Abolitionists have failed to acknowledge the utter mundanity of most sex work. – Frankie Mullin
…upstate New York school…principal Eric Luther sought [underage student Jane] Doe out…and told her to “go for a walk with him”…two members of the New York State Police were stationed outside the…office…[and] the district superintendent, Robert Finster, [was] in the principal’s office, along with Amy Bird, the principal of the middle school. Upon learning that other students had accused her of possessing drugs, Doe insisted that the allegations were false…Doe offered to let Luther search her backpack in front of her, but…school officials had a more humiliating search in mind. Doe had to leave her backpack…while Luther and Bird took her to the nurse’s office…With [school nurse Kelly] Avallone and Bird looking on, Doe…[was forced] to disrobe completely…[and] stand exposed for several minutes…while they inspected her shirt, bra, boots, pants and underwear…Then nurse Avallone allegedly offered to perform a rectal exam…Jane [refused, but]…Avallone…[forced]…her…to…bend over [while she]…pried Jane’s buttocks apart with her hand, exposing Jane’s rectal cavity…Avallone [then] pried apart the opening to Jane’s vagina and shined her flashlight inside…there was absolutely nothing concealed…When Luther returned Doe’s backpack…her belongings were rearranged and…Luther admitted to searching the backpack outside of her presence. All Luther had to say…was “Stop having your name associated with people with drugs”…
It’s always great to see good December 17th essays from allies:
…No one “dies of prostitution” any more than they do from domestic partnerships. That women are killed in prostitution, as in relationships – the sphere in which women are most in danger of male violence – is the result of specific conditions: misogyny, poverty, racism, stigma. To claim that sex work is intrinsically violent is to let men off the hook…When deaths occur in other industries (there were 27 in agriculture this year, 43 in construction)…the usual response is to ask how working conditions can be made more secure, not whether the industry should be scrapped. Of course men don’t need to buy sex, but nor does London need more luxury flats. These arguments should have no impact on the right of workers to be protected…
Of all the semi-whores, none are as pompous as licensed massage practitioners:
…seven…Kitsap County [Washington massage businesses were defamed]…as suspect by cop-turned consultant Lavon Watson, who has made a new career out of investigating the rising tide of what some call “Illicit Massage Businesses,” or IMBs…They are easily identifiable if one knows what to look for, say those [persecuting]…them. But they are not easy for authorities to shut down…Their proliferation has blurred the lines in the massage industry, with many legitimate massage practitioners reporting advances by their clients. Their presence also worries those fighting human trafficking…Massage Network Solutions [is] a group of local therapists that met…with Watson, a retired Redmond police officer and massage therapist himself…while police and prosecutors here have [dumped dirty money into persecuting so-called]…pimps involved in human trafficking, storefronts — licensed by state and local governments to operate — might be furthering sex slavery…
First They Came for the Hookers…
Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you:
[Reporters for WSB in Atlanta dutifully promoted cop propaganda by accompanying pigs]…as they raided three local strip clubs looking for illegal activity. [Prior to]…the raid [cops spent public money ogling strippers and getting lapdances for]…about a month-and-a-half to two-months…Sandy Springs police issued nine citations at Flashers, mostly for permit violations, and one for a solicitation for an illicit sexual act…At the Dollhouse…police issued 19 citations…[and] arrested [a dancer]…police issued six citations at Mardi Gras [and]…arrested [another dancer]…
The rescue industry is big business:
Phoenix will launch a project next year to convert an apartment complex into supportive housing for victims of human trafficking, an effort city officials [pretend] is the first of its kind in the country. The City Council…unanimously approved plans for Phoenix Starfish Place, which the city expects will serve primarily sex-trafficking victims. The project includes buying a vacant affordable rental complex, designing trauma-focused services and providing residents with vouchers to subsidize rent…[prominent “sex trafficking” fetishist & profiteer] Dominique [“Body Fluids”] Roe-Sepowitz…is [involved] with the project…
Called it. Four and a half years ago.
Suffolk County’s disgraced former Police Chief James Burke, long suspected of keeping the FBI in the dark about the Gilgo Beach murders, faces a new accusation from a sex worker who says there’s a link between him and the killings…The escort, who according to an affidavit has been in the profession for five years, discussed multiple times she said she partied with Burke in 2011 at an unknown Oak Beach home and engaged in “rough sex”. Numerous people, prostitutes, and drugs, including cocaine, were at the gatherings, she said, adding that she observed former chief Burke use cocaine at the two parties she’d attended with him present…
“People, prostitutes and drugs”. Because prostitutes aren’t people? That kind of thinking is why those bodies ended up on the beach & their murders still haven’t been solved.
Another pogrom in the pocket police-state that is Polk County, Florida:
More than 100 people, including [a bureaucrat]…were arrested in a six-day [pogrom]…in Polk County…the [persecution] was aimed at people who either advertised sexual services online or responded to prostitution ads online….[lying sows] posted fake online ads, and male [rapist pigs] responded to ads posted online by others…
It looks like there’s a new payment processor, PervoutPay, which promises to be sex work friendly. Of course, all their ad copy I’m seeing is about porn, and this testimonial from Lance Hart has a strong whiff of whorearchy: “We offer a legitimate service that is legal, yet we ask our customers to lie about what they are paying for…That has to make the customers feel at least a little weird(er) about paying us…like this is some kind of back alley deal. PervOutPay is a big step forward in legitimizing sex work…” Note the equation of “legal” and “legitimate”, which is bullshit; my business is as “legitimate” as Hart’s despite its illegality. So what about it, PervoutPay? Are you going to screw over escorts who try your service, or are you truly interested in “legitimizing sex work”?
Serial sex offender let off easy, later assaults teen boy. Guess his profession:
Jason Miller was a New Jersey cop when he was caught on his dash cam pulling male motorists over to show them his penis, unzipping his pants to give them a close-up view of his genitals before walking back to his car without writing any citations…turning off his dash cam to allow himself to shove his genitals in their faces without it being recorded. But there were times he forgot to turn the camera off, which led to his arrest after the department received two anonymous tips…He…struck a plea deal to avoid serving jail time or having to register as a sex offender…He was also forced to resign and forbidden to ever work as a New Jersey cop again. On [December 15th]…he…was arrested again; this time for following a 16-year-old boy into a Burger King bathroom and sexually assaulting him…Miller claims the teen came onto him…
Just because we can’t find “victims” doesn’t mean the “problem” isn’t “overwhelming”. Pizza! Words With Friends! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
Aimee Schroeder…starts her day [t]rolling through listings on Backpage.com. Her task is to pinpoint which Twin Cities ads are selling…children…for sex. Photographs of girls…with bruised bodies and the track marks of drug use tip her off to possible sex-trafficking crimes…Schroeder keeps an eye out for small hands and children’s clothing…Imran Ali [is] the Washington County assistant attorney who is heading up the county’s year-old effort to [profit from hysteria over]…sex trafficking…because Washington County is a hub for major highway connections, sex work is often headquartered there…Pete Orput [fantasized while secretly touching himself]. “I can order up a human being to come to my house and sell her body to me, and then I can order a pizza — and I’ll bet the gal beats the pizza to my door”…Victims can get sucked into trafficking a number of ways, including through…”Words With Friends”…
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical (#687)
This is what a moral panic looks like:
Aoshilong, a Chinese clothing manufacturer that sells its line on Amazon, produces leggings for little girls in various prints…According to a December 12 story from WFTX…in Fort Myers, Florida, that was uncritically repeated by many other outlets, “the pants are covered with marijuana leaves”…an…anti-drug activist [vomited out]…”Anything that normalizes marijuana with kids is child abuse”…which is more plausible: that a Chinese manufacturer of decidedly mainstream clothing made leggings for little girls printed with marijuana leaves…or that a few hyperventilating cannabiphobes mistook Japanese maple leaves for marijuana leaves?…
For those of you who still insist I’m an alarmist:
Last month, the UK moved forward with the latest version of its ridiculous “Digital Economy Bill” which will put in place mandatory porn filtering at the ISP level — requiring service providers to block access to sites that don’t do an age verification check. But it was at least somewhat vague as to which “ISPs” this covered. The bill has moved from the House of Commons over to the House of Lords, and apparently we now have at least something of an answer — and it’s that social media sites like Twitter and Facebook will be covered by this regulation…The debate over regulating Twitter got pretty silly pretty fast. At least one person noted that the UK was at risk of looking like idiots…
Bakunin was correct in “God and the State,” Everybody is free–at least within the limits of not causing harm to others–or nobody’s free. Jefferson made a nearly identical comment to A. Corday in an 1823 letter. Abolitionists do not realize the harm that they are doing to their own freedom and everyone else’s by insisting on prohibition. “Every new law creates a new group of criminals,” Robert A. Heinlein. One should never enact a law over imagined harms, or to protect a segment of society’s interests, but only where real harm exists, and the perpetrator is too stupid or greedy to acknowledge it.
Love the video. It’s like a bit of a introduction to the real you.
“Phoenix will launch a project next year to convert an apartment complex into supportive housing for victims of human trafficking,”
Given that most if not all of these “victims” are simply women trying to make a living, that apartment complex will swiftly become Phoenix whore central. They’ll pay off the police in the usual way, and proceed with business.
The License to Rape story reminded me of this one: http://www.capalert.com/sexedabcdisney/cinderella.htm
In this case, the 6th grade girls involved were given pelvic exams, ostensibly to look for genital warts. Allegedly, the school thought this was the best way to conceal their desire to determine if the girls had been molested by their fathers. While parents had to consent to the exams by the school nurse, there was no indication a genital exam would be performed. The school was supposed to accept a note from the family physician that an exam had been given as state law required (which doesn’t require a genital exam), but those girls whose families had provided the note were told that the school had “lost” it. Parents that indicated that they wanted to be present for the exam to be given by the school’s nurse were never informed when the exam was to be given, and so they were not present. Refusals for the genital exam given by the girls on the day of the exam were ignored. An investigation by the police determined that nothing illegal occurred. Nice to know that the school can force a 6th grade girl to have a pelvic exam and “no illegal activity” is involved.
So apparently, they don’t even have to think that YOU are the criminal to have a license to rape you in this fashion.
Maggie in the Media : Taking shots at the issues and scoring every time:A Golden Goddess of the blogging culture. Love you girl. Keep pounding the pavement for the movement. We who believe in achievement and an end to marginalization need more like you in the world.
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