Today, the aim seems to be [a] Starbucks…city…a commodity instead of a living breathing place to live and work. – Jemima Hobby
…As Hong Kong law criminalizes [advertising and “living on avails”, sex workers] cannot run…individual websites and are exploited by those who are capable of running sexual service promotion sites overseas…There are three major porn sites in Hong Kong, with sex141 being the most active…it…allows sex workers to publish ads [and also] offers a forum…Yet sex141 wants to extract more from the sex workers in addition to their monthly ads fee. [A sex worker called] Miss Ho…[explained] “Money-Drop Review”…a recently added feature…[which] encourages members to write bad reviews…[for which they need not] offer proof…“It costs $200 to delete a bad review. If the smeared sex worker was not a paid member of sex141, she has to pay 1,300 HK dollars [about 180 US dollars] to become a member, and another 1,000 HK dollars [about 130 US dollars] for FeiLung [a ghostwriter recommended by the website] to write three good reviews in order to maintain a positive image and business”…
Meet the new and improved version of the Mann Act:
U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill to strengthen federal laws against child sex trafficking…Members of Congress say arresting and prosecuting pimps is not enough, that those who pay to have sex with children must also face federal penalties…The End Sex Trafficking Act of 2013 mandates that those who seek sex with children will be prosecuted under federal law, which comes into play when there is trafficking activity across more than one state…
If the final language really is this vague – “those who seek sex with children will be prosecuted under federal law” – this Act will essentially overturn all state age of consent laws because federal law defines anyone below 18 as a “child”.
Dear Family Research Council: More sex ≠ better sex; “feeling loved” during intercourse ≠ better sex; buying sexy underwear ≠ better sex; not knowing what good sex is ≠ better sex…see the pattern yet?
Devout, married Catholics have the best sex of any demographic group, the Family Research Council said…pointing to…statistics from the University of Chicago’s last National Health and Social Life Survey, conducted in 1992, which found the most enjoyable and most frequent sex occurring among married people, those who attended church weekly – any church, whether Catholic or not – and people who had the least sexual partners…[FRC fellow Patrick] Fagan said it was clear “those who are monogamous have the best sex they ever could – because its [sic] the only sex they’ll ever know”…68 percent of Catholics professed to have sex at least once a week versus 56 percent of non-Catholics; 30 percent of Catholics had bought erotic underwear versus 20 percent non-Catholics; and 80 percent of devout Catholic women approved of having sex for pleasure alone…the Family Research Council…also cautioned…of the possible negative effects of enjoying sex outside of marriage, or of watching porn…
Those “negative effects of porn” include sharp decreases in the rate of rape, divorce, abortion, sex crimes against children, teen pregnancy and domestic violence.
Two top Shanghai judges and another court official caught on a videotape apparently taking prostitutes to hotel rooms after dining with a contractor have been stripped of Communist Party membership and will likely lose their jobs…[an official] statement did not clarify whether the contractor paid for prostitutes, but party rules forbid both involvement in prostitution and accepting bribes…Whistleblowers in China run the risk of retribution from powerful officials…[but] the man who leaked the hotel videos…has appeared to face no repercussions from his actions so far…
Meanwhile, in another police state where whistleblowers run the risk of retribution from powerful officials: “A high-ranking priest with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is facing a prostitution charge…the Rev. Arthur Coyle…was arrested just after 5 p.m. Sunday after he was allegedly found with a prostitute behind a Lowell cemetery…”
My former co-guest blogger Drew Johnson was recently fired from the Chattanooga Free Press for doing the job they hired him to do, namely stating his opinions. The week before, they had declined to print his editorial telling the truth about porn:
A miracle product exists that is responsible for dramatically reducing the number of rapes and sexual assaults in America. This invention has even contributed to lower divorce and teen pregnancy rates. Even though this invention has proven so beneficial, millions of Americans want to…eliminate it…because the thing…producing a safer, more family-friendly society, is…low or no-cost, high quality online pornography…
Jemima imagines what it would be like if all workers were prohibited from interacting with each other in the name of “protecting them from exploitation” as sex workers are in many legalization regimes:
…When the law on non-contact of workers came out it had been much harder to not accidentally look at others on the commute to the office. Now there were a whole range of blinkers…was everyone really safer this way? The argument had been: if no one could interact and if the cameras could zoom in on anyone who broke the law, then assaults and rapes would be almost impossible. All interaction with other people could be done safely over skype or by phone, and thus women were protected…
This week I received a large bottle of my very favorite perfume, Opium, courtesy of Nevada Cody; thank you so much not just for the present, but also for tracking it down when it got lost en route!
The sexual climax gives the whole brain a good workout…Professor Barry Komisaruk said. The sensation can…block pain and…depression, anxiety and addiction could also benefit if scientists can harness the…mechanism in the brain that produces orgasm and put it to other uses…The 72-year-old US researcher has been studying female sexual pleasure since the 1960s, beginning his experiments on rats before moving on to women in 1982…Prof Komisaruk has reached his conclusions after studying female volunteers…[who] lie in a…magnetic resonance imaging machine and achieve orgasm despite the clinical surroundings…
Did the fake ad actually state “I am 13”, or did they simply use pictures of mature-looking girls who were (supposedly) that age when photographed?
Seven men have been arrested as part of an undercover sex sting during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally…[using fake] ads for 12 and 13-year-old girls on Craigslist and Backpage.com…“When there are these large kind of gatherings…it makes it ripe for trafficking, prostitution, exploitation to take place,” [said] Susan Omanson…[of] Be Free Ministries…
A child sex trafficking victim…was raped just days after being sent to a newly opened Miami “safe house”…[which] quietly closed after the April assault and child advocates say they are now rethinking their plans to house trafficking victims together in an unsecure group home setting…
“Unsecure” means the inmates aren’t locked in cages. So “rethinking” that means…well, here, let’s allow the “authorities” to spell it out for you:
…the [FBI] boasted that “Operation Cross Country” had successfully rescued 105…children…but the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children…says that some of those rescued children may now end up behind bars. “If there is nowhere to hold them, and nowhere safe for them to go, law enforcement has no alternative,” says Staca Shehan…”If they aren’t placed in a juvenile detention facility, the child could run back to the prostitution scenario.” To avoid this, police charge the children with prostitution…
Catarina Migliorini, who auctioned off her virginity for $780,000, now claims that she was “tricked and exploited”, that she’s still a virgin, and that the Japanese millionaire who won the auction “didn’t look like” a Japanese millionaire. This “HuffPost Live” segment is short on actual content, but does have one interesting feature: the male host shooting down his female co-host’s suggestion that selling one’s virginity is something “unfortunate” that “people are resorting to”.
Obfuscation via Dysphemisms (TW3 #319)
Presumably, the cops wanted her to snitch on the girl instead:
…Alaina Paige Lamecker…allegedly introduced [a Tulsa cop] to a 14-year-old girl…and worked out an agreement for the two to engage in a sex act in exchange for $120…She was booked…[for] human trafficking and soliciting prostitution within a 1,000 feet of a church…
Though Russia’s not officially Marxist any more, three generations of anti-whore propaganda are not quickly overcome:
Human rights activists in St. Petersburg have decided to take Russia’s Justice Ministry to court, after its officials refused to register a non-profit partnership of sex workers…Prostitution is illegal [and punishable by imprisonment for up to eight years]…and according to rough estimates of the…Health Ministry, up to one million people are involved…Serebryanaya Roza (Silver Rose)…[says] the numbers…are much bigger – about three million…Irina Maslova…head…[of] this movement…feels that on the basis of the human right to privacy, protected by the Constitution, prostitution can be removed from the list of criminal trades, and people can become masters of their own bodies…the experts often agree with the Serebryanaya Roza…criminal psychiatrist Mikhail Vinogradov…explains…[that] the sex industry is a normal characteristic of any society…
Joyce Arthur writes about her impressions of the Desiree conference and the fight to overturn Canada’s anti-prostitution laws:
…A diverse cross-section of the sex work industry was…represented…[as well as] academics, lawyers, writers, health-care workers, and activists…Many Americans I spoke to…were quite envious of Canada’s situation, especially in regards to our recent Supreme Court challenge…another difference is that Canada’s sex worker movement enjoys the public support of social service and health agencies…[which] are critical for gaining broader public support and reducing stigma…
And Tizzy Wall’s recap said such very nice things:
No matter how many clients I have charmed the pants off of…there is nothing as nerve-wracking as walking into a room of fellow adult entertainers…finding myself face-to-face with brilliant activists, entertainers, and writers like Miss Major, Kristen DiAngelo, Stacey Swimme, Maggie McNeill, and Emi Koyama was almost too intimidating to consider. On occasion, my tongue swelled and a stammer developed as I faced these heroes in real life. Turns out, though, that all of these people are so approachable and kind that it is hard to feel intimidated for very long…
As regular readers know, I have no love or trust for Kristin Davis; however, I have far less of both for the FBI, and the timing of this stinks on ice:
Kristin Davis, a candidate for New York City comptroller…has been arrested on charges of selling prescription painkillers…according to federal officials, Davis allegedly sold hundreds of pills, including oxycodone, for Ecstasy and cash. Adderall and Xanax were also involved in the transactions, prosecutors said. Davis, 38, was charged with four counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison…
The Mote and the Beam (TW3 #331)
Florida officials support a campaign to give them more power; what a surprise! “Adding just two words to one of the nation’s first online laws might step up the war against prostitutes, pimps and child sex traffickers…police and prosecutors in nearly every state…are calling on Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act of 1996 so state laws can be used to bring charges against websites such as Backpage…” Ken White explains why this would be a spectacularly bad idea:
…Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…is crucial to freedom of expression on the internet. It gives broad immunity (with the exception of copyright and federal criminal law) to blogs, forums, news services, and other web sites for…content left by visitors. Thanks to Section 230, I can’t be sued for what you say in the comments to this post…several Attorneys General want to weaken Section 230 to create an exception for any federal or state statute. Their justification, not surprisingly, is Think of the Children! — specifically, the children who are victims of sex trafficking…What could possibly go wrong?…
Devout Catholics have “better sex”? If they’re that devout, then they have only had sex with their spouse, beginning on their wedding night. So how would they know the difference? No basis for comparison, I reckon.
The Family Research Council could put out a study saying that water is wet and I’d call bullshit on it.
Oh, and I love the pagan-bashing in that article too:
“What we have here is a pagan sexuality,” he said, decrying the growing presence of pornography in dorms and among married couples. “Homosexuality, infidelity, euthanasia, infanticide – these were all common sexual practices of pagan Rome. Christians were for being very different, for being monogamous, faithful.
I am trying to come up with a pithy/witty comeback but the only thing that comes to mind right now is PISS OFF YOU BIGOT.
Miss Prism. You are too much alone, dear Dr. Chasuble. You should get married. A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!
Chasuble. [With a scholar’s shudder.] Believe me, I do not deserve so neologistic a phrase. The precept as well as the practice of the Primitive Church was distinctly against matrimony.
Miss Prism. [Sententiously.] That is obviously the reason why the Primitive Church has not lasted up to the present day.
— Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Hmm, I didn’t realize that infanticide and euthanasia were sexual practices! Kind of makes you wonder exactly what goes on in that fantasy-head of theirs.
On the plus side, I don’t think the Romans burned people to death for disagreeing with doctrine. I think they crucified them. I guess one man’s (or culture’s) religious murder is another man’s (or culture’s) religious icon.
Of course the study doesn’t seem to mention celibacy or the fact that priests did in fact marry until it became necessary for the church to buttress the feudal practice of primogeniture. Too many sons having too many sons complicated the inheritance; so lets burn the 2nd sons off in war and consign 3rd sons and more to the church where they don’t have any official offspring.
I would be curious if the conferees would have considered nepotism a sexual act…
“soliciting prostitution within a 1,000 feet of a church”
That’s an odd violation, though I guess drug dealers are punished more severely for being near a church too, separation of church and state be damned.
Despite having patronized prostitutes from over half the world, I have yet to be offered a 14 yr old. (41 year olds who claim to be just past the age of consent, yes.)
In the same vein, despite doing constant research on sexual topics for my writing and being an avid consumer of porn, I have never “stumbled” across any child porn on the net or under the counters of sleazy magazine stores.
I have come to the conclusion that the Illuminati have set up a task force specifically to hide such horrors from me. Either that or my aluminium foil hat is leaking and the UFO mind rays have got me again.
V.W. Singer wrote;
I have yet to be offered a 14 yr old. (41 year olds who claim…
With the competence the FBI has demonstrated lately, I wouldn’t be surprised if the “14 yr old” was the “41 yr old” and the FBI just had her ID upside down.
LOL!
And if she was flat-chested, she’s a child in Australia anyway.
To the FRC …
All religions aren’t created equal when it comes to attitudes towards sexuality (or any other “vice”).
I was baptized Catholic … even attended some catechism classes, but I was raised around fire-breathing protestants from sects like Southern Baptist, Missionary Baptist, Pentecostal … etc.
If I wanted a date in high school – I had a choice between girls who didn’t cut their hair and didn’t wear pants (because they thought it was a sin) and girls who didn’t cut their hair because they thought it was sin but WOULD wear pants. All of them belonged to these repressive churches.
There are VAST differences between Catholics and the stricter protestant churches. I actually don’t doubt that Catholics have some pretty fine sex. They also drink some pretty fine wine and I have seen many a priest at wedding receptions drunk off his ass. Oh also – one Catholic priest Navy Chaplain that was so naughty ashore that he was frequently “put in hack” by the Commanding Officer. When he was allowed to go ashore – the Captain had to be his “liberty buddy” in order to keep him out of trouble – and even that didn’t work all the time.
Plus … hell, technically the Church can claim that I’m a Catholic. Technically they can claim that Maggie is a Catholic (I think). What is a “devout” Catholic? There’s no separate list of “devout” Catholics and those who were simply “affiliated” with the church at one point or another. It’s the largest Christian sect in the world isn’t it?
Yes, to the Church it’s “Once a Catholic, always a Catholic.” The teaching is that unless you’re excommunicated, you’re still Catholic whether you like it or not.
My dog tags have always said … “Roman Cath” or “RC” since I joined the Navy in the early ’80’s. I’m really not even a Christian though – I would consider my “Catholic” identity merely a “social” identity. I’ve met Jews who are the same way – their Jewish identity is merely a “social” or “tribal” identity to them – they don’t follow the church anymore.
The Catholic church is the most lenient of all the Christian churches (at this point in time). They just want to keep you identifying as Catholic (and giving them money – which I don’t do) … so they aren’t really going to take stands on private conduct the way the more strict protestant religions do. Hell I think I saw where even porn is acceptable to the Catholic Church as long as it’s married couples participating in it on screen.
Masturbation? Hell it’s a sin in the Catholic church but the penalty for pounding your flounder is a few “Hail Mary’s” and “Our Fathers” and you’re good. Same thing for pre-marital sex. There’s no stigma for having a child out of wedlock – that’s probably the norm for anyone who’s Catholic.
So a study on “Catholics” is about the same as a study on any non-secular group of people. In fact, within any non-secular group surveyed – most of them are likely to be “Catholics” also.
krulac:
” There’s no stigma for having a child out of wedlock – that’s probably the norm for anyone who’s Catholic.”
Perhaps today — the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland have closed — but things were very different until quite recently.
Similarly, unbaptised children were denied burial in consecrated ground; there was a special plot for them. They’re called cilliní
I wasn’t commenting on the past.
It should be remembered that Christianity began with an unmarried pregnant teenager. A pregnant unmarried teenager who is revered in Catholicism more than in any other Christian denomination.
Jewishness is different: it is an ethnicity (many ethnicities, actually) as well as a religion. If your mother is Jewish you are considered a Jew for all purposes by the religious authorities. You can be of the “Jewish race” and not have seen the inside of a shul for decades, if ever.
Yes, and according to the “New Advent” they claim to exercise authority over all of Christendom. Including the forcibly converted.
I’m curious how well this “both sides of their mouth” justification would play if we substituted white slave owners or their descendants as “The Church” and blacks as “her [their] subjects.”
Now I’m not dredging up the past. The “New Advent” clarifies doctrine for those seeking to know the RCC’s doctrine. This is what is held to be doctrinal today.
I particularly like how the “Church” disavows forced conversions as the act of misplaced zeal, but are perfectly willing to subsume those so coerced as “her subjects” complete with the exercise of “this latter right of physical coercion.” So much for their distinction between Christian subjects and the unsubjected pagan or Jew. Bah!
The ONLY reason the RCC is not exercising physical coercion is because they lack the secular power to do so. This is demonstrated by the fact that the Inquisition was alive and well in the Papal States until they were dismantled after Italian independence.
While I am against censorship of porn (as well as just about everything else), I am leery of suggesting that easy access to porn has a causal relationship with the positive factors you mention. This is for the same reason that, though I believe that the Second Amendment is a good thing, I hesitate to accept the proposition that the spread of gun ownership has a causal relationship with the drop in violent crime. Correlation is not causation, and those who conflate the two seem to me to be more likely to interfere with people’s lives than to promote freedom. The arguments (that more guns and more porn have made society safer) seem to me to set us up for trouble if some other factor turns the improving trends around.
But I’m not sure of my position here, I just have concerns. What do other people think?
> Correlation is not causation, and those who conflate the two seem to me to be more likely to interfere with people’s lives than to promote freedom
Correlation between A and B implies that at least one of the following is true:
1) A and B are both caused by C
2) A causes B
3) B causes A
4) selection effect on A and B such that they are correlated without exerting a causal influence over them.
Of these, the only viable alternative I can see to porn causing a decrease in sexual violence is a shared cause, but I can’t figure out what that would be. The substitution argument seems pretty strong.
The substitution argument is even stronger if you’re a woman who has seen countless examples of how many men suddenly lose interest in sex as soon as they orgasm, and how if they were fantasizing or doing something extreme – like, say, rape – they are often totally repelled by whatever it is after climax. The phenomenon of “purging” (destroying or discarding porn or other objects used to achieve sexual satisfaction for a “kink”) is well-known in sexological literature; some rapists even apologize to their victims afterward. The idea that porn or visiting a hooker actually increases desire is idiotic and could only be believed by a person who A) imagines that sex is a “sin” produced by “temptation”, and B) has little or no real-world experience of sexual interaction with men.
Personally – I don’t think porn is a good thing. I’m not for censoring – but I think the high-speed, high definition porn of today has a bad effect on boys in puberty and is one of the reasons they have problems with social skills and interaction with real members of the opposite sex. With porn – they can sink into a world of virtual reality – they don’t have to “get in the game”.
That – and there are hundreds of men on the internet who are trying to “quit” porn because they swear it’s killed their sex drive and ability to perform. I’ve yet to find anyone who says that porn actually improved their interaction with women.
> I’ve yet to find anyone who says that porn actually improved their interaction with women.
I can think of two cases where porn made my interactions with women worse, three where it made me better, and four or five where lack of porn made me worse.
The thing you’ve got to think about is the probability of hearing about it if it’s so. If a guy has a problem with something embarrassing, he’s much much more likely to talk about it than if he got something good out of it.
Especially since the benefits are mitigating faults that it’s simply embarrassing to have and we all like to pretend we don’t have anyway.
Some of these guys are masturbating to porn for 6 to 12 hours – sitting in front of the computer screen. These are the guys I’m talking about.
Three days and six / seven REAL women (some multiple times) at a German FKK and I couldn’t give a SHIT about sex or women for a month. Okay well, at least two weeks then. I cannot imagine staring at porn for six hours a day what that would do to me or my attitude or enthusiasm to pursue REAL girls.
I try to stay away from porn for the most part – now, I have been stuck in the fucking Arctic for a month or more with no hope in site for release. In that case I’ll squeeze off a few rounds on the pump action shotgun … but the “porn” I use is usually something my wife, or some other girl I know has either given me or allowed me to take / produce.
More and more though – I don’t think I’m like the majority of men. A month or so without sex will make me physically ill. I start to get symptoms of anxiety and I believe I even caught pneumonia once because of it. When I see my wife after a month away … we have to have sex immediately and she knows that. It’s not very good for her – she just basically holds on for dear life while I “consume” her like some kind of animal. It doesn’t last very long though (thank God) … and then after I’m back to normal and I can do it the “right” way. Probably watching porn would take the edge off me while I was away – but I like the “edge” because it forces me to seek out (or pay) real women for satisfaction.
While I look at it regularly, I also think porn isn’t good. But I think it is inevitable, and outlawing it means that women who pose for it have less legal protection than they might.
In the Victorian era the anti-sex scares were about women not making the choices that the bluenoses wanted them to. And so it is today. Women who strip, or whore, or pose for porn are defying the ukases of their Feminista sisters, and must be punished.
*spit*
I think that Feminists who say that porn demeans women are probably correct, as far as that goes. But I think that the proper answer to that assertion is “So what?”. Lots of consensual human activities aren’t all that good for the people involved. And they are still not worse than living under a self-selected ruling class if pseudo-intellectual buttinskis.
“I think that Feminists who say that porn demeans women are probably correct, as far as that goes”
I’ve never found it so. I have found people’s attitude towards pron, and the people who have done it, oppressive.
To put my feelings in perspective; I think that most chain-store retail jobs are somewhat demeaning, and I speak from experience. Certainly any job that you don’t love for its own sake is demeaning to a degree. Probably necessary, but also demeaning. I try not to take surly service personally, because I’ve been on the other end, and some days it’s a victory if you don’t actually bite any of the customers.
I can believe that some courtesans, who can choose their clients and have, if not affection, at least compassion for them, love their jobs. But I also believe (and feel free to disagree with me) that given the number of sex-workers, the odds that all or even most of them do it for passion for the work are like the Eastwood movie TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARAH; Slim and Nun.
But so what? yes, in an ideal world we would all do work that engaged our passion (which isn’t to say that there wouldn’t be parts of all those jobs that were tiresome). But in the real world, one may have few choices. And doing something demeaning is probably better than starving. Demeaning needn’t be soul destroying (which is what the Feminists really mean when they say demeaning). Demeaning may simply be another part of life that you have to deal with so you can do the parts you enjoy.
Last time I job where I directly worked with customers (and it’s not the job I asked for), I found myself thinking things like, “If it weren’t for all these damn customers, I could get some work done!”
That isn’t rational, and when I got away from the job and away from people (people, yecht!), I realized that. But at the moment, I was serious.
In my ideal world, for nearly all things I’d err on the side of less restriction and less regulation. Unfortunately, it is all too easy to fall prey to the “something must be done” argument. That’s a great way to learn about the law of unintended consequences.
Christianity sets up a spirit/body split, seeing the spirit as better than the body. Thus all needs and uses of the body are considered gross and animal. That’s why the church has had sects of flagellants, and hunger strikers, to “mortify the flesh”. Of all the physical needs/pleasure, sex horrifies Christians (and Muslims and Jews) the most.
I say sex, not sects.
As for porn, as drawings, writings, it’s been with humanity forever. It’s been found in archaeological sites. No doubt early man enjoyed dirty cave paintings. Like Prostitution, it’s woven into the fabric of human civilization, and arguing for it’s abolition is about as useless as arguing against the weather.
Trying to get rid of porn, and prostitution is a useless endeavour. One can, however, influence the conditions under which both occur, and make things better for those who work in either field. Now that’s useful, but something the hand wringers will never do.
Amen, Sister!
Another similarity between us: Opium perfume. It is one of my go-to perfumes along with Estee Lauder’s Tuscany per Donna, Lancome’s Magie Noire (which is very similar to Opium but not as strong), and Hermes’ L’Ambre des Merveilles. I started wearing Opium because I identify it so much with my fabulously stylish and youthful grandmother who, at 87, still has her groove. 🙂
I’ve loved Opium since high school; I picked up the habit from my first girlfriend, Mae. I’m also very fond of Karl Lagerfeld’s Sun, Moon & Stars, which I wear in the summer.
Ah, to have one or two signature fragrances! I have a wardrobe of nearly 50. I often spend more time deciding on my fragrance than on my clothing:)
Safe Targets
I understand that in the US you couldn’t report these jerks to the police or take them to court, and it seems you can’t do that in Hong Kong either. I’m guessing that in New Zealand or the Netherlands you could.
Something Rotten in Sweden
Funny, I thought that screwing children was already a crime. Is there one thing that we’re told that this law will prevent, which isn’t already illegal? Then again, they keep passing laws to the effect that federal funds can’t be used for abortion, even though it’s already the law that federal funds can’t be used for abortion. So why not redundantly ban child-sex? It’s not like there are any problems that haven’t even been addressed once, right?
Between the Ears
On the bright side, at lest the Family Research Council considers having lots of sex and erotic underwear and sex for pleasure to be GOOD things.
The Pro-Rape Coalition
The content of the editorial was approved for publication. He changed the headline after the boss had gone home, and he’d been told in the past not to do that. His editorial on porn is spot on, and his editorial about Obama was oversimplified. Neither should have been axed, but then the one about Obama wasn’t.
Parable
Whenever a law allows for one person to be both victim and victimizer, or for two people to (aside from fraud) victimize each other, that’s a big shiny red flag that there might be something wrong with said law.
OK, I’ll come back later today. Uh-oh, I gave a time specific. Hope I’m not struck by lightening.
I don’t see a logical problem with one person being both victim and victimizer. Becoming a victim by your own actions, and victimizing someone by theirs… THAT doesn’t make sense.
Hmmm……
I can see that. I guess what I mean is that when a law allows the same person to be both a victimizing criminal and at the same time the victim of said crime, that should be a big shiny red flag.
Scientific Detachment
So… sex is good for you? To tell the truth, I’ve suspected as much for a while now.
Gingerbread House
And of course, we have to wonder how old these “children” are.
Little Boxes (TW3 #44)
Virgin, victim, or viola virtuoso, she’s a real cutie. I’m wondering though: did she take the money? Because if she took the money AND she’s still a virgin, then she’s also a fraud.
Sleeping With the Enemy
It’ll be interesting to see if the Russians move ahead of us on this. Then again, they beat us on the first man in space, but we freaked out and landed on the frikkin’ MOON. So we could, when we finally, finally come out of this particular panic, end up with a wave of legalization and decriminalization spreading from state to state, the same way that same sex marriage and marijuana are doing now.
Rubbing Elbows
I know it’s not the same thing, but while at A-KON I occasionally get to talk to somebody who is A Name in the world of anime or steampunk. I haven’t talked to a lot of them, but I’ve talked to a very few. They are totally approachable, and this makes their fans love them all the more. Ya Ya Han is not only stunningly beautiful and extremely good at what she does, but she’s a real sweetheart too. It’s the right tone for you and the other Names to take. It also seems to be just the way you folks are, which is cool.
I have a LOT to do Tuesday, starting at about the time I like to start contemplating what to eat for breakfast. I’ll see if I can finish up this particular TW3 Tuesday night, but no promises.
Election Day (TW3 #330)
I could almost hope that Kristin Davis wins. The stigma of being a whore should not outweigh the stigma of blatant hypocrisy, though it probably does.
The Mote and the Beam (TW3 #331)
Boy, these folks just can’t leave the Internet alone, can they?
Yesterday was a good day, but it was a busy one. But today is a good day also, and a bit less busy, so here I am. Onward!
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