Humanity has a bad track record of selectively appealing to authority to justify our biases. – Andrea Castillo
Harry Reems, the first male porn star, died of pancreatic cancer on Tuesday (March 19th) at the age of 65. For his role in Deep Throat, Reems was convicted in 1976 of “conspiracy to transport obscene material across state lines”, and though that sentence was overturned a year later the stress of the trial drove him to start drinking; he spent the late ‘80s as a homeless alcoholic before sobering up in 1989, then getting married and going into real estate a year later. Unlike his co-star Linda Lovelace, however, he never regretted his choices or blamed porn for his troubles, and went by his stage name (his birth name was Herbert Streicher) until the end.
I left out the very rarest, but worst type: “[Houma, Louisiana] police arrested 15 men…alleging they solicited a prostitute through [Backpage]…one of [two] prostitutes…[was] issued a summons…[but] the other…was not arrested [because she] agreed to be a part of the sting…” There is absolutely no lower life-form in the whoring ecosystem than a person who collaborates with cops to ensnare others in order to save his or her own worthless hide.
Dr. Schrödinger and His Amazing Pussycat
Andrea Castillo’s “When Science Looks Like Religion” explores the territory discussed in Monday’s comment thread: When people blindly accept scientific findings which reinforce their irrational beliefs while rejecting equally-valid results which contradict those beliefs, the result is not science but religion. The last part is doubly germane: it describes Norwegian social scientists’ knee-jerk denial of all data which contradicts their cultic social constructionism.
A new low in intra-family spying:
…Suspicious moms and dads are hiring trained drug detection dogs to sniff out their kids’ drug stash…the RK Agency…[charges] $350…[to] “discreetly perform a thorough inspection of your entire property”…Jeffrey Gardere, a child psychologist …[told] the Today Show… “I don’t know if you can [have a relationship with your kids] if you’re bringing in drug-sniffing dogs”…
According to this post from Dr. Annie Sprinkle, Tracy Elise of Phoenix Goddess Temple has been “deemed…’incompetent’ to go to trial…she will be sent to psych ward and forced to take psychiatric drugs for about 15 months until she’s ‘competent’…I feel that if…sex workers…criticise Tracy Elise…we are in a way colluding with the [police]…and…contributing to the problem, which is exactly what the ‘sex negative society’…wants us to do…” I totally agree.
[Arizona] legislators…are attempting to pass legislation that forces transgender people to only use public restrooms…associated with the gender…on their birth certificate…in response to a [Phoenix] …bill…which prohibits gender identity discrimination in public accommodations…
Dr. Brooke Magnanti on the lessons we can learn from Pompeii:
…women in Ancient Rome [married] sometimes as young as 14…[but] were permitted to own land and houses and have jobs. Women of the upper classes were educated to a high standard…It’s well known that Pompeii…boasted a large sex industry…and…open attitudes about sexuality and prostitution didn’t hold back other women from achieving…
And if you just can’t get enough of Brooke, here’s a short but wide-ranging interview with her in The Age.
Once again, the British government displays its dedication to literally robbing sex workers of their life savings:
A Chinese brothel madam and her husband have been ordered to pay back £125,000 within six months or she will face another jail sentence and he will join her…Rong Chen…and her husband Jason Hinton…only [have] £125,000 of realisable assets…[namely] their marital home in…Worcestershire, which…will have to be sold or remortgaged…
Note the weird euphemism “pay back”, implying that the money is refunded to customers; in reality it is split between the police, court and Inland Revenue.
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs
If politicians’ minds weren’t befuddled by prohibitionist idiocy, they wouldn’t be so confused by wholly predictable outcomes like this:
…Jakarta…has tried…to offer sex workers ways to escape the sex industry…[for] example…sex workers…[given] a dressmaking course…did not return to their villages…but rather…to their old lives in Jakarta…the income from sewing was just too far below sex work…A high ranking health official…[said] it would be better to legalize prostitution; closing Kramat Tunggak would result in the dispersion of prostitution sites to several unidentified locations — making health checkups impossible…Surabaya…is still trying to phase out Dolly, East Java’s famed prostitution site…
But as this second article from the same newspaper explains, closing Dolly would be an economic disaster:
…Dolly…consists of at least 300 brothels…employing thousands of prostitutes…[plus] numerous supporting businesses — clinics, mini markets, sexual enhancement medicine vendors, parking lots, banks, rented houses, Internet cafes, small restaurants…University of Indonesia economist Lana Soelistianingsih said that…economic transactions triggered by prostitution [alone] could contribute around Rp 1.5 trillion to Surabaya’s gross domestic product…
Family Research Council…fellow Pat Fagan…claims that Eisenstadt v. Baird, the 1972 case that overturned a Massachusetts law banning the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, may rank “as the single most destructive decision in the history of the Court”…because it effectively meant that “single people have the right to engage in sexual intercourse…Society never gave young people that right, functioning societies don’t do that, they stop it, they punish it, they corral people, they shame people, they do whatever”…
…Amsterdam’s oldest prostitutes have retired after more than 50 years each in the business. Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, have decided they are too old…Louise…says arthritis now makes some sexual positions “too painful”…and Martine…admits she finds it hard to attract punters – though one elderly man still has his weekly sadomasochism session…The pair were the subject last year of a documentary Meet The Fokkens and they have written a book called The Ladies Of Amsterdam…
First They Came for the Hookers…
As I pointed out recently, Nevada isn’t remotely pro-whore: “Two [Nevada] state Senators introduced bills…[to] regulate strip clubs…Mark Manendo…wants to charge …a $10 per customer fee…[to fund] programs related to domestic violence…Barbara Cegavske…would ban anyone less than 21-years-old from performing…”
Caty Simon of Tits and Sass interviews well-known activist Audacia Ray on the Red Umbrella Project, speaking to the media, condom criminalization, the Long Island Killer and why sex workers need to ally with harm reduction and anti-drug war activists.
Baboons have been observed keeping dogs as pets:
French sex workers continue to push back against increased criminalization:
10 years ago, the Internal Security Act (LSI) penalized public solicitation, including so-called “passive solicitation”…[this] has reinforced the isolation of sex workers, relegating them to more remote places where they are…more prone to violence…since the introduction of the LSI, “the conduct of the police deteriorated sharply. Their attitude is less respectful and humiliation increased…their protective function…has virtually disappeared and [they are]…most often perceived as strictly punitive”…Médecins du Monde demand the immediate repeal of the offense of soliciting…[and] rejects any proposal to penalize customers…
Women’s Rights Minister Najat Belkacem responded in a typically clueless manner; though she promised repeal of the law, she also made the absurd claim that “90% of [sex workers] are victims of human trafficking” and refused to back down on her scheme to impose the Swedish model.
Portland, Oregon’s bid for the “largest trafficking hub” title isn’t a new one, but now they’re claiming that this is “proven” not only by highways, but by rivers:
…Portland [has]…one of the largest sex industries of any U.S. city…human trafficking…is a growing problem in Oregon due in part to the traffic permitted by Interstates 5 and I-84 [and] the Willamette and Columbia rivers…the problem [is] one that’s inextricably linked to gangs…“When people think of prostitution, their first instinct is a girl walking on the street,” [police spokesman Pete] Simpson says. “They’re not thinking about the fact that she’s being traded as a commodity, sold as a product”…The change [in strategy] humanizes the victims…
Simpson robs women of agency, then claims he’s “humanizing” whores who were already human before he turned them into things to be acted upon. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
Charlotte Shane’s review of An Intimate Life: Sex, Love, and My Journey As A Surrogate Partner, the memoirs of sex surrogate Cheryl Greene (of The Sessions fame), covers much the same ground as my column, and that’s a good thing; the more of us there are speaking out against these artificial lines drawn between types of sex work, the more people will finally get it.
I’m glad to see that others are recognizing that “marriage equality” applies just as well to polygamy as it does to same-sex marriage, and are making good arguments for it:
I’m in favor of leaving marriage to the religious institutions, and registering households in whatever configuration people want to live. If a same-gender couple, or a heterosexual couple, or an elderly couple who can’t have children, or any couple want to be responsible to and for each other, let them. If three people want to be responsible to and for each other, let them. If a gay man and his female best friend want to be responsible to and for each other, let them. Let’s stop worrying about who is screwing who, and just make it easier for people to be responsible in their relationships.
SWOP-NOLA posted these “Client Screening Tips and Helpful Links from a New Orleans Provider”; I already mentioned a few of these, but she provides many more I didn’t know about.
One would never know that these claims have been repeatedly debunked:
The Georgia attorney general and other law enforcement officials kicked off a public awareness campaign…[which] bears the slogan “Georgia’s not buying it” and includes a [commercial] featuring professional athletes…”We’ll continue to go after the pimps and rescue the victims, but we know that the only way to truly eradicate this evil is by ending the demand,” Attorney General Sam Olens said…It is a problem throughout Georgia, in both urban areas and in small towns and rural areas…
Georgia is indeed “buying it”, wholesale. I’m sure millions in federal grants and an excuse to further erode civil rights have nothing to do with all this.
An Australian sex therapist argues that disability insurance should cover the hiring of sex workers:
Sexual expression is a fundamental part of being human…Decades of research have uncovered the many benefits of sex, which include physical health, quality of life, psychological well-being and sexual self-esteem. Unfortunately, because of social taboos and hypocrisy…barriers are created to stop people from fully realising these benefits…Some people with disabilities have limited opportunities for sexual relationships because they lack privacy and are dependent on others…
The video of the Albany Law School symposium is now available! If you don’t have the time or inclination to watch the whole thing (4 hours), my part runs from minute 170 to 185.
An Ounce of Prevention (TW3 #310)
Earlier this month, doctors announced that a baby had been cured of…HIV…Now…it appears that 14 adults have…been successfully treated…70 people…[received] combination antiretroviral therapy (cART)…much sooner than…normal…[because] all [were] diagnosed…early…they…stuck to the [regimen] for an average of three years…[but then] stopped…for various reasons…Normally, HIV will return when patients stop taking their ARVs. But this time…14…patients…were functionally cured…
Apparently, the proposed legislative reform in South Australia isn’t quite decriminalization (though it’s a lot closer to it than anything we’ll see in the US anytime soon): “…it makes special provisions for sex work such as special licensing, laws about safe sex and possibly restrictions on location…once a ‘reform’ law has been passed the chances of getting better legislation in the near future drop to zero. So many people feel it’s better to stay with a bad situation and hope to get good reform rather than settle for an unsatisfactory ‘improvement’…”
Maggie, your beauty is only exceeded by your courage and compassion. Your husband is lucky to have you.
Thank you! 🙂
eddicjc1: Quite so! Strangely, my mental image of you (Maggie) was different from the video’s reality; perhaps, as a quondam librarian, I was expecting horn rimmed glasses and a ponytail 🙂
Shh…
She wears those when she’s not in her heroic identity.
>Louise…says arthritis now makes some sexual positions “too painful”…
Oh do I know what that’s like.
Oh so true for the guys too, unfortunately.
It can sure be fun (not) convincing your partner that you really do want to carry on after going “ouch ouch ouch” and jumping up to change positions when the knees or back lock up.
What does arthritis feel like? I’m in my 50’s and I don’t know even though my doc has spotted what he calls “normal arthritic activity” in some of my joints.
Well, it’s like this: those bits of you which once were supple are now stiff; and that bit that once was stiff….;-)
My situation is a little different due to bad roll of the genetic dice, so my arthritis started thirty years ago in my early twenties. So at this point it is a constant ache and stiffness sort of on par with a badly pulled or torn muscle. However when a strong storm system comes through or if I move wrong or forget and stay in one position to long then it’s as if someone is poking an ice pick or nail into the joint. Which requires changing positions quickly to alleviate the situation as described above.
Hopefully you have a long life but I wouldn’t wish for anyone to live long enough to get as bad off as I am . Then to you can join me in keeping my fingers crossed that the appeals to the insurance company will go through and allow the hip and shoulders joint replacements now instead of waiting until turning sixty. My father got his hips replaced nine and ten years ago and is back to being able to walk for miles compared to being house bound, this is with him being in his mid seventies now.
I am just as opposed to out of control government as anyone, but at least their funding of medical research along with the insurance companies has led to a better life for some of us
While I agree, in theory, that the State should not concern itself with the religious institution of “Marriage”, but confine itself to making sure people live up to their partnership agreements, in practice “Marriage” and the State have been intertwined forever and it probably can’t be untangled now. I like the idea I read about in one of Andrew Greeley’s books (WHITE SMOKE), which stated that Argentina required a civil ceremony and then most people had a religious one in their Church of choice. I also understand why Gays fight so hard for the term Marriage; no matter what happens, when Gay partnerships are legally recognized there will be at least a decade – probably more – of legal battles over it. Some will be outright gay-bashing, but more will be that any bureaucracy attracts a certain number of sphincters with legs that just LOVE to clench up simply to show that they can. If “Civil Contracts” instead of Gay Marriage is what gets legal recognition, those legal battles will go on a lot longer, because the term ‘married’ has been used so extensively in Law.
I’m hetero, and a lot of the visible ‘Gay Culture’ creeps me out. But fair is fair; a Gay who promises fidelity and then cheats should have the Law land on him like a pile of bricks. Gays should be encouraged to enter and keep long term relationships, because society benefits from such as much as it does in hetero couples. And, while I agree with the principle that the State should not be tangled up in religion wherever possible, I think that in this case, the untangling is not possible in a humane time-frame.
Maggie … I thought you told me that you were going to wear your green fatigues and bring your AK-47 to the Albany Law School thingie?
Well in any case … “Bravo Zulu” … that’s navy-speak for “Great Job”!
I told you people to watch out for these damned Baboons and now look – they have their own police dog units! They probably already have assault weapons and WMD’s according to Dick Cheney! Wake up you fools!!!
Ooooookay … clue me in here. Why should I disapprove of a Republican proposed law in AZ to force people to use the correct restroom? What am I missing here? There’s a couple of things I believe in … one is “waiting your turn in any line”. It’s not nice to “butt ahead” of line – the social custom is to wait for your turn. In that bathroom … let’s see … “Mens” and “Womens” … not hard to figure out which one you belong in based on your chromosome set. If you allow transsexuals to use whatever bathroom they wish to – then I will damn sure use whatever bathroom I wish to – for whatever reasons suit me. You can’t keep me out if you let them in – may as well remove those “Mens” and “Womens” signs.
My gym has a “womens only” section. This is usually where the women with a poor body image work out to escape the gazes of guys in the gym who walk around in a testosterone fog – like me!
So transgendered dudes can go in there now too? My message to women is that you are going to be the only LOSERS in allowing that to happen. All of the “male only” stuff has pretty much been toasted by the feminists in the government. You gals can even come into our restrooms if yours is full. You already have access to NFL locker rooms.
But there’s A LOT of places reserved for you that exclude us … and, … really? You gals are good with giving that all up?
Transsexuals go through a period of transition prior to surgery, in which they live and dress as a member of the sex they identify with. It’s inappropriate (and possibly even dangerous) for someone to go into the birth-sex washroom dressed and looking like a member of the other sex. If a woman feels uncomfortable when an obviously-transgender person walks into the bathroom (and let’s be honest, it’s only tranwomen this controversy is really about, not transmen), she can leave quickly just as she would do if a creepy or offensive genetic woman came in. We’re not talking a common occurrence, anyway; I don’t think I can recall EVER running into an identifiably-transgender woman in a ladies’ room.
Just because I personally don’t feel comfortable with a certain kind of person in a public place, doesn’t mean I have the right to bar that person from entry. I’m sure you can think of parallel examples without my help.
I expect you have seen this totally awful, sad beyond words story:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/transgender-primary-school-teacher-who-took-own-life-had-sought-protection-from-media-hounding-before-her-death-8546468.html?origin=internalSearch
Yes. It’s the subject of my Easter Sunday Cliterati column, which I’ll be writing later today.
I think the problem with that is that there is no clear cut definition of what a transgendered person is or a transsexual. Yes, I’ve seen a lot of very dedicated “trans-somethings” who dress as women and look the part – even taking hormones, etc. I have also seen some ridiculous “trans-somethings” that look like old men wearing silly wigs … complete with hairy legs.
It was that kind of “trans-something” that caused a huge ruckus at a place I used to work at. He (or “she” as she preferred to be called) was hired and started using the women’s bathroom. The women protested an threatened everything from lawsuits to press involvement. So “she” was thrown out of the women’s bathroom.
I got the opportunity to meet “her” quite unexpectedly one day as I was sallied up to the urinal in the men’s room. “She” came in and used the urinal right next to me.
Frankly – she looked ridiculous – not even close to female aside from the dress and wig. I think she even had a five o’clock shadow. She was BIGGER than I was – and didn’t walk in any way feminine – in fact she looked like an NFL football player walking around in drag.
I was hoping that you were going to have a comment about the case of Adria Richards (formerly) of Sendgrid, who eavesdropped on two male programmers making a mild sexual joke as if she were KGB, then took a photo of the “offenders”, uploaded it to Twitter and reported them to the conference organizers. One of the men (a father of three) lost his job. Following the tremendous backlash against her hysteric neo-feminist approach to the situation, she has been fired from her position at Sendgrid as well.
The Jezebel, XoJane, Salon, Frisky et al. crowd is trying to frame this as her being punished for reporting sexual harrassment, where in reality it was she who harrassed the two programmers over their innocent and private conversation about “dongles” (she claims that a “dongle” is a reference to a dong, but it’s a name of an object in Python programming language).
http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-21934.html
Oh, come on. They were obviously making sexual innuendo.
I don’t agree with the view that sexual innuendo equates to sexual harassment, but it was kinda tacky even so. I think she has the right to report what people say in public (and to my mind that counts as public). I don’t think the one guy’s employer should have fired him, and I don’t think her employer should have fired her.
And, I don’t think she’s responsible for his employer firing him, nor do I think he is responsible for her firing either. Both are overreactions. Both IMO had the right to say what they said.
I disagree for two reasons: 1) The conversation was private; she was not meant to overhear. The wise and moral person doesn’t hear what she isn’t meant to unless it directly concerns her. 2) She had no right to take the men’s picture, violating their privacy by making them public figures without their permission. Our society correctly recognizes this as a wrong, which is why professional photographers have people sign releases.
As for the rest, the phrase “chilling effect” comes to mind…which is exactly what these censors want.
Great job at Albany, pretty lady! And you do talk with your hands quite a bit, don’t you? 😉
I’m afraid so; more than one would-be wit has grabbed my hands “to see if it would stop you from talking.”
Oh, and the Portland thing. Do people traffic using rivers? What is this, the 19th century?
Perhaps they’ve been reading Huckleberry Finn and Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Given THOSE precedents, you’d expect them to be in favor of such transport as being the means of escape…
It does seem to be a bit of a Royal Nonsuch.
Re: Bad Girls.
My state’s new anti-trafficking law makes being a trafficking victim an affirmative defense to a prostitution charge. That ought to keep false reports coming in.
weird that the damage of the porn business is never mentioned in reference of male actors.if its such an exploitative industry one would expect to affect any employee working there.of course in the case of Harry Reems its not the business itself that damaged him but even so if he were a woman what a great sob story for neofeminists to use that could make.as far as Portland is concerned another actress who isnt just that famous anymore so she started doing ”charity”work is Daryl Hannah.she promotes the myth of Portland as a trafficking hub by attacking strip clubs,since there are more there than any other american state.what makes me lauph is that the strippers there are punk rock chicks with multiple tattoos and a flair for death defying acrobatics,which makes you think”i so wouldnt like to piss her off,she would kick my ass in a hearbeat”.very interesting image for a trafficking victim.
Loved your talk in Albany. And I know what the audience and other panelists were thinking, btw: “Why isn’t Maggie a Law Professor?” Then:”Well, I bet she could not live on a Law Professors salary.”
Go Maggie!
Your presentation was thoughtful and well delivered. Here’s hoping you have many more opportunities to push back against the trafficking hysteria.
Was the camera operator simply incompetent or being malicious?
I think he was trying to avoid zooming in on my face (because I asked them not to) and just didn’t really know how to do that artistically.
You did very well at the Albany Law School and your voice matches what I expected. And you have a great laugh. 🙂
“I’m glad to see that others are recognizing that “marriage equality” applies just as well to polygamy as it does to same-sex marriage, ”
I’ve always thought this too, along with incestuous marriages. In certain American states it’s even illegal to marry your first-cousin. I’m not in favour of any marriages being recognised by the state because frankly it’s needless. Let people marry who they want in whatever damn ceremony they want but lets not waste the tax payers money on the state keeping track of it or regulating divorce.
As a practical matter, marriage is legal shorthand for tons of implicit legal contracts between two people.
Polygamy should be legal. But can’t really be considered a legal marriage if you define legal marriage to mean parties to those contracts.
how do you deal with four parties in a contract that assumes two parties?
Should polygamists be able to say they are married? Of course.
But trying to apply the law is going to be a mess.
A contract can be made by two or more parties. All that is needed is “offer, acceptance and consideration”. A polygamous marriage is no more complex than a monogamous marriage. Iran dissolves marriages with a great deal more efficiency and competence than any western country because they treat it as a contract.
If the state didn’t recognise marriage, divorce would be as simple as splitting up with a live-in lover, but divorce is complex, unfair and financially costly, and only benefit gold-diggers and parasitical divorce lawyers.
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Harry Reems almost got to play a teacher in Grease.
I should hope that this rare form of “bad girl” finds herself forever blocked from re-entering the profession she betrayed?
There’s been a lot of “quantum mystification.”
The dog is cute. Only good thing to come out of this mess, I’m sure.
A temple priestess who provides sex, whether she sells it or gives it away, is going to be persecuted. Unconstitutional as hell, but there you go.
I keep saying that while the Naked in School Program makes for fun erotic fiction, it would be a horrible idea in real life. Stories like this give me pause, though so far I’ve always returned to my default position… so far.
If I were to own a brothel, I’d probably call it “Lupercalia,” just because it’s such a cool name. I couldn’t help noting that the History Channel thing kept using words like “shocking,” “hidden,” “seething world” and such. Ah well.
It could be worse: what if they really were required to pay the money back to the customers? Then the police would have a whole new group of people they could arrest, probably charging them all fines larger than the refund.
Wait, you mean whores contribute to the economy!? Gee, I thought all that money just disappeared in a puff of sin-laden brimstone.
At least Pat Fagin is honest about what he wants to do: corral people, shame them, do whatever.
What a world these two women have seen! They were born during World War II, and they have seen everything from independence spreading across Africa to the Moon landing to the entirety of the Cold War to the Internet to the beginning baby steps of self-driving cars. I think I’d be interested in that documentary.
I’ll get to the baboon pets and the rest later. I’m catching up; I’m catching up…
The age of consent in Nevada is sixteen. So, a woman who is legally recognized as old enough to have sex, and to have been old enough to have sex for the past two years, is somehow not old enough to show her boobies. Yeah, good one there, Cegavske.
I’m glad we’ve got people like Caty Simon and Audacia Ray and, oh I don’t know: Maggie McNeil to get these issues out to people, and to point these things out to the rest of us. And yes, drug reform activists, gay activists, and sex worker rights activists need to work together.
I can’t help but wince at that poor puppy being dragged by the tail over rocks and stuff. I’ve read that beavers sometimes host muskrats in their lodges.
So now it’s 90% of sex workers who are trafficking victims. I wonder if anybody will claim, with a straight face, that it’s more than 100% before this finally collapses?
And 114% of prostitutes who have ever even heard of the Columbia River are victims of trafficking!
Haven’t seen The Sessions. I’d like to. Yes, the more the not only merrier, but the more informative.
I’d also like to see a Korean movie called Sex Volunteer.
The problem with social conservatives and marriage is that, to them, marriage is basically a fucking license. Sex is a nasty, dirty, evil thing, except in marriage, at which point it becomes beautiful and sacred. So if gay people get married, that means that icky gay sex is beautiful and sacred, and THAT can’t be true! So, we gotta ban that. And if five people can get married, then icky group sex is beautiful and sacred, and THAT can’t be true! So, we gotta ban that. And so on.
“It is a problem throughout Georgia,” and anywhere else human beings live. Maybe it wouldn’t be a problem if we’d quit freaking out about it?
I can think of worse uses for that money than helping the disabled. For instance, that money could be put towards screwing around in people’s private lives, and that would be a worse use.
So that’s where I can listen to your talk at the symposium. Your part is fifteen minutes. Hhhmmmnnn……
I could probably watch it tonight, after I’m done dancing.
AIDS is a physical problem, and physical problems are amenable to engineering solutions. This news pleases me, but it doesn’t surprise me.
Australia presents another example the US can study when we finally realize that banning prostitution is as pointless and counter-productive as banning pot has been.
I’m catching up, I’m catching up…