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    Hello, I am a camgirl I started last summer and it is not my primary source of income, it is more of a part time job I have enjoyed. My goal was to apply to Nurse Practitioner program and dance before then to save a good amount of money but now I am worried that during a background check after I complete school in a couple of years will bring about problems because of camming. I have gone through the threads and a couple of women have said they did have problems but some did not. I know of women who danced while in nursing school and when they working as nurses and it never affected them but (a) they were not camgirls and (b) I am being cautious before I decide to spend the money on a graduate degree in this. I want to know if any of you guys actually had problems because the field I want to go into would not involve children it would be mental/ Pysch nursing which is really in demand. I would most likely work in a mental hospital, in the military or a private practice. Can someone legally not hire me because of camming? I just want to know my options.
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    Camming is legal as long as you pay your taxes. However, sex workers aren't a protected class. I do think you could litigate (with or without success) if you were specifically told that you were not being hired because you've cammed. However, I doubt any potential employer would say that to you.

    I think it's highly unlikely that camming will affect your ability to be an RN. I am applying to law schools and am very minimally concerned (I'm also focusing on critical race theory and sexuality/gender law, and am explicitly a sex-positive feminist--so doing (legal) sex work doesn't conflict with any statement I'm making about myself in my personal essays and other application materials.

    What is FAIR? It shouldn't fucking matter, because it's legal (at least in my region). What is POSSIBLE? Ask a lawyer in your city. Don't take legal advice from me or anyone else on the Internet. Remember that the legality of the work isn't going to magically erase the stigma around it or make anyone less of a misogynist (/classist/racist if you're not white etc etc etc).


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    Another thought (CONSULT A LAWYER THOUGH!!): it's probably more likely to be a problem in a public/military hospital than if you go into private practice. You'll also probably make more money in private practice.


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    Anything health or kids related you should seriously consider if you want to take the risk. A couple of years ago there was a story on a nurse who had a paysite. She was found out and fired. Another person on SW was found out from her health related job and was let go. You're going to school for like what, 5-6years +? That's a lot of time and money to risk.

    All I know is that camming is traceable and can end up on your credit report. Or even your bank would just assume the streamate check you deposit every month is your new employer. So they list it down as your job and send that off to the tax man.







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    Quote Originally Posted by HaydenBlue View Post
    Anything health or kids related you should seriously consider if you want to take the risk. A couple of years ago there was a story on a nurse who had a paysite. She was found out and fired. Another person on SW was found out from her health related job and was let go. You're going to school for like what, 5-6years +? That's a lot of time and money to risk.

    All I know is that camming is traceable and can end up on your credit report. Or even your bank would just assume the streamate check you deposit every month is your new employer. So they list it down as your job and send that off to the tax man.
    On what grounds were the women mentioned above fired?


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    Only sort of off topic I hope - does anyone know how to sign up with SM as an independent performer but use your LLC and TIN? I swear up and down that I searched. SM told me I would have to classify myself as a studio, it seems needlessly complicated.

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    Camming is considered unprofessional conduct. Melonie is very public on the forum about her experience in the medical field. When she went to renew her licensing, her adult work came up and they fined her and put unprofessional conduct on her record.

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    Loveshooks comprehensive outed thread


    Coming out as a sex worker to family/friends:













    Being out in a romantic relationship:




    Forcibly being outed:




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    Being outed to CUSTOMERS!



    Being recognized IRL:



    Taxes and being outed-ish:





    Camming and government benefits:


    Camming while having a mainstream job:





    Camming and your future job/kids:
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    Funny threads about potentially being outed:



    And here's a post I wrote with links to all the relevant, "camming and your future" threads as of two months ago:


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    All those threads above made my stomach queasy

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    It strikes me as horribly sex-negative, misogynistic, and simply wrong that camming in a region where it is legal is considered "inappropriate conduct." Plenty of things that are wrong are legal, and like many of them this is so clearly a result of deeply ingrained hatred and/or fear of otherness.

    Personally, I ultimately feel unwilling to work for an employer who would fire on the grounds of legal sexual behavior (that occurs outside of the workplace) of any kind.


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    Quote Originally Posted by caseychambers View Post
    It strikes me as horribly sex-negative, misogynistic, and simply wrong that camming in a region where it is legal is considered "inappropriate conduct." Plenty of things that are wrong are legal, and like many of them this is so clearly a result of deeply ingrained hatred and/or fear of otherness.

    Personally, I ultimately feel unwilling to work for an employer who would fire on the grounds of legal sexual behavior (that occurs outside of the workplace) of any kind.
    I agree with you in theory but in practice it's not that easy. Discrimination against sex workers and misogyny in general is everywhere. I'd love to say I wouldn't work for an employer like that but it's just not true. I mean, I think SM and cam sites in general are exploitative pimps who make their money off of women's lack of other options (either straight jobs that will pay their bills or cam sites that are "fair" to the models) but I'll still give them 65%+ of my money because my principles won't put food in my stomach or a roof over my head.

    It's a man's world and being a martyr won't change that. The only way to really change things is to put women in power, and money is power. At least that's how I justify it.

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    Almost any job is exploitative, and ultimately you're making money for someone else who needs it much less than you do. I would rather cam than work in tech support or customer service and most sex work strikes me as more ethical than the vast majority of careers that are available to someone with: no education, an education in a discipline undervalued by society, etc.

    Another thought: you don't get paid for being objectified in most other careers. You have to deal with it for free.

    I clearly agree that in practice, sex workers face discrimination in many situations including attempts to transition into non-adult work. This is categorically wrong.

    I ultimately value fairness and truth over money. I also, on a practical level, have seen many examples of women succeed in other fields after doing adult work. It seems easiest to make the transition in academia, the arts, etc. and is also easiest for women of privilege (white, wealthy, from "good families," possessing cultural capital, etc.). I do think that my lack of fear re: transitioning into law school and/or whatever else I decide to do (that is within my capacity intellectually, in terms of skill set, and so forth) is the result of awareness of my privilege in virtually every category other than gender and status as a sex worker (Ivy grad, upper-middle class family of respected professionals, whiteness, more). My own privilege here is part of the same system that makes sex work "shameful" and women less than.

    On another note: Realistically, I think that society is very accepting of the repenting whore who becomes a Madonna. I imagine that if a woman entirely quits sex work before entering a profession and time passes before she is caught, she can likely avoid ramifications by chalking it up to a troubled past and say she's found god or _______. That this might smooth things over in some situations is bull shot but also seems likely.

    I'm still interested in the legal side of this. The damages of a lost job are significant, but I wonder on what grounds one could litigate. Seems like a possible battle to me.

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    It's legal as most professional jobs have a code of conduct which applies even outside the job.

    None of us are saying sex work is bad. We are on a sex worked forum. It's just that society doesn't, and likely won't for many years, accept sex work. Oh, they'll spend money on it, but boohoo and shame on the girls who do it.

    (hypocrits, the lot)

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    Quote Originally Posted by twistedprincess View Post
    It's legal as most professional jobs have a code of conduct which applies even outside the job.

    None of us are saying sex work is bad. We are on a sex worked forum. It's just that society doesn't, and likely won't for many years, accept sex work. Oh, they'll spend money on it, but boohoo and shame on the girls who do it.

    (hypocrits, the lot)
    Hey...if this *stigmatic-thinking* is what gets the $$$$$, to continue-on 'flowing'... then, so-be-it, I guess.

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    Something that people keep leaving out... Since I've had to read, read, and read again on this topic myself, I'm going to throw this out there. This applies for anyone applying for a state or government medical/law/professional license.

    Camming is legal when you pay your taxes. That's been said over and over. However, when you file your taxes, you're claiming your adult earnings through the IRS. When you go to apply for your professional license, they do that in-depth background/financial check. There's your Streamate 1099. What will it show up as? I don't know. But I heard through the grapevine that your license will automatically be marked with "professional misconduct." Good luck getting hired in the desired positions. The best thing you can do, at this point, is make yourself hireable. Make them want you. Have the resume that everyone wants.

    Or go for a career that doesn't have a state/professional license and don't waste the $$$$ on schooling that you won't be able to use. Most girls, after they experience camming, really can't stand having a boss anyway, and go into owning their own businesses. I may still get my 2-year RN degree JUST so I can say that I did it, but who knows what is going to happen? At least it's only a 2-year degree. And plus my family doesn't know I cam, so they'll think I'm doing something "useful" with my life.

    ALSO! Miss Nurse Practitioner. Know that after 2015, in order to become a nurse practitioner, you'll need a Doctorate of Nursing degree, not just a Masters. So do you really want to get a Doctorate, go through all of that work, and realize that you can't use it? Bummer.

    Good luck!

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    This applies for anyone applying for a state or government medical/law/professional license.

    Camming is legal when you pay your taxes. That's been said over and over. However, when you file your taxes, you're claiming your adult earnings through the IRS. When you go to apply for your professional license, they do that in-depth background/financial check. There's your Streamate 1099. What will it show up as? I don't know. But I heard through the grapevine that your license will automatically be marked with "professional misconduct." Good luck getting hired in the desired positions. The best thing you can do, at this point, is make yourself hireable. Make them want you. Have the resume that everyone wants.

    Or go for a career that doesn't have a state/professional license and don't waste the $$$$ on schooling that you won't be able to use.

    As discussed in other threads, any profession that requires a state issued professional license is going to subject the applicant to an FBI level background check these days. One of the criteria for holding a professional license is adhering to 'professional conduct' standards. Where camgirls are concerned, future year FBI level background checks are highly likely to turn up work history in the adult entertainment industry, and state professional licensing boards consider adult entertainment work to be 'UNprofessional conduct'. And while today's background checks are still mostly 'paper trail' oriented i.e. 1099's from adult webcam hosts, future background checks may very well become more comprehensive i.e. a strong possibility that a facial recognition software based internet search by the FBI or a background check service will turn up old camgirl images on webcam host sites, tube sites, upload sites etc. The FBI already has this facial recognition search capability, but there's no way to know if it's already being used for all FBI background checks.

    While a state professional licensing board cannot deny a professional license to a qualified applicant because of a work history in the adult entertainment history, they can certainly include said adult entertainment industry work history in that person's professional license file. Every prospective future employer has a duty to check the professional licensing credentials of every prospective applicant. Thus every prospective future employer is likely going to be made immediately aware that a particular applicant has a history of adult entertainment industry work. As to whether or not that affects the hiring decision of that prospective employer is up to the prospective employer.

    In general, 'high profile' employers won't risk hiring a person with an adult entertainment industry background ... out of fears ranging from concerns over workplace disruption ( i.e. hot female disrupting male co-workers ) to concerns of a possible public 'incident' that could damage the employer's public image / reputation should an employee be publicly 'outed' for her adult industry background. This will certainly be the case if there is a 'surplus' of qualified applicants for the employer to choose from ... which is presently the case for teachers etc. but may or may not be the case for certain health care professionals.

    This doesn't mean that a former camgirl with a professional RN/NP license and a note in her license file informing prospective employers of her adult industry background won't be hired. But the odds are that she will wind up being hired by an inner city hospital or clinic, a state prison hospital, a temp service etc. and NOT be hired by an upscale private hospital, a high profile gov't run hospital, a religious affiliated hospital, a suburban health clinic, a private medical practice, etc. This obviously has ramifications regarding relative pay rates, working conditions, future medical career advancement opportunities, etc. that cannot be ignored.

    IMHO the worst part of this situation is that camgirls who make decisions / commitments today to devote several years and tens of thousands of dollars to obtain a bachelor's / masters / doctoral degree have no real way of knowing how their adult entertainment industry background may 'bite them in the a$$' some 4-5-6 years down the road when they finally graduate and seek their professional license !!! As Pearl_Sugar implies, this amounts to a major calculated risk !!! And emerging technologies like facial recognition software certainly don't help to reduce that future risk any.
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    Questions:

    What exactly is an "FBI level background check"?

    Does anyone have a solid cite regarding information regarding independently contracted/untaxed work showing up on an employment verification check?

    For ALL jobs, you have to give your consent for anyone to run a background check on you. Most employers (including in professions dealing with children) will only ever run:
    -A full criminal background check (irrelevant to camming unless you've faced legal problems for something related)
    -A credit check (only if you're applying for a financial position or will otherwise be dealing with money and irrelevant re:camming)
    -verification of education via school transcripts (again, irrelevant)
    -Drug test (irrelevant)
    -employment verification check

    The latter seems like the cause for concern here. However, I do not think that privately contracted work will show up here. I also don't think these are common as long as you provide references. The only reason employers run these is to make sure you aren't lying about past work. They aren't trying to catch you for doing sex work; they want to catch you if you're lying about RELEVANT experience.

    I've NEVER had this part of a background check run on me for any job. In fact, I've only ever had a criminal background check run, and with my explicit consent. I've worked a white collar job in tech, taught in various types of schools and programs (mostly older kids/undergrads), done nonprofit work, and held a variety of positions in retail and admin.

    Both of my parents are in medicine, and they've only had to consent to criminal background checks and drug tests, and I believe my dad had his education verified at one point (so his med school and college were asked to send transcripts). My dad is a high profile surgeon and had never had an "FBI level background check" run. Does anyone have any actual information (with a cite) indicating that this is required for any nongovernment position? I'm not saying it isn't possible, and my dad has had the same employer for quite a while so things may have changed.

    My mom is actually an RN, and does work very similar to what the OP describes. They ran a criminal background check on her, but that was it. They didn't even require a drug test or verify her education.

    I would really like to see some information that isn't anecdotal regarding where camming shows up on a background check.

    I see nothing applicable to camming here:

    This is extremely detailed and specific to practicing medicine:

    The only item I noticed in the above document that may be relevant is item 20, re: "moral unfitness." This seems incredibly subjective, and I doubt it would be easy for a hospital to fire an employee based on this item alone.

    I was unable to find a single case of a medical professional being fired for past sex work. I did, however, find listings for plenty of law firms that specialize in or accept sexual worker discrimination cases.

    I hope I'm not coming off as combative, this is just a serious question that warrants actual investigation of facts.


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    My mom is actually an RN, and does work very similar to what the OP describes. They ran a criminal background check on her, but that was it. They didn't even require a drug test or verify her education.
    lolllllllllll wut?!
    Is your mom based in the US? Please tell me she's not - I literally laughed out loud. Not drug testing or verifying her education for a NURSE - that is the biggest bull I've ever heard or she works in some shady hospital that I'd NEVER want to step foot in. You can not get a job as a Dr or a Nurse if they don't verify your education. Otherwise I'd be all up in an ER room right now playing .


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    I was unable to find a single case of a medical professional being fired for past sex work. I did, however, find listings for plenty of law firms that specialize in or accept sexual worker discrimination cases.
    Really? You couldn't find anything? How hard did you look?

    A lot of the time you won't win. It falls under "Unprofessional Conduct"

    They can and have a good chance of firing you you no matter what job you're in. It depends on the company, your boss, and if your story hits the media in a negative light you're pretty much ruined because you will be publicly dragged through the mud. The media dislikes adult industry workers and it's not socially acceptable to take your clothes off, it not acceptable to get paid for anything related to sex. You are fighting an up-hill battle.

    Martin County Teacher Fired For Posing Nude

    California Science Teacher Fired for Porn Past May Lose Pay

    Nursing couple stripped of Arizona jobs over Web site nudity

    A NYC educator is fired after admitting she stripped before becoming a teacher.

    Stacie Halas, California Teacher Fired For Porn Star Past, Loses Appeal

    Oxnard teacher loses job over past porn work

    LA Traffic Officer Fired For Being In Porn Film

    Journalist Sarah Tressler Fired by Houston Chronicle for Stripping

    Stripper gets son but looses job in Chicago

    Stripper Cop Loses Job


    And this huge 18 page thread lists a few dozen different people, male and female, all different types of careers - being fired from vanilla jobs for posing semi or fully nude, and for sex work:

    Need I go on?

    This is just a sliver of instances. I'm sure it happens often, out of the public eye. All it takes is for it to show up on a background check, or the biggie: word of mouth. People think it's fun, or love to brag about their friend, acquaintance, co-worker, etc "Look at so-and-so she's a sex worker!" And that shit spreads like wildfire. People looove drama. And being a sex worker is a big one.







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    Does anyone have a solid cite regarding information regarding independently contracted/untaxed work showing up on an employment verification check?
    All I can tell you is this. If a state professional licensing agency or prospective employer requires applicants to complete an IRS form 4506 this is because they plan to scrutinize your past tax returns and related documents. If a 1099-misc form exists that was issued by an adult entertainment related business, it's a virtual certainty that this won't be passed over. However, if all payments were undocumented ( and undeclared ) cash, then there won't be any 'paper trail' to be followed.

    There have also been reported incidents where credit reporting agencies have wound up listing the payer issuing checks that are regularly deposited to a particular person's bank account as that person's 'potential employer'. Thus where camgirls are concerned, even if you are receiving money from a non-US webcam host that does not issue 1099's there is still some chance that 'across the border' money transfers and/or bank deposit records may provide a 'paper trail'.

    And while I can't substantiate that it is actually being used for background checks today ( although it is well documented that the capability already exists at the FBI, and that the software is for sale to corporations ), even if a 'paper trail' doesn't exist that will link a particular person to payments made by an adult entertainment business, it's increasingly possible that an internet facial recognition search will turn up a matching picture / video of a camgirl that was posted on a 'white label' site, that was 'given' to a tube site by a webcam host, that was capped and uploaded by a customer, etc. It's hard to deny adult entertainment work history when faced with a ( redacted ) internet image of yourself with your boobs hanging out and a 12" 'toy' in hand !!!


    My mom is actually an RN, and does work very similar to what the OP describes. They ran a criminal background check on her, but that was it. They didn't even require a drug test or verify her education.
    All I can say is that when I first applied for my RT license the state professional licensing agencies didn't look at much more than my college degree and a criminal background check. It was a totally different story, however, when I was recently required to undergo a fresh background check in order to renew my RT license. One state where I was licensed picked up on my adult entertainment work history and cited / fined me for 'unprofessional conduct', while a second state did not. Of course the first state informed the second state of what they had found.
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    @Hayden- Re: my mom--it's a reasonably good public hospital in a major US city. They don't need to verify education, I imagine, because you cannot be licensed without the proper education and clearly they only hire licensed RNs. They did not drug test her. They do reserve the right to issue random drug tests at any time.

    I appreciate the news stories. I was using specific terminology ("unprofessional conduct") and only looking for cases involving medical professionals. I wonder how large the risk really is, given how many people so some type of sex work and how specific cases of this there seem to be.

    Again, I'm not trying to be combative, I just 1) find this interesting and 2) think the risk exists seems likely to be quite uncommon. Regarding "drama" and so forth, that seems highly dependent on geographic area. For example, I live in Manhattan, and I really highly doubt any "drama" about me or anyone who isn't extremely famous is going to get very far. It seems like this risk would be much more serious in a small town.

    @Melanie- Thanks, you clarified a lot for me. It makes sense that this info would show up on a credit check. I've had employers I worked for only a couple weeks show up on credit checks. Though, as I mentioned before, the norm seems to be credit checks only in financial jobs or other jobs. I'm sure this varies by area and corporate culture, but in any situation consent is required so it's good to know exactly which documents this info would show up on.

    If something isn't publicly searchable, an employer or potential employer needs your written consent. In other words, given the above examples, confidential info "from the FBI" (I still don't really understand this and don't feel it's been substantiated) cannot be accessed legally by an employer or prospective employer. So, if you were "outed" this way, you'd probably have the upper hand if you decided to pursue litigation. However, if you use the same face pic on a public social media profile and a cam site and someone pops the image from the social site into google, they've legally found your cam site if it turns up.

    The OP asked specifically about the legality of an employer using her sex worker status against her. That's the difference I noticed between this and most of the past threads that Isobel linked to, so it seems like important to address.

    So: not trying to be combative, just interested in the legalities of this, just like the OP.

    Practical idea for the OP: maybe try utilizing some free resources. Some of these seem sex-negative, but all list resources for general and/or legal advice for sex workers:





    Links to sites in a bunch of regions other than just US:




    There are a lot of organizations that support us and a lot of people who aren't sex-negative assholes. I don't think this is an uphill battle or that insisting on fair treatment is martyrdom. If a sex worker wants to pursue a higher education, they should. She can take a fear-driven and hopeless attitude towards whatever future she wants, or she can seek out resources and do everything she can to advocate for herself and find others who will advocate for her. That's the braver choice.

    I don't deny that there are potential roadblocks, because sure there are, but success is almost always about overcoming adversity--in nursing or camming or becoming a CEO or stripping or whatever else.


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    Why do so many camgirls want to be nurses? Also, why is this question so prevalent for camgirls when you almost never see it in the stripping section? I understand that most clubs are issuing 1099s now, and having a prostitution charge from a raid will kill your future job prospects way more than a paycheck from a cam site.

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    Also, why is this question so prevalent for camgirls when you almost never see it in the stripping section?
    I think there's fear resulting from the fact that anything on the Internet could exist forever but, yeah, any legal problems resulting from other sex work (camming is relatively low risk compared to any IRL sex work and clearly MUCH lower risk than illegal sex work) would be a much bigger issue than a 1099. Also, honestly, any good job will involve a holistic application process, and in plenty of fields you're better off being a former sex worker with an Ivy League degree and the right skill set (just examples) than someone who has never done sex work but has a GED and is incompetent in some areas (again, just examples). EMPLOYERS WANT TO MAKE MONEY. In most cases, that is their number one concern when they hire. They want an employee who will bring in more money than they cost to keep on salary. The exceptions are pretty few. Most of the former sex workers I know are in the arts or academia, but the others who are doing well are in business on the sales or marketing end. I don't know if their employers know, but I'm pretty sure they don't give a shit as long as their companies as prospering and their employees are contributing to their success.

    Also: I do think there seems to be some exaggeration of the risk here. There is clearly a risk, and it's unjust and horrible that anyone should be denied a job or fired for doing legal sex work. However, I do not think the numbers justify major panic or giving up on a degree program or career goal.

    I think this will also become even less of a problem as more and more people end up SOMEWHERE on the Internet naked via an angry ex with a nude selfie, an amateur video on a porn site, or camming. And, hopefully, the cultural climate re: gender and sexuality will improve and public policy will change to better protect sex workers.


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    Well, yes I tend to agree. However, a lot of clubs have webcam feeds from the DR and the stage now. Also potentially out there forever, with no geoblock. Same issues, almost no thought is given to it. Of course I am concerned because I want to be a park ranger w/ the national park service = squeaky clean image (you should see the parties though).



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    It strikes me as horribly sex-negative, misogynistic, and simply wrong that camming in a region where it is legal is considered "inappropriate conduct." Plenty of things that are wrong are legal, and like many of them this is so clearly a result of deeply ingrained hatred and/or fear of otherness.

    Personally, I ultimately feel unwilling to work for an employer who would fire on the grounds of legal sexual behavior (that occurs outside of the workplace) of any kind.
    Casey, this is nothing new actually, I remember my grandmother told me that her friend was let go as a nurse from one hospital because she worked as a cocktail waitress in a burlesque club in Tijuana during the 1960s. It seems that things have not changed much in the medical profession

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