The current trafficking panic is fundamentally a modern myth that has been re-created from the “white slavery fears” of the 19th century to further moralist or political agendas. – John Davies
“Law-enforcement agencies have…shut a suspected bawdy house located just metres from a daycare and one block from a southeast Calgary school…Paradise Spa…has been a problem venue for more than a decade, police said…” SEX NEAR A DAYCARE AND A SCHOOL!!!!!! The fiends!
“…[Alabama cop] Michael Ford was sentenced to…89 years…[for] incest…sexual abuse…sodomy and…sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old…he…offered no apology…the sentences will run consecutively…”
…[New York City] Police arrested Felicia McGinnis, 26, after spotting her talking to passersby…while wearing a “black pea coat, skinny jeans and platform shoes”…“Any…fashion magazine would display plenty of women similarly dressed,” wrote Judge Felicia Mennin… “such outfit hardly demonstrates the wearer’s proclivity to…prostitution…characterization of…jeans as ‘revealing’ because they ‘outlined the defendant’s legs’ seems more to be expected in the dress code of a 1950s high school than a criminal-court pleading”…
A [Zimbabwean] prostitute…has claimed that civil servants…constitute…the majority of the industry’s clients, but [are] notorious for using…threats to [avoid] paying…most soldiers [use] verbal threats…while police officers [threaten arrest]…
Notice that a “child” magically becomes a “woman” the instant she’s accused of a crime:
Prosecutors in Texas have accused a 17-year-old woman of recruiting her…”easily manipulated” friends to provide [paid] sex for Michael “Money Mike” McIntosh…the friends were as young as 14. The alleged teen madam is charged with compelling prostitution…
I Really Shouldn’t Even LOOK at an Issue of Cosmopolitan (TW3 #25)
Apparently, the “sex advice” in Men’s Health is almost as moronic as that in Cosmo! Here’s another hilarious list of 15 useless, impracticable, ridiculous or just plain dumb suggestions from these clueless magazines.
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (TW3 #31)
They “believe it’s a means of making money” because it is.
…Elizabeth Ngonga has said…”Many girls and boys engage in sex-tourism, which they believe is a means of making money. It’s very sad spotting teenage girls and boys roaming beaches with foreigners”…Ngonga called on the government [of Kenya] to create laws that will enable police…to access tourist cottages [without warrants]…She [also] urged the government to ban foreigners from walking with bikinis and pants…
…Doriana Silva is seeking $20 million from Ashley Madison…she was…promised a starting salary of $34,000 plus benefits…to create 1,000 “fake female profiles”…to lure men to the new Brazilian Ashley Madison site – and given only three weeks to complete the work…“The purpose of these profiles is to entice paying heterosexual male members to join and spend money on the website…They do not belong to any genuine members of Ashley Madison – or any real human beings at all”…Silva developed severe pain in her wrists and forearms…and…the company has refused to grant her workers’ compensation or insurance…
Tyranny By Consensus (TW3 #47)
Could any non-bureaucrat actually consider this with a straight face?
Draft regulations currently being considered…would…not only require condoms during intercourse but also prohibit ejaculation onto the genitals, mouth or eyes, and instruct employers to provide [porn] performers with protective eyewear to avoid ocular contact with semen…The 21-page document suggests several other regulatory changes…like providing “plastic coverings or other disposable materials to facilitate cleaning of the work area”…
From a memorandum submitted to the UK Parliament by migration expert Dr. John Davies:
…the assumed link between demand for sexual services and consequential harm…is not evidence based…sex work migration…is often undertaken to try and surmount…structural obstacles to…desired mobility…There is a widely disseminated proposition that…prostitution is a demand-driven industry…which…fuels forms of induction…[this] is apparently based on unreformed Keynesian economic theory…and …should not go unchallenged…sex work…is often a commercialised extension of a pre-existing, common domestic and barter behaviour…[as such] it…is more likely to be represented by Say’s economic laws, rather than any form of rigid Keynesian theory…
Well worth reading in its entirety.
Sex Workers Against Trafficking (TW3 #139)
From the Journal of Public Health: “DMSC-led interventions to remove minors and unwilling women from sex work account for over 80% of successful ‘rescues’ reported in West Bengal…the proportion of minors in sex work in Sonagachi declined from 25 to 2%…”
I’m sure the Stasi gave very similar training in spotting threats to the state: “Binmen and taxi drivers are among those to be trained in spotting victims of human trafficking in Northern Ireland…‘Anybody in contact with the public…may…be helpful’…”
…Two studies…in Australia and Thailand…have revealed consistent findings of authorities’ use of stereotypes…airport authorities identify a woman arriving on a tourist visa as a potential sex worker…through scrutinising women’s luggage…”sexy” clothing…leads to further questioning of women as potential victims of trafficking or unauthorized sex workers…
Shereen El-Feki on the pragmatism of sex work and how HIV is forcing Arab “authorities” there to stop pretending they can make it vanish by forbidding it:
In the Arab region, it is easier to talk about sex when it is wrapped in a white coat of public health. HIV…provides a way of prompting authorities to address the realities of sexual life, including sex work. But a medical lens offers less than 20/20 vision, and the broader political, economic, and social conditions that make women turn to sex work in the first place…can be overlooked…But beyond public health, few women’s rights groups in the region want to talk about sex work, let alone actively engage with and empower…sex workers. The Arab world is very far from accepting the sort of sex worker collectives, such as those in India and elsewhere in the Global South, which equip women to defend their rights…
Sadly, so is the United States.
At the beginning of last week, Irish “trafficking” fetishists were enjoying the wanking fantasy of a new “14-year-old trafficking victim”. By the end of the week, reality threw cold water on it: “The mystery girl [has been] identified…as an Australian adult [with] a previous conviction for deception in her native country…Samantha Azzopardi…was…believed [to be] aged 14 to 16…but…is actually 25…[and has] up to 40 different aliases…”
First They Came for the Hookers (TW3 #317)
After cops wasted taxpayer money to trick strippers, the women were forced to endure the childish giggling of morons in court, a refugee from a high-school newspaper’s writeup of the ordeal and a dried-up prude of a judge forcing them to endure a year of anti-sex brainwashing. Because obviously there is no actual crime in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
This excellent article about the “rescue industry” exposes its racist and moralistic motivations and demonstrates how it hurts those it “saves”:
For almost three years Sine Plambech…[of] the Danish Institute for International Studies, has followed 30 [deported] Nigerian women…the European categorisation of who is a victim and who is an illegal alien is arbitrary and unsystematic…“The ones who receive assistance have…[learned] what to say…If you say that you went to Europe to earn money for your family, you knew that you would sell sex and you bought the illegal papers yourself, then you probably won’t get help. If you say that you didn’t know you were going to sell sex, you get help”…
The National Film Board of Canada improperly financed a Swedish model propaganda film named “Buying Sex”, and Alan Young (the main attorney in Bedford vs. Canada) is understandably upset:
…I was recruited to participate in this film on the basis that it would serve to inform and educate the public about…the ”Bedford” case…However…it became apparent that the filmmakers’ intent was to trivialize the constitutional challenge and…attack…my character and integrity…excerpts…were carefully edited to make…our commentary appear vacuous and self-serving…the filmmakers have manipulated and used both the NFB and myself to advance…the claims of abolitionists, and…to promote the adoption of the ”Swedish model”…into the Canadian legislative landscape. The only reason the filmmaker chose to include the constitutional challenge…was to make the film appear topical and Canadian, and to secure close to $1,000,000 in NFB funding…
Lying Down With Dogs (TW3 #324)
Change “Botswana” to the name of any American state:
Botswana recently [announced]…that prostitutes will either be detained if they are locals or deported if they are foreigners…Alongside regular crackdowns…the Health ministry will put out messages against sex work [on] billboards…Newspaper adverts, articles, posters, flyers, radio and television adverts on sexually transmitted infections and dangers of sex work will also be used.
Japanese Prostitution (TW3 #327)
Buried in an article about Japan’s move toward legalizing casinos: “…law enforcement has already started cracking down on sex clubs and affiliated businesses in entertainment areas in preparation for the Olympics…”
A growing clamour to tackle sexually explicit pop videos will find a new voice this week with the launch of a campaign group to demand cinema-style ratings on lewd content aimed at teenage and pre-teenage girls…Rewind&Reframe [is] a joint project run by the pressure groups End Violence Against Women Coalition, Imkaan and Object…A petition is also being started to call on the [UK] government to act…
Just two percent of counties in the United States are responsible for more than half of the country’s executions since 1976…and…85 percent of the remaining…counties…have not had a single…execution in over 45 years…The top 10 counties…are: Los Angeles County, Calif.; Harris County, Texas; Philadelphia County, Pa.; Maricopa County, Ariz.; Riverside County, Calif.; Clark County, Nev.; Orange County, Calif.; Duval County, Fla.; Alameda County, Calif.; and San Diego County, Calif…
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake (TW3 #338)
With the judgment against Rick’s in New York, this was only a matter of time:
An exotic dancer is suing Bourbon Street strip club Rick’s Cabaret on claims the business refused to pay wages and siphoned off tips to hundreds of its women performers. Kelly Moncheski, a former dancer, filed a lawsuit…on behalf of other former employees…The lawsuit claims that Rick’s…improperly classified dancers as independent contractors…and…forced [them] to share tips with the owners…the company dictated…how long they should work, what to wear, and how to groom themselves…
I can’t really see why this is a bad thing:
The council are considering scrapping the need for Edinburgh’s saunas to apply for a licence…all the venues could keep operating and only be subjected to the usual public health and trading standards regulations which every business has to abide to…Sex workers’ charity Scot-Pep have criticised the move, saying it has been forced on the council by Police Scotland’s crack-down. They are concerned about the implications for the safety of sex workers…
The revolting Dennis Hof demonstrates more of the whorearchistic, misogynistic, trafficking-panic supporting and wholly opportunistic behavior that earned him a place in my Hall of Shame:
Upon hearing reports that Justin Bieber was seen leaving a Brazilian brothel…Dennis Hof is making a public appeal to him to stop risking his health and instead spend time with the ladies of his seven legal brothels in Nevada. “I was shocked to hear that Justin might have put his health and safety at risk in a Brazilian brothel…condom use with Brazilian prostitutes is voluntary and unregulated…[and] Brazil has a rampant child sex trafficking problem, second only to that of Thailand…”
He goes on to basically say that sex workers are too stupid and criminal to be trusted to monitor our own health without state compulsion.
Caty Simon interviews Jaclyn Moskal-Dairman of SWOP Phoenix; Dairman explains how Monica Jones was specifically targeted and entrapped by Phoenix police, discusses the true reasons for “diversion” programs, and discusses the ethical nightmare of Project ROSE in particular. How bad is it? Take a look at this report from Al-Jazeera, which unlike US media corporations is under no political pressure to spread “trafficking” hysteria, and is in fact emerging as a persistent critic of the narrative.
I don’t live in Belfast; but the bins are the same here. We have ‘wheelie’ bins; the chaps pull them to the lorry, hooks pick them up, and tip their contents inwards; and then they are set down. Black for rubbish (?trash or garbage in the US), blue for mixed recyclables, brown for compost. The chaps can’t see what’s inside; and anyway, most people put their rubbish in plastic bags.
Could someone please explain to me just how these chaps who can’t see the contents are will know that traffickers are filling the bins; and what exactly are they filling the bins with?
The Al-Jazeera link returns a 404 page not found error. The reference is still visible on a search there, but the link is still a 404 🙁
If it shows up again, I’ll take a pageview and upload that. I’m starting to take that precaution with peekaboo websites lately (Canada’s Globe and Mail is famous for it).
EDIT: I replaced the link with one to a cached version.
Spot the difference: Al-Jazeera has a new article about Arizona:
http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/america-tonight-blog/2013/11/14/project-rose-prostitutesjail.html
Apparently someone with clout complained about the other one. No matter; even if that cached copy goes away I have captured it in a PNG for posterity.
Clout? That rather surprises me; I thought of Al-Jazeera in more positive terms, as independent and non-corruptible, even if I didn’t always agree with them.
LOL – funny as hell. Al Jazeera independent? LMFAO!!
Al Jazeera is owned by the Qatari government – by the ruling family. They are NOT independent and would never be allowed to print, publish, or broadcast anything that the Qatari ruling family doesn’t want them to. Last time I checked – Sharia law was in full effect in Qatar – and women and homosexuals were persecuted.
True, but they have or had a good reputation.
You saying I should go to Fox if I want objectivity? 😉
I don’t have too much of a problem “zoning” sex establishments. The thing is this – I personally don’t mind … I mean, you know Maggie – you’ve seen Scuttlebutt’s strip joint on I-10 east of NOLA and it’s right next door to WalMart. Thing is – there’s a head shop right next to Scuttlebutt’s – so that area isn’t particularly very strictly zoned.
BUT – I DO respect my neighbors and friends who don’t live my lifestyle or hold the more liberal views that I do regarding sexual matters. I don’t want them to have to live that in their face if they’d rather not see it every time they drop their kids off at daycare – as long as they’ll agree that we can “zone” those establishments rather than ban them.
Now this cop raping a 12 year old. I don’t have a problem with putting this guy UNDER the jail forever and I hope he gets fucked in the ass by the other prisoners on a daily basis. Punishment – retribution … he upset the moral balance and now he should pay to right it with his own blood.
Fuck … well, I really haven’t done any serious traveling in South America but with now Justin Bieber dipping his wick in Brazil – well there must be some fantastic shit down there and I need to check it out since it’s all the rage now … even with the US Secret Service.
Well the Romans didn’t pay that much to put a man to death – so rather than conclude that putting a man to death is too expensive and we therefore should save money and not do it – let’s concede the obvious point that we’re doing it wrong.
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS? Does that mean yeast infection if a woman eats sugar? They all fucking eat sugar. Most women eat more sugar than me and they don’t all have yeast infections.
Fuck yeah! That’s not bad advice!
One trick I wish more girls would learn … pull it DOWN when it’s erect. It doesn’t want to bend that way on a guy who stands upward when erect – mine will stand at about a 60 degree up tilt – so slowly pulling it down is pulling against the grain and adding a small element of pain … that somehow also makes me even harder by trapping more blood or something. My ATF does it and it’s just nuts!
That’s terrible advice – first, I don’t let women dominate me. They have my permission to carve my back up with their nails … or bite my scrotum … or use a littlle teeth during oral – but no – you’re not blindfolding me or tieing me or giving me “bitch” directions. I give women commands – not bitch directions – I don’t fuck bitches I fuck women.
And blindfolding the male? We’re almost 100 percent visual when it comes to sex.
Guy has doughnut on his dick. Sugar glaze gets all over dick. He then puts dick inside his partner; sugar gets in there. Big vaginal flora problem and probable yeast infection unless she uses a nuclear douche, which itself leads to more problems. Food on genitalia turns some people on, but it’s actually a tremendously bad idea in so, so many ways.
FULL DISCLOSURE: It took me several minutes to type the first two sentences of my answer because I couldn’t stop giggling. 🙂
I quit reading Cosmo when it became obvious that the writers were just making shit up because they thought it sounded good, without stopping to think if it made sense. The donut thing, for example.
My favorite: in one of their stupid “Ten Ways To Get Your Man In The Mood For Love” articles, one of the suggestions was, believe it or not:
4. Have your sweetie give you a manicure.
Seriously.
Even if, unfathomably, this did get one or both of you horny, you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it for an hour, BECAUSE YOU’VE JUST HAD A FUCKING MANICURE.
(makes gun-shooting-at-own-head gesture)
Although I once had a virtual lover who was so hot to trot that I wrecked my just-polished nails for him. 1000% worth it. 😉
Manicure could be hot depending on the guy. Patrick Swayze could have made that work – remember the pottery scene from ghost? He’d have found a way.
Who the guy is isn’t the point. Even if the woman doesn’t care about the state of the polish you’ve just taken such care to apply, you’ll inevitably wind up with it all over your skin, including delicate and sensitive skin.
There are two ways to take nail polish off one’s skin:
1. Pick it off with a sharp fingernail or pick; or
2. Rub it with acetone-soaked cotton.
Do you really want either of those anywhere near your dick? 😉
Well since you put it that way!
I have some peripheral experience with that. I was on a diesel submarine and the first time I did gravities after a battery charge I forgot to wash the hydrochloric acid off my hands and went to the bathroom. HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS THAT HURT!
For a long time too!
It was worse pain than the case chlamidia my wife gave me when we first started dating!!!
Okay … Shit … So anytime I slathered honey on a girl … You know “down there” … And then licked it off I was compromising her health?
Crap they didn’t teach me that in family living class. 🙁
Yep. But it was her responsibility to know that; it’s her equipment.
Not when I’m operating it! 😃
I don’t know if anybody else understood the Davies memo on the economics of sex work. I’m just confused by it.
If someone is using old Keynesianism to justify end demand laws, that is, certainly, insane. Old Keynesianism is definitely outdated, but I can’t understand why this would be a macro issue at all. We aren’t talking about aggregate demand at all. This should all be in the realm of micro-economics.
Maybe if the subject was some analysis of the economic relationship between the sexes generally, which seems in the province of some already insane neofeminist thing, but I dunno.
As best I can see, the only reason to bring up “Say’s Law” would be to refute someone saying “prostitutes are bad because people spend their money there than at my whatever shop”, to which the response would be of course that they then spend that money.
And it seems to verge into attacking on demand laws by claiming that it’s actually the women wot tempt our honest menfolk into sin, like eve and the apple.
I don’t think it’s really sensical to ask where prostitution comes from, as if it was something that was invented. It isn’t something that comes from aggressive marketing or human trafficking, the idea of trading sex for money is pretty natural to the human creature.
Not sure that Say’s law applies to services, as opposed to manufactured goods. Say seems to be saying that manufacturers don’t like to sit on inventory – they want to sell it.
Right, and ambitious or practical women don’t like to sit on our inventory, either; it’s a moneymaking asset we can sell whether there’s demand or not. When I was at UNO and needed money, surely you don’t think I waited for guys to offer it, do you? No, and neither do other working girls. A lot of the time guys respond to the offer of sex even though they weren’t thinking of it before; the “end demand” gospel posits women as the pathetic, passive victims of male actors, like products which sit on a shelf until someone wants to buy them rather than merchants actively hawking their wares as we clearly do in our advertising.
fair point.
As to that rapist cop, sometimes you can judge a book by it’s cover. No matter where I move, his eyes follow me. Freaking spooky.
Sex advice: weird how so many of them involve food. Seems the ladies who read Cosmo are willing to put up with nasty business of having sex with their partners, provided they get a load of carbs for doing so. It’s positively skinnerian.