You can’t be a heterosexual one day and a lesbian the next day.
– Andrew Bird
In a few weeks I’ll probably let up on mocking Fifty Shades of Grey, but not until I run out of good parodies like this video contributed by Jason Kuznicki. The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker (“Throxeus”), Violet Blue (“lube”), Ally Fogg (“gay”), Popehat (“protect”), Lenore Skenazy (“not news”), and Mike Siegel (“genetics”).
- Throxeus?
- The War on Lube.
- “A fecal time bomb.”
- Are you gay enough?
- To protect and serve.
- This week in not-news.
- An urban legend from Vietnam.
- I don’t know about genetics, but they’re great in bed.
From the Archives
- Paint, cities, robots, Ys, cops, bureaucrats, bugs, bunnies, guns, philosophy, kings, myths, clichés, interjections & terrifying pastries.
- A video by Carol Leigh on the memorials for Petite Jasmine & Dora Özer.
- Too bad BBC can’t be this honest & sympathetic about modern clients.
- Dutch “authorities” narrow bottleneck, wonder why “crime” increases.
- How do verification services like Date Check and P411 screen escorts?
- Is there a penis length or thickness that is too large for most escorts?
- Emi Koyama exposes journalists who knowingly repeated false myth.
- Cops, lawheads, kangaroos, Dali, cats, cannoli, time, porn & weed.
- Molly Crabapple on the vile Project ROSE & its equally-vile founder.
- Cops puzzled when “rescued” whores immediately return to work.
- In which I go far outside my comfort zone to attend a symposium.
- Margo St. James on the birth of the sex worker rights movement.
- More evidence of the evangelical basis for “sex trafficking” myth.
- Two previous columns for International Sex Worker Rights Day.
- The vulnerable party in a sex work transaction isn’t the whore.
- All leaders are equally awful, no matter how they try to hide it.
- The “Facebook pimps” myth just keeps growing and growing.
- What positions are good for a small penis and a large vagina?
- Japanese politicians sue to remove comfort women memorial.
- Nobody can challenge secret surveillance because it’s secret.
- Another attempt to impose the Swedish model on the UK.
- Harm reduction dangerously disrupted by cop “cleansing”.
- Few Irish politicians dare to stand up to Magdalene nuns.
- Nevada is not more whore-friendly than other US states.
- ASPaSIA is working on a code of ethics for sex workers.
- Yet another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- Should I “out” a sex worker friend to my other friends?
- Can mature, chubby women make a living as escorts?
- A thorough refutation of Neumayer, Cho and Dreher.
- Justine Reilly, Ruhama’s all-purpose anti-whore shill.
- “Following the Money: Spending on Anti-Trafficking”.
- Bitcoin is now the world’s best-performing currency.
- I like Belle Knox more with every article she writes.
- I just love it when predators feed on one another.
- I love it when Jacob Sullum tears into Nick Kristof.
- “Rescue” NGO pays court to charge an opponent.
- A synthetic article constructed to prove a point.
- Targeting strip clubs with bureaucratic bullshit.
- It’s nice to have so much more company lately.
- California arrests are advertised as “rescues”.
- A serial rapist and a serial killer are convicted.
- A cop is a cop, even when she’s a sex worker.
- Secret Lives and A Natural History of Rape.
- How can I get my wife to talk dirty to me?
- A challenge to prostitution laws in Ohio.
- More on Melissa Gira Grant’s new book.
- Finland imposes Swedish-scented laws.
- Because financial survival is shameful.
- Unpacking the sex trafficking panic.
- Cuckoo Clock McCain is at it again.
- Who really paid her, and for what?
- What decriminalization looks like.
- An interview with Tracy Quan.
- Who victimizes sex workers?
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Baby cured of HIV.
- King of the hill!
“Pickens County deputy fired for tasing wheelchair bound man”
Well, it’s a start. I’d prefer “Pickens County deputy bound to wheelchair, belabored with aluminum bats for tasing wheelchair bound man” but it’s a start.
I’m not surprised that Mount Everest is a heap of ordure, or that there are stiffs up there.
A while back, I listened to a radio documentary on the BBC, one of a series on ‘Ethical Dilemmas’. In this particular one, a young woman described her ascent of Everest; her party came across a woman in a purple jacket. This woman was deeply hypothermic, perhaps close to death. Anyway, the interviewee decided that purple-jacket-woman was going to die, so there was no point in abandoning their attempt on the summit to bring the woman down.
She described, later, that the purple-jacketed woman remained there for a long time, acting as a sing post to the summit. It seems that the woman had somehow become separated from her boyfriend; both perished.
I don’t know about you, but I’d like to think that if I had the choice between attaining a life-long ambition and attempting to save a stranger’s life, I’d know what I’d choose.
By coincidence, I was at a (medical) talk by Dawson Stelfox a few months later; he was the first Ulsterman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and described the medical effects of high altitude. He said, in response to my question, that it was the unwritten rule on Everest, that if a party came across such a situation, any summit attempt would be abandoned in favour of a rescue.
ATLS™ teaches that there’s one inviolate rule in the treatment of hypothermia:
You ain’t dead until you’re warm and dead
Ok, expedition leader – looks like it’s moral dilemmas time!
How about this: I will continue on to the summit with you and leave this woman here to die on one condition: when we return to base camp, having successfully reached the summit, I will kill you. Drive a piton into your skull.
Now decide: is us reaching the summit successfully worth your life? If not, then why is it worth *her* life?
It’s astonishing that people can get something as clear-cut and simple as this wrong.
Wow! I the first thing that popped up this morning on my computer was a full screen photo of a crowd of women in St. Petersburg Russia standing under a sea of red umbrellas celebrating International Women’s Day . I read the article wondering about the red umbrellas. There was nothing! I had to dig deep and do a search to find that the red umbrellas are the symbol for sex worker rights and flash mobs of red umbrellas had been organized around the world for International Women Day. Hmmm, nothing in the (lame stream) news about this.
“The War on Lube”: everyone bitches about the FDA insisting that the lube gets tested to make sure its ok; but Christ, the outcry should they let Chinese shit with lead and powdered chicken dung in it hit the shelves!
You can’t have it both ways. If you want the goop to be safe and fit for purpose, then it’s going to take a few weeks before it gets the all-clear, ok?
[from the link] “For example, lubes like Divine 9 contain a seaweed extract that is supposed to prevent the growth of HPV cells.”
Jesus! It’s not some inert goop, it’s medically active! How do *you* know that this shit, while maybe killing HPV cells, doesn’t also cause liver damage? You don’t. Not until someone speads it on some human liver and looks at it under a microscope. So what if it’s “natural”? So are toadstools. This may shock people, but God didn’t actually put seaweed on this planet with your naughty bits in mind.
Nope. Call me rude words, call me a “statist”, but I’m with the FDA on this one.