I have never met anybody who says there will be a day when no one is selling sexual services for money. You will never stop it. – Jean Urquhart
No doubt the child was contaminated with sex rays!
A Scottsdale, Arizona private school kicked out a five-year-old boy the day before starting kindergarten…because his dad once worked in porn. Jay Grdina is now a millionaire CEO of Dolce Bevuto…But before moving into the “lifestyle beverage” industry, Grdina ran the website ClubJenna.com with ex-wife Jenna Jameson…Grdina no longer works in the adult industry, and he also remarried (model Erin Naas) and had two children. Grdina told TMZ that the family enrolled their son Jayden at Scottsdale Christian Academy (SCA) in May after a six-month process of applications and interviews…
For anti-prostitution campaigns pushing for the criminalization of the sex industry, “slavery” has been decontextualized from Black struggle and repurposed to describe [sex work]…Mobilizing slavery in this way has always seemed a deeply disrespectful appropriation of Black suffering, disrespectful both to our deceased ancestors and to our still-endangered lives as Black folks. But by hijacking the terminology of slavery, even widely referring to themselves as “abolitionists”, anti-sex work campaigners have not only (successfully) campaigned for funding and legal reform; but they do so without any tangible connections to historical or current Black political movements against state violence. Indeed in pushing for criminalization, they are often undermining those most harmed by the legacy of slavery…
I’m rather glad to see the return of “criminal whore” rhetoric:
…Fall River…stings were sporadic and usually only targeted the would-be customers. “That’s the wrong approach,” Fall River Police Chief Daniel S. Racine said…undercover [pigs] are now frequently, almost on a weekly basis, driving unmarked vehicles while patrolling areas known for prostitution activity…looking for both the street prostitutes and the johns, and arresting them. “We’re looking to deter prostitution on both ends, the supply and the demand,” said Racine, who acknowledged that the police department will not completely eliminate what is often called the world’s oldest profession…[a clueless business owner] said…“A lot of the customers are from out of town, and I don’t want to give them that image of Fall River, as if that’s the type of neighborhoods we have, because it’s not”…
In other words, he wants “that type” of neighborhood “cleaned up” so as to prove it never existed.
Her escorting was “caused” by being bipolar? Really, Suzy?
…Suzy Favor Hamilton…was a three-time track and field Olympian who had been featured in magazines and who also had a loving family – so fans were shocked in 2012 when she was outed as a high-end escort in Las Vegas. In her new memoir, Fast Girl, Hamilton says that her bipolar disorder, which had not yet been diagnosed, caused her shocking behavior. “My bipolar was driven toward sex. It could have been driven towards drugs and alcohol, or gambling. I found sex was the biggest high to fuel my mania, which is common with bipolar people,” Hamilton tells People…
Catastrophic Consequences (#407)
Jean Urquhart, MSP moves beyond merely “calling for debate”:
Sex workers and charities across Scotland are rallying behind an MSP’s proposal to decriminalise prostitution in the country…HIV Scotland and NUS Scotland have championed the MSP’s consultation, as has Scot-Pep, the sex worker-led charity that advocates for the safety, rights and health of people who sell sex in Scotland…The proposed bill would permit sex workers to work in groups of up to four…laws against soliciting and kerb-crawling would be scrapped…Sex workers would also be permitted to have joint finances with family members or flatmates…
The French just love these massive DNA fishing expeditions:
…as part of a probe into the rape of a Canadian tourist at police headquarters in Paris…all 120 police officers and civilian staff who were present in the building on the night the rape took place…are being tested over three days…Investigators are trying to find a match for a so far unidentified DNA sample taken from sperm found during the victim’s medical examination…
The [Rentboy] crackdown may have felt unprecedented to some, but it’s the public’s response that’s new. When law enforcement targets sex workers and the websites they use, mainstream outlets and organizations tend to give them a pass. But with Rentboy, that script has flipped…media and advocacy groups who don’t typically bring a political analysis to sex work responded to the raid primarily as an anti-gay attack, while also calling for an end to the policing of sex workers. Some American LGBTQ organizations in particular have rallied around the political nature of the raid—in a way women’s rights groups in the United States, when women sex workers are targeted in similar raids, have not. In fact, it might be the relative silence of women’s rights groups on the Rentboy raid that has provided space for sex workers’ rights to become the main focus of the story…
It seems I wasn’t the only one who had Ashley Madison pegged as a scam years ago:
…Ashley Madison created tens of thousands of fembots to lure men into paying for credits…To the Ashley Madison “guest,” or non-paying member, it would appear that he was being personally contacted by eager women. But if he wanted to read or respond to them, he would have to shell out for a package of Ashley Madison credits, which range in price from $60 to $290. Each subsequent message and chat cost the man credits. As documents from company e-mails now reveal, 80 percent of first purchases on Ashley Madison were a result of a man trying to contact a bot, or reading a message from one…company executives were in a constant battle to hide the truth. In emails to disgruntled members of the site, and even the California attorney general, they shaded the truth about how the bots fit into their business plan…
Why the fuck are some gay dudes so totally fucking clueless, and announce their ignorance so loudly?
The Rentboy raid sparked a conversation among LGBT organizations who noted that similar, heterosexual-geared sites advertising escort services did not meet similar fates…Sasanka Jinadasa…[of] HIPS, Inc…[says] “Targeting sex work is an indirect way of targeting the LGBT community without calling it outright discrimination”…Becky believes regulating the sex industry…would provide more protection…[Nick] Kinkand…[bloviated] “A lot of people’s biggest complaint about sex work is the fact that there are these women or children that are being trafficked into the country to do this…If it were to become legal, it would reduce that, because…instead of going to…the street corner where these people…have diseases or something, I can go to a reputable place and see a reputable person”…
The most astonishingly-stupid statement in all that astonishing stupidity is the idea that straight escort sites aren’t targeted by cops.
Hilary Hanson of Huffington Post is beginning to distinguish herself as an ally:
Men who pay for sex may be more inclined to sexual violence and have less empathy for women, according a study that made headlines last week. But…the study’s lead researcher was Melissa Farley, founder and director of…a nonprofit with the stated goal of abolishing prostitution. The research was funded by a grant from Hunt Alternatives, a private organization with the stated goal of “combating the demand for purchased sex”…
The research is pretty odd, first there is the strange sample sizes (101 sex buyers (SB) and 101 non sex buyers) they contacted 1200 people, but only used 20% of the interviews.
The second and most damning thing, imho. The non buyers are also people who don’t use porn. They only included people who used porn less than once a week. Which excluded 52% of all men they interviewed. So the 101 non sex buyers probably excluded high sexdrive men. (I would be pretty interested in knowing the testosterone numbers of 1200 men. My hypothesis is that the 101 SB’s are high, the non buyers low, and the others in the middle. Which would explain a lot more).
Third, they count trading food, drugs (which I assume includes alc) and shelter as buying sex. Depending on the wording of the interviews, this can mean a lot. (Did you tell a person he/she could sleep at your place if you’d fuck? Then you bought sex!),
(Note that most articles also include this picture: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/1202/1579/4m/i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/01/17/2BE0DDAA00000578-0-The_wrist_of_a_woman_rescued_by_the_Spanish_National_Police_afte-m-19_1441123745817.jpg which includes the words: “The picture above shows the wrist of a woman forced into prostitution where the number beneath the bar code is the amount of money she owed traffickers” Which seems as the worst barcode, and the worst way to record keep ever. (And this woman really needs to start to pay back that debt she made <- This is a joke)).
When searching for the science article I discovered that there is a 2011 article, which has the same name. http://www.gemeinsam-gegen-menschenhandel.de/images/Berichte/2011_Farley_Sex_buyers.pdf This is not the article people are referring to.
This is: http://prostitutionresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sex-Buyers-Compared2015.pdf So people can read the science for themselves, and form their own opinions. And not read second hand journalistic bullshit.
(Got a link to this site from a prossie friend of mine. Who chose for the profession out of her own free will, and is fed up with the bullshit the media is spouting about sex workers. Doing good work Maggie, keep up the good work. And I read that one of your loved ones had an accident, hope she improves quickly and well).
Sorry for any strange sentences in this text, or misspellings. I'm not an native English speaker.
Something I forgot to mention, for some strange reason the research also includes a lot of stories on how ‘creepy’ (my words) the sex buyers made the researchers feel. And a large part on how researchers on prostitution sometimes get post traumatic stress from doing this work.
No bias there at all.
(And of course, there is no gay sex buying. Ever).
In addition to the methodology problems, there is the additional problem that their data, such as they are, do not support the grand claim that clients are mostly problematic.
For exemple, buyers were more likely to say they would commit rape if they could get away with it , but the numbers are 15% vs 2%. Even if the sample groups were representative, you might as well state that the vast majority would not commit rape.
It’s bad enough to generalize the whole population from a sample group, but they generalize the population from a small fraction of that group.
Well, according to the P values that is relevant information. Not that im a statistician, so I have little knowledge of how those work.
I do know that P values can be fiddled with easily enough, by changing the inputs. (Which it looks like here, by also selecting for porn usage).
I don’t think that excluding subjects who use porn selects for low sex-drive men as much as it selects for men who are uncomfortable with their sex drive, usually for religious reasons. The men who neither consumed porn nor bought sex are either low sex drive, married and getting what they need there, actually succeeding in celibacy, or liars. In the USA, I’d assume men who buy sex but not porn are men who think viewing porn is a sin – but have to do _something_ with their sex drive, although it is also a sin. Which very easily will slide from hating themselves for sinning to viewing women as an occasion for sin to hating women.
Farley and her ilk are trying to impose guilt for having a sex drive on even non-religious men. They’re trying to _create_ a rape culture…
And of course, if you include trading food and shelter as buying sex, you’ve included marriage throughout history.
Enabling Oppression
”But by hijacking the terminology of slavery, even widely referring to themselves as “abolitionists”…”
The term ”abolitionism” pertaining to prostitution is very old and is also being perverted from it’s original meaning. It used to mean the abolition of government and 3rd parties control and not the abolition of the sex-for-money itself.
This old definition is a better parallel to the abolition of slavery, where the legal framework of enslavement is abolished, and not the actual activities that were done by the slaves. In a our modern society, actual abolitionism would be to shift from legalization to decriminalization.
Why would anybody who formerly worked in porn enroll his impressionable little son in a school that calls itself a “Christian Academy”? The dad must be backsliding.