Unfortunately, our culture has changed. – John Cosgrove
This week was full-blown headless-chicken busy, so I’m afraid I don’t have a lot for you. However, one thing I do have is this interesting documentary on one of my favorite television shows, courtesy of Tim Cushing. The links above it are from Radley Balko, Mike Riggs, Radley again and Walter Olson, in that order.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Still think the US isn’t a police state?
- The term “secret police” comes to mind.
- That’ll teach him to eschew safety measures.
From the Archives
- We don’t have any “sex trafficking” cases, but we know they must be around because we have an interstate highway.
- Tainted Love, poop, cops, government, headlines, clowns, witches, nightmares and the Voynich manuscript.
- A few slightly-less-yellow journalists are beginning to question the more obviously-absurd claims.
- Sometimes it’s hard to believe the people who write these stories actually take them seriously.
- Julie Bindel claims the “pimp lobby” includes me, two prohibitionist shills and a dead guy.
- I’m not sure why The Local thinks prostitution is illegal in Italy, when it definitely isn’t.
- Sex work isn’t a profession, uses no creativity & nobody in it earns a living.
- There’s no badge-licking quite as nauseating as in stories about vice stings.
- A look at “sex trafficking” fakumentaries, plus two more, and another one.
- Accurate headline: “Woman prevented from working to support her child”.
- We wouldn’t want to waste effort investigating the rapes of “criminals”.
- The cost of prostitution laws to ONE Texas county: $1.2 million a year.
- Cops trick strippers into revealing “buttocks crevice”, then bust them.
- Megalomaniac imagines new social media site will wipe out all others.
- The most hilariously absurd iteration of the “gypsy whores” myth yet.
- Pussy Riot, cops, stalkers, hoaxes, clowns, judges and drug cartoons.
- Italy denies whores way to pay tax, then charges them with evasion.
- The meat of a story you may have heard just after the Super Bowl.
- Miranda Barbour has a delightful conversation with credulous cops.
- Promoting the official narrative, one sensationalized tale at a time.
- The “pizza” meme may be the funniest one of the entire hysteria.
- The “alternative media” is more competent than the mainstream.
- The detachment of these people from reality is truly astonishing.
- Stupid whore idiot doubles herself down into my Hall of Shame.
- Spanish whores protest a planned crackdown on streetwalking.
- There’s some creepy stuff buried in this “gypsy whores” idiocy.
- Highlights from a symposium on the German Prostitution Act.
- Canadian cops harass sex workers using “trafficking” excuse.
- Ireland tries to cheat the Magdalene laundries’ victims again.
- Nigerian mob drags 14 gay men out of homes, beats them.
- The largest ever study into the health of trafficking victims.
- Letting cops write the laws; what could possibly go wrong?
- Florida fanatics want whores committed to psych facilities.
- Huge number of NGOs asks politicians not to ignore facts.
- The moral purification of the US Armed Forces continues.
- Brazil undergoes the usual pre-mega-event sanitization.
- It’s astonishing to realize that these people are serious.
- What would be the ideal mate for a sex worker be like?
- “Sex trafficking” NGO founder charged with child rape.
- On drawing sharp lines between types of sex workers.
- Woman charged for helping daughter get an abortion.
- I just can’t think of what word might be missing here.
- The rash of murders of black transwomen continues.
- “Disabled people are just as horny as anybody else.”
- Another fanatic claims porn causes “sex trafficking”.
- Growing the police state, because “sex trafficking”.
- UK “sex trafficking” scare is actually a racist hoax.
- The truth about another dumb “trafficking” claim.
- Another good interview with Melissa Gira Grant.
- Encouraging readers to comment on the blog.
- Egypt convicts nine gay men of “prostitution”.
- The war on sex worker advertising continues.
- A short biography of Lord Nelson’s mistress.
- Canadian readers get a chance to be heard.
- No justice for victims of the Soho pogrom.
- A functioning police state needs no police.
- China claims phone apps have hormones.
- The DSK “pimping” case nearly unravels.
- Cops harass sex workers in Kyrgyzstan.
- My previous columns for Mardi Gras.
- More sketchy “sex trafficking” math.
- More lies about the Swedish model.
- More internet censorship in the UK.
- Sex worker activism in Malawi.
- “Grave concerns” about C-36.
- The first Belle Knox article.
- A fake “AirBnB for escorts”.
- Somaly Mam’s new charity.
- Do I look like a whore?
- Pimp cop of the week.
- Normal men buy sex.
- 60 men per day!
