Well, yeah, do what you gotta do, because we gotta find somethin’. – unnamed Las Vegas cop
Despite my being in Southern California for most of the week, we’ve got a decent selection of links here. The video is from Emma Evans and the links above it from Nun Ya (“wood”), Lucy Steigerwald (“birdie” and “prohibition”), Rick Horowitz (“proactive”), Walter Olson (“immune”), and Mark Draughn (“crises”).
CORRECTION: “Crises” below was intended as a joke, and I totally missed it. Oops!
- Transparent wood.
- Cops shoot a man…look, a birdie!
- When “proactive” means “fabricated”.
- It’s almost as though prohibition doesn’t work.
- Cheer up; the ones who survive will be immune to it.
- Because not terrorizing, beating, raping & murdering people is hard.
- Solution to “public health crises” used to be vaccination; now it’s prison.
From the Archives
- Unfortunately, not every outed sex worker has Belle Knox’s incredible strength and resolve.
- Politician thinks US Congress can criminalize prostitution in other countries.
- Remember the TBI’s bogus “sex trafficking report” from several years ago?
- Increase the # of amateurs having amateur sex and you increase STI rate.
- Try to imagine article with a lower opinion of female intelligence & agency.
- Using violence to suppress consensual adult behavior isn’t up for “debate”.
- Silly preacher, only politically-connected companies are allowed to do this.
- At least they’re not pretending this money is being paid “back” to anyone.
- Cops busting lemonade stands isn’t news any more, but this is a new low.
- Radley Balko uses example of Fran & Dan Keller to discuss Satanic Panic.
- How can a “high end” sex worker get over her internalized whorephobia?
- I’d rather be described as depraved temptresses than a helpless victim.
- Prohis make up big numbers, multiply them to get bigger fake number.
- They weren’t selling sex, so there’s no need for a crusade or anything.
- I’ll bet you thought opponents of condoms in porn were exaggerating.
- The Washington Post continues to hammer at “sex trafficking” myths.
- It’s satisfying when the mask of concern for “trafficking victims” slips.
- Prohibitionists never get how ridiculous they sound to normal people.
- Too bad he lost the suit; this kind of ethical breach is unforgivable.
- A retrospective of my columns from May of 2011 and May of 2012.
- Female prison guards’ delicate ladyfeelings trump men’s lives.
- Note the small sample and highly questionable methodology.
- My favorite bit is the pimp gorilla with mind-control powers.
- Another blow against the absurdity of consensual crime.
- “Those who…sit on the fence…side for…the ruling party.”
- The first announcement of last year’s trip to Oklahoma.
- In which I answer questions about Ladies of the Night.
- The utter failure of California’s “sex offender” registry.
- “Rectification” is a particularly horrifying euphemism.
- Cops, shit, statuary, PETA, population & much more.
- Disney, cops, bureaucracy, Tom Lehrer and more.
- The 20th anniversary of a night I prefer to forget.
- An Australian lawyer chides prohibitionist peers.
- Mobs with torches are back in fashion, it seems.
- Arrested for dancing in two oppressive regimes.
- A home in Mexico City for retired sex workers.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishists target strip clubs.
- The beginning of the end for Somaly Mam.
- The endgame of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Now, this is an interesting development.
- The inevitable result of criminalization.
- The ethical nightmare of Project ROSE.
- Blackmailer investigated for blackmail.
- West African “penis stealing” hysteria.
- Chinese public sides with sting victim.
- A story with absolutely no good guys.
- Violence vs. a sex worker in Ghana.
- France rejects the Swedish model.
- A new red light district in Jakarta?
- Susan Trimarco’s witch hunt.
- My very first diary column.
- Another thoughtcrime law.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- “Exploiting” each other.