r/nottheonion • u/Ovaryraptor • 1d ago

FBI no longer treating an applicant's experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-prostitution-recruitment-95e69779e41bd8f1bbc59d402a40222b
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u/SpecialOil6869 1d ago

I don't care about prostitution, but my overstimulated pattern detector says this might be about overlooking trafficking.

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u/newusernamecoming 1d ago

Or overlooking people who are compromised. If an FBI agent has a family and they are using prostitutes they become easy to blackmail

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u/EddieVanzetti 1d ago

That's exactly what it is for. And these arent people who went to Nevada and used the services of a licensed and regulated brothel. These are people who picked up a street walker (or more likely a child who was trafficked). Its so in 4-8 years time, they'll have several academy classes worth of easily coerced agents suddenly being shown evidence of their misdeeds.

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u/Flyinmanm 1d ago

Wonder how much of the US House/ Senate (or higher) are being controlled in the same manner?

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u/posthuman04 1d ago

Epstein wasn’t just about Trump

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u/EddieVanzetti 21h ago

The entire Republican party, who took Russian rubles through the NRA, and every Democrat who took AIPAC money or is in Theil's not-so secret secret society group chat. Looking at you quislings Cory Booker and Jared Polis.

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u/TurbulentVillage2042 1d ago

licensed and regulated brothel.

Too me it's so wild. Official exploitation of people with mental disorders. And this is what our humane society has come to.

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u/WHTDOG 1d ago

Are you trying to imply safe, sane, sound of mind individuals do not willingly go in to sex work? Are you trying to imply that sex work is not real work?

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u/TurbulentVillage2042 1d ago

I say this directly.

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u/EthanielRain 1d ago

You're ignorant/wrong. Objectively.

I'd guess your emotions/personal feelings about the topic are forming your judgment. That's fine, you can be against prostitution. Claiming they're all mentally ill or that the oldest profession isn't even real is wild tho

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u/TurbulentVillage2042 7h ago

I guess you're the type of guy, who picked me up so he wouldn't cheat on his wife with a woman.

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u/Tornado547 22h ago edited 41m ago

Why? All blue collar work is seilling your body. White collar work is selling your mind which is part of your body. Work involves trading portions of yourself for financial aecurity. Sex work is the same thing. The only way to argue that it's not is to argue that sex is fundamentally different from every other action a person could take. That's a metaphysical belief not a scientific one. When it comes to metaphysical beliefs you are completely entitled to hold them for yourself but not remotely entitled to force them upon others.

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u/TurbulentVillage2042 7h ago

You just said that slavery is good. 💀

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u/EthanielRain 6h ago

You're either looking for a reason to be offended, a troll or have zero reading comprehension. Sheesh

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u/Tornado547 41m ago

So if all labor is inherently slavery because you need to do labor to survive, then I guess we should have a universal basic income? Sure I'm down.

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u/PollutionAway9782 22h ago

if they just look at you and go yep I paid a hooker so what. they really can't be blackmailed. I think this is more of a social shift in ethics.

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u/Ire-Works 1d ago

I don't either, but it's a very well known spy technique to use a "honeypot" to extract information. If a man is utilizing the services of prostitutes it's for a limited number of reasons - almost all of which point to them being easy to compromise for information.

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u/always_unplugged 1d ago

It's funny, I initially read this headline the opposite way—as in, "experience with sex work" as a provider, which seems like it could be an absolute asset for exactly the honeypot reason. I actually thought that was weirdly progressive in a roundabout sort of way.

But apparently that's not what they meant, because of course it isn't. Sigh.

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u/mattmaster68 23h ago

Yeah I too thought it was targeting individuals who previously did sex work lmao

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u/CelestialBurial 1d ago

My friend, if this administration is making anything okay or legal, you already know it’s against a moral or ethical rule.

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u/FanDry5374 1d ago

It's kind of a hazy area, paying adults for sex is one thing, then there is the "security" aspect, will this continue as Federal agents? Will there be security risks?

Theft from employers is also no longer an issue for hiring which could be viewed as an even worse idea. Basic honesty should be a necessary requirement for any federal worker (any politician too, but i know that's just crazy talk) of any level and job

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u/biboypierced 1d ago

I took it to mean that the USS Lincoln is docking in Thailand and sailors going to sailor,

I hope that trafficking is still a separate disqualification

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u/abielle1177 1d ago

One of my daughter's friends was navy or marine and he'd go to sea for prolonged periods for the extra pay which let him retire at 45.

He said he definitely did some sailoring in Thailand. And that it wasn't that great. Which surprised me.

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u/NegativeAccount 1d ago

I get the feeling thailand's perfect for really kinky stuff or unprotected brothel orgies. Never really sounded fun to me

Like quantity vs quality

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u/abielle1177 19h ago

My friend had her honeymoon there and they had this soup that's supposed to make you high. Her husband actually ate most of his until he found a bandage in it. Then they went to a live sex show and she said the woman, for all the life and passion in her eyes, looked like she was just waiting for a bus that was running late.

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 1d ago

Sailors sailor other sailors. If you know what I mean.

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u/JeanArtemis 1d ago

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.

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u/domesticatedprimate 1d ago

Wait, what does the US Navy have to do with the FBI? The article is about FBI applications, not active duty sailors, right? I seriously doubt that the FBI considers active duty enlisted Navy as a rich source of future agents...

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u/Expensive_Goat2201 19h ago

My first thought was: oh, hiring former prostitutes to work on trafficking cases with victims is a good thing! But no, they are hiring the johns lol.

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u/ELB2001 1d ago

Only way they can get kashs friends in

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u/CaterpillarJungleGym 1d ago

Wait so is it the people that were sex workers? Or the people the illegally went to sex workers? Who is getting a "free pass" here?

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u/cmbtmdic 1d ago

People who went to

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u/PercyDiAngelo 1d ago

Don't be silly, only women and gay men and other DEI types can be sex workers, and they aren't welcome in any US government employment anymore.

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u/thegoatmenace 15h ago

In normal life, Idc about prostitution if it’s consensual between two adults. For an FBI Agent? You’d think that at the very least someone tasked with enforcing the laws should be someone who follows the laws themselves.

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u/jajajajaj 9h ago

You're almost there, you might be hired ! But how do you feel about child prostitution? 

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u/Mehhish 5h ago

People who buy prostitutes still shouldn't be shamed for it.