Last week was…intense. Unfortunately, at the risk of being repetitive, I really can’t tell you about most of that due to issues of confidentiality. What I can tell you is that I had a lovely dinner with the young escort I mentioned last week, and I think we’re going to be very good friends; I invited her to relax with me on Saturday night, which turned out very well because we both needed it. And yes, gentlemen, we will see you as a duo if you like! Speaking of duos, I’m looking forward to another one this coming Saturday with the lovely and brilliant Lorelei Rivers, whom I always enjoy working with. And in just a few weeks, I’ll be in New York City; as of right now I’ll be available for bookings on Thursday, September 15th, Saturday the 17th and Sunday the 18th, but obviously that will change as my schedule fills up, so if you’d like to see me it’s best to book right away (and ask about my tour special). Speaking of being booked up, I’ve recently tried a new method of advertising which I’m very pleased with so far; if it keeps being this productive, I will finally be able to complete some improvements to my ranch that have been in limbo for years. And that, dear readers, will buy me a considerable amount of satisfaction.
Archive for 2016
Diary #321
Posted in Call types, Diary, tagged advertising, blogging, ethics, New York on August 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Negative Secondary Effects
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged blogging, brothels, dirty, First They Came for the Hookers, Negative Secondary Effects, red-light districts, sex rays, stripping, What a Week! on August 22, 2016| 5 Comments »
Sometimes, the most difficult part of doing my news columns is deciding what subtitle to use for a given article. To be sure, many of them are obvious, but that’s not always the case; sometimes I remember a previous story I want to link back to, but for the life of me can’t remember what heading that one was under. And even if I can remember a few details of the original to search on, that doesn’t always help; for example, a few months ago I was trying to refer back to an article on strip club restrictions, but searching for “stripper”, “strip club” and even just “strip” wouldn’t find it. When I finally located it after half an hour of digging, I discovered the reason: the original article had used the phrase “exotic dancers”. Another thing that can make a heading tough to remember is topical drift; new stories refer back to older stories, then newer stories refer back to the update and so on, and after a while the heading doesn’t actually apply very well to what’s appearing under it. Sometimes I start using a new title for a certain kind of article, after a new full column on the subject appears (such as the recent shift from filing rapist cops under “Above the Law” to filing them under “To Molest and Rape“), and once in a while I even intentionally change the focus of a heading in order to collect stories on one theme which previously appeared under different headings (as I did two years ago with “Rooted in Racism“).
However, I think this may be the first time that I’ve ever written a new column expressly for the purpose of creating such a new heading. I’ve recently run into several stories about the effects of sex businesses on neighborhoods, and every fucking time I have forgotten which title the last one ran under. So then I’ve had to go through the pain of finding the last such article, but can’t remember the phrasing it used so the process takes forever. Well, no more; from now on such articles will appear under this heading. Previously, such articles have appeared under the not-terribly-intuitive title “What a Week!“, due to the aforementioned topical drift: the original of that name was an early news column which featured a story about a mega-brothel being built in Spain, then a couple of later ones referred back to it for a mega-brothel being built in Sydney, then another discussed a study done for the licensing of said brothel which demonstrated that the concept of “negative secondary effects” is essentially bullshit. And obviously, subsequent stories referred back to that. “Negative secondary effects” is the term used by prudes and authoritarians to make the concept of “sex rays” seem something other than ludicrous; this disproven dogma claims that the very existence of an adult business magically draws crime, and turns men into drooling sex maniacs who then go forth and rape women (hence the pious charade of directing a portion of “pole taxes” to finance rape and domestic violence charities or anti-whore programs). As a quick perusal of that last cluster of links will demonstrate, stories about claims of such effects mysteriously and malefically emanating from strip clubs rather than brothels or massage parlors have until now appeared under “First They Came for the Hookers” along with stories about former sex workers being fired from post-sex work jobs for having been sex workers. From here on out, any articles either claiming the existence of such baleful effects or debunking such claims will appear under this heading, whether that business is a strip club, brothel, adult toy store or whatever. So maybe now I won’t be quite so frustrated the next time I encounter such a story.
Links #320
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged Arizona, Australia, Central Asia, cops, drugs, hysteria, Illinois, Ohio, Sweden, universal criminality, video on August 21, 2016| 6 Comments »
The fact that you’ve got pinpoint eyes and you’re looking directly into the sun and they’re not dilating due to the sunlight, I believe you to be under the influence of a dangerous drug. – “Constable” Richard Power
A while back several of us on Twitter were discussing videos we found sexy, and I was hard-pressed to think of any except this one, which I found incredibly sexy at the time. And that’s your periodic peek at the deep weirdness of my psychosexual landscape. The links above it were provided by Mistress Matisse (“does” and “universal”), Emma Evans (“protect” and “protect”), Walter Olson (“cities”), Cathy Reisenwitz (“young”), Radley Balko (“maps”), and Elizabeth N. Brown (“Sweden” and “epidemic”).
- As one does.
- To protect and serve.
- Universal criminality in action.
- One of the world’s greatest lost cities.
- But we need government to PROTECT us!
- Libertarianism even happens to the very young.
- Another way flat maps distort our geographic perceptions.
- Ever notice headlines of the week tend to be from Florida or Sweden?
- Anything used to justify prohibition is always “increasing” and “epidemic”.
From the Archives
- Anne Elizabeth Moore discusses the deep connections between the “rescue” & garment industries.
- Does the magical “ownership”-changing force proceed from the eye of the whore or the “pimp”?
- Destroying families is OK if you pray for them & invoke nebulosities like “the good of society”.
- FDA approves dangerous psychotropic drug to “treat” a normal variation in female sex drive.
- She won’t tolerate ordinary men looking at women, but she’s fine with cops raping them.
- The law is unconstitutionally vague, but that would be politically unpopular.
- For those who forgot why Backage started taking payment in the 1st place.
- I’m pleased to see how hard Hollywood’s prohibitionism is backfiring lately.
- These stupid tropes just won’t die no matter how many times we kill them.
- Liz Brown on the “Would you want your daughter to be a whore?” fallacy.
- The bad consequences of US “anti-trafficking” policy aren’t unintentional.
- AZ & WA vie for the title of most prolific font of “sex trafficking” rhetoric.
- Prohibitionist fossils prefer lies, pearl-clutching to facts, self-ownership.
- Because there aren’t enough people on the “sex offender” registry yet.
- Mistress Matisse gives both barrels to prohibitionist Seattle politicians.
- A “sex trafficking ring”. On an island. With less than 100,000 people.
- “Sex trafficking” laws are intentionally designed to harm sex workers.
- Since no charity will take sex-rayed money, Rentboy created its own.
- Try not to vomit from the name cops gave their entrapment scheme.
- The proposed new law to “protect” German sex workers is very bad.
- Pop sonnets, cops, Don Pardo, perspective, hobbies, shame & more.
- I suspected the Amnesty position would embolden a few politicians.
- But officials claim “sex offender” registration isn’t a punishment.
- “Human trafficking” is now just a dysphemism for “prostitution”.
- “Sex trafficking” cinema represents pure fantasy as faux reality.
- Client gets angry when he recognizes that his whore is a whore.
- Cop helpfully explains that women are stupid, passive victims.
- Police violence against sex workers is just business as usual.
- Of course they were dropped; she was jut a whore, after all.
- The Economist on why decriminalization is a good idea.
- Is the Swansea sports team called the Pearl Clutchers?
- Is there any behavior in Ireland that isn’t “trafficking”?
- Cops, corpses, monsters, Yvonne Craig & much more.
- Jae’s accident and the answers to questions about it.
- There’s an awful lot of “suppose” and “maybe” here.
- New York’s “physical culture establishment permit”.
- A short biography of a cross-dressing courtesan.
- We’re seeing this sort of thing more and more.
- Tara Burns investigates the Amber Batts case.
- My visits to Philadelphia and Washington, DC.
- They just won’t give up their sex doll fantasy.
- Texas just loves the “Facebook pimps” myth.
- In which a cunning predator stalks her prey.
- Somehow, I doubt he thought this through.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2014 and 2015.
- Is there anything that isn’t “trafficking”?
- Can you help me with phone screening?
- A video on the myth of “sex trafficking”.
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- What’s wrong with Pamela Stubbart?
- In for a penny, in for a pound.
- For their own good, of course.
- Podcasts I did in August 2014.
- Tits are an “offense to God”.
In the News (#665)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged advertising, Australia, bogus studies, censorship, Choke Point, cops, Cops and Robbers, fascism, Ireland, Madonna/whore, Monsters, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, Part of the Picture, pimps, porn, Profound Ignorance, psychology, racism, Real People, Rooted in Racism, sex rays, shame, streetwalkers, stripping, Sweden, The Red Umbrella, transgender, Turkey, United Kingdom, video, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), Washington DC, What a Week!, Whore Detection, Whore Madonnas, Why I Wait, yin and yang on August 20, 2016| 2 Comments »
Criminalisation…reinforces the idea that sex work is intrinsically wrong. – Frankie Mullin
Melissa Petro on the stigma faced by sex workers with children:
…For sex workers, there are no legal protections against discrimination, should we become associated with our current or former occupations. Current and former sex workers risk losing their housing or being refused service by landlords, property owners, and co-op boards. Sex workers are…often unable to transition to other work…and…can also lose custody of their children. Finley Fawn is a cam model…who has been fighting for custody of her six-year-old son since April…In 2008, a tantra provider lost custody of her children to a man with an extensive documented history of domestic violence…in 2013, former sex worker Tanaha Koontz lost custody of her three children to [her] abusive husband…Then there’s the devastating case of Petite Jasmine…Those who view sex work as incompatible with motherhood often [pretend] concern for the children’s safety. They conflate issues related to poverty with sex work—unstable housing, food insecurity, and erratic incomes, for example—even though sex work can often be the very solution to these economic woes…the only legitimate concern having to do with…a child’s safety is the fact that individuals working in prostitution are still being criminalized, so these women tend to be incarcerated or face arrest, which can mean having their children sent to a relative or taken under the dysfunctional care of the state…
Following in the footsteps of Norma Jean Almodovar, a policewoman decides to turn to honest work:
A Melbourne single mother has traded her role as a senior constable with Victoria Police for high-class escorting in an attempt to make a better life for herself. After spending several “soul-destroying” years in the police force, Heidi…became an escort after being introduced to the industry by a friend…
…there is so little open discussion about the effects of porn addiction among women that we don’t even have a vocabulary with which to discuss it. And it is an equally important topic…Women become addicted to the dopamine rush associated with porn in the same way as men. They feel the shame and the isolation that addiction inevitably brings. The same loss of interest in sex that doesn’t live up to the extreme material they’re watching. And the same breakdown of their romantic relationships while their minds are elsewhere. It’s hard to quantify the scale of porn addiction among either sex and there are no official figures, but even by talking to people off the record, the scale of the damage is palpable…
Ell. Oh. Ell.
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic
Why does it always take so long for people who know anti-sex dogma is bullshit to finally speak up?
Ozzy Osbourne is the latest in a string of people (almost always men) to diagnose themselves as “sex addicts”…the concept of sex addiction has been fabricated by “addictionologists,” the people who claim they have the addiction, and the media. The concept has rapidly been accepted as truth when there is still no substantive evidence that sex addiction is real…“sex addiction”…[has] become…a blanket term we throw over people whose sexual expression is different from “the norm,” without unpacking the actual behavior(s) or empowering the people involved to take responsibility for their own actions…there is no sound research that supports it and the people promoting it often lack training in sexuality…
With the sale of sex shifting online, today’s pimps are avoiding police detection by using underground websites, social media, mobile apps and even by hiding their ads on mainstream sites such as Craigslist and Backpage. In a first-of-its-kind study, criminologists from Michigan State University and Loyola University Chicago interviewed 71 pimps in Atlanta and Chicago to determine how their marketing decisions are influenced by police enforcement…”We found that pimps are exploiting the anonymity that new technology and websites allow,” said Mary Finn, lead author of the study…pimps use their own language, symbols and disingenuous photos to advertise their services and communicate with customers…The pimps were recruited through ads placed on Backpage and paid $60 per interview…
IOW, these dumb bunnies advertised that they’d give $60 to any dude who was willing to call himself a “pimp” and tell tall tales to credulous “researchers”. What’s most shocking is that these educated doofuses continue to buy into the prohibitionist myth that all whores have “pimps”, when (as I explained to Tracy Clark-Flory) that’s total nonsense:
…Maggie McNeill, a sex worker and writer, argues that pimps have become exceedingly less necessary as the internet has allowed sex workers to advertise themselves…But, she argues, the focus often remains on these third parties because it fits an anti-sex work narrative of coercion…
Trans sex worker Hande Kader was last seen getting in her customer’s car about a week ago…Her friends and lover…reported Hande’s disappearance to the police…[who] found a burned trans woman’s body near [Istanbul]…Hande was wearing prosthetics which helped identify her burnt body…
Always be skeptical of any claim about the sexual habits of the “younger generation”:
…Researchers…are boldly claiming that millennials aged 20-24 are having far less sex than previous generations…15 percent of surveyed millennials in that age range reported having no sexual partners since they turned 18, compared to 6 percent of Generation X people…The authors…offered a variety of explanations for their findings — ranging from the funding of abstinence-only education in schools, to fears about STDs, to the premium placed on good looks on dating apps like Tinder, to popular misconceptions about “millennial hook-up culture” — but there are just as many reasons to be skeptical…the information was gleaned from the General Social Survey (GSS), which…[uses] heteronormative language…Another problem, which the researchers noted in their paper, is that the definition of what constitutes “sex” is left up to the…respondents to decide. It’s entirely possible that earlier generations unintentionally exaggerated their sex lives by lumping all kinds of sexual activity into the broader umbrella term of “sex”, thus skewing the numbers…
The result of stigma, encouraged by criminalization:
“Dirty whores.” “You should be put on fire.” So shouted the 100-strong mob as it surrounded the house of a group of women, thought to be sex workers, in Belfast on Friday 29th July…Since the video went online, sex workers have come out of the woodwork sharing similar stories says Lucy Smith, who run National Ugly Mugs Ireland (NUM)…”Another woman came forward last week and talked about how she’d been beaten up in the street by a gang,” Smith says…Carmen…worked briefly in Belfast last year. She…found her flat surrounded by a mob of 30 or 40 people…”They broke the glass of our window with eggs. They were shouting things like ‘£10 prostitute’ and telling us to go home”…Attacks of this kind happen across the UK and Ireland…In east London, sex workers frequently report having objects and insults hurled at them from cars. In Edinburgh, sex workers have been surrounded and followed. In Birmingham, since the beginning of this month, sex workers have twice reported having bottles and urine thrown at them from a car. In some cases, sex workers have had bones broken before the police arrive…
My wife, Carla Sinclair, is editor of Wink Books…she used Paypal to pay Ben Marks his fee for reviewing a photo book…called Castro’s Cuba: An American Journalist’s Inside Look at Cuba 1959-1969. Carla included a message to Ben in the Paypal transaction, which read, “Hi Ben – Your Castro’s Cuba review is up! Thanks so much! Carla.” As soon as she pressed the send button, she got a pop-up message on the PayPal site that informed her that the payment was being held for review…an email [later] arrived from PayPal. It turns out, the problem arose because Carla’s message included the forbidden word “Cuba” (and/or possibly “Castro”)…
Another violent cop, another black woman profiled as a sex worker:
…a Washington, DC [cop pinned] a black woman to his patrol car, leaving her feet dangling while he [called] her “a prostitute”. [Fortunately the attack was captured on video]…by Twitter user @macandcheeks…and…city authorities have…opened an investigation into the incident…the…woman…named Shadon…is…a schoolteacher…she and others at the bus stop were standing up to a man who was harassing another woman when the police intervened…
Sweden’s “liberal reputation” is bullshit:
…Liberian [football] player Andrew Nagbe is currently in a detention centre awaiting [deportation]…the 22-year-old…was arrested by migration officials at the Stockholm Pride festival at the end of July…Nagbe was taking part in the…events with his boyfriend [when] he was detained…He had originally travelled to Sweden on trial with Swedish third-tier team Umeå FC before plying his trade at a string of lower league teams…It is still illegal to be openly gay in Liberia…“In prison I’ll be beaten and raped every day until I am released and leave the country again. Everyone I know in Liberia knows I am gay now, so they won’t hold back,” he added…The Swedish migration service [pretends] that Nagbe…[is not] gay and that [the danger]…if he returns home [is] not verifiable. Only by presenting new evidence will Nagbe be able to appeal the ruling…
So much for “negative secondary effects”:
Do strip clubs bring down property values?…Surveying 317,056 residential sales in Seattle between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2013, researchers found little evidence strip clubs influenced the prices of nearby homes. This, note authors Taggert Brooks of UW-La Crosse and Brad Humphreys and Adam Nowak of WVU, runs counter to common arguments underpinning local governments’ rights to restrict strip clubs, which typically hold that such establishments have negative “secondary effects,” including a downward pull on property values…“There was nothing we picked up that was really significant in any way, shape, or form,” says Dr. Nowak.
Writer’s Block
Posted in Diary, Fiction, Miscellaneous, tagged imaginative fiction, Ladies of the Night, The Forms of Things Unknown on August 19, 2016| 8 Comments »
Five years ago, in the introduction to “Concubine“, I wrote:
I must admit that I’m surprised I’ve been able to deliver [a new story] every month; I always used to say that unlike my dependable and constant Muse of Nonfiction, my Muse of Fiction was like a sulky girlfriend: when she wanted me she demanded my undivided attention, but when she didn’t want me I couldn’t even get her on the phone. But ever since “The Trick”, she has visited me without fail at least once per month, usually without my even having to beg her…
I repeated the joke in the foreword to Ladies of the Night, and until last year it was true. But as my available time shrank and my commitments increased, I found that inspiration often came more slowly, and I had to beg a lot more often. Fewer of my stories were (in my own opinion) really inspired or especially memorable, and the ones that were revealed a lot more of my soul than was the norm before. Several of the stories came to me literally hours before publication, then this past February I cheated by letting someone else tell a story, and last month I quietly and unceremoniously slipped another type of essay into the usual story slot. But if I keep doing that y’all are going to notice, so here we are. Some ideas were bouncing around my brain, but as of this writing none of them has gelled and I’m very tired and about to go and get myself a milkshake. So what I’m thinking is, I’m going to take a brief hiatus from fiction; the next story I think of will be an exclusive for my new book, The Forms of Things Unknown, which I plan to start compiling this coming week. I know this kind of sucks, but consider that I’ve had an almost unbroken run of one story per month for six years; that’s 72 stories in all. That’s really very damned good; I don’t think many writers are that prolific. I also don’t think my Muse has really returned to her old sulky ways; she’s probably just tired and wants a little vacation. Or maybe she’s suffering from PMS, or thinks I’ve been neglecting her. Maybe this is her way of getting me to do the book. But one way or another, I’m sure she’ll be sending me inspiration again in short order, and I’ll soon be serving up new tales on a regular basis again. And if not, it was a good thing while it lasted!
Age Before Beauty
Posted in Call types, Perception, Q & A, tagged bad customers, ethics on August 18, 2016| 3 Comments »
I’m thinking about calling an escort for the first time; do they take young guys seriously? Or would I be treated differently from older men?
Some ladies have a lower age limit of 30 or even 35, but if one does it’ll be marked clearly on her website. If a young man wants to see an escort, there are some very simple steps he can take to ensure she takes him seriously:
- Read her website carefully and approach her exactly as she says she wants to be approached. If you don’t have references, you need to find a lady who specifically advertises as “newbie friendly” or else you’re just wasting her time and yours.
- Be clear, honest and polite about being young, and understand that this is a liability for you rather than an asset; one of the most asinine and annoying things a would-be client can say is something like “I’m young and good looking, so you’ll enjoy it” or “Do I get a discount because I’m young and fit?”
- Don’t ask prying or lurid questions, and don’t try to get dirty talk for free; be polite and respectful.
- Be patient if she expects you to jump through some hoops; give her whatever screening info she wants.
- Read my “Advice for Clients” column and follow it.
- If she won’t see you, tell her you understand, thank her for her time & try another lady.
- If she does agree to see you, make sure you’re on your best behavior and tip her extra; the next time you want to see someone you’ll be able to give the first lady’s name as a reference, and she will speak well of you.
- Treat all the first few escorts you see this way, and I promise you won’t have any trouble after that as long as you respect the wishes of those who have a posted lower age limit. If you try to approach one of the ladies who do, she will take your ignoring her boundary as a sign that you’re impolite & disrespectful, and you still won’t get in to see her.
Good luck!
(Have a question of your own? Please consult this page to see if I’ve answered it in a previous column, and if not just click here to ask me via email.)
In the News (#664)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, Above the Law, agency denial, asset seizure, Business As Usual, California, censorship, Check Your Premises, China, cops, dirty, drivers, end demand, fantasy, Feminists and Other Puritans, hysteria, Illinois, imaginative fiction, Iowa, Israel, law, Louisiana, Monsters, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, neofeminism, Ohio, prisons, prohibitionist myths, psychology, rape, statistics, Subtle Pimping, Swedish model, tabula rasa, Things We Choose To Do Together, To Molest and Rape, Too Close To Home, transgender, underage, United Kingdom, Vendetta, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), Welcome to Our Updates, welcome to our world, yin and yang on August 17, 2016| 5 Comments »
A treatment becomes an industry…when its scope creeps to include anyone who is having the kind of sex that someone…deems to be a problem. – Michael Aaron
Three Jerusalem residents who allegedly swindled donors into giving money to combat a nonexistent Christian cult they claimed was kidnapping, sexually abusing and forcibly converting hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish children to Christianity have been arrested…investigators launched an investigation into the supposed cult two years ago…the…investigation…soon determined that no such cult ever existed…
In the warped minds of US “authorities”, driving a friend to work is “child sex trafficking”:
An Oregon woman has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison in connection to an alleged commercial child sex trafficking operation…Veronica Britt…was identified as the driver for an underage girl who was meeting up with someone at a hotel for sexual purposes…
One of the rare times you’ll ever see me actually assist the cops:
Investigators with the York Regional Police Homicide Unit continue to appeal to the public for assistance in locating Jiarui (Jerry) TANG, wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for Manslaughter in connection with disappearance of 36-year-old Annie LI. Investigators believe that Mr. TANG has recently attempted to seek the services of women working in the sex trade. Police believe that he poses a significant threat to these women and we are warning anyone who encounters him in person or online to use caution and contact police immediately. Ying Chun (Annie) LI was last seen by her family on Sunday, June 12, 2016, in the area of Denison Street and Markham Road…police have reason to believe that Annie Li is deceased…Investigators believe that Mr. TANG frequents the Chinatown area of Toronto and he is believed to be still within the area…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic
…David Reimer…committed suicide in 2004, never having recovered from the trauma suffered under the hands of Dr. Money…in…early 1970s Los Angeles…UCLA researchers George Rekers and Ivar Lovaas pioneered an experimental new type of treatment to literally “knock out” the effeminate behavior of young “sissy boys” through the use of severe corporal punishment. Like Money before them, they triumphantly published their…findings in 1974…under the title “The Behavioral Treatment of a ‘Transsexual’ Preadolescent Boy“…This “successfully” treated boy, now a grown man of 38 named Kirk Murphy, committed suicide in 2003 due to feeling “broken” by his participation in the research. These are just two examples of the horrors of…social constructionist ideology. Despite all this, social constructionism is still alive and well, influencing both the social sciences and public policy. Take a look at this this article for example about an elementary school teacher who pushes her female students to play with Legos, while forbidding her male students to do the same, all in the name of “gender equity”…the rise of the social construction of desire [occurred in] the same 1970s period in which all of these other troubling experiments were conducted…sex addiction [is the] offspring…of the cultural belief that sexuality is a social construct…that can be controlled, modified, and neatly packaged according to the social norms and mores of the time. Indeed, the very first sex addiction 12-step group, Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLA) met in Boston in 1977…[the] sex addiction [model is the attempt]…to fit sexual behavior into a socially constructed paradigm of monogamy, pair bonding, and…even intimacy…
Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together:
Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to profile people…[as] narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they learn to make arrests or build criminal cases. Instead, that targeting has helped the Drug Enforcement Administration seize a small fortune in cash. DEA agents have profiled passengers on Amtrak trains and nearly every major U.S. airline, drawing on reports from a network of travel-industry informants…Agents…singled out passengers for questioning or searches for reasons as seemingly benign as traveling one-way to California or having paid for a ticket in cash…DEA units assigned to patrol 15 of the nation’s busiest airports seized more than $209 million in cash from at least 5,200 people over the past decade [by pretending] the money was linked to drug trafficking…most of the money was passed on to local police departments that lend [cops] to [act as DEA goons]…
Rae’Lynn Thomas…was shot and then beaten by her mother’s ex-boyfriend in their Columbus [Ohio] home…Thomas is the 19th trans person known to have been murdered in the U.S. this year. While Thomas’s family was accepting of her…an ex-boyfriend of her mother’s who still lived with the women, James Allen Byrd, made no secret of his transphobic attitudes. He reportedly often referred to the transgender woman as “the devil”…Renee Thomas…described the attack to police and media. ” He was in the bedroom and he just came around the corner and shot [Rae’Lynn],” she said. After firing at her twice, Byrd — who was nearly a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than the petite Thomas — proceeded to beat her with any heavy object handy…
According to surveys conducted periodically by Zi Teng…an organization promoting the rights of sex workers…Hong Kong police sexually abuse workers…in the first four months of 2016 the organization received 206 complaints of violence…Nineteen cases related to abuse by clients while 187 related to the police. NGOs told Amnesty International that police are legally allowed to [rape]…sex workers…[while pretending] to be clients [in order to arrest]…them…
In case you missed it, that said over 90% of violence against Hong Kong sex workers comes from the police, an number not-dissimilar to figures from other places where cops are allowed to “regulate” us.
Yet “leftists” are still surprised that “feminists” are anti-sex:
[Sex workers] face…a strange alliance of opponents including Labour councillors, feminist activists, trade unionists and…religious groups…their hostility to [sex workers contrasts] oddly with their stated desire to “rescue” them…these activists were armed with feminist battle-cries, and were more likely to be seen reading the liberal Guardian than the right-wing Daily Mail…Object, a “feminist human rights” organisation…[is] part of a far broader alliance of feminist and left groups with a wide range of anti-sex and pro-censorship objectives…similar feminist organisations such as UK Feminista, rolled out a series of anti-sex campaigns…each…loyally supported by the Guardian, by voices from the Labour and Green parties, by trade unionists, and others that I had previously considered part of my progressive tribe…the old anti-prostitution movement was reinvigorated by a flood of new, feminist and left-wing campaigners under the End Demand banner…apparently, the right to middle-class feminist outrage trumped the more fundamental right to work…
Yet another nationwide “sex trafficking sting” where the main targets of police attention are men who solicit sex from consenting, adult women. The sting, part of a bi-annual “National Johns Suppression Initiative,” ran from July 1 to August 7 and netted 1,358 arrests for solicitation of prostitution, in 18 states…thirty-eight agencies participated, issuing more than $1 million in fines during the operation and [stealing]…421 vehicles. New York City and Philadelphia…joined…for the first time…Oakland, California…arrested 42 people…Seattle had the second-highest number of arrests, 204, followed by Columbus, Ohio (167), Harris County, Texas (143), Houston (82), the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations (74), Portland, Oregon (63), Boston (57), and McLennan County, Texas (55). Agencies not listed in these top-tier sex thwarters—including those in or around Phoenix, San Diego, Denver, New York City, Las Vegas, Reno, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia—arrested a combined total of around 250 sex solicitors…no word on how many sex workers were arrested, though that’s usually part and parcel for these john stings…
Another blameless hero is given power over vulnerable women:
A Shreveport police detective who was fired after [raping] a woman…is back on the job. James Greene…was…arrested and charged with abuse of office…he…was [given two weeks of paid vacation, then]…terminated…In January, Greene was found not guilty [after prosecutors stalled and fumbled for almost a year]…a civil suit has been filed against him by his [victim]…
If there are so many “sex trafficking victims”, why do they need to keep making up stories about it?
Rena Olsen is a licensed therapist in Des Moines who…works with children. But she hadn’t heard much about human trafficking…until she watched a documentary about it…Olsen [then wrote a novel called]…The Girl Before…She makes it clear that the fictional characters are not based on any story she has heard with clients…In Olsen’s book, a 6-year-old girl is taken from a park and told by her captors that her parents don’t want her anymore. Through years of “training” for sale to clients who desire young virgins, her past is wiped out…Eventually, she becomes a perpetrator herself, training young girls snatched off the streets…
IOW, an ignoramus representing herself as an “expert” wrote a novel based on her own twisted BDSM fantasies, and morons are pretending this has something to do with reality.
Actually, this isn’t the “Nordic model” at all, and neither King County nor any part of the US has that because sex workers are definitely still criminalized here. But the yellow little liar Val Richey (who’s afraid to look me in the eye when he’s in the same room as I am) is only too happy to use that known brand to sell his masters’ brand of snake oil:
Skagit County Coalition Against Trafficking…is hosting a…meeting on Aug. 23 to share [propaganda] about a model of addressing human trafficking — going after the traffickers and customers while [infantilizing sex workers and denying their agency]…Val Richey, King County prosecutor, will present the blueprint that is helping King County reduce human trafficking…The Nordic model is a three-pronged program…the Nordic model’s first prong goes after the pimp and treats prostitutes as victims who…need…mental health treatment…the second prong is arresting the buyer and instituting a financial penalty, half going to law enforcement and half to programs that [incarcerate & brainwash] prostitutes. The third prong is education…[Gayle] Kersten [pretended] the Nordic model has worked in other countries and King County has had great success…
Just a typical case in a typical American prison:
DeEtta Williams…has filed a federal lawsuit against…Michael Ewell, who has since been fired, and the California department of corrections and rehabilitation. She wants…the world to know what happens behind bars…there is a pattern of sexual assault at…women’s prison and…officials “know and just don’t bother” to do anything about it…“Ewell had a history of sexually assaulting women, a history well known to CDC,” according to the suit…In September of 2013, Ewell was accused of sexually assaulting “a fellow CDC officer, [and] was inexplicably transferred to a women’s prison. He was assigned his own unit to supervise, giving him unfettered access and power over the female prisoners in his unit”…Ewell engineered her transfer to a unit where he worked and had her assigned to a job cleaning the guards’ office and small bathroom…He would “pop” her out of her cell at 5.30am, when no other officers were on shift, and have her clean the secluded area…He groped her…forced her to kiss him…slap her, rape her, choke her. He threatened her children. He…[orally raped] her…She lost weight. Her hair fell out. She tried to kill herself. And she told warden Kimberly Hughes that she had been raped over and over again…Hughes was sympathetic…And…transferred Williams to a single cell…Two months later…[Ewell] was “terminated”…
Diary #320
Posted in Diary, tagged activism, blogging, New York, Presents on August 16, 2016| 1 Comment »
An awful lot of stuff happened last week, but unfortunately I can’t tell you about most of it yet. There was a conference call I can’t tell you about yet, and I was consulted about an unpleasantness I can’t tell you about yet, and there were some developments in a project I can’t tell you about yet, and of course I can’t tell you about anything that happened with clients (though there were several notable developments, most of them good). Then there were some other things I could tell you about but would rather not, and a couple of others I might like to tell you about, but you wouldn’t understand or wouldn’t care. So even though I was so busy last week I barely had time to breathe, there’s very little to report in this column. I’m going to dinner tonight with a young sex worker who flatters me by listening to my war stories, and I’m getting yet another beauty treatment on Thursday. Last week I did receive a very early birthday present from Jeremy Dunn, the book you see me holding here (which was the most recent addition to my Amazon wishlist), and on Sunday my book became available on Walmart’s website, which I’m hoping generates a lot of sales! But I’m afraid that’s pretty much it for this time, except for announcing that I’m going to be in New York City from September 14th to 19th, so if you’d like to see me in that time you’ve got less than a month to let me know!
Just Another Day in America
Posted in Current Events, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged consensual crime, cops, Maryland, racism, rape, To Molest and Rape, weaponry on August 15, 2016| 1 Comment »
This victim seems like a conniving little whore. – Baltimore prosecutor, name withheld by “authorities”
So the US Department of “Justice” has released its long-awaited report on the Baltimore police department, the product of an investigation which was begun after public outcry over the murder by torture of a young black man named Freddie Gray. Gray was arrested under the pretext that he possessed an “illegal” weapon (a switchblade, like the one I carried in my purse in high school); like all prohibitionist laws, those against “weapon possession” (including the “gun control” laws so beloved by modern “progressives” and racist conservatives of the ’60s) are disproportionately enforced against minorities, and used as excuses for the overpolicing which has decimated black communities (New York’s much-hated “stop and frisk” policy was a gun control measure). But middle-class Americans in general (and white middle-class Americans in particular) have developed an ingenious defense against recognizing the ubiquitous rot in our society: they hyperfocus on one particularly blatant example, demand that “something be done” about it, and then smugly congratulate themselves on their enlightenment while ignoring the myriad other examples of exactly the same species of rot that surround them on every side. The media attention to the Baltimore investigation is a perfect example of the syndrome: it all tacitly assumes that the Baltimore police department is some kind of unique blot on the otherwise-spotless escutcheon of American policing, when in fact it is an extremely typical exemplar of the authoritarian cancer which utterly permeates the US body politic.
Take this Vox article about the report, for example; it speaks of “revelations” and “damning findings” as though it were about to unveil some shocking secrets, but absolutely nothing it mentions is outside the business as usual of US police departments. It quotes the report as saying, “This conduct is not only criminal, it is an abuse of power.” That’s true, but it’s a ubiquitous abuse of power which is so inherent in the machinery of prohibition that New South Wales decriminalized prostitution for the express purpose of eliminating that particular avenue of police corruption. Barely the week passes that I don’t feature at least one or two examples of rapist cops (as of this writing, over 100 of them so far this year in the US alone), and in the past few years there have been several examples of the systemic pervasiveness of cops raping sex workers that were so egregious that even the badge-licking US media couldn’t ignore them (such as the recent scandal in Oakland). As the above-linked Vox article notes,
According to the Cato Institute’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, sexual misconduct is the second most common form of police misconduct after excessive force. An investigation by the Associated Press last year showed that from 2008 to 2014, around 1,000 officers lost their badges for sexual misconduct: 550 officers were decertified for sexual assault, including [rape]…440 other officers lost their certification for other sex offenses, including child pornography, sexting juveniles, or having sex while on duty…
And it goes without saying that these are only the ones who were caught and punished, however lightly; the vast majority never face any consequences whatsoever, because they specifically target women the state has branded “criminals” for completely consensual activities over which it has no legitimate jurisdiction. This isn’t going to stop because the State makes a big show of prosecuting a few Daniel Holtzclaws or spotlighting a few Oaklands and Baltimores; as I wrote previously, the abuses “will continue to be business as usual until [the] public stops pretending otherwise and demands the abolition of prohibition”.
Links #319
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged advertising, animals, cops, domestic violence, drugs, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, imaginative fiction, Japan, Never Call the Cops, New York, Ohio, Passive Voice, surveillance, Sweden, United Kingdom, video, weaponry on August 14, 2016| 1 Comment »
She could…have paid for the panties before she put them on. – Halmstad District Court
I discovered this darkly funny Indian insurance company commercial while reading an item featured in yesterday’s news column; don’t worry, you’ll be able to understand the plot even if you can’t understand the language. The links above it were provided by Mike Chase (“Orwell” & “marry”), Police Misconduct (“protect”), Jesse Walker (“headline”), Mike Siegel (“archaeology”), Scott Greenfield (“wrong”), Wendy Lyon (“Sweden”), Elizabeth N. Brown (“laws”), and Radley Balko (“volunteer”).
- The Orwell cometh.
- To protect and serve.
- Headline of the week.
- Arthurian archaeology.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- Sweden, the Florida of Europe.
- Because laws are more important than people.
- Do not under any circumstances even think of marrying one.
- Do I really need to say “Don’t volunteer to let them shoot at you”?
From the Archives
- It takes a special kind of obtuseness & cultural illiteracy to actually name your disguised prison “Gingerbread House”.
- What is it with stupid ex-whores who actually expect people to believe they never had sex with their clients?
- We don’t want our market disrupted, & the power is already in our hands; that’s why we can charge.
- Lone man on crusade manages to censor adult content on internet by circumventing court order.
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, non-cop rapists often pose as cops to facilitate the crime.
- Why do prohibitionists always push “rescued” whores into menial garment-related work?
- As long as these laws are on the books, cops can use them against any woman they like.
- Politician says college students’ brains aren’t developed enough to handle free speech.
- Remember when communism was bad ’cause commies didn’t let people travel freely?
- NGO abducts whores’ children & brainwashes them against their mothers.
- Why would an intelligent girl with a good family & boyfriend sell her body?
- Prohibitionists want to cut off sex workers’ noses to spite their own faces.
- The reporter blames the advertising venue & the cops blame the victims.
- Mainstream journalists now question central dogma of “trafficking” cult.
- Tara Burns’ personal account of how criminalization harms sex workers.
- Amnesty International finally comes out in support of decriminalization.
- “Authorities” will call it anything to avoid saying a cop raped someone.
- Seattle sex workers fight propaganda while politicians keep making it.
- Expect this trope to become more common in the next few months.
- Al-Jazeera wants us to believe in a whole “sex trafficking” country.
- Ah, so “flat rate” isn’t actually flat rate; no wonder the girls like it!
- Why doesn’t an escort’s performance turn into real sexual desire?
- A letter to Amnesty International in support of decriminalization.
- Mistress Matisse talks to Huffington Post about “sex trafficking”.
- Cops, government, authoritarianism, Rock Sugar & much more.
- I really, really love it when Jacob Sullum tears into Nick Kristof.
- Prohibitionist steals confidential reports, writes play from ’em.
- Marijke Vonk on “sex trafficking” hysteria in the Netherlands.
- Another example of the effectiveness of disruptive protests.
- Now useful idiots don’t even need to dial a phone to snitch!
- Pennsylvania expands its already-bad asset forfeiture laws.
- Lock up your children! Sex traffickers are EVERYWHERE!!!
- A harlot in a world of high fantasy finds a new clientele.
- Imagine the NOW going to bat for sex workers like this.
- Cops, beauty, signage, the ACLU & spontaneous order.
- My visits to Boston, New York & other nearby cities.
- Paying with cash is now a “sign of sex trafficking”.
- What actually happened here is anybody’s guess.
- Aya de Leon on prohibitionist “documentaries”.
- The War on Whores is the new War on Drugs.
- Welcome to our world, surrogate mothers.
- The Economist calls for decriminalization.
- Super-ally Elizabeth Nolan Brown again.
- Once in a while a reporter wakes up.
- “Politicians lie” = “the sky is blue”.
- Even Godwin’s Law can be funny.
- Criticism of the “Cupcake Girls”.
- The dangers of findomming.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Cops are liars everywhere.
- A busy week in Oklahoma.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Strippers vs. fundies.
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