To God, there is no zero. – Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man
Another of the greats has passed on. Though his name is less familiar to the general public than those of many far less talented and far less influential authors, virtually everyone has seen and appreciated screen versions of his work; he wrote almost half of the best Twilight Zone episodes, most of the Vincent Price “Poe” movies of the early ‘60s and many other films you may know (including the thrice-filmed I Am Legend). And since I can’t possibly do his memory justice in this small space, here’s a proper tribute from regular reader Franklin Harris.
Archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient brothel attached to a gymnasium and restaurant in northern Greece…It was likely built in the second century BCE, which means it had been a going concern for about 250 years when an earthquake…shut [it] down forever. Put another way, this brothel operated longer than the United States has so far…
N.B.: I used this title because Greece was under Roman rule at that time.
Tanzanian police torture, rape and assault sex workers, sexual minorities and drug users, while medical staff deny them healthcare…Human Rights Watch…said in a report…[they] were [also] arrested and detained for days on end…Officers gang raped children as young as 12 years old…One drug user had his eyes burned out with acid…
“Nordic Choice Hotels…has announced the removal of pornography from its television channels. ‘We believe it is a natural part of our social responsibility to not support an industry that contributes to…trafficking,’ said [CEO] Torgeir Silseth…” There was no statement from Nordic Choice about shutting down their whole chain because many so-called “trafficking” victims work in hotels, but I guess one has to have priorities.
“Silvio Berlusconi was given a seven-year prison sentence and banned from holding public office for life…after an Italian court found him guilty of abuse of office and paying for sex with…underage prostitute…Karima El Mahroug…” Berlusconi and the girl both deny having had sex, and even if they had it would’ve been completely legal had no money changed hands because she was 17 at the time.
The Miami New Times does an article on sugar babies; frantic pearl-clutching ensues at Jezebel:
…What really sucks about sugar baby relationships is that most of the arrangements don’t seem like they’re entered into freely; they’re a desperate response to a shitty set of circumstances — a lack of job opportunities, lack of job abilities, and last, but not least, the insanely high cost of college education…the site even targets advertising to women who search “help with college tuition”…
The Author Formerly Known as Morning Gloria has a history of this sort of neofeminist prohibitionism disguised under a thin veneer of sex-positive platitudes, and that’s not even counting her apparent belief that the law of conservation of energy somehow proves that “America is…fucked up.”
Veteran Brazilian activist Gabriela Leite on why she likes the word “whore”:
A bikini-barista stand owner who twice before has been accused of lewd conduct recently managed to get a…[cop] to warn her of any undercover surveillance…Carmela A. Panico, and Sgt. Darrell L. O’Neill…were charged with conspiracy to promote prostitution…at seven Java Juggs and Twin Peaks espresso stands…The FBI assisted with the investigation…
Yes, the FBI actually helped bluenoses harass coffee shops because the waitresses wear bikinis.
Somehow, I Doubt She Thought This Through
Try to imagine an editorial like this in an American newspaper:
…In…[the] Globe & Mail, paid typist and self-confessed plagiarist Margaret Wente [published]…”Legal Prostitution? Are We Nuts?”, [in which she] brings her swollen puritanism to bear on the current Supreme Court case…Calling prostitution, “the most exploitative, degrading work on Earth” Wente opposes the “feminists and other progressive types”…who are endeavoring to make it less exploitative and degrading…What she doesn’t acknowledge…is that prostitution is already legal in Canada…
New Jersey is getting an early start on the annual campaign to look really stupid and transfer a lot of money to cops’ pockets:
New Jersey law enforcement officials expecting a rise in forced prostitution leading up to the 2014 Super Bowl said…efforts to crack down on criminals and help victims will span the entire state…New Jersey is believed to be a major entry point for human trafficking due to its dense and diverse population and convenient access from New York to Philadelphia…
Joyce Arthur sent me a copy of the new anthology Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy and Research on Sex Work in Canada, to which she contributed an essay. Thank you!
Laura Lee published “Sex Workers Don’t Deserve to be Stigmatised – and We Don’t Want Your Pity Either” in The Independent:
…I can go out…get hopelessly drunk and jump into bed with Mr. A. Random…the chances are any form of protection will go out the window, as will any form of valid consent. As a society, we deem that okay, because everyone does it, right? If I go to a hotel, meet Mr. A. Random in the middle of an afternoon, spend a couple of pleasant protected hours and get paid for it – pearls everywhere are clutched and horror levels soar. But in my second example, I’m safer. I know his name, his phone number, where he is staying and I am…surrounded by people…
“The Prague Assembly has approved a bill to regulate prostitution…[both brothels and individual] prostitutes would have to apply for a licence…prostitutes would have to be over 18, without criminal record and…would have to undergo regular medical check-ups…” The bill’s author claims its intent is “to divide legal prostitution from the illegal.” It’ll do that, all right, but not in the way he seems to think.
There were a few Magdalene Laundries in the United States as well:
…at…fourteen, Diana [O’Hara] entered the gates of the Good Shepherd Laundry in Buffalo, New York with the label of “incorrigible”…talking was allowed only when the nuns clapped their hands…[a misbehaving girl would be]…locked inside [a] closet…[or] an old [rat-infested] shower room with stone benches [sometimes for days]…followed [by] a severe beating…to “make her strong”…
“While jobs are difficult to find and money is tight, should the Welsh Government be helping women find extremely lucrative and flexible work?” Yes, someone actually asked that.
Hugo Schwyzer is still pretending that men’s preference for young women is “socially constructed”; Christopher Ryan corrects him:
In a recent column at The Atlantic…Hugo Schwyzer asks us to consider, “What would happen if men stopped chasing much younger women?”…he’s not talking about pedophiles…[but rather] men like Johnny Depp, who is apparently dating a woman in her late 20s, while he’s just hit the big 5-0…Schwyzer argues…that this isn’t…happening in response to…innate biological desire…despite the overwhelming…evidence…Schwyzer cites [only] a 2007 study done in Sweden…[which] actually says the opposite of what he thinks it does…Schwyzer somehow knows Depp’s…attracted to his 27 year-old girlfriend because…she’s powerless and he’s intimidated by less “malleable” women of his own age….[this] attempt to shame consenting adults out of what he considers to be inappropriate relationships strikes me as quite the opposite of an informed feminist perspective…
If you thought ultrasound requirements for abortion were bad…
…a last-minute amendment to Ohio’s budget…requires an ultrasound and 24-hour wait before birth control… “Pregnancy” in the context of the informed-consent requirements now means “any fertilized egg”…so…“the disruption of implantation of a fertilized egg” now counts as an abortion. Prescribing birth control is, in Ohio, a ticking time-abortion…
Usually, the equation of migration with “trafficking” as an excuse to restrict it isn’t quite this transparent:
At least 200 Nigerian girls are trafficked every month to Russia…the crime…declined in Western Europe following strict laws on illegal migration…to curb the menace…[so] attention…shifted to Eastern Europe…you will be shocked at the extent of resistance [to being “rescued”] from the girls. We tell them Russia is not a destination for prostitutes yet they still come…the parents of those trafficked encourage…their children…
Think of the Children! (TW3 #321)
More hysteria over structural sex ray contamination:
Parents’ outrage at an advertisement for a swingers party at a [Victoria] children’s play centre has forced the local council to close the business…the centre’s owners [had] said they would repeat the event every month at Casey Kids Playhouse once they found six other couples…a local mother…[who] had booked her son’s fourth birthday party there…[said] ”I am disgusted…This is so morally wrong, not to mention unhygienic”…
I just can’t stop laughing at the word “unhygienic” in that context.
Absolute Corruption (TW3 #323)
The inevitable result of allowing “authorities” to “investigate” themselves:
Jesse Friedman…was properly convicted and should not have his status as a sexual predator overturned…[claims] Nassau County district attorney…Kathleen M. Rice…Mr. Friedman’s lawyer, Ron Kuby, and…Andrew Jarecki, [director of Capturing the Friedmans]…[said] the report was a biased whitewash by the office that originally botched the case…“Rice has made a craven, but not surprising, political decision in failing to admit to the wrongdoing of the…D.A.’s office and former sex crimes chief Fran Galasso, in the face of overwhelming evidence of Jesse’s innocence,” Mr. Jarecki said. Mr. Kuby said that the district attorney’s office had fought Mr. Friedman’s efforts at every turn and that this was just more of the same…“Fortunately, the conclusion of this bogus reinvestigation clears the way for the Friedman team to return to court”…
This is how service disputes are handled when the profession is legal: “Sunset Thomas…the…onetime cast member of…Cathouse…and [retired] porn star…[who works] at the Chicken Ranch in Pahrump [Nevada, is being sued by regular client Robert Proffitt for]…$2,200 for services he alleges were not rendered…”
Tracy Quan considers the connection between the recent Supreme Court decision and the New York “condoms as evidence” bill, and discusses the rather unpleasant bedfellows the sex worker rights movement picked up in both cases, quoting yours truly in the process.
Gee, I can’t imagine why the police took these paintings:
Jack Vettriano paintings worth £500,000 were seized from a former brothel boss in a police crackdown on vice…detectives…smashed into the home of Ian Haig, 70, whose brother Charles, 73, runs a…sauna in Edinburgh. Vettriano…regularly visited Scorpio sauna…in the 1990s and painted…girls working there. He gave paintings to Ian Haig as a thank-you before he became one of Britain’s most successful artists…Police [claim the paintings are]…potential evidence…
Why is it that people just don’t get that sex work follows the same rules of economics as any other business?
The presence of thousands of brothels and hundreds of thousands of prostitutes has heightened competition and pushed prices down steeply in the German sex trade…Prostitution became legal in Germany in 2002, and the open sex trade has taken off in the years since…It’s been estimated that more than 1 million men pay for sex in Germany every day. One of the classic arguments for legalizing prostitution is that recognizing and regulating the world’s oldest profession would improve the conditions of sex workers. Instead, recent reports paint legalized prostitution in Germany largely as a failure…Despite the critics’ claims of atrocious conditions brought on by legalized prostitution in Germany, there are many who don’t want to go back to the days when the trade was cordoned off in the black market…
This is a prime example of American criminal ignorance about sex work; consult the title link for a thorough debunking.
Will Nordic Choice also cease employing cooks, porters and housekeepers? If I were as ostentatiously concerned about “trafficking” as they seem to be, I’d worry more about them than the porn. Those PPV movies are big money for hotels. I’m sure the publicity value of their sanctimonious “corporate social responsibility” will make up for the lost revenue.
/sarcasm
Nowadays, with the easy availability of net porn, PPV porn is generally a loser for hotels, and many are discontinuing for that reason–but not without trying to score a PR win. I doubt if it is costing them anything.
I agree; take a look at my comments in the post linked in that segment’s title.
I stand corrected. I only know from the point of view of a small hotelier/ innkeeper I have talked to, not big chains.
I stayed in an English hotel a few weeks ago. The ‘broadband’ Wifi was so slow that it was only just capable of emails. And it wasn’t a cheap hotel.
I travel a lot and download speeds in hotels tend to be very, very slow. I asked a hotel desk guy about this once and he told me the D/L speeds were limited to dissuade surfing pron. Don’t know if that’s true or not.
I do know that if I have to download a software application from my work servers when I’m overseas – I usually start my laptop in my room in the morning – go and do whatever work I have to do – and it might be fully downloaded by the time I get back to the room in the afternoon.
The one exception I found – was a hotel in ICELAND that seemingly downloaded faster than I could press the keys on the laptop. Ironically – they are attempting to outright ban internet porn.
>”Margaret Wente [published]…”Legal Prostitution? Are We Nuts?”, [in which she] brings her swollen puritanism to bear on the current Supreme Court case…Calling prostitution, “the most exploitative, degrading work on Earth” ”
Apparently she’s never worked for a large retail chain. I’ve done both, and prostitution is by far less exploitative and degrading than working for the capitalists.
I’m in the retail racket myself (manager). I don’t find it degrading but it sure isn’t flexible or well-paying and it’s hard on the bones.
Prostitution was absolutely less degrading than any other job I ever had except for librarian and blogger, and it pays vastly more than the former and almost infinitely more than the latter.
Maggie sorry if this is off topic but with the recent posts on this country and the “criminal” aspect of Prostitution I had to vent a bit here…….just this afternoon hours before my lunch break…I was called up to Personnel(I am a college assistant) and this woman fired me on the spot because of an arrest I had for “patronizing a prostitute” 2 weeks ago…..
When she first spoke about if I know that when people are arrested, we are told about it immediately by the agency who did the fingerprints for your background check before you are hired…..I answered her “Disorderly Conduct” when she asked about the charge……I was not lying because that was what I was told by the Cop it would show as for now as long as I pay the fine when it is due(the end of August) and stay out of trouble for a year…
But she then asked if I am sure if that is the charge and “Are you sure it isn’t patronizing…”…then starts talking about how she does not think a charge like that is suitable for someone in that position to work and how they will be IMMEDIATELY terminating my employment…..
This all happened as I was called down right before my lunch break btw…….
Then told me I have to leave the campus and had 2 security guards outside the office to escort me off……
Said it would be fine to just come back to the campus for library,etc but I cannot be employed……
Now let me just say there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with this country and especially with women like her……It is such a “stigma” that she is afraid how it will effect my work and I am not suitable for work because I got caught up like any healthy red blooded male chasing pussy??
Incredible! Some feminist bigots will use any excuse to attack a male.
In America, we have (what Mike Rowe calls) a “war on work” waging. The line, “degrading work” would have absolutely no impact unless Americans were afraid of “degrading work” and, it appears that MOST work is – indeed, “degrading” to Americans these days.
“Workaphobes” – that’s what we are. Scared shitless of hard
It’s just one more reason this society is about to crash and burn – nobody wants to work anymore unless it’s in the banking, IT, or reality TV industry.
I found out this week that the Department of Defense is now spinning up classes to help civilian employees cope with the stress from the loss of income from the upcoming furloughs mandated by the Congressional sequester. This will cost somewhere in the millions of dollars – dollars we don’t have in this country anymore.
Mind you – civilian employees have to deal with layoffs, firings, wage cuts, and reduced hours all the time – why should we federal employees be exempt from any of that?
Well it’s a big fucking deal and when I asked … “Uhm hey, during these counseling classes do you throw out, as a possible solution to the stress of losing income … the OPTION TO GET A JOB to make it up?”
I find out – no … they are taught breathing techniques and allowed to feel sorry for themselves for two hours in this class – but the option to get a part-time job isn’t even discussed.
Why? Actual reasons I was given … “Well a lot of people have families and what job would they get? McDonalds?”
That caused me to EXPLODE! I told the guy … “Yeah, why not? We shouldn’t be beneath that!”
You see – McDonalds is “degrading” work.
I have a family. And I got a job about four months ago to make up the income I knew I’d lose. I check ID’s, talk to drunks, break up fights, and clean up puke in a bar. I haven’t had a day off since I got that job – not a single day off from some kind of work. I’m not stressed – I feel GREAT – I can keep going this way for years I think.
It’s not just a war on Sex Work – It’s a WAR ON WORK.
And here’s my favorite Alpha Male talking about it in a humorous way – 20 minutes long but you’ll be entertained the entire time – and convinced he’s spot on correct at the end of it.
Funny, I know a lot of people that think McD’s is degrading work. But we have a regional fast-food restaurant here called In-n-out Burger (droooooll…oops). A store manager makes $100K minimum, and they run a tight ship. I wonder how “degrading” it would be for them to find out a fast-food manager makes more money than they do.
It wasn’t any of my duties when I worked retail that were degrading, I cheerfully did them, it was the treatment by management. No matter how dependable you were, no matter how hard you worked you were treated as a shiftless work shy bum who had to be constantly watched, least you steal from the till, shouted at, insulted, and treated like a felon so that you would work hard.
Although most of my co-workers did their jobs diligently, and even went beyond the call sometimes, the company considered us less than human.
It was the treatment by management, not the work, that was degrading.
Sorry you had to get treated in that manner.
I’m not like that. 🙂 I’m a good manager, and very protective of my employees.
That’s an insightful video; thanks for sharing.
The biggest cause of the aversion to so-called “dirty jobs” is probably how the last couple generations were raised. I think Cracked.com gets the situation right: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-we-ruined-occupy-wall-street-generation/ .
I’m 29, and when I was growing up, my folks constantly admonished me to study hard so I could go to college and avoid having to flip burgers at McDonald’s. I thereby envisioned “menial” labor as a specter that tormented the dumb and the lame. No way in hell was that specter ever going to catch me.
And now we see the results of that thinking: Out-of-work college graduates refuse to do physical or “dirty” labor, viewing it as the worst kind of hell. I could easily have been one of them were I not technically inclined. (Ironically, my time-wasting activities that sometimes distracted me from my classes are why I’m gainfully employed today.)
Funny trivia: did you know that blue-collar Mike was once an opera singer? True fact. 😉
The problem with a guy who has a family working at McDonald’s isn’t that it’s degrading, it’s that it doesn’t pay enough to do a family much good. If you can’t feed your kids, it really doesn’t matter how NOT degrading your job is.
spacegoat1701, today’s young people are doing more volunteer work than ever before. At least, more than my generation did back in the 1980s, and more than our parents did back in the 1960s. They’re not as afraid of work as every single generation since working for pay was invented has thought that the next generation was.
“On Saturday afternoon, Judy Neal, manager of the Chicken Ranch, described Proffitt as “very unique” and someone who had become “obsessed” with Thomas. Thomas estimates she has seen Proffitt at the Chicken Ranch 18 or 19 times”
Note to self: Stay away from the Chicken Ranch. Apparently privacy is not valued there.
“meaning that the financial outlay in his visits to Thomas approached $20,000”
Where did the $20,000 number come from?
“She describes him as a lovelorn client who simply got too close after making multiple visits to her at the brothel.”
So now she not only violates privacy, she can read minds.
Once you sue somebody, you don’t get to allege previously private facts relevant to the case and expect that the defendant will not allege previously private facts that she believes will contradict yours.
I’d guess from Proffitt’s allegation of paying an average of $1100 for two instances of services not delivered, times the 18 or 19 times she says she saw him.
I don’t know whether Proffitt can prove that he paid for two instances in which services were not rendered, or not. But slagging the defendant just for alleging facts in her own defense does nothing to address the factual question.
If Thomas believes Proffitt can prove he paid twice for services not rendered, she can offer an accord and satisfaction, two schtups and he agrees to go away and not bother her anymore. If he won’t agree, then she has a legal defense of frustration of purpose of the contract by plaintiff.
Likewise, if Thomas can prove that despite her best efforts, Proffitt failed to meet the implicit condition precedent to performance of the contract (ie: that he did not “rise to the occasion”), she also has a defense of frustration of purpose.
In either situation, Proffitt would likely wish he had not filed the suit.
But that’s all basic 1L contract law, and nobody really knows the facts of the case yet.
News Flash: The only “evidence” against Berlusconi was what might be called Feminist Logic. He is appealing and will be cleared. That’s how Italy works. Anybody taking bets?
Depends on how much money he has left. His successes so far have mostly come from (1) getting to appoint the judges, (2) having the power to pardon offenses when he was PM, and (3) bribery. Now that he’s out, at least (1) and (2) are no longer possible for him.
Which is not to say his successors won’t be equally crooked. As long as offices carry that kind of power, they will attract the kind of people who want to use it in selfish ways.
I should clarify here: Berlusconi, like Bill Clinton, stands accused of misusing his offices in a variety of ways, including to get away with effective monopoly control of Italy’s broadcast networks and (allegedly) some suppression of dissent. If he’s broken any sex-related laws they’re unimportant, at least compared with the rest.
As a guy who’s “sex toured” the Czech Republic – this news about the governments efforts to regulate the industry are a bit confusing.
There was an explosion of prostitution after the Velvet Revolution when the Czech economy was severely depressed.
Now I’m wondering if things are suddenly better economically there? Well of course they are from those days but it’s only because the Czechs disregarded most of Western “group think” on how to rebuild an economy and left a lot of the work up to innovation and the creativity of the Czech people.
The worst thing they can do at this point is embrace Western moral priorities.
Czech women are an absolute dream and there seemed to be no stigma whatsoever for girls engaged in prostitution. The girls I’ve seen said even their parents knew what they did and were cool with it. That’s not a lot of women mind you – only three.
To support the Czechs use Foma film. (This is an unpaid promotion.)
The “Naked Truth” bit is spot on…if I go to a bar (the originator or every marriage in my family tree it seems) tell the bartender “Here’s a ten spot. Get that cute little redhead whatever she likes and the rest is your tip”. And get a response from said redhead, no one is going to bat an eye. Somehow this magically transforms into a wrong if she’s actually a courtesan and I give her $200 and do the same bump-and-grind with her that I do with the redhead. One’s slightly drunk, the other slightly richer. Now what was wrong? Is it the premarital sex, because if it is we got a country full of hypocrites. Was it the exploitation? Because if it is, I don’t see that poltergeist. Who got exploited? There’s no phantasmal pimp here; most of the escorts I know wise up and become self-employed within a year of entering the business regardless. Yet somehow the transfer of money has generated all sorts of sinful horror when the act is exactly the same in both scenarios. It is amazing the transformation.
Re; Johnny Depp and his young lady:
Given his social position and work, he is pretty much limited in his choice to show business females; a notoriously knee-jerk Feminista bunch. Such only get shriller was they get older. I doubt that he’s even aware of it, but I’ll bet that his choice is based on not wanting to justify himself 24/7/365 just because he has testicles.
It’s my suspicion that Johnny Depp has no limited choice in women of many ages. I sense a bit of jealousy. There’s only so much Johnny to go around.
He’s got a big “Tonto”. 😀
In my 50’s – my kids are growing up and most are out of the house. I miss them. Were I to get divorced – I’d prolly marry a younger woman who could still have kids. My great regret is that I didn’t have 10 of them off the bat. Don’t tell my wife that – oh my god – she bitched about every single one.
I used to think that an old guy going for young women was going after their naivety and was intimidated of older women. I don’t think that’s always the case anymore. I have found that the LEAST intimidating women are older women – especially those of Johnny Depp’s age. If they are still single – they’re easy because they’re out of options.
Younger girls still have some options.
Depp may want more kids – he has only two and he’s spoken in some detail in how he enjoys being a Dad.
With Germany, it’s called supply and demand. There are more prostitutes per capita and not enough customers so the prices drop. This happens when something is decriminalized and sensibly and lightly regulated. The same thing happened to alcohol after Prohibition ended in the USA. The price of alcohol went down. The criminal element for the most part got out of selling alcohol or went legitimate, and liquor stores, saloons, and other legitimate businesses selling alcohol proliferated. Then people are surprised at what is happening with Prostitution in Germany as it is following the same trends as the USA when it got rid of Alcohol Prohibition. Note Germany’s marriage rate has plummeted too as many men no longer want to marry and the average age of people marrying has gone up, and I can not prove but still believe that the end of Prostitution Prohibition coupled with unfair divorce laws towards men has contributed to the German marriage trends.
You are correct in general terms, but it has to be remembered that there are many criminalized regimes near Germany which distorts the German market, artificially lowering prices there. Decriminalize everywhere and prices would recover somewhat.
This situation also shows how too few clients is bad for providers, both in terms of money and choice; which exposes “end demand” as the malevolent policy that it is.
Jezebel (January Updates)
I go to a convention each year. Everybody already knows that. Sometimes at 3 or 4 in the morning on Sunday I’ll encounter a woman cleaning the hotel. I always make a point to smile and thank her. We con-goers can make quite a mess. These quiet, hard-working women probably come closer to being “trafficking victims” than the scores of porn performers I’ve seen on paper and on screens over the years.
May Q&A
And when Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa, Castle in the Sky was translated into Spanish (I don’t know if it was ever translated into Portuguese) the name of the aerial island had to be changed because “la puta” already had an established meaning.
Bootlickers
Gee, I hope there aren’t any terrorists around. As long as they don’t wear bikinis, they won’t be noticed.
This is the sort of bullshit the FBI was doing just before 9-11-01.
Somehow, I Doubt She Thought This Through
Well, we all agree that one benefit of decriminalization or legalization is that the working girls could call the cops in a situation like this. And the crooks know that too, and so these situations would be less common.
It’s That Time Again
Those whoring nomads are going to have to move fast! The Superbowl is on February 2nd in New Jersey, and the Olympics begin February 7th in Russia. Man, those wandering harlots are like little worker bees, except they have sex! Which, you know, workers bees don’t. Except during major sporting events maybe? I’m confused.
The Auctioneer Effect
Most of the “pro-life” crowd are actually opposed to abortion because it lets people have sex without suffering the consequences they think that slutty women should suffer. Yes, some are concerned with “the life of the unborn,” but for most of them, that’s a secondary concern at most.
OK, let’s see what I can do Monday.
Somehow, I didn’t post this Sunday night. Well, one thing I can do Monday is post this.
Think of the Children! (TW3 #321)
It wasn’t just sex ray contamination. They were going to use the facility for something outside the facility’s permit. This might or might not be a case of silly regulations, but it seems that it would’ve been a problem even without an ounce of sex involved.
And yeah, “unhygenic” was kind of silly, wasn’t it?
Which I Doubt
AFAIK, none of these groups ever claimed that they weren’t anti-prostitution. Something political activism and prostitution have in common is that you wind up in bed with people you might not like that much in regular life.
OK, on to the next! LINKS. Dang wildcat.
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