I think my spaceship knows which way to go. – David Bowie
Within a few hours of last week’s links column going online, It was announced that rock legend David Bowie had died. Had you asked me earlier that day whether I was a fan of his, I would’ve said “no”; I liked his music very much, and listening to him was always a pleasure, but I didn’t run out to buy his new albums or anything like that. But when I read the news I felt an emptiness, and I realized that Bowie was one of those people I had always taken for granted; the idea that at some point in my life the world wouldn’t have him in it never crossed my mind. And while Mistress Matisse and I were tweeting back and forth about his death and sharing videos, I suddenly found myself in tears; such is the cultural power of a true icon. Bowie was King Freak, and proudly waved the freak flag practically from the moment he arrived on the scene; in doing so he sent a message to all the other, younger freaks like me that there really was a place in the world for us. So I think it’s only right I should salute him by featuring his farewell video from his farewell album, released only a few days before his passing. The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, and Radley Balko (the last two), in that order.
- Smarter than we give them credit for.
- Some sex workers are way ahead of you on this.
- I proposed this procedure at my library 22 years ago.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- I’m not sure which is more ludicrous, the cops’ insistence that this is prostitution, or the cuddlers’ insistence that it isn’t.
- Evolution, government, Beowulf, cops, journalism, bureaucracy, Hell, Barbie and censorship.
- Prohibitionist claims she has never talked to a happy hooker while talking to a happy hooker.
- Idiot thinks internet censorship and expanding the “sex offender” registry are good things.
- They actually thought “sex trafficking” was a more credible explanation than jealousy.
- Sweden, Nancy Grace, D&D, cops, Australia, cops, dogs, phalluses & more.
- For those surprised by feminists getting in bed with evangelical Christians.
- Sometimes education actually makes it harder for people to accept reality.
- Neofeminist lunatic Meghan Murphy attacks a pro-sex worker video game.
- Polite guys women can hire to do romantic but non-sexual stuff for them.
- Mark Draughn thought that “trafficking hotspot” map looked familiar.
- “Sex trafficking” is the new excuse for locking up young black men.
- “Trafficking signs” include generous boyfriends & staying out late.
- Louisiana politician claims sex work “can easily destroy a society”.
- In which Dennis Hof spreads lies about independent sex workers.
- The 30-year fight to de-classify kink as a psychiatric disorder.
- Professor sacked for teaching nonsense goes back to doing it.
- It’s always satisfying to catch a “trafficking” lie as it expands.
- Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and The Making of the FBI.
- You don’t realize it’s a panic when you’re in the middle of it.
- Swedish rape defense: just claim you thought it was BDSM.
- “Sex trafficking” study finds hotels tend to be on highways.
- An article about Project ROSE is censored by Al Jazeera?
- Kenya considers criminalizing the outing of sex workers.
- Club owner claims he was kidnapped by three strippers.
- Sleazy strip club owners sic the pigs on rival strip clubs.
- A registered sex offender describes what his life is like.
- Laura Lee’s ill-treatment by Northern Irish politicians.
- The alien visitors are more like us than we imagined.
- More anti-coffee hysteria from Everett, Washington.
- Marijke Vonk on the facts about Dutch sex workers.
- Woman convicted in France for her fashion choices.
- The awful way the news media report on sex work.
- “Victim”. Can these people even hear themselves?
- More clueless anti-whore pomposity from Zambia.
- Prohibition always makes things more dangerous.
- A sign of the decline of the “gypsy whores” myth.
- In which I announce my relocation to Seattle.
- Serial rapist of sex workers caught in Spain.
- Elizabeth Nolan Brown on kink and cookies.
- A report on human rights abuses in the US.
- There are two forms of female ejaculation.
- How to use law to make everything worse.
- Peruvian vigilantes attack sex workers.
- In which I get in bed with Susie Bright.
- The second story in my snake trilogy.
- Two strippers sue a vegan strip club.
- A new review of Sex Workers Unite.
- More “condoms in porn” nonsense.
- Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- A Korean sex work study.
- Is Jamie Dornan for real?
- Control freak of the year.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- A periodic table of kink.
- Liars for Jesus, again.
- La Libertine’s Salon.
- Bad laws never die.
- Male allies at work.
That Lazarus video is amazing, especially when you realize that the Closet Bowie is wearing the same outfit as he did in ‘the man who fell to earth.’
The video and album were the last project of David Bowie’s life. He completed his final work of art, then he laid down and died.