I READ THE FUCKING BOOKS! – Axis of Awesome
A busy week leads to a short links column! This week’s video is from Endza, and the links above it from Dan Savage, Carol Fenton, Radley Balko and Clarkhat (in that order).
- How the cops got so powerful.
- An even worse idea than calling the cops.
- Politician says same-sex marriage causes rioting.
- A functioning police state needs no police; just neighbors & dogs.
From the Archives
- Selfies, songs, science, scary stuff, silly string, pets, trafficking, art, cops, Google, teachers, Muppets, porn, feminism & the nanny state.
- Men just can’t let go of the pathetic fantasy of the high-income hetero-male prostitute with gorgeous customers.
- “Glad Rag Doll”, “Ten Cents a Dance”, “Magdalene Landry”, “State Street Blues” and “Greenbacks”.
- At least this iteration of “robot hooker” idiocy recognizes the possibility that sex work is here to stay.
- Sweatshops aren’t exploitative if they’re operated by “rescue” organizations.
- Cracked demonstrates it has the smartest talent pool in journalism today.
- Megalomaniac speaks for thousands, claiming they all want celibacy.
- Is there anything so stupid adults won’t believe teens use it to get high?
- A moral panic is nearing collapse when it becomes a default bogeyman.
- Why even angry perverts shouldn’t be censored by “hate speech” laws.
- If drought whorifies women, what disaster turns them into politicians?
- Headlines, robbery, censorship, cops, turtles, rocks and Al Feldstein.
- Once a weapon is available, nothing can stop anyone from using it.
- Opposition to harlotry, hijab and homosexuality share a motivation.
- Adult woman leaves home town; parents insist it’s “sex trafficking”.
- The irreparable harm of placing children on sex offender registries.
- “Sex trafficking” crusader by day, kiddie porn consumer by night.
- I’m SHOCKED to hear that the TIP is nothing but a political tool.
- Louisiana wants to criminalize “obvious patterns of prostitution“.
- What are we to make of Joe Arpaio’s crusade against zoophilia?
- Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
- After reading this, you’ll feel the need to wash your eyeballs.
- The only way prohibition will end in the US is by court order.
- Another fourth-rate playwright capitalizes on “sex trafficking”.
- The evangelical Christian basis of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- This Random Brothel Exposé Generator is pure brilliance.
- Measure, countermeasure, and counter-countermeasure.
- Three gay teens are murdered to “turn them into men”.
- “Eat the Poo Poo” sounds like the title of a punk album.
- Allies debunk amazingly stupid anti-whore arguments.
- Reporter casts violent rapist as a victim of prostitution.
- The grandiosity of these delusions increases by the day.
- Local news station “discovers” a 15-year-old practice.
- Remember, prostitution is supposedly legal in France.
- An app to connect clients to sex workers in Germany.
- More anti-criminalization journalism from Reason.
- Another mob-with-torches story from Los Angeles.
- A fairly respectful article on Edinburgh’s saunas.
- What the hell is going on in Washington state?
- Western Australia’s war on whores continues.
- Arizona jumps on the “escort licensing” fad.
- Indian sex workers demand representation.
- Douglas Fox on the flexibility of sex work.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2013 and 2014.
- Gypsy whores, Kentucky Derby edition.
- “Sex trafficking” is caused by abortion!
- Understanding sex work and allyship.
- Caty Simon interviews Carol Leigh.
- Introducing Felicia Anna.
- Sex education in Berlin.
- April 2011 in retrospect.