As
I explained on Thursday, my trip got more difficult after I left northern New Mexico on Tuesday. But I made it home safely (if exhausted) Wednesday night and hit the ground running on Thursday; I’ve had a full calendar since then, which is a very good thing even if it did slow my writing catch-up. But I’m back to three columns ahead, and by this time next week I hope to have it back to five. I’ve also received Chester Brown’s art for the cover of The Forms of Things Unknown and as soon as it’s colored and the blurbs are in place, I’ll be ready to compile the book and start the proofing process. Another thing I received by post recently was this lovely red dress from my Amazon wishlist, courtesy of a reader named Michael; if you send me another one (there are several on the list) I’ll post the pictures in an upcoming diary. Oh, and if you prefer to give me money in exchange for services, I should probably point out that Lorelei Rivers and I are doing a two-librarian special for the entire month of February. If you’re in a position to take advantage of that, email me for details; we promise you an unforgettable experience!
Archive for January, 2017
Diary #344
Posted in Diary, tagged blogging, Presents, The Forms of Things Unknown on January 31, 2017| 1 Comment »
Tiger, Tiger
Posted in Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged ethics, law, lawyers, politicians on January 30, 2017| 9 Comments »
Lately I’ve found that I’m doing some of my best writing on Twitter, but since it’s an ephemeral medium I’m going to start reposting especially good tweet threads here. On Saturday, while we were watching the mass protests against Trump’s executive order preventing people from a number of predominantly-Muslim countries from entering the US even if they had green cards, I tweeted the following; the second paragraph was tweeted later in response to people who kept erroneously referring to the protests, and the actions of lawyers rushing out to help detainees pro bono, as “democracy” when in fact it was (the republican form of) democracy that created and empowered the very system which these people were fighting. 
If I were the sort of person who found comfort in being right, I’d be very smug now that millions are waking up to the danger of giving more than a tiny amount of power to “leaders”. But since I’m NOT that kind of person, I’m just shaking my head. I’m not a seer or a brilliant analyst of mob psychology; I just understand that ALL humans are too flawed to be given power over others except in very limited circumstances & subject to revocation of that power by EACH individual subject to it. In other words, no person is morally bound to obey “authorities” merely because he or she happens to be physically located within imaginary lines on a map which those “authorities” claim belong to them. Donald Trump’s moral authority, or the moral authority of ANY politician, is exactly as legitimate as the moral authority of a tiger pissing on trees to mark its territory. In other words, one should be mindful that there’s a dangerous and irrational animal in the area which believes it has the “right” to do anything it wants to those within that territory, but that animal’s behavior doesn’t represent “justice” or a “social contract” or “divine right” or anything else but the predictable behavior of a violent animal with no understanding of what right & wrong actually mean. “Authorities”, like tigers, are best avoided unless they’re locked up in cages where they can’t maim others due to some whim, urge or emotion. What they are NOT to be given is any kind of obedience or deference except what’s minimally necessary to get away safely if one happens to run into one. And the same cautions apply whether it’s a Bengal tiger or a Siberian one, whether it has white, black or orange coloring behind the stripes, whether it’s male or female, or whether it’s actually a lion, leopard or jaguar instead of a tiger. And replacing one tiger with another one won’t change anything except what that particular individual tiger might be most enraged by.
Individuals acting toward some shared goal, without a formal structure enforced by violence, is not “democracy”; it’s anarchy. Grasp that. Those who think “anarchy” is evil need to look at these protests & lawyers voluntarily helping immigrants. THAT IS ANARCHY. So the next time some ass tells you about how we “need” government to prevent anarchy, remember these protests; the truth is, we need anarchy to protect us from government.
Links #343
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged censorship, cops, Indiana, internet, Louisiana, Mississippi, politicians, video on January 29, 2017| 2 Comments »
I like to see people dressed when they’re in public. – Tom Weathersby
I don’t generally like these “Top Ten” video things, but I wanted to honor the passing of John Hurt, possibly one of the most underrated actors of our time, by reminding you of his many top-notch performances. The links above the video were contributed by Brooke Magnanti (“steakification”), Tim Cushing (“easy” and “first”), Emma Evans (“paging”), Lucy Steigerwald (“police”), and Carol Fenton (“counseling”).
- Steakification.
- R.I.P. John Hurt.
- It’s just too easy.
- Paging The Doctor.
- Not a police state, no sirree.
- I propose fines & psychological counseling for politicians.
- The first was the only one left, so it was just a matter of time.
From the Archives
- An overblown, sensationalized interview with retired madam Jami Rodman.
- Only very rare “perfect victims” are helped by so-called “safe harbor” laws.
- Moron calls act banned a century ago “one of the oldest crimes in history“.
- A thorough report on the incredible amount of money in “anti-trafficking”.
- Bollywood is pretty sex work-friendly even if the Indian government isn’t.
- Bureaucrat imagines he can stop people from seeing porn he doesn’t like.
- Why the GSS and similar surveys are absolutely useless on sexual topics.
- Another demonstration of how regulation of sex work hurts sex workers.
- Guess what cops do when they get their hands on information like this.
- All prohibitionists are liars, but Irish ones may be the most egregious.
- Mistress Matisse’s style guide for journalists writing about sex work.
- There are actually several of these “anti-trafficking” trucker groups.
- Ruchira Gupta wants women like me banned from ever having sex.
- Now will the cops stop pretending this woman was “sex trafficked”?
- If he had simply paid to enact this fantasy, he’d still have a career.
- Last time I checked, 18 is still legally adult in every part of the US.
- Most parroting of “gypsy whores” myth now contains a disclaimer.
- Dysphemisms and gawking abound in UK articles about sex work.
- Noah Berlatsky on Swanee Hunt’s HackTrafficking4Good scheme.
- US op-ed condemns Canada’s awful new anti-sex worker regime.
- Landlady railroaded for allowing whores to work on her property.
- The “misogyny” explanation for police brutality is pure bullshit.
- “How Laws Regulating Sex Work Ignore Workers Themselves”.
- The quaint non-“law enforcement” term for this is “blackmail”.
- Swanee Hunt tricks young people into aiding the police state.
- Politician tries to advance surveillance state via magic words.
- Loathsome porn performer tries to pretend she isn’t a whore.
- Would stopping masturbation help with my sexual problems?
- Cops, lawyers, bureaucracy, music, babies and lesbian nuns.
- One wonders how Ms Jannese thinks we even pay the rent.
- Cops, laws, math, masturbation, Star Wars & much more.
- This is the typical “Super Bowl sex trafficking” story now.
- This licensing law was sold as a way to “protect” women.
- How much longer can this absurd melodrama continue?
- Great news! There is no actual crime in Pennsylvania.
- Lunatic murders whore due to sadfeelz about his dick.
- “9 Things I Learned in My First Year as a Sex Worker“
- Yet another ridiculous “sex trafficking” fakumentary.
- Unfortunately, she learned what cops are really like.
- Penthouse is not shutting down its print magazine.
- Here’s what “regulated” sex work really looks like.
- Repeatedly refuting this bullshit gets exhausting.
- Washington state politicians silence sex workers.
- What is the truth about Asian massage parlors?
- Monica Jones’ conviction overturned on appeal.
- Vincent Rue is the Melissa Farley of abortion.
- “Sex trafficking” is caused by commercials!
- A boom in “lovers” spying on one another.
- Noah Berlatsky on underage sex workers.
- An anti-porn propaganda film from 1962.
- Sex prohibition never stops with whores.
- Man who robbed sex worker imprisoned.
- Packing for Seattle & a new bathing suit.
- A “stalemate” over mandatory condoms.
- One of the most vile rapist cops of all.
- January 2012 and 2013 in retrospect.
- Lots of interviews and a lovely party.
- Rapist “court officer” of the week.
- Fellow librarians: this is bullshit.
- Britain’s campaign against sex.
- The Whores’ Cant of Istanbul.
- Do-it-yourself surveillance.
- Introducing the vajankle.
- My tits turn sweet 16.
- Betty White nude.
In the News (#708)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Tale That Grew in the Telling, abortion, An Example to the West, bogus studies, Broken Record, Checklist, cops, Florida, hysteria, I Swear To God, India, infidelity, Ireland, law, Lying Down With Dogs, Michigan, Monsters, Paint By Numbers, Perquisites, prohibitionist myths, rape, Russia, streetwalkers, stripping, Surplus Women, Texas, That Old Black Magic, The Mote and the Beam, To Molest and Rape, transgender, United Kingdom, video, violence vs. sex workers, witchcraft on January 28, 2017| 1 Comment »
[Jessica] McGraa’s death has prompted many to ask how we have created a climate in which sex workers call anyone but the police. – Frankie Mullin
Melissa Ditmore on Russia’s terrible anti-whore policies:
Russian President Vladimir Putin…half [joked]…that…Russian sex workers are “of course the best in the world”…but…Russia’s regressive policies on sex work, LGBTQ people, and sex education are counter to good health. LGBTQ people are stigmatized and discriminated against and face grave violence, sex work is prohibited, the most effective HIV prevention strategies for people who use drugs are against the law, and comprehensive sexuality education is not offered in schools…
Liz Brown was the only non-prohibitionist invited to appear on this Al Jazeera show; in this article she discusses the incredible ignorance of the other panelists, who call for more laws without even knowing what the current ones say.
The National Network of Sex Workers has released a statement challenging the conference being organised by the “The Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution International”…The statement has been signed by over 2000 sex workers in India who reject the conflation of trafficking with sex work, and the conflation of sex work with violence. It calls for…an end to the use of morality to stigmatise and discriminate against sex workers…
The broadest “gypsy whore” claim ever:
…a new report from 2016 [redefines criteria to claim that] the number of human trafficking cases in [Florida] doubled in the last year…Florida’s reputation as a tourist destination means traffickers respond to the demand for sex tourism by trafficking victims to the state during tourist season…[prohibitionist] Bethany Gilot [publicly fantasized about]…the prevalence of sex tourism in the region…
…Donald Trump signed [an] executive order…reinstating a ban on international aid…to nonprofits that provide abortions or promote information on them, regardless of what other services they offer…A…group of more than 100 public health, women’s issues, and civil liberties organizations have already issued a statement opposing the return of…”the global gag rule”…[the policy is very much like] the anti-prostitution pledge…[which] stipulated that no grant money could be used…to “provide assistance to any group or organization that does not have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution”…
I’m not sure which aspect of this is the stupidest:
A woman accused of trafficking a Nigerian woman into the country and forcing her to work as a prostitute has claimed that the alleged victim was having an affair with her husband…The complainant previously told a jury that she underwent a “voodoo process” in Nigeria during which she swore she would not report the alleged trafficker, Joy Imasogie…once in Ireland she had to have sex with up to 10 men a day to pay off a €50,000 “debt”…arising from her being brought to Ireland…Imasogie said sometimes the woman would come to her house to do her hair in exchange for food but denied making her work as a prostitute…she…also claimed the mother of the alleged victim was using voodoo to take her husband away from her but “did not succeed”…
A 26-year-old Detroit man…[shot] a transgender woman in the face after paying her for sex. Jason Lamar Hogan was charged…with [attempted murder]…She escaped and got treatment at Grace Hospital…
The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay is urging you to drop an F-bomb. No, not the swear word. In this case, F stands for Friend…They’re using memes with a very serious message. It’s something we don’t like to think is happening in our community: kids forced to be sex slaves. But Florida is one of the top three states for human trafficking…Ken Gibson from the Crisis Center…says…“It’s little kids…who are being targeted by pimps”…
There was no dancing when deputies and code enforcement officers were at a strip joint called Icon. Except for the 20 or so officials, the club was nearly vacant…But the deputies didn’t mind the empty stage, as they were there to ensure that the club was in compliance with a new county ordinance requiring anti-human trafficking signs in adult entertainment establishments…
The nauseating sound of bootlicking is deafening.
…University of Louisville…director of basketball operations Andre McGee hired strippers and prostitutes as a way of gaining favor with high school recruits from 2010 to 2014. The scandal broke wide open in 2015, when Katina Powell, who was in charge of organizing the women to bring to campus, published a book detailing the racket, titled Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen…
Jessica…McGraa’s death sent waves of horror through the sex work community across the UK. As an independent worker, advertising online, she was part of one of the fastest-growing sectors of the industry. Her story was close to home for thousands of people working in similar circumstances. How many of them would have called the police?…
Evan Cramer…pulled [a woman] over…for a minor traffic violation…[he said] she had multiple warrants out for her arrest and said she could avoid jail time if she [submitted to rape]…Cramer…then…[forced] the [woman] into his cruiser and [drove] her to a vacant lot where…he [raped her]…The woman then went to the hospital and reported the [rape]…
A Tale That Grew in the Telling (#705)
Though this is mostly just the usual idiocy, note that “children” is defined as “people under 26”.
There are likely more than 313,000 victims of labor and sex trafficking in Texas, and roughly a fourth of them are children and people under the age of 26 who have been forced into prostitution…[fetishists] from…University of Texas…[pretend these wild exagerrations represent] “a conservative understatement of the prevalence of human trafficking in Texas”…
Back Issue: January 2014
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on January 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »
In the past, civilizations died in blood and fire; ours is slowly suffocating in billions of tons of cotton wool. – “New Year’s Day 2014”
We’re getting to the point where I’m saying to myself, “That was three years ago already?” every time I do one of these; “Something in the Milk” is still one of my most often-linked columns, and it seems like yesterday that I announced the release of “Ladies of the Night“. After we account for the holiday columns (New Year’s Day & Little Christmas 2014), the annual review column, the guest column (from a man on the “sex offender registry), the fictional interlude (“Millennium“), the harlotography (“Marion Delorme“), the Q&A columns (“Lip Service“, “Sex and Drugs” and “Questing for Unicorns“) and the Cliterati reprints (“Cops and Robbers“, “Caveat Emptor“, “Case Study” and “Devil’s Advocate“), plus two special columns assisting other sex worker friends (“La Libertine’s Salon” and “Share Your Truth“), the only essays left are all about prohibitionism & moral panics: “The Pit“, “What Next?“, “The Forest for the Trees” and “Imagine the Sky“.
The Limits of Dedication
Posted in Diary, Philosophy, tagged activism, blogging, drugs, New Mexico, Oregon, Wyoming on January 26, 2017| 8 Comments »
As
I told you Tuesday, I’ve let myself get very behind on my blogging during this trip, and the past two days did nothing to help that situation. In fact, they made it worse! On Tuesday night I was planning to stay in Ogden, Utah, just north of Salt Lake City, but as I was driving west on I-80 in western Wyoming there was an unpredicted snowstorm and I hit a snowdrift which decided to suddenly jump out in front of my car. Neither I nor the car was damaged in any way, but I couldn’t get traction to get out of the snowbank and by the time AAA arrived to pull me out I was in no mood to drive any further that night. So I switched my reservation to the nearest town and then checked in and finished yesterday’s freaking news column (just in case you ever doubted my dedication). However, that meant two extra hours of driving yesterday, plus an extra half-hour due to the lingering bad road conditions from the snowstorm the night before. Then the horrendous weather in Oregon added another hour…all of which means as I type this it has only been about 90 minutes since I got home from driving for fourteen and a half hours straight, the last six and a half of it in very stress-inducing weather. My ears are ringing from engine & road noises & I don’t know if any of you get this weird kind of mental buzz from driving very long stretches, but I do. And for some reason the Traveling Wilburys’ song “The End of the Line” keeps going through my head. I have a very full calendar for the next few days, so I’ve taken double my usual dose of nighty-night edibles so I can go to sleep and reset my brain by tomorrow morning. And that’s why you’re getting a sort of diary column again today; I hope you don’t mind. I’ve included a selfie I took literally before getting out of bed Monday to soften the blow. It’s a lot more flattering than the one I took in very bad light while waiting for the tow truck.
However, I do have a question: Oregon people, is the guy in charge of programming your electronic road signs habitually confused or something? There was a sign announcing “dense fog, low visibility” over a hundred miles east (measured by road) of where the fog actually was, but no sign at the fog’s real location. The fog sign was at the beginning of a snowstorm, and though the visibility was indeed quite limited that doesn’t make it fog. Also, there was a sign announcing “severe icy conditions in the area” to warn of a snowdrift in the left lane which was marked off by traffic cones while a crew worked to remove it. And while I suppose that does indeed constitute “severe icy conditions”, usually the phrase “in the area” implies a geographic entity larger than five square meters or so. It’s almost as weird as New Mexico’s oddly philosophical warning signs that say “high winds may exist” and “rocks may exist”. OK, New Mexico, I appreciate your efforts to inspire drivers to question the nature of reality, but generally speaking highway signs aren’t a proper venue for that. I think for purely everyday purposes, it’s safe to say that both rocks and high winds do indeed exist in many parts of the universe. Changing your signs to simply read, “Beware of Rocks” or “Caution: Intermittent High Winds” would probably get your meaning across more effectively than framing the existence of hazardous natural phenomena as though it were a resolution for a debate in a Philosophy 101 class.
See? I can still be entertaining even when I’m exhausted. And I’m not even stoned yet.
In the News (#707)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Against Their Will, agency denial, Arizona, Australia, Backpage, BDSM, Broken Record, brothels, California, Catholicism, cops, Do As I Say, Elephant in the Parlor, hysteria, Illinois, King of the Hill, language, law, Legal Is as Legal Does, Louisiana, Malaysia, Moving Pictures, Nebraska, Original Sin, Paint By Numbers, Pennsylvania, porn, prohibitionist myths, rape, sex rays, Sex Rays (updates), The War Goes On, To Molest and Rape, Wisconsin, Worse Than I Thought on January 25, 2017| 1 Comment »
The bedroom or the dungeon is a place where, with consenting partners, we are allowed to act out power games, even childish ones.
– Mistress Matisse
Even cops who pay whores may use threats to obtain compliance:
[Pennsylvania cop] Tyler Valimont…faces five misdemeanor charges…[for meeting a sex worker]…Valimont threatened to arrest her if she didn’t respond to his calls and text messages…during their encounter on November 7, she recognized Valimont as a past customer who paid her…in September…
Omaha is known as a hot spot for human trafficking. It is located on the same routes drug dealers have been using for years. “The traffickers are on a circuit and traveling down I-80 and that’s evidenced by the ads posted in Denver one day, Omaha the next day, then Chicago and to New York City, Washington, D.C. and then on to Philadelphia,” said Anna Brewer…a former FBI agent…”The Creighton Human Trafficking Initiative has identified over 2,200 human beings for sale in Omaha”…
Prohibitionists call this “rescue”:
A 31-year-old Vietnamese woman fell to her death when she was believed to have slipped while trying to leap from one building to the next in a bid to escape from [Malaysian vice cops]…The raiding team…[still had the nerve to refer to three women they] successfully [arrested as] rescued…
Don’t they know sex ray contamination can last for decades?
For several years there has been a succession of stories suggesting that the imposing Armory building in [San Francisco] was slowly being relinquished by its owner, BDSM porn concern Kink.com…CEO Peter Acworth…says that all film shoots at the Armory will be ending next month as the company diversifies its interests a bit, and moves to reuse the 200,000-square-foot building for other, revenue-generating ends…the business can no longer support the huge facility they purchased a decade ago…because…Kink.com’s subscriber base has shrunk by 40 percent in this age of plentiful free porn…Acworth now says he’s looking to convert the top two floors to leasable office space…but [potential tenants]…have been turned off after seeing the remnants of Kink’s oeuvre around the building…and have backed out…
Broken Record (All Traffick, All the Time)
Poor Tucson; its only big event to claim as a “sex trafficking magnet” is jaw-droppingly absurd:
…the Tucson Police Department and [sex trafficking fetishists]…are coming together to go over their plan to tackle the underground crime before the Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase begins…[they fantasize] sex traffickers cater to the high demand that comes with the event…[bureaucrat Sheila] Pessinguia…[says] “They don’t self-identify and even when we have a real good feeling that they are trafficked they still don’t admit it”…
Because the feelings of pigs & politicians trump reality.
These establishments wouldn’t have to “hide” if sex work were decriminalized in Victoria:
Hundreds of illegal brothels, many of which offer unsafe sexual practices and put women’s safety at risk, are operating across Melbourne…police admit the sheer size of the industry makes it difficult to investigate…the majority of illegal brothels operated under the guise of massage shops, with others in homes, beauty salons and karaoke bars…
The Pope continues to recklessly promote “sex trafficking” hysteria:
A delegation from the U.S. state of Louisiana was among the special guests meeting with Pope Francis during his general audience on [January 18th]. Led by Governor John Bel Edwards, the delegation asked the Pope to bless the pioneering work that is going on in Louisiana to prevent human trafficking and to protect victims who’ve been trapped in this modern day slavery. That work includes [lots more money to promote police violence]…
It’s good to see them feeding on each other:
A child sex-trafficking victim who was forced into prostitution by her mother and later identified by a Denver police officer in a [fake]umentary about the sex trade is suing the filmmaker and Netflix for distributing it, according to a federal lawsuit. Using the pseudonym Jane Roe, the woman said Denver Police Sgt. Daniel Steele identified her by her first name in the 2013 film Tricked and showed a photograph of her during an interview…The film also used her full name in its list of credits…
The “anti-trafficking hair color” idiots are still at it:
A splash of color in your hair can start a conversation – and with the topic of sex trafficking, that can [magically] make a real difference. That’s the hope of Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin, teaming up with a local barber shop for sex trafficking awareness month…
Note how the reporter tries to downplay the cop’s implied threats against the girl:
A Chicago [cop] accused of [pressuring]…an underage girl [for sex] has been charged with felony criminal sexual assault…Eugene Ciardullo…began communicating with the victim and her friends via social media when she was 16…
“Sex trafficking” laws keep getting broader and scarier:
Attempting to pay for sex could become a felony offense in Connecticut…Liz Linehan introduced a bill that would take the crime of “patronizing a prostitute” from a class A misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum one year in prison, to a Class C felony, which comes with a mandatory minimum prison sentence of one year and a possible 10 years in prison, plus a fine of up to $10,000. Linehan’s measure would also require anyone convicted of the offense more than once to register as a sex offender…Connecticut is currently in the midst of rolling out another prostitution-related measure…[requiring] all hotel and motel employees…to undergo training on how to spot…”activities related to human trafficking.” But like so many “human trafficking awareness” shams, the hotel-employee training really only encourages people to report any and all suspected prostitution…
My friend Mistress Matisse weighs in on the Trump golden shower report:
“When I first saw the document, I was on the fence about it…But then I saw the press conference where Trump denied the story by saying ‘I’m a germaphobe.’ When I saw that, I thought ‘Oh yeah, then you definitely did it.’ Because that’s an irrational fear. And nothing makes already-taboo things sexier than a tinge of trepidation”…
The idea that women have free will is incomprehensible to misogynistic sociopaths like Dart:
The ads for prostitutes and escorts that previously appeared in Backpage’s adult section have simply been redirected to the site’s “dating” section, which has gone from being a platform for finding companionship online to a forum rife with solicitations for sex. “There’s been this big to-do with Backpage saying they’ve taken down this site,” said Dart, noting he was immediately skeptical of the company’s statements and motives…”they’ve taken down their escorts section but have basically moved all their ads over to another section of the website…We went out and arrested a person off the site…We answered one of their ads and it was no different”…
Yes, he’s actually saying Backpage moved the ads because he can’t comprehend women being intelligent enough to work around the stupid proclamations of he and his fellow control freaks. Note also that he let his “whores are victims” mask slip by admitting he arrested (not “rescued”) a sex worker.
Diary #343
Posted in Diary, tagged activism, blogging on January 24, 2017| 6 Comments »
The
bad news: I’m finding it a lot more difficult these days to keep up with my blogging while on the road. The good news: That’s mostly because I’m learning to relax a little and enjoy myself more while I am on the road. Though my trips are mostly for business and activism, they also contain plenty of socializing; in the week since my last diary I’ve visited friends in Las Vegas, Tucson and Albuquerque, and today I’ll be headed back to Seattle by way of Salt Lake City. And the reason I’ve had so much trouble keeping up with my blog of late is that I’ve spent large parts of 13 of the last 18 days hanging out & having fun with beautiful, awesome whores. So yeah, I’ll have to scramble to catch up when I get home (tomorrow night, gods willing). But I think it was worth it, and I suspect everyone who loves me will agree.
For My Sisters
Posted in History, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged activism, archeofeminism, blogging, Twitter on January 23, 2017| 3 Comments »
Most of you probably already follow me on Twitter (and if you don’t, you should). But while Twitter is a very powerful tool for publicity and activism, tweets are intrinsically ephemeral; though they do actually continue to exist indefinitely, they’re very difficult to find after a few days. Therefore, I hope you’ll forgive me if, when I write a string of tweets that I think are particularly important, I republish them here for more attention ad greater permanence. On January 14th, in response to the widespread fear in our community due to the Backpage takedown, I tweeted out the following message; it isn’t long, but it expresses a truth I think it’s very important that whores remember in these trying times.
Our profession truly is the oldest one on Earth. Older than the pyramids, older than cities. Older even than Homo Sapiens. The US as an institution is just a toddler, albeit one of those toddlers we read about that gets ahold of a gun and kills their parents. We have survived the fall of empires and the disappearance of whole peoples. We have survived fire, flood, famine, pestilence, war and every other disaster. We have survived persecution, pogroms, confinement in brothels, literal slavery, mutilation & even burnings. We will survive this too. Read what the ancients wrote about us. We are the mothers of human civilization; it couldn’t exist without us. And these so-called “leaders” know it. They’re petulant children who resent their debt to us and are acting out violently. But like all children they have a short attention span, and when some new shiny toy or victim to torture catches their attention they’ll leave us alone. What we need to do is to survive until then, and to keep fighting to be heard and recognized by good people who will stand with us. But no matter what, we WILL survive. And our tribe will exist when The USA is nothing but a thing kids learn about in history, then forget.
We are as eternal as the sea; our enemies are mere insects, who annoy for a season and are then gone. In order for them to win, they would have to completely destroy human sexuality; in order for us to win, all we need do is practice the patience and courage which we have in abundance. And though it’s difficult to remember that in trying times, it doesn’t even matter if we do or not because even if we as individuals forget, we as a group will survive and triumph nonetheless.
Links #342
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged censorship, cops, fascism, imaginative fiction, Indiana, Japan, language, Pennsylvania, video, Washington (state), Wisconsin on January 22, 2017| 1 Comment »
When I say by any means necessary that would be up to those in charge. – James Tomes
It recently came to my attention that Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been uploading full episodes onto YouTube, so to call attention to that I’m going to feature their treatment of Prince of Space, one of my favorite so-bad-it’s-good movies (though it pales in comparison to the Starman movies). The links above it are from Radley Balko (“necessary”), Mike Siegel (“sirree”), Jesse Walker (“gaslight”), and Mark Bennett (“smug”).
- Fascism in action.
- Still not a police state.
- “By any means necessary“.
- Not a police state, no sirree.
- Gomer Pyle verbed “gaslight”.
- Trump vows to censor protests against cops.
- I hope they never catch him; think of how smug they’ll be if they do.
From the Archives
- Dudes pretend responsibility for women’s abortions, because silly women can’t make decisions like that for ourselves.
- As usual, the media are pretending this is unusual, when in fact it’s the norm everywhere in the US.
- Remember the big “Super Bowl sex trafficking bust” the cops were crowing about last January?
- Prohibitionist claims she has never talked to a happy hooker while talking to a happy hooker.
- Morally-retarded academics will invent bullshit to support your propaganda.
- Men paying for sex isn’t nearly as rare as “sex researchers” like to pretend.
- Sweden, Nancy Grace, D&D, cops, Australia, cops, dogs, phalluses & more.
- When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
- Sometimes education actually makes it harder for people to accept reality.
- Not a “mistake”, but a result of government-approved profiling guidelines.
- Manufacture of “sex trafficking victims” uses exactly these same methods.
- So much writing on something that doesn’t exist & never will in this form.
- This is where sex workers “rescued” by the likes of Somaly Mam are sent.
- A heaping helping of the usual “trafficking” feces served up Arizona style.
- Polite guys women can hire to do romantic but non-sexual stuff for them.
- Cops think “sex trafficking” is a more credible explanation than jealousy.
- Swedish model fanatics won’t stop trying to impose their filth on the UK.
- Kenyan sex workers say a serial killer is targeting and mutilating them.
- While cops have power over private behavior, this will keep happening.
- Non-issue complicated by sociopathic need to control others’ sexuality.
- Cops, Sweden, Yuggoth, yoga, longbows, “Fuck you” and much more.
- Canadians still don’t want the state butting into their consensual sex.
- Perverts want to inspect children’s genitals before they use the toilet.
- Mark Draughn thought that “trafficking hotspot” map looked familiar.
- I wish gay men stuck up for whores as often as we stick up for them.
- Only the second instance I’ve seen of this literally impossible claim.
- “Authorities” destroy lives in furtherance of a wanking fantasy.
- The 30-year fight to de-classify kink as a psychiatric disorder.
- Can this absurd little coffee-stand drama finally be over now?
- Suppressing dissident views is a typical behavior of religions.
- I’m infatuated with a sex worker, but I think she’s using me.
- As I always say, we save far more marriages than we wreck.
- In other words, he was a time waster, not a “sex trafficker”.
- The right way to report on sex workers’ use of technology.
- State actors pretending that porn causes “sex trafficking”.
- How can I get over the death of my sex worker girlfriend?
- Kenya considers criminalizing the outing of sex workers.
- A man’s career is destroyed for seeking consensual sex.
- The only kind of sex robot I could ever be interested in.
- Bogus “signs” and masturbatory “awareness raising”.
- Marijke Vonk on the facts about Dutch sex workers.
- “Victim”. Can these people even hear themselves?
- And this is why I call Wendy Lyon “indispensable”.
- A sign of the decline of the “gypsy whores” myth.
- Internet porn just claimed another casualty.
- Serial rapist of sex workers caught in Spain.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2015 and 2016.
- All of the interview that’s printed to fit.
- In which I prepare to move to Seattle.
- Sex worker runs for congress in Peru.
- Two strippers sue a vegan strip club.
- “Woman has two jobs” is not news.
- More amazing activism from India.
- More “condoms in porn” nonsense.
- Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
- Sweden, the feminist paradise.
- The slow death of Die Wallen.
- But what does “porn” mean?
- Fantasy film double feature.
- Is Jamie Dornan for real?
- Control freak of the year.
- Mind your dysphemisms.
- Alea iacta est, y’all.
- Bad laws never die.
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