YOUR PRAYERS ARE GOING STRAIGHT INTO MY SPAM FILTER. PLEASE TEXT ME FOR QUICKER RESPONSE. – The Lord God
This week’s first video was featured by Jesse Walker in his “Friday AV Club” feature at Reason; it’s an early “stranger danger” scare film from 1963, and as Walker points out the most interesting thing about it is that it demonstrates just how much freedom kids used to have and how comparatively sensible most of the suggestions are (“don’t play in isolated industrial areas” rather than “don’t play outside”, and “stick together with friends” rather than “never get out of the sight of some authority figure”). Walker also discusses the film’s creator, Sid Davis, and mentions that he also made the infamous “Boys Beware”, an anti-gay scare film. I decided to feature that one as today’s second selection to make a point: compare the bogeyman myths the film promotes about gay men to the actual gay men you know, and then recognize that the same kind of lies are spread today about sex workers, our clients and our associates. All the links above the first video were provided by Popehat, and those between the videos by Radley Balko (“yabba” and “droit”), Jesse Walker (“irony”), Clarissa (“addiction”), Nun Ya (“unexpected”), Jason Kuznicki (“mannequins”), and Molly Crabapple (“gang”).
- The only unusual aspects are the scale & their being arrested.
- Gremlins from the Kremlin.
- Homophonia and idiocracy.
- Yabba dabba doo.
- Droit du seigneur.
- Irony of the week.
- More of this, please.
- Addiction is not pretty.
- Well, that was unexpected.
- He’s a doctor, not the Doctor.
- The funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet in weeks.
- Maybe we could trick cops into beating & tasing mannequins.
- Gang assaults nude woman, abducts teen & pepper-sprays toddler.
- The crime: unpaid parking tickets. The penalty: permanent paralysis.
- You’ll be part of the fascist establishment whether you want to or not.
From the Archives
- Dogs, “Time”, police state, cops, assholes, nightmares, hum, history, hentai, street vendors, Pakistan, graffiti and frame-ups.
- “Diversion” program teaches women to blame themselves for the criminalization of consensual sex.
- Insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly & expecting different results.
- UK cops send “extreme” porn to anti-cop politician, then bust him for it.
- Do you think there is a connection between intelligence and sexuality?
- Sick minds see sex where it isn’t, fear magic powers of taboo pictures.
- Canadian politicians are just as dishonest as their American brethren.
- Another Amsterdam land-grab disguised as “anti-trafficking initiative”.
- Only other peoples’ kind of sex work is bad! Ours isn’t even sexual!
- “Human trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
- The predictable result of a years-long “crackdown” on street work.
- Sri Lankan police stage evidence-free hotel raids, for the children.
- Condemned to the “sex offender” registry for euthanizing a dog.
- Anti-whore NGO gets big donation from convicted child molester.
- Spanish advocates for disabled men’s right to hire sex workers.
- Lies and evasions from yet another “Operation Cross-Country”.
- Government use of laws always exceeds their stated purpose.
- An interview with Kristen DiAngelo about American Courtesans.
- Have you ever had a prostitute “read” you as a former whore?
- I’m rather stout; how can I get women to give me a chance?
- Baton Rouge cops use overturned law to arrest gay men.
- I’m very glad I never had this kind of celebrity as a client.
- Two HIV+ men have been seemingly cleared of the virus.
- Yet another gun to the internet’s head is turned aside.
- Obama crony jokes about hookers being gang-raped.
- Is the wind starting to shift toward decriminalization?
- Escape from the White-Savior Industrial Complex.
- Do you think jealousy is due to nature or nurture?
- Porn, house buying and Spongebob Squarepants.
- Nicaraguan sex workers set up an activism office.
- Pat Robertson seems to be slowly going sane.
- Sex workers are finally beginning to be heard.
- Cathryn Berarovich interviews a streetwalker.
- What should we do about underage hookers?
- What should be done about “sex trafficking”?
- Danish journalists mock the Swedish model.
- Will your husband ever write a column?
- My two previous columns for Lammas.
- A short biography of Lais of Corinth.
- BBW escort turns comedienne.
- Safety tips from sex workers.
- The craziness of Zimbabwe.
- Another early Links column.
- A look back at July of 2010.
- Sex Workers Speakeasy.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- R.I.P. Virginia Johnson.
- Legalizing Prostitution.
- The Starlet Bandits.
- King of the hill!