Tinder but they can’t look like a slut doing it. This is so important for you to understand, the key to hookup with a hot girl on the first night is all about creating a good date story. Tinder or non Tinder – this is important.

If a girl tells starts suggesting that she would be up for a one night stand and sounding like a slut, 9 out of 10 times they are just testing you.

‘The key to hookup with a hot girl on the first night is all about creating a good date story’

For girls it is all about the story, of how it happened, girls love this stuff and will chat hours with their friends; what did he say? how did he ask you out? how did you end up at his place? all of this is really important to women and they will tell every last detail to their friends.

When they tell their friends about the sex on first night it can’t make them look like a slut, rather an exciting unexpected ending rather than a dirty Tinder hookup. Giving girls a good story allows them to have enough detail to cover a potentially slutty image with a blanket of respectability.

A girl that has sex with you will want to meet again

This is the reason why men should meet them early, suggest to go to a quiet bar, nice walk to chat visiting several places, this is a great way to help her write the story in her head that it was a classy evening. Your job is to make her feel good and help write the story, all the way to your bedroom.

Hot Girl Mindset

 

Remember a very attractive woman can have sex or ‘Hookup’ whenever she wants, if she wanted to have some anonymous sex she could organise that in a second, she knows that 9/10 guys would drop everything and take her home if she suggested she wanted to have sex. Tinder for her is like window shopping because she every guy will have swiped yes to her on Tinder.

A hot girl doesn’t put a high value on sex because she can have it whenever she wants. But she will value peer respect, image and status, she will be very aware that other less hot, jealous women would jump at the chance to give her a slut label in an attempt to bring down her value.

I cannot emphasis this enough – Don’t make your hookup sound like a one night stand, when a girl tells her friends the story, or ask for their advice, you need to sound like a great guy with a ‘potential’ long term even if all she wanted was to get laid.

Show any girl this post and they will agree with it, this is what they want, they want to meet a guy have great sex and they want to keep their dignity doing it.
This is what horny girls are waiting for, a guy who will take them out, help them write a good story to tell themselves and to their friends so they can have dirty sweaty incredible sex on a blanket of respectability.

Men – be the Leader

The key here is continuous compliance, tell your Tinder date to do things throughout the date; tell her to try he food because it is great – she does and loves it, then you suggest to the girl she should check out something out the window – she does and it was great, you suggest to go to this other bar – she does and it is a good place, you ask her to you her hand for ‘some reason of your choice’.

Building a chain of compliance is so effective, and it is also a good way to gauge how much she is into you, when she starts complying to everything that you are saying then you are in and she is definitely loving your masculinity.

I don’t care what year this is, equal right, girl power etc, girls want a man who is in control. You are the leader, you and going to lead her on a date, you are in charge of where to meet, where to go, if you’ll be drinking wine or cocktails, and you will also be the one who suggests to go back to your place.

This is not a trick this is just the type of behaviour that girls like to see naturally in men. This Tinder date story gives her a great date and gives you the platform to be the leader and build a chain of compliance.

Making decisions and leading the way is an attractive male trait, trying to pressure a woman to do something is being a douche-bag, so if she doesn’t want the cocktail don’t force it, she doesn’t need to be drunk to go home with you, you want to hookup and for her to tell her friends you were awesome, don’t be weird and rapey! Girls will spot that kind of thing a mile away.

Perfect Date Strategy – Hookups

This framework is better than Patrick’s Online Income strategy when it comes to a successful date story, follow it, be a leader in a casual way.

 

Quiet First Drink

Meet at a quite bar, have one drink to let her feel comfortable with you, you suggest to leave after one drink, so that she feels like you are not trying to get her tipsy trying to entice her into making bad decisions, this will lower her guard and build trust that you are a nice guy.

Snack Food

Walk to get some food, snack type, slice of pizza, something small and is a fast transition. For several reasons, its cheap, it is fast, you don’t get too full, you don’t have to wait uncomfortably long time to get your food and no awkward moments when getting the check. When she tells the story, you went for a drink, then went for a walk, then had some food, you have already written a great story for her so far, it is all good stuff.

Walk to the Date Spot

Take her to get another drink at another place, share a bottle of wine in a cool bar. A bottle of wine is easy to drink and sounds classy, whatever you save on not going to a restaurant you can splash out a little on a nice bottle of wine and don’t mention the price(she will notice on her own because she will be analysing you).

Once you both are at the perfect amount of tipsy drunk take her to a place where you can have some physical contact, a dancing place or a bar with loud music. If you can dance this is the time to bring it into the date, it will take your hookup probability up to 90%.

Closing Time

It is time to close(take her back to your house), when the bar closes, say you don’t want to go to a club, its too loud etc, tell her you have some drink back at yours, say it without hesitation.

Remember that this hookup is not going to happen on its own, it requires your consistent, fun leadership and her continuing confluence. And what you have actually done is create an awesome date story and she will be excited to hookup.

It also not just a one night strategy, sure you can hookup with the girl, but 9 times out of 10 a girl that has sex with you will want to meet again, unless you get weird or super lovey-dovey after sex.

Hookup Checklist for men

  1. Be very comfortable in her company
  2. Let her get comfortable with you
  3. Don’t worry about silences, it is only awkward if you make it awkward
  4. Always have in your mind where to go, and a back-up if one place is closed
  5. Lead the entire date from picking the meet-up spot all the way to taking her home
  6. Look out for signs that she is enjoying your company
  7. Don’t react to these signs (be cool), if she is comfortable and enjoying herself keep the same vibe going.
  8. Have drinks but not too much – it is really not required, she can always pretend to be more drunk if it makes her feel more comfortable.
  9. Have your apartment already prepared with wine in the fridge, water, condoms, tidy room, low lit lighting and a nicely made bed.
  10. Hold her hand towards the end of the date, crossing the street, you don’t need to explain, just take her hand.
  11. Be a champion and take her home, happy hookup..!!

How to get laid on Tinder – Section 2

Ok there is a reason I left this until last, I wanted you to get in your heads about maintaining the air of respectability because this is where most men fail, and women get spammed all day with sex requests.

Remember the girl wants to get laid too, so how do we tell what girls want to get laid and what girls don’t.

Things to be aware of:

Just because she has a sexy looking pic, doesn’t mean that she is DTF.

This normally means that she wants the attention, she knows that using a sexy profile pic will get more men messaging her and she really just wants the ego boost.

That being said, insecure girls who want their egos boosted also want to get laid but don’t fall for the trap of acting like predicable hungry dog getting excited because you seen a little skin and you think she is easy.

So what is the plan?

Try to make her feel something different, for example you could message..

“I can see by your pics that you are just on here for the ego boost, you have a really sexy look, I will happily give you the ego boost ;)” .

Notice I didn’t ask a question! Because as most of us know (who are not supermodel good-looking men) girls will ofter reply with a statement reply, meaning they won’t ask a question back.

The reply will be like this…

“Thank you edward.. glad you like it ;)”  or if you are lucky “what do you mean EGO boost??”

When we send a polite(ish) message with a twist, we usually gets you a reply, which is the first goal. Now here is your chance to say something to give you value over the hundred other men to complimented her that day.

Say something like “I’m really into behaviour psychology and I can tell you how you felt in that (choose one of her pics)

Super interesting thing to say and out of curiosity she’ll ask what it is you think. So then you make a joke, don’t give her the answer straight away, entertain her enough before asking her out.

OR

You can just swipe and request hookups all day. Unless you are really good looking you are probably not going to get laid on Tinder.

Read this book, getting lead will be so much easier

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If you found the Tinder date story interesting, take a look at our Tinder Profile Tips for great info on getting more matches.

Watch this video from a ‘Pick-up artist’ on  picking up women, and to hookup using a Tinder and  other dating apps – Pick up artists are the biggest geeks of dating and getting laid but they share some great tips and tricks, if a hookup / getting laid is what you’re after you better start upping your Tinder and dating game because you are competing against a lot of other guys who are getting clued up