Tattooing of [“trafficking” victims doesn’t]…make much sense outside of sadistic, pornographic fantasy. – Julia Davidson
It took nearly two decades for Smith to realize she…was a victim of child sex trafficking. “I was what they call a ‘willing victim’,” she said…the media and advocacy organizations depict child sex trafficking as an issue that involves physically abused or helpless children. But “just being a teenager” is a predisposition factor…Smith said she’s a strong advocate for kids who insist they want to live the way they’ve been manipulated by an adult into living…
…an Amite [Louisiana] police officer accused of sexually assaulting women after deceiving them online has been arrested…Grant Carruth…faces…counts of…kidnapping…aggravated rape…sexual battery and…theft…he…identified himself as a narcotics officer, handcuffed them and said they were being arrested…
Note the liberal use of dysphemisms, and the pretense that gross proceeds equal net profit:
A…woman was [sentenced] to…10 years in state prison for operating a prostitution ring in…New Jersey…Deanna Ruiz…pleaded guilty to racketeering…over a 15-year-period, she collected millions of dollars…[and] booked more than 6,000 hotel rooms at a cost of $1.087 million…she created several sham companies and used them to launder the money…and…commit tax and unemployment…
How, pray tell, does one “commit tax and unemployment”?
A grassroots advocacy group is trying to raise awareness about increased demands for paid sex during the Pan Am Games…Buying Sex Is Not A Sport…is…faith-based…The link between increased sex trafficking and large sporting events has been a controversial one that is not clearly agreed upon by experts…
Wrong; the experts have declared these “faith-based” claims total fabrications.
They finally realized they could expand the panic by adding male “sex slaves”:
Viktor Berki…Gabor Acs and Andras Janos Vass [ran]…Never Sleep, Inc. [which] involved slaves — who did not speak English and barely got to sleep…Three of the victims…rescued in South Florida were first promised that they would earn thousands of dollars as escorts. But…they were forced to perform sex acts in front of a webcam and engage in prostitution for 18 to 20 hours a day…
It’s hard to pick one “sex trafficking” trope that’s stupider than all others, but barcode tattoos are definitely in the running:
People traffickers are believed to have marked their victims with symbolic tattoos to assert their ownership over “assets” that can be sold for thousands of pounds…The victims have been “branded like cattle” – a practice commonly seen worldwide for women in the sex trade – to show that they were aged over 18, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said…One Romanian woman – who was whipped and held against her will in Spain – had been tattooed with a bar code and a sum of money that investigators believed was the amount that she would have to earn before the gang…would release her…The NCA said the extent to which tattoos were used was not known…
The extent is very well known: one single case, the one (from 2012) mentioned above. And as I pointed out at the time, it was “…an example of life imitating artifice because these absurd tales have been circulated…for at least six years now.” Dr. Julia Davidson explains just how stupid this trope actually is:
…If thugs were criminally coercing someone into prostitution, why would they care whether she was 17 or 18 years old? Conversely, if they were supplying women to managers of establishments that would only accept…over 18, why would those managers be satisfied by a tattoo, as opposed to identity documents…if tattooing were actually common practice… victim identification would be a far simpler matter…
Sex workers were among the first not directly involved with the Ferguson protests to spread the word on social media; others like cam girl Sasha Pain are doing even more than that:
…she and two friends…[are] filming protests and sharing them with her audience…Pain…won’t stop working just because she’s on the road. When she has an Internet connection in Ferguson, she’ll make sex tapes and donate proceeds from videos to buy supplies to protect protesters from tear gas…”Everything that I make while I’m here that I don’t need to feed myself, the people I’m with and over my bills is going toward buying food for protesters and gas masks”…
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake
Portland…strip-club dancers are working…with lobbyists, legislators, and social workers to draft a new set of…regulations slated to hit the House floor…in…February…Generally, laws that regulate strip clubs and other sex industry businesses are handed down from the top by legislators, with little input from the people most directly affected…Whether because of stigmas related to…sex work…or a prevailing misconception that most…sex workers are victims of trafficking, there are very few, if any, legislative precedents that show adult entertainment professionals actually being asked to weigh in…
…airline employees are now being trained to…carefully watch for…unusual activity…such as when kids don’t answer questions or avoid eye contact when addressed. Other telltale signs might be bruising…or a ravenous appetite…victims…sometimes have been at the mercy of their traffickers for so long they see themselves not as women being pimped out for sex but as girlfriends helping their boyfriend pay the bills…sex trafficking spikes around the Super Bowl…If you see something say something…
The sheer wrongness of this cannot be overstated.
Korean officials only persecute sex workers in order to please their masters in Washington:
…since the implementation of the 2004 Special Law on Prostitution…the number of red-light districts…has decreased nationwide, from 69 in 2002 to 44 last year. But…the prostitution industry has actually grown…[and] transformed to avoid the confines of the law…pimps posing as ordinary citizens scour the streets to find potential customers…Transformed prostitution businesses have doubled over the past three years as traditional brothels have decreased, swelling to 4,706 in 2013, up from 2,068 in 2010…
The phrase “pimps posing as ordinary citizens” is both hilarious and telling.
Because obviously, “victims” always go around bragging about their “abuse”:
Two teachers at the same Louisiana high school have been charged in the sex abuse of the same male student…Shelley Dufresne, 32, and Rachel Respess, 24, both teach at Destrehan High School in St. Charles Parish….an unnamed source…implied that the victim was involved in a threesome with the teachers…at Respess’ apartment after a…football game [on] Sept. 12, and that…the…student had been “bragging to other students that he was having a sexual relationship with teachers”…
For the past year Red Umbrella Project has studied New York’s “trafficking courts”, which define all sex workers as “victims”; to absolutely nobody’s surprise, the majority of those arrested are minorities, and in Brooklyn a stunning 94% of women arrested for “loitering for the purpose of prostitution” (in other words, “looking like a whore”) are black. Since Melissa Gira Grant, Noah Berlatsky and Michelle Chen all went into the findings in detail, I’ll just refer you to those articles.
…Samantha Azzopardi, 26, who was found wandering the streets of Dublin last fall, led Irish police to believe that she was a 14-or 15-year-old sex-trafficking victim from eastern Europe…Now…[she] has shown up in Alberta…claiming that her name was Aurora Hepburn, that she was 14 and that she had been the victim of an abduction, sexual assault and torture…Calgary police became suspicious after learning of [the Irish] case…Azzopardi has been charged with public mischief…an offense punishable by up to five years in prison…
Houston is bound and determined to win this pissing contest, no matter how ludicrous the claims it has to make:
Houston is a hub for…sex trafficking…[due to its] size, port location and ethnic diversity…a three-month analysis of ads posted on backpage.com…[found] a higher number of ads per person than were posted for Manhattan and northern New Jersey during this year’s Super Bowl…
This is equivalent to concluding that Houston has more people who are morbidly obese than New York because it has more billboards for barbecue restaurants.
For those who think I make too big a deal about the euphemisms prosecutors and reporters use for rape by cops: “Sorrento, Louisiana police chief Earl Theriot pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an unconscious woman and then lying about it to the FBI…Theriot managed to escape jail time…taking just a $2,500 fine and 2 years probation…” Think he’d have escaped that easily if his crime had been called what it was?
Britain’s…Home Secretary Theresa May [said]…that if re-elected next year, the [Conservative] party will introduce civil powers to disrupt people who “spread poisonous hatred” even within the law…police could apply for a court order to disrupt “harmful activity” by restricting an individual’s movements, preventing them from speaking in public or stopping them publishing articles online…
Which views are “harmful” to be determined by the government, of course.
…the rate of forcible rapes in 2012 was estimated at 52.9 per 100,000 female inhabitants…Assuming that all…women are uniformly at risk, this means the…probability that an American woman is raped in her lifetime is 2.6 percent and in college 0.2 percent — 5 to 100 times less than the estimates broadcast by the media and public officials…
Forward and Backward (TW3 #415)
…the District of Columbia Council voted…to repeal the District’s “Prostitution Free Zones” law as well as the “Drug Free Zones” law that it was based on…Although a largely symbolic gesture, since the police have already acknowledged not using the zones for the past two years…the debate over the bill shows the importance of removing laws targeting sex workers, and those profiled as such…
Despite the fact that the exploitation is clearly laid out here, the magic word appears only once, saying that a sting involved “only a tiny piece of the trafficking industry”. One can only surmise that because the smugglers only threatened to sell their “client” to a brothel (a threat made credible by the moral panic), the New York Times figures it isn’t a “real” case of “trafficking”.
Just a few highlights of this expose of “sex trafficking” fraud Chong Kim’s lies:
…Chong Kim [was] convicted by a Minnesota judge for stealing money from a human-trafficking survivor…She is…on probation…as a result…Chong Kim walks with a cane, which she told me was an injury suffered from her days of sexual slavery…she actually had that disability since she was seven years old, and up until at least 2005, she collected Social Security checks for it…she…frequently claims that she was living in Texas when she got sold into sexual slavery in 1994…she was actually a junior in high school in…Minnesota…The…1994…Yearbook clearly contains a photo of Chong Kim…her…social security number is linked to multiple people…
“The myths that circulate about German prostitution legislation are a perfect example of how lies and misconceptions become accepted as ‘truths’ if only they are repeated often enough.” In this short article Matthias Lehmann debunks lies including “the 2002 Act legalized prostitution”, “brothel owners can force sex workers to perform certain acts”, “Job Centres can force job seekers to take up sex work” and “sex trafficking has increased under the law”.
…the University of Michigan’s…policy on sexual violence…says: “Examples…include…criticizing the partner sexually [and]…withholding sex and affection“…this policy suggests that under some circumstances, a partner is entitled to sex…there theoretically exists at the University of Michigan some circumstances in which not consenting to sex is against the rules. This is utterly unconscionable, and, frankly, insane…
…Facebook…[has backed off of its] “real-name” crackdown on drag queens and performers…and…apologized to all those whom they’ve offended. Though the exact policy changes remain TBA, a source…says Facebook is planning to revert to a “preferred name” policy instead…
Some hilarity today Maggie:
-Tatoos–Of course tattoos are a good idea. The cops might not have enough evidence to convict otherwise. If I were running sex slaves I would have “Property of Mr Ecks” tattooed on them to make sure everybody knew whose they were. Also I think I would put my address on there as well so that any member of the public who finds a girl wandering around can bring her home like a little lost doggie. Problem solved.
–Scroguard?. This can’t be real can it?. It must be a spoof. It reminds me of the domestic robot Crichton from the UK sci-fi comedy “Red Dwarf”. He had a vacuum cleaner inside and the socket for the hose was exactly like and in the same place as the Scroguard.
As for UK hag Theresa May–yes she is a nasty piece of work. However most UK polits are stooges of the Senior Civil Service–the “Mandrinate” as they are called. Regardless of which hacks are in “power” the same nasty policies seem to appear sooner or later. This is because the SCS scum are pushing them–the polits are so dumb they more or less do as they are told.
Are the articles at the side a new feature or is your computer playing up?.
It’s a problem with the video; I’m trying to fix it. If I can’t I’ll have to replace it with a picture.
I was wondering the same thing about the 2-column presentation. Seems to be fixed now.
“Scroguard” reminds me of the “full body condoms” from “The Naked Gun” (forgot which one).
It was the first one.
It was defective embed code from YouTube. I replaced it with good code from a different video, then manually changed the video address.
I feel so bad for the victim of the teacher threesome rape. Can I send money to a fund for his eventual rehabilitation?
Of course “trafficking” does happen. We recently had a multiple homicide that was probably related to the real life kind. But the murders likely had to do with money around undocumented asian migrants working in restaurant kitchens — not sex.
when are the powers that be going to recognize that if you have to convince someone that they are a victim they probably aren’t. Of course if you the point out that their only options are victim or criminal and being a criminal involves prison, the choice becomes pretty obvious.
Is it really cheating if you wear scroguard + a condom?
Also – the Louisiana teachers …
– First, when does a “victim” go around BRAGGING about being “victimized” … because that’s how this affair was discovered – when the victim went around bragging about it.
– Second, the victim never reported the “crime” … some bystander who heard him bragging about it did.
– Third, the Parish Police Chief justified the prosecution by stating words to the effect … “We all can agree that teachers having sex with students is a very bad thing”. Sure … it’s bad – but it’s NOT illegal so why was he using it to justify going after these women.
– Forth, what should have happened? The teachers should have been fired by the school board.
– Fifth, these people should have gotten a hotel room over the border in Mississippi, where the age of consent is 16.
In all – a pretty ludicrous case.
Oh yeah …
– Sixth, YOUNG GUYS – this is why you can’t have nice things to play with. You blab too much!!! 😀
Indeed. How stupid can you be? I hope he gets mandatory counseling as a “rape victim”. Maybe this will give him a bit of a clue. I also bet that the POS that reported this to the police was just envious.
Unfortunately, most states have laws that criminalize taking an underage “child” across the border to a venue with a lower age of consent. Not to mention that they would undoubtedly been prosecuted by the Feds then for “trafficking” the poor youth.
What I find ludicrous is the discrepancy between age of consent and age of marriage in most states– including Louisiana. You can’t consent to sex until 17 because the sex rays will warp you forever, but if your parents say it’s okay and you get a justice of the peace to sign a magic paper the sex rays suddenly become shimmering beams of Righteousness and it’s all okay. But only with that one person– whichever cute teacher didn’t sign the paper would still have bad sex rays.
I didn’t think about that … but you’re right.
A similar thing happened to me because the first girl I was with was 35 and I was 17. It wasn’t nearly as “seedy” as this though. She may have been attracted to me, or maybe she at least found me “acceptable” … but she was mostly doing the “mercy fuck”. She wasn’t a teacher either. And it WAS in MS … so I guess she didn’t violate the law as I was of age (as long as the law hasn’t changed since the ’70’s). And I kept my mouth shut about it too!
She got me over the “hump” … cuz I didn’t think I was ever going to get laid and would PRAY TO GOD every night for him to send me a willing girl (this is NOT bullshit, I did – puberty and that whole era was not kind to me – I was always stressed out). But not only did she get me through that – we used to lay around and she would talk to me about men, and what she found attractive in men (aside from the physical) … and what she expected in men … and what qualities good men have. This was invaluable to me, maybe even more valuable than the sex was. I don’t think many young boys get this kind of education and you can’t get it from 17 year old girls for sure.
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