The quick blow job is for [affluent white women’s] husbands…So in your mind it doesn’t affect you, but the wrong mouth on your husband’s dick could affect you. – Deon Haywood
He went home; she’s locked in a cage.
An on-duty Oregon State Police detective was caught…with a prostitute in a bush…Richard Narvaez, 50…was placed on suspended leave without pay…cited and released, the…woman…was arrested on probation violation warrants and on suspicion of public indecency and prostitution…
Armed robbers posing as clients…have launched a series of raids on brothels [in Sydney], targeting eight premises in the past three weeks…one of the gang enters…to book a…session…then…[is] joined by up to three others armed with guns or knives…Police…believe the number of attacks might be even greater because [unlicensed] brothels were reluctant to report crimes…
Crime Against Society (August Updates)
Women With A Vision responds to anti-whore propaganda:
The Times-Picayune’s…articles…dubbed “Uneasy Street”, are an…example of…[sensationalism]…that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities…The video…claims that once sun sets…“An even darker world emerges”…There is a darker side to Tulane Avenue. But it’s not the one shown. It’s the stories of mothers, daughters, friends, and wives struggling to survive in a city that has offered them little resources. It’s women dealing with substance abuse or addiction. It’s women who cannot be hired by traditional employers simply because they are transgender. It’s the women who have been too busy struggling to be able to get a formal education to make them employable. It’s the stories of human beings, worthy of dignity, respect, and far more than this series of articles has afforded them…
See “The Public Eye” for an interview with WWAV’s director, Deon Haywood.
Tumi Megalane, 32, of Tshwane, South Africa, said she had the shock of her life when she found her boyfriend [Ronny Mokoena], who is a pastor, at a brothel…[then] learned that he was married…the pastor told his wife that Megalane was a prophet, who was helping him with spiritual guidance.
A…37-year-old [Detroit woman]…is in critical condition after she was discovered beaten…burned and possibly sexually assaulted…less than 24 hours before and…a mile away…a 22-year-old woman was discovered in the same condition…Both women are prostitutes…
A third woman was found in the same condition a few days later, on August 3rd. Interestingly, Fox News did not feel compelled to identify the victims as sex workers in the headline, and the New York Daily News doesn’t mention the third victim’s profession at all.
…a trio of Bay Area teens [Nazario Cruz and Jose Urias, both 19, and an underage girl]…posed as a young woman whose fantasy was to have sex while rolling around in…cash…When the victims would arrive…the suspects…would rob them…Three robberies have been confirmed so far…One of the victims allegedly stole $2,000…from his job in order to roll around with the fictitious woman…
American hypocrisy says it’s fine to pay people not to have sex:
A 2010 study in Malawi, supported by the…Gates Foundation, shows…conditional cash transfers successfully reduced sexual activity amongst teenagers…Mississippi…[resembles] Malawi…in its high rate of teenage sex and pregnancy…partly…[because] sex education in Mississippi is oriented around abstinence…Can we pay Mississippi teenagers to stop having sex…And to have safe sex if they do?…
Police forces are being ordered to face up to corruption by officers who commit sexual offences against vulnerable women and young people…169 officers…are under investigation for predatory sexual behaviour…ranging from rape to voyeurism…the former partner of…[one] who was jailed last year…speaks out against his actions…
That cops rape women, especially sex workers, isn’t news because it happens constantly; such stories only become newsworthy when the cops are held accountable to some degree, as in this item from Cape Town: “A…police captain will appear in…court…for allegedly raping a prostitute…[she] managed to escape from [his] vehicle and took down the registration number…”
Another bizarre “sex trafficking” rumor debunked by Snopes:
In August 2013 [a] warning about sex traffickers with Slavic…accents posing as door-to-door booksellers was spread via social media sites such as Facebook …The story was false. That there are ”pushy” door-to-door book and magazine sellers about doesn’t mean those vendors are looking for children to abduct…into the sex trade, nor is it suspicious that such salespeople might ask…questions about children in the area. The latter is simply a…sales technique for locating potential customers for children’s books, and being ”pushy” is hardly an unusual quality for those who engage in…door-to-door sales…
Snopes reports that the story appeared in Gilbert, Arizona, Winona, Minnesota and all over Missouri. The company running the sales program believes the rumor started in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; since that’s a suburb of Tulsa, this should surprise nobody.
Do politicians really just not get it?
…a federal judge ruled [that a New Jersey law]…conflicts with federal law and likely is unconstitutional as well…[the] law…[would have penalized] anyone who knowingly publishes or disseminates any ad for a commercial sex act that includes the depiction of a minor. The law was challenged…by Backpage.com…[which] notes that federal courts in Tennessee and Washington have issued permanent injunctions against similar laws in those states…
Japanese Prostitution (TW3 #131)
New evidence [demonstrates]…that Japan’s…army directly managed Asian women for sexual slavery, dealing a fresh blow to Tokyo’s denials of responsibility…a diary that a Korean manager of Japanese brothels wrote…between August 1942 and December 1944…shows that the Japanese army received revenue-related reports from military brothels, examined the bodies of sex slaves and regulated the relocations of sexual entertainment facilities…[Professor] Park Han-yong…[said] “This diary is a historical record that shows the Japanese military…[was] involved in the forced mobilisation of Korean women for sexual slavery”…
If real freedoms weren’t being endangered by these yokels, this absurd language and looking-glass logic would be hilarious:
Human flesh is being sold for sex…and it’s happening online…”It was a rarity to see a prostitution case anywhere in North Dakota. Now, my agents are telling me they’re beginning to see it with some regularity,” says…Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem. There’s no way to tell exactly how many people are involved in human trafficking. The best estimates say about 100,000 children may be victims in the U.S. And…there’s no reason to believe it’s not happening here…
Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out…at…14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up. [On July 22nd Dwayne, now 16]…was…beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car when he showed up at a street party dressed as a woman…
Here’s another interview with Carol Leigh, this time in a small but mainstream publication; the more interviews like this Americans see, the harder it will be for the prohibitionists to spread lies about us. And here’s one in Tits and Sass with Deon Haywood of Women With a Vision, talking about activism, human rights and whorearchy.
Remember how I’ve said that prosecutors ignore women’s statements that they don’t have pimps so they can repackage ordinary hooking as “sex trafficking”?
The Brooklyn DA…[told] prosecutors…not to make written records of early interviews with sex-trafficking victims…so the information could be withheld from defense attorneys…“When these girls first come in, they often deny they have been hit or pimped. We were told not to write down those statements,” a law-enforcement source said…
Dr. Laura Agustín on imagery of the “fallen woman” in La Traviata, a topic she has discussed more generally before: “…Violetta always has a scene on the floor to drive home her moral abjection…People who fall get back up right away; if they can’t, they are too injured. In Violetta’s case the injury is moral…”
A gay therapist explains “Why Queers Should Care About Sex Offenders”:
…sex offenders are referred to as participating in deviant sexual behavior, having deviant sexual fantasies, and being inherently “deviant” themselves…The same methods historically used by the government to imprison and pathologize homosexuality and gender variation are being used today to justify the extreme marginalization, lifetime institutionalization, and oppression of people who have violated sex laws…[including] public nudity, [urination or] masturbation, peeping, photographing or videotaping without consent, consensual sex with a 17-year-old, sexting, and downloading unlawful pornography…At one point, the idea of the predatory, untamable homosexual was…widely held…the very fact that a man…[desired] another man was reason enough to criminalize his existence…While mainstream…perception of queer people is shifting, it affirms monogamous sex between married…gay and lesbian adults. Gender variation and other forms of sexual desire and behavior…still face condemnation…
To really drive the point home, read the comment thread as well.
Laura Lee explains why Ruhama shill Rachel Moran could never have been a Dublin sex worker:
…Moran and I worked in Dublin at the same time, the early nineties. I worked in the same brothels, for the same escort agencies and had regular contact…with the same women, she says she stood on street corners with. One of those…is now a prominent activist…[who swears]…that she has never set eyes on Moran until her book launch…Moran…should know…[the names of brothel owners, but doesn’t; she] says that in seven years of sex work she never met one client who showed her a shred of empathy or kindness. That’s incredible. Because in all of my time there, I met some lovely guys…the language employed by Moran…is literally like she is reading from a script…a…co-activist…confirmed that Ruhama…offered her money to “turn” and campaign for their side. In fact, they offered her a book deal and a tour too, exactly as Moran has now…
The activist Laura speaks of (who prefers to remain anonymous) also told me the same thing over a year ago.
Anyone who actually professes to believe that laws can make a major city “brothel-free” should be disqualified from office on grounds of stupidity:
…officials are putting together “exit” services to help the dozens of sex workers who face having their place of work closed down…Edinburgh’s decades-old policy of licensing saunas…appears to be coming to an end. A police raid in June led to seven individuals being charged with brothel-keeping and living off immoral earnings…A local newspaper…[quoted] one prostitute…[as] saying: “I just can’t get my head around why they want to close us. The police could end up putting women at risk of getting raped, or murdered like in Ipswich”…
Don’t be afraid, unnamed sex worker; Ipswich claims to have “eradicated” street prostitution!
More than 220 teenagers…at risk of slipping into the dangerous world of the sex trade have had their lives rescued since the launch of Ipswich’s prostitution strategy…street prostitution and kerb crawling has been eradicated from the town…however off-street prostitution and sexual exploitation remains an issue…
In truth, of course, they’ve merely pushed it so far underground that the danger has been increased even more, which is the only thing prohibition ever accomplishes.
It’s even worse than I suspected; the victims of the Sturgis “sting” were entrapped by “age-regressed photographs of women who now are adults”. The state has charged people with imaginary crimes against nonexistent people for years, but this kind of pseudoscientific quackery is a new low.
“Trafficking” mythology gets more farfetched all the time; embedded in this mixture of agency denial porn, arse-backward bootlicking and cheerleading for bullshit “safe harbor” laws is the claim that many of the underage sex workers arrested in the vast “Innocence Lost” boondoggle “may also be charged for possessing the cocktail of drugs that traffickers use to create dependency and compliance in the children they sell.” This is the first I’ve heard of this magical mind-control philter, but I’m sure it won’t be the last.
C’mon Maggie, joining some pretty scattered dots aren’t you?
We don’t know the targeting method of the robbers or the prevalence of legal vs illegal brothel victimisation even.
If the cops aren’t completely clueless its a sign they’re probably in on it.
You’re surely not suggesting an entirely ‘self-regulated’ industry would no longer be robbed.
Of course not; I’m pointing out the police’s own statement that the brothels made illegal by inability to get licenses are reluctant to report crime, thereby resulting in an incomplete picture which the police themselves think will hinder them. Short version: the bottleneck makes it harder to stop actual crime.
Right. A theory from the cops about whose not reporting to the cops.
And if they’re right how does it follow that more reporting to the cops stops crime?
It’s not as if they’re gonna be standing armed guard over the brothels.
Cops have sweet FA effect on crime rates, especially robbery.
The most effective thing a police force can do to reduce crime is stop committing so many.
We’re closing in on 70 years since WWII ended.
The Japanese need to just “swallow the horse pill” that Southerners in the U.S. had to. They need to admit that what happened – happened with all the horrors that went with it. They need to admit that it was wrong and they need to point out that they are not the same people that perpetrated these horrors. The Japanese people today are far different from the lot that followed the Emperor and an uncompromising and perverted form of Bushido – or maybe it wasn’t “perverted” – I don’t know much about Bushido – perhaps the abuses that occurred under this code were a feature and not a bug.
It wasn’t just women being used as sex-slaves – the Japanese considered anyone not Asian to be “sub-human” and therefore not even worthy of humane treatment. I had the honor of knowing several WWII submarine veterans and one who was a prisoner of war on the Japanese mainland. His name was Al. He put me in my place one night when I was bitching about how hard things were on the boat I was stationed on. He listened to all my complaints and said … “I hear ya, Krulac, I joined up with the Navy when I was 17, got kicked out for being too young … rejoined the Navy when my birthday came, qualified in Submarines and was a Japanese prisoner of war for a whole year before my 19th birthday.
Okay – so maybe my life wasn’t that bad – by an order of magnitude.
Al would talk about his experiences – unflinching because he hated the Japanese with a passion and wanted people to know what they did to him. He used to say … “They had a particular fascination with my dick – there was one period where, every morning they would grab me and tie me to wooden bench and ram a bamboo shoot up it. I told them I would tell them anything they wanted to know – I was broke by that point – but the bastards told me they didn’t want to know anything – they were just doing this for sport.”
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki – and after the instrument of surrender was signed – his Japanese captors walked him and his comrades to the gate of the prison and told them … “Go – you’re free”. No food, no water, some of them were naked and had nothing to wear – no sight of allied troops. They wandered the Japanese countryside for two weeks without food – no Japanese civilian helped them – or offered them anything to help them survive even when they begged them. Al said it was this period that he was SURE he’d die. But they ran into a U.S. Army element eventually and were saved.
The treatment of allied prisoners of war – the “rape of Nanking” – the Bataan Death March – and thousands of other examples are evidence of the brutality of the Japanese Army during the time – as well as evidence of how the Japanese people themselves endorsed the conduct.
OF COURSE they victimized foreign women and made them sex slaves.
I love the Japanese people today – they are not the same as then. I don’t know why they feel an obligation to defend the past. Perhaps it’s because they fear that doing so would rob them of those elements of their past that they think make them unique as a people.
The most laughable or most outrageous, depending on your mood at the time, statement from the first story is in it’s final paragraph.
OSP Superintendent Richard Evans said in the news release. “This obviously is a rare incident . . .
Right.
The comment section of the “Sold Old” article reminds me of a past sex worker’s rights article written for Huff Po Gay Voices.
Looks like the Bronx DA is taking a page out of the FBI’s handbook. Talk about trickle down tyranny.
From Harvey Silverglate;
And here’s an interesting review of the new “Lovelace.” His conclusions will probably be of interest to readers of the site.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/08/linda_lovelace_movie_is_bad_for_real_porn_stars.single.html
I’ve got jury duty. We’ll see what happens.
I almost posted this as “I’ve got fury duty.” My finger was on the mouse button when I noticed.
Not guilty.
It took all day, but only one day. And this is the next day.
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Kind of the Swedish Model in reverse. Which isn’t better than the Swedish Model in forward.
Oops
How modest. Most hypocritical clergy are more likely to claim to be prophets themselves.
The Immunity Syndrome
This is brilliant. Spend a couple of decades implementing policies which reduce teenagers to poverty, and then offer them money to not have sex. Brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.
Above the Law
It’s good to see that somebody, somewhere, is trying to hold crooked police accountable. I’d like to see more of this.
The Widening Gyre
There are two things I find very sad about this, frightening even:
a) this isn’t really any weirder than things we’re expected to swallow whole without blinking, and
b) we’ve been so whipped up into a “traffickers are everywhere!” panic that something like this can become the common knowledge, despite being weird and untrue.
Monsters
Yes, I think “monster” is an appropriate word in this case.
Which I Doubt
Let me guess: none of the prosecutors got into any trouble for the blatant breech of the rules of discovery.
{reads article}
Pending investigation. Well, I’m guess they will get a stern talking-too at most, and maybe not even that.
Sold Out
I got as far as the message concerning sexting which read, “It should be a crime its trashy and inappropriate”. I couldn’t get any further comments to load after that. Really, it should be a crime because it’s “trashy and inappropriate?” How many homosexuals would be rotting away in prison today if that were the standard? Insane.
Puppet Show (TW3 #329)
She’s lying? Well, imagine that.
This of course is why sex workers need to speak up, and I’m so glad that so many of you are.
Broken Record (TW3 #332)
So they took photographs of adults, when they were adults, and did sort of Photoshop-like wizardry to make them look like photos of underaged girls? Did the ads actually SAY that the girls were thirteen and younger, or were the targets just supposed to know that? Because they “look young?”
BTW, Superman and his adventures were awfully weird in the 70s, even for a comic book.
Mumbo Jumbo
The mind-control potion has been there in one form or another for a long time: he got her addicted and will take away the drugs as punishment for any offense; he keeps her so doped up she doesn’t know what she’s doing, etc. This seems to be more of the same. At least some are recognizing that a working girl has a bit of a problem calling the cops if doing so lands her in prison.
Well, it took me far too long to do this, and I can only blame a little of that on jury duty, Tracy, or Laura’s cat. Well, maybe a lot of it on Laura’s cat. That beast has a lot to answer for.