The reality is that the law has made it more difficult for women in prostitution. – Anniken Hauglie
You think we should tell this “lobby group” that Australian governments already know they’re lying, or just let them waste their money? “A sex industry lobby group in Tasmania is pushing for the introduction of laws which penalise the clients of prostitutes…Dr Christy Giselsson from the Nordic Model Australian Coalition, says the group believes changing the focus of the legislation would reduce the demand for sex workers. ‘For example in Sweden it’s been shown to halve street prostitution’…” In any case, someone definitely needs to tell this reporter that Swedish Model proponents are NOT “sex industry lobby groups”.
Another example of politicians wasting other people’s money to fight a legal sex business: “Fighting plans for a brothel at Narellan last year came at a cost of almost $60,000 for Camden Council but councillors described the battle as a fight they had to have…Mayor Greg Warren (pictured) said the council’s position to refuse the sex premises reflected the concerns of the community…owner Greg Hall said the money…could have been better spent on community projects. ‘There are thousands of places it could have been spent than to waste it in court for a decision we all knew was going to get through anyway,’ he said…”
Detroit school officials plan to fight the scourge of “sexting” by searching students’ phones and computers:
School officials in a Detroit suburb announced they may search student cell phones and laptops, in an effort to tackle the problem of teenage “sexting”…The rule did not result from any particular incident, but was “just a matter of being proactive,” [said] Rich Machesky, Troy’s assistant superintendent…Students could refuse a search request…in which case the district would contact the child’s parents instead…The ACLU is concerned over how broad the policy is and whether school officials would then hand off students’ phones to the police…While sexting is not illegal…kids who text can be prosecuted under child pornography laws and can be sentenced with 20 years in prison if convicted. Even having sexually explicit photos on your phone is a four-year felony…
Because obviously nude pictures are far more dangerous to “children’s” lives than spending 20 years in prison.
Anyone who’s ever lived in New Orleans knows about Hubig Pies, tasty little treats which come in a large variety of flavors and put other commercial snack pastries to shame. Unfortunately, their century-old factory burned down before dawn on July 27th and it may be quite some time before it’s rebuilt. This video may be of interest to my readers because it provides an extended example of the “Yat” dialect spoken by a woman who sounds like a very typical New Orleans character.
Two stories from different Australian states demonstrating the weird situations that arise from legalization. The first is from Queensland, and updates an item from the original column: “A sex worker has won an anti-discrimination case against motel owners in a Queensland mining town who refused to rent her a room…[she] had stayed at the motel 17 times in two years until [the] owners…discovered…she was bringing clients to her room…[her] lawyer argued many people used the telephone or internet at the motel for business, and a bed was no different.” The owners argued that the worker’s activities were “disturbing” other guests, which is of course nonsense if she had been there 17 times before without incident. Furthermore, how is paid sex any more “disturbing” to other guests than giveaway sex?
The second item is from a town in Victoria, where sex work is legal but “brothels” (the term is defined so loosely it can mean virtually anything police want it to mean) must be licensed:
Police suspect an illegal brothel has been operating in a residential street…[in] Bendigo…[they] raided a house…and took a woman back to the station for questioning…“We believe she’s a sex worker involved in an illegal brothel at that address,” [a detective] said. “We’re waiting for a Chinese interpreter to come so we can interview her”…[a neighbor] was concerned about the well-being of the [sex worker]…“She’s very friendly – a lovely young lady.”
According to a comment on the story, Bendigo is practically the only city in Victoria without a brothel, which may explain why its government feels the need to harass women on technicalities.
Perhaps one day we’ll arrive at the point where, “He was so desperate to raise money he actually opened a legal business!” sounds as ridiculous to most people as it does to me:
A New Zealander was so desperate to fund his dream to compete in the London 2012 Olympics that he opened a brothel…[after] Logan Campbell…lost his bid for Olympic glory in Beijing in 2008, he was too strapped for cash to take his [taekwondo] career to the next level and train full-time…So…to make the $200,000 he needed to go to London, he opened a 14-room brothel in Auckland. Campbell…wants to repudiate the perception that he was a pimp selling women on a street corner. New Zealand decriminalised prostitution in 2003. “I sold the brothel so I don’t really want to talk about it now, OK?” he said. “It’s a legal business in New Zealand. It’s completely different from other countries in the world…No one was forced into the industry, and they’re not doing it because they are in poverty because we have a really good welfare system”…
It’s a start; now we need to work on getting similar sentences for the thousands of real cops who regularly do the same thing. Note the incredible concluding sentence: “A man who faked being a Texas law officer and demanded free sex from a prostitute has been sentenced to 35 years in prison…The woman submitted to [Raul Garza III] but later called police when he allegedly wanted suggestive photos of her 10-year-old daughter. Garza…testified he never committed a crime and just refused to pay the prostitute.”
Most of this overblown and sensationalistic article is just repetition of the usual “sex trafficking” myths and exaggerations combined with the characteristic cop-culture strutting and bragging, but it’s notable for the accusation that the Department of Justice is “ignoring child sex trafficking victims” because it isn’t creating enough of them to support the hysterical predictions. That sound you hear is me clapping quite slowly.
While it’s nice to see an article actually leading off with the truth about sex work around major sporting events, I feel I must comment on this historian’s absurd exaggeration:
…Georgina Perry, who works at Open Doors, a support project…[for] East London prostitutes…says the Olympics are never good for the sex trade. “All the studies show there’s no increase in sex workers,” she says of past Olympics…Gone, it seems, are the good old days for your average harlot when the best athletes gathered. “Prostitution was a huge deal in the ancient Games,” says historian Tony Perrottet, author of The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games. The original festival attracted 40,000 sports fans — all male — to the remote religious sanctuary. “Brothel owners … brought in teams of beautiful girls from around Greece, Egypt and Asia Minor.” Any good prostitute would try to get to the Olympics, and earn in five days what would normally take her a year to make…
This is nothing but another permutation of the stupid “50 clients a night” idiocy. It is simply not physically possible for any full-time whore to make in 5 days what she could make in 360, unless perhaps she came from some rural district where she usually only got one client a day, managed 12 per day at the Olympics (difficult but doable), and charged six times her usual fee.
Metaupdates
Feminine Pragmatism in TW3 (#13)
Behold the lawhead psychosis in action:
Cash-strapped Nadya Suleman…has turned to various X-rated money-making ventures to help pay the bills – all with the encouragement of Orange County (Calif.) Child Protective Services. “They’re on my side–they’re supporters,” Suleman [said]…“It’s ironic. Once I talked with a CPS worker in regards to the adult stuff, she was like, ‘Are you really doing that?’ Well, it’s not illegal. More power to you!’ So it was almost like a green light–like, ‘Do what you need to do to take care of your family’”…A rep for the Orange County…Social Services Agency…[said] “The law allows a wide latitude in parenting styles and in parenting vocations. I don’t think that anybody would ever want it any other way. So as long as children remain free from harm or danger…then the Social Services Agency would not become involved.”
Unless the mother is a whore, of course, which automatically makes her less fit than Octomom.
The Course of a Disease in TW3 (#26)
Norwegian study demonstrates that the Swedish Model causes “sex trafficking”:
Prior to the 2009 Sex Purchase Act, Norway had one of Europe’s smallest and least organized markets for prostitution. Women…voluntarily…sold sex…without the interference from any pimp. The introduction of the law has made this process more complicated, according to a report in the Stavanger Aftenblad…”The women are very vulnerable towards the police and to a greater extent on the network and support that pimps can offer,” said [researcher] Guri Tyldum…”The criminalization intended to demonstrate that prostitution is not wanted in Norway. The risk is that the most dangerous and serious form of prostitution that remains,” she said…Norway’s Ministry of Justice has announced an evaluation of the sex purchase act.
This is not only what we’ve said for over a decade, it’s the inevitable result of putting the desire to “send a message” above the needs of real people.
The Notorious Badge in TW3 (#27)
Upon reading this I was irresistibly reminded of Sarah Woolley’s article:
I felt really exposed. It didn’t hit me until the first moment where the scene called for me to expose myself, because what came over me was such shame. Which was weird, because they weren’t my breasts, and it was what I had signed up to do….I started to cry, and if you look closely at those scenes when I’m opening my blouse, I’m smiling, but not in my eyes…I was just feeling really emotional and trying to hide it.
Boo fucking hoo. Women like this (Jessica Alba is another one) piss me off to no end. If you’re such a prudish twit you supposedly “cry” from partial nudity with FAKE TITS, I have a suggestion: restrict yourself to playing nuns, and leave the sex worker parts to grown women.
Good news for Simon Walsh, but I have to wonder how this would have turned out had the same thing happened in America:
A man who was tried this week…for possessing images of “extreme” sexual acts has just been cleared on all counts…David Allen Green, solicitor and legal correspondent for the New Statesman, said: “This was a shameful and intrusive prosecution which should never have been brought. It was bad law to begin with, but a good man has had his sex life examined in open court for no good reason. There are serious questions for the CPS to answer about bringing this prosecution.”
This Week in 2011
The bittersweet experience of “Leaving the Life”; “authorities” using their power to rape whores; “The New Victorianism”; the effects of defining everything as “violence against women” or “human trafficking”; what it looks like when individuals behave as “authorities” do; and the truth about “safe harbor” laws.
This Week in 2010
Cops’ weird anti-condom neurosis; “How To Be a Stupid, Greedy Whore”; why hookers should never let clients turn off the lights; how self-proclaimed “feminists” have been betraying women for 130 years; and a two-part column about regular clients.
Okay. Here’s a post about how evil PIV is. That’s Penis in Vagina. Apparently, sex involving… sex is evil. Only sex not involving penises is healthy for women.
http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/bad-sense/
Imagine if these women were making public policy.
They really do detest being both female and human.
Yup, once a woman died from childbirth, so if a man wants to have sex with a woman (which all heterosexual men do) then he clearly wants that woman to die, so all men hate women and want to destroy them. Thus it’s alright for radical feminists to want to castrate most or all men.
Talk about going through the looking glass.
You would think that with their consistent position against pregnancy and childbirth, neofems would favor attempts to reproduce artificially… alas, they claim to believe that any fertility research ultimately aims to wipe out all women (yes, really).
That was a funny article! Half of me still thinks it’s SATIRE!! 😛
I don’t really get wound up on these things … there’s a human genome, it’s about 40,000 years old, yeah? Not too old – but older than these PIV allergic he-woman man haters! LOL. And – it’ll be around long after all of them are ashes.
The bonding of man and woman has happened since the dawn of man – and it ain’t gonna stop. I mean – I may as well call a press conference on the cliffs of Waimea Bay in early January and say … “Hey watch me STOP these waves with my magical powers!!”
Heh – I can’t stop those waves – and these prunes can’t stop all the fucking going on. Yes, sex feels great for men – and maybe not as great for women but most women tell me it feels pretty damn good when they’re into it – which is … a lot of the time actually unless they have a medical issue.
I have to confess … my stupid male mind … first thing that comes to my mind when I read those kinds of articles is … “This woman hasn’t had a good PI her V” and the second thing I think is … “Maybe somehow my services could correct this problem?!” LMFAO!
But, you know – I know GUYS who hold almost the same opinion about girls. “Girls are so shallow” … “They only care about material things” … “They don’t recognize the value in GOOD men – always chasing the bad boys” …
When I was in the Navy there were guys who were afraid to TALK to a female Sailor behind closed doors because they were afraid they’d get hit with a frivolous sexual harassment complaint.
You know – it happens on both sides and it usually comes from those who don’t know how to play the game and aren’t successful at the game – you know, “the boy-girl” game. Hey, I’m not the greatest at it either but I understand the rules here and the fact that I’m not going to change them!
I just wish all the “man-haters” and “woman-haters” would get the hell away from this campfire because the rest of us have some serious PIV’ing to do!! 😀
Also – thanks for that new ackronym! It’ll come in handy!
PIV YOU!!
I’ve been known to bark “unfuck you!” at my television. After all, I’m not about to wish something GOOD on the jerk who provoked my outburst.
The trial of Simon Walsh does seem to be strange, but then he did prosecute bent coppers. Of course, the two may not be related.
It was expected that there would be no more than 30 prosecutions/year under the Act when it was introduced. But the latest figures are around 1300. It’s not clear to me how many are official police warnings (which seem to count as prosecutions, even if there was no trial), how many go to trial, and how many defendants plead guilty (trying to escape publicity).
The prosecution suggested that only people with strange habits went to STI clinics; and said, summing up, that an expert witness was ‘wrong’ in her opinions. And remember the trial was about images, for the acts depicted are legal. Thus: an illegal image of a legal act? (No mention was made of the fact that childbirth is much more likely to cause physical injury — or even death — than the images complained of. But that’s heterosexual, so it must be OK.)
OT: the 10,800 Olympic athletes are supplied (free) with 150,000 condoms, roughly 24 per couple — for 17 days and nights. Enough?
Every new article about Simon Walsh brings more very disconcerting revelations; the role of the CPS is very suspect:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/12/nick-cohen-simon-walsh-cps-pornography-prosecution?CMP=twt_gu
There is more to come 🙁
“OT: the 10,800 Olympic athletes are supplied (free) with 150,000 condoms, roughly 24 per couple — for 17 days and nights. Enough?”
I don’t know. They ran short in 2008 in Beijing. Is 150,000 more, fewer, or the same as what was provided in Beijing?
All the sex in the Olympic Village makes sense: you have in one place a collection of the fittest people in the world, mostly young, mostly thousands of miles from home, and almost all of them are, in effect, either rock stars or groupies (and many will be both). There’s every reason for them to have as much sex as they possibly can, and they CAN have more than most people because they’re young and in fantastic physical condition.
There are 50% more condoms for London…
I’ll keep an ear perked and let you all know if I hear anything. Have you noticed what big eyes some of the rhythmic gymnasts have?
If CPS said that, all I can say is … in the words of Admiral Ackbar …
IT’S A TRAP!!
CPS is the modern form of the Gestapo and if they’re acting friendly – it’s because they have something up their sleeve.
Hubig’s Pies – I don’t eat them because they are nutritional weapons of mass destruction but …
It was surprising to me how many people in and around New Orleans were genuinely depressed about the fire. The place really meant a lot to the people who were born and raised here. I heard about the fire when I was in the GNC store in Picayune, Ms. The lady who works the store was a Katrina refugee from Chalmette (I call her a “Chalmation”) she totally has the “yat” accent and she was practically in tears.
“Sexting”
What better way to make sure kids go to prison than deliberately look for a crime? Nothing like that school-to-prison pipeline, eh?
This must be a poor black school, because they wouldn’t dare do this at a well to do white school.
If it was my kid, I would leave his cellphone and computer at home, if I didn’t have the option of leaving his person at home.
Troy, Michigan is over 70% White (Non-Hispanic) – it’s one of the most lily-white communities in America. This isn’t Detroit – but a suburb of it.
Well, then, we are really screwed.
Adults forcing children to show them naked pictures of themselves. That it’s not obvious to everyone that the policy is extremely inappropriate if not criminal is another example of the human mind’s blind acceptance of “authority”.
If the teacher swipes the phone, and it has a picture of a seventeen-and-a-half-year-old’s bare tit on it, isn’t the teacher guilty of the crime “possession of child pornography?” Sure, cops can possess anything, but this is a teacher. Are they suddenly immunized against photographic voodoo too?
“Mayor Greg Warren (pictured) ”
Wow, the mayor looks like a manatee.
A platypus, actually. I thought that was so funny I made sure to use the same picture! 😀
I thought at first that the Camden referred to was a London borough, one well known for strange policies — until I saw the picture 🙂
I thought he looked just like semi-regular poster Ornithorhynchus. 😉
Broken Record
Is it possible that the prostitutes in question normally only worked (as prostitutes) a few days out of the year? In this case, she could well have made as much during the ancient Olympics as she usually made all year long. Of course, if that’s the case, it should have been mentioned.
That’s why I said “full-time”. But even if a whore only worked 52 days a year, she’d still have to do ten times her normal volume to do better in 5 days than 47 without dramatically increasing her price.
So again, possible but only if there’s a lot we weren’t told. Not very bleeding likely, at least not in the way the description suggests.
re Detroit schools: And what are they going to do when a parent tells them, ‘No, you most certainly cannot take a legal item from my child simply to be ‘proactive’. You either clearly articulate what crime you think has been committed, and supply evidence of that crime, or you keep your hands off.’
The same thing schools always do when a parent pisses them off: take it out on the kid.
This is why more and more parents homeschool their kids every year.
I have mixed feelings about homeschooling. It lets parents () avoid this sort of BS, but some parents use it to raise kids who will not be prepared for anything even vaguely resembling the real world. Which is fine if they are all going to move to some utopian community in Antarctica or beyond the orbit of Jupiter or something.
So there it is: in both cases I’m concerned about the kids. Just because “THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!” is a rallying cry for those wanting to control adults doesn’t mean that children don’t matter. Ah well.