It is reasonable to wonder if the lack of scientific research involving codependency may relate to the fact that there is a strong academic bias against studying possible negative outcomes of empathy. – Barbara Oakley
It was another busy, busy week, trying to get all of my work done in advance for the month of July so I don’t have to take as much time while my husband’s home; I’ll also be away for a total of nine days to attend the Desiree Alliance convention in Las Vegas (five days plus two travel days each way). And on top of that, I’m working on a scholarly paper for the Albany Law Review; it’s about five to ten times the length of a normal column and much more serious in tone, and everything has to be carefully attributed, so it’s much slower going. However, I’m almost halfway done with the first draft and hope to get it to the editors on July 2nd. Once it’s published in the autumn, I hope to make a PDF available so y’all can see what I sound like when I’m actually trying to sound as though my education wasn’t entirely wasted. Anyhow, Radley Balko squeaked out everyone else, providing the three links before the first video (which was itself contributed by Kevin Wilson, along with “digital lineup”); those between the two videos came from Grace (“just wrong”), Walter Olson (“altruism”), Mike Siegel (“concrete”), Luscious Lani (“Scooby-Doo”), Emil Kirkegaard (“New Zealand”), and Scott Greenfield (“registry”).
- Cop tases nude, autistic 11-year-old girl in the back (for her own good).
- What an out-of-control police department looks like.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- This is just wrong.
- Pathological altruism.
- Fighting fire with fire?
- The lost secret of Roman concrete.
- Welcome to the perpetual digital lineup.
- The subversive subtext of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
- New Zealand takes another step away from prohibitionism.
- Because the “sex offender” registry hasn’t ruined enough lives yet.
- Man charged with “endangering the welfare” of juvenile vandals for stopping them from destroying his neighbor’s house.
From the Archives
- What’s the best way for sex workers to be out, yet not completely compromise their futures?
- Forced feminization of little boys isn’t enough for Swedish neofeminists.
- Young sex workers vs. system which treats them as infantilized victims.
- Attempt to fast-track Swedish Model legislation in Scotland is defeated.
- Even some male scientists believe in the “sex loosens vaginas” myth.
- Lola Montez, one of the most colorful courtesans of the 19th century.
- Dutch police and politicians keep beating the “sex trafficking” drum.
- Two trials of men who raped whores, with two different outcomes.
- Parents angry that sex education teacher answers sex questions.
- How to increase “trafficking” by inventing imaginary “traffickers”.
- British cops are allowed to rape women while spying on them.
- Aphrodite’s Trade, Heart of Gold and National Geographic Taboo.
- Another year, another bogus “Trafficking in Persons” report.
- The inevitable result of criminalizing consensual behaviors.
- The misunderstandings inherent in whore/amateur dialog.
- Sweden finally realizes that drawings are not people.
- The false “happy hooker/trafficked slave” dichotomy.
- How reframing a picture can completely change it.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- The 44 most ridiculous Cosmo sex tips of all time.
- Spain lifts a ban on advertising by sex workers.
- What if The Shining were a romantic comedy?
- Judge rules that a website is not a building.
- A sensible article about student strippers.
- Two mainstream articles by sex workers.
- The recrudescence of yellow journalism.
- A few words about my father.
- Doublethink as a way of life.
- Whores In History revisited.
- On bachelor parties.
