Archive for April, 2018
May Eve 2018
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on April 30, 2018| 3 Comments »
Links #408
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, animals, bogus studies, Colorado, cops, drivers, lawheads, Oklahoma, politicians, racism, restaurants, United Kingdom, universal criminality, video on April 29, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I’ll break your arm, that’s what I’m about to do. – unidentified Alabama pig
I was quite young when this premiered one Saturday morning (Wikipedia says it was January 6th, 1973), and I was immediately taken with it. It was of course the first episode of Multiplication Rock, which later grew into Schoolhouse Rock; I mention this is because the man who wrote and sang the song (and wrote all the other Multiplication Rock entries, singing all but 3 himself), Bob Dorough, died this week. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker (x2), Franklin Harris, Jillian Keenan, Rick Horowitz, and Elizabeth N. Brown (in that order).
- R.I.P. Bob Dorough.
- Welcome to our world.
- The world’s yummiest person.
- The banality of the modern police state.
- Cops arrest, strip woman for complaining at Waffle House.
- Tulsa plans to help the poor by banning cheap grocery stores.
From the Archives
- First they came for the students, and I said nothing because I was not a student…
- “A Man for Every Day in the Week”, “Rent”, “Hey Lady” & “Darling Nikki”.
- The only people ever charged with “sex trafficking” in Alaska are whores.
- A kind of essay that’s common in the Canadian press, but rare in the US.
- Guys have offered to pay me with dogs and horses, but never a monkey.
- Michigan cops now have to lie about raping us, as in the other 49 states.
- There can never be too many resources debunking “sex trafficking” pap.
- UK press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of escort reviews yet.
- Again, prohibitionists demonstrate their total contempt for sex workers.
- “Prince’s only sister to inherit his estate” isn’t good enough for the Mail.
- Uber now wants its drivers to spy on whores and rat us out to the pigs.
- Few sources of sex rays are as dangerous as the names of body parts.
- Cops, cats, Christians, convictions, algorithms, progressivism & more.
- Wannabe “pimp” follows script learned from anti-whore propaganda.
- Soon we’ll hear about how New Hampshire is a “sex trafficking hub”.
- “Clients per day” claims have returned to the realm of the possible.
- Only good thing about prostitution stings: cops getting arrested.
- Others recognize the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
- Nice to see cops ruin the life of one of their own for a change.
- Do prohibitionist idiots ever bother to think before speaking?
- From the headline writer who asked, “Is the Pope Catholic?”
- OH MY GOD HE PAID THEM SALARIES! WHAT A MONSTER!
- A good article on Ruhama, the Magdalene nuns’ new front.
- The whorearchy here is so thick it can be cut with a knife.
- “An increase in sex trafficking in northwestern Montana“.
- Cops, fairy tales, Disney birth control and much more.
- Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- The one and only case of an actual barcode tattoo.
- Thaddeus Russell interviews me on his podcast.
- The release of The Forms of Things Unknown.
- Is it common for sex workers to use AirBnB?
- Who comes up with this infantile rubbish?
- Melissa Petro on working while pregnant.
- George Will is apparently going senile.
- This would never happen in the US.
- April 2013 and 2014 in retrospect.
- Dealing with a very difficult week.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- My last selfie at Avalon.
- An antique dildo.
In the News (#833)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged acting, BDSM, bogus studies, brothels, cops, dirty, disease, Droit du Seigneur, drugs, East Asia, Elephant in the Parlor, Florida, Imaginary Evils, Legislators Gone Wild, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, politicians, propaganda, psychology, scams, sex education, sex rays, shame, stripping, Surplus Women, The Immunity Syndrome, underage, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), Whither Canada? on April 28, 2018| 2 Comments »
If you really care about us, just listen to us. – Christina Parreira
This is one of those rare instances where a rapist really was a “former” cop:
…a former [New Jersey] cop…[was] charged with trafficking a teen girl for sex…James Keenan [was] released on home confinement and the custody of a relative…[he] most recently lived in Vancouver, Washington [and] was arrested April 11 in Hazlet on federal charges of sex trafficking of a child, attempted sex trafficking of a child and attempted enticement…police in Beaverton, Oregon…and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been looking into him for a month…When agents went to arrest Keenan, they learned he had [fled] the West Coast…Keenan worked for the Middletown Township Police Department for…26 years…[and] retired in 2016…
Unfortunately, this will happen much more often now until a replacement for Backpage appears:
A manhunt continue[s]…for the savage killer of Brandy Odom, 26, whose…dismembered remains were…discovered strewn across…132 acres [of Brooklyn’s Canarsie Park]…Detectives trying to retrace her activities in the hours before she was carved up reviewed surveillance video from around the park in hopes of spotting a suspect…Odom was possibly strangled before the fugitive killer hacked up the corpse…Odom…was…a…hairdresser who…had no…history of problems with the law…[except] one arrest for loitering with suspicions of prostitution in 2012…Her mother was adamant that her daughter wasn’t involved in any illegal activity…
It’s sad to watch the mother forced to disavow “illegal activity”, as though being a sex worker would mean her daughter deserved to be literally butchered.
Yeah, she was a “slave”; I’m sure she was chained up & actually owned in a legal sense:
A Florida politician busted…on prostitution-related charges, allegedly fed and housed a married couple in exchange for being allowed to have sex twice a week with the woman — who claimed…she was kept as a “sex slave.” Exotic dancer Valerie Surette claimed that…Nick Nicholson…“begged” her last year to “move in and have sex with him,” offering her “very large sums of money” in return…Surette said she eventually agreed to the alleged arrangement — which also included her [husband] Kendel Surette [living] in [Nicholson’s] home…Nicholson paid the couple $100 to have sex with Surrette on Tuesdays and $200 on Saturdays…But things got increasingly worrisome, she [said], claiming the pol made her engage in uncomfortable or painful sex acts that wasn’t part of the deal…
In other words, she made a bad deal and stupidly decided to call in the pigs rather than just ending it like an adult. Sounds to me like these three assholes deserved each other.
Allison Mack…best known for a role in the TV series Smallville…entered a plea of not guilty to sex trafficking and forced labor charges which carry mandatory minimum sentences of 15 years and could lead to life in jail…senior members of an alleged cult known as Nxivm…[were allegedly] instrumental in forcing new recruits to conform to the sexual demands of leader Keith Raniere. The government alleges that so-called Nxivm “slaves” were forced to starve; ordered to remain celibate; and held down as Raniere’s initials were branded below their hips with a cauterizing pen…
…The group calling itself “No Little Girl” is petitioning to close the legal brothels in Lyon County, and remove the livelihood of hundreds of women…they make claims that…prostitution is inherently violence against women…[and] cite…data that either has been debunked or has nothing to do with legal prostitution. The handful of individuals that submitted the petition represent faith-based organizations, and seem to be more concerned with pushing their specific moral agenda…The group suggests that large tech companies won’t move to the county…because of the…brothels, but…Lance Gilman, owner of the Mustang Ranch…helped bring Tesla to Nevada. The massive Tesla Gigafactory is located seven miles from the Mustang Ranch…Concerning the safety of women in the brothels, the website cites Melissa Farley…
This outcome was obvious once Trump appointed Huber to HHS:
The Trump administration will shift federal funding aimed at reducing teen pregnancy rates to programs…that [push] abstinence [propaganda upon] teens instead of [actual] sex ed…The Obama administration mostly awarded TPP grants to organizations that taught comprehensive sex education, which…[nonetheless was forced by federal law to include propaganda promoting] abstinence. But the Trump administration has been shifting toward [pure] abstinence programs since hiring…Valerie Huber, the chief of staff for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, which oversees the TPP program. Prior to coming to HHS, Huber led Ascend, a national abstinence [propaganda] group…
The last attempt to start hysteria over this also involved exactly three cases:
A man in the UK who caught the world’s “worst-ever” case of super-gonorrhoea has been cured…He picked up the superbug having sex with [an amateur] in South East Asia…It was the first-ever case of the infection being incurable with first choice antibiotics, but now two similar cases have been reported in Australia…The main antibiotic treatment – a combination of azithromycin and ceftriaxone – failed to treat the disease…he has since been [successfully] treated with ertapenem…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#792)
…sex addiction…[is] a vice masquerading as a pathology, an excuse dressed up as an illness. It’s not a condition that is recognised by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM], the bible of the American Psychiatric Association. There are no physical symptoms of withdrawal, as there are with…[actual] addiction…However, [charlatans] in the field speak of a growing sexual addiction “pandemic” that a mixture of shame and misunderstanding has kept hidden. Paula Hall…[claims] the publicity surrounding recent high-profile scandals has been detrimental to an understanding of what she [pretends] is a very real and growing problem…Hall insists the debate about whether or not sex addiction is [real]…misses the point…
Ever notice how people who profit from these scams (the War on Drugs being a good example) never bow out quietly and save face? Nope, they just keep doubling down, so now this neurologically absurd concept is no longer just an epidemic, but a pandemic! You know, like the Black Death.
…the current Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, which prohibits the purchasing of sex, does little to protect sex workers and instead pushes them to work underground and in dangerous conditions; the current prohibition of buying consensual sex…creates a climate that makes sex workers unlikely to work with the police and be involved with more serious crimes; BE IT RESOLVED the Liberal Party of Canada repeal the 2014 Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, begin a consultation period with those in the sex work industry and advocacy groups, and move to decriminalize consensual sex work, and the purchase of said sex work, for those over the age of 18…
If this resolution passes and the Liberals stay in power, this could be a huge step forward for sex worker rights.
Back Issue: April 2015
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on April 27, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Evasive [escort ad] language…[is] part of an elaborate pantomime our society has concocted to pretend that persecution of private sexual behavior can ever be legitimate. – “Time and Companionship Only”
The lists of independent posts for these Back Issue columns are even beginning to look short when I’m in the process of writing them! After the holidays (April Fools’ Day [plus “Look Again“], Easter and May Eve); the guest columnist (Kaytlin Bailey); the fictional interlude (“Surprise“); and the Q&A columns (“Thing of the Past“, “Not With a Ruler“, and “Time and Companionship Only“), the only things left were an article about the ESPLERP case (“Precedent“); the announcement of my leaving Cliterati (“Eating Up Time“); a review of the movie “My Normal“, and a look at the “help” offered to sex workers by Ruhama (“Slim and Nun“).
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
Posted in Call types, Miscellaneous, tagged advertising, sex work is work, United Kingdom on April 26, 2018| 2 Comments »
In a few weeks I’ll be leaving for the UK, where I’ll be spending two lovely weeks with Brooke Magnanti, gallivanting around the island from Inverness to London and many points in between. If you’d like to see me while I’m there email me and I’ll see if I can fit you into my schedule, but in the meantime I’ve got a deal for my US readers. Some of you have probably noticed that whenever I am getting ready for a long trip, I always run a special so I can A) get ahead on my bills & budget, and B) have some extra spending money. And this time is no exception! From today until Sunday May 13th, I’ll give you an extra half-hour when you book an hour-long date and an extra hour when you book a two- or three-hour date. And if you book four hours or more, I’ll only charge you my social rate instead of my full rate! If you look at the math, you’re basically getting a date of any given length for about 2/3 as much as it would normally cost (up to a whole weekend, after which it starts to flatten out). Best of all, dates for which I need to travel are still included as long as you meet my minimum time, and you can claim the special as long as you book and pay by the 13th (even if scheduling requires the actual date to be after I come back to the US). If you’ve been waiting to see me, now’s your chance to do so at what will probably be the best rate I’ll offer this year, so don’t miss out!
In the News (#832)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, brothels, censorship, cops, cult of the child, Devil's Advocate, Disaster, Droit du Seigneur, Elephant in the Parlor, hysteria, Imagination Pinned Down, internet, Kentucky, law, New York, Ohio, Original Sin, politicians, prohibitionist myths, psychology, robots, streetwalkers, tabula rasa, The Proper Study, The Widening Gyre, Twitter, underage on April 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Because our political class believes in myths, not solid evidence, they keep creating policies directed at an imaginary bogeyman, not real criminals. – Jenny Heineman & Brooke Wagner
A Tale That Grew in the Telling
A MILLION!!!!!
La Porte County [Indiana] Prosecutor John Espar [fed ludicrous propaganda to] local residents at First Baptist Church on human trafficking…He [lied that] the rate of sex crimes spiked between 1998 and 2007 with the growing popularity of Internet usage, which gave offenders access to children…to whom they did not have access previously…As many as one million children are exploited for commercial sex annually…children who become victims typically do so between the ages of 12 and 14…“So many of these (sex) workers, even if they’re not realizing it at this point in their lives, are still victims of exploitation”…
Ric Curtis, who headed the Jon Jay study, is still debunking prohibitionist lies:
As they crack down on sex workers and pass outrageous new laws, our politicians and moral crusaders make some bold claims: Hundreds of thousands of children…at an average age of 13…is any of this true?…from 2012 to 2014, we spent nine months walking a [stroll] in Las Vegas…We handed out condoms and other harm-reduction material…The primary investigator, Ric Curtis, designed the study based on his experience collecting data from other “hard to reach” populations…The study had several teams collecting data in major cities across the US that had been dubbed as “hubs of sex trafficking”…after interviewing 949 people across 6 cities…[we found] the assumptions that inform government policy on sex workers are merely myths. And those myths are easily disproved once you bother to get the data, which we did…In our subsample of youth under the age of 18…engaged in survival sex…24%…had a pimp…liberally defined as someone with whom the respondent shared their earnings…one young woman’s experience stood out as representative …Rena, who was 16 at the time of the interview, laughed when we asked if she had a pimp. She tipped her head toward one of her friends. “That’s my pimp,” Rena giggled. She was an 18-year-old woman who helped Rena use the internet to get clients and was herself engaged in survival sex. The two young women pooled their money together to meet their shared living expenses…Rena’s friend could be considered a sex trafficker under the current legal regime…
Though pimps are not common, a disproportionate number of the ones who do exist are cops:
Police are choosing to allow brothels to operate providing they create a safe environment for women, one former detective – now a brothel owner – has told the BBC…Despite it being illegal to operate a brothel in England and Wales – although not illegal to buy and sell sex – Karl says he has no moral qualms about breaking the law because he does not agree with it, and he says he is not exploiting the women who work for him…
New York is way behind cities like Seattle, Phoenix & Houston in promoting the hysteria:
Inside a handsome brick building on a tree-lined street near Brooklyn’s Prospect Park lay one of the city’s dirtiest secrets…two 16-year-old girls were allegedly being kept inside as sex slaves…the teens’ captors forced them to strip to their underwear, pose for Backpage.com ads and have sex with up to 10 johns a day…thousands of sex slaves being trafficked under the noses of New York City residents every day…[vice cop] Jim Klein [said]…“It’s modern-day slavery”…the average victim is…as young as 12…“One guy kept [a girl] in a dog cage because she wasn’t cooperating”…a…14-year-old…was found locked in a closet surrounded by pots of urine…
Welcome back to the 16th century:
Priests attending an annual exorcism conference in Rome are set to discuss whether pornography has a demonic influence. Over 250 priests and theologians as well as criminologists and psychologists from 51 countries have gathered at the week-long Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation conference…attendees will discuss the prevalence of pornography in modern society, and consider if it is a “modern cultural phenomenon of an evil that harms people,” and to what extent it may have what he described as a demonic influence…
Imagination Pinned Down (#551)
Stereotypic conformation in progress:
Jessa Dillow Crisp has spent the better part of the last decade learning who she is…as a child victim of human trafficking. Now, she works to help others who are or have been in the same situation. She is co-founder and executive director of Bridgehope…As a child…in…Canada, Crisp was abused and sold into the sexual human trafficking sector by her family…she would eventually be sold to a circuit operating in the United States…“during the 2010 Winter Olympics, it was…sadistic pain and horrific evil.” Clarksville Police Chief Mark Palmer said that he sees more sex trafficking in the way of consensual sex workers, not forced abusers…during large events like Thunder Over Louisville or the Kentucky Derby…her identity was also stripped away by her abusers, who controlled where she went, what she ate, how she sat, how she talked…Some of the signs are behavioral, like having a…phone, the connection to [a partner]…styles of dress that [busybodies claim] are way beyond their years…
Most professional “survivors” don’t last long; it’ll be interesting to see if this one graduates to including classic elements like brutal clients and being dragged behind a car.
Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster:
…in the United States, Rep. Dan Donovan…introduced legislation to ban [child-shaped sex] dolls, in a bill named Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots, otherwise known as the CREEPER Act…some [actual experts] suggest…dolls could be used to deter the real-life fulfillment of pedophilic urges…[but politicians and other prohibitionists pretend human sexual impulses are learned and can be eliminated via threats of violence] Donovan [claims] “Once a child sex abuser tires of practicing on a doll, it’s a small step to move on to an innocent child…[puritans pretend] these dolls reinforce, normalize, and encourage pedophilic behavior”…
Ken White explains the latest wrinkle in the Stormy Daniels case:
…Conventional wisdom is that federal courts are better for the defense and more likely to enforce arbitration agreements. However, federal judges move faster and abide by deadlines and rules more closely, and are substantially less tolerant of bullshit than state judges. If substantial portions of your defense are premised on bullshit and delay, don’t remove to federal court…the main issue is whether the nondisclosure agreement [is]…enforceable. If [so]…Trump…could conceivably get a gag order against Clifford and get massive damages against her for breaching the confidentiality agreement, and could do so through a private arbitration proceeding instead of in public…
It’s complicated, so you’ll need to read the whole thing.
The US’ latest attempt to silence sex workers…has begun to chill free speech across the internet. A number of websites have had to either shut down or actively distance themselves from the notion that they support sex work. And the problem is only going to get worse as time goes on…It’s not just…adults-only websites and platforms that are now having to crack down on discussions of sex. Microsoft and Google have moved to alter their terms of service…and…not even private discussions are safe…Microsoft…claim[ed] the right to examine your content…[and] Google is purging adult content from private Drive accounts…sex workers are attempting to protect themselves against the bill by building platforms beyond the reach of American authorities….Red Umbrella Hosting…offers judgment-free, anonymous and sex-worker-friendly hosting. Then there is Switter…launched in response to FOSTA-SESTA and Twitter’s alleged shadowbanning practices. In a few short weeks, it has already acquired nearly 23,000 followers…
But it didn’t take long for Switter to feel the government’s boot:
[Last] Wednesday, Cloudflare terminated its content delivery network services for…the weeks-old Switter…Cloudflare has confirmed…that the company terminated service to Switter because of FOSTA, but also said it’s “a very bad law”…When [Switter] organizers…reached out to Cloudflare for explanation, they were met with a vague notice that Switter violated the company’s Terms of Service…Switter moved to a new content delivery network and is still up, but Cloudflare’s decision to terminate service was jarring…Cloudflare, historically, has been a vocal supporter of the open internet…
And here’s a heads up from a confidential source: the sleazebags behind FOSTA are butthurt that everyone sees their tyranny for what it is and they’re preparing for a major PR offensive to convince people that censorship isn’t censorship. The first of it started on Sunday.
Diary #408
Posted in Diary, tagged activism, blogging, California, disability, drugs, Maggie in the Media on April 24, 2018| 4 Comments »
On Tuesday night I had an uneventful flight to Los Angeles and proceeded to have a lovely week with Angela Keaton, as I do every time I visit. On Wednesday evening we went to Norma Jean Almodovar’s house for a screening of Rachel Wotton’s documentary Scarlet Road, and I got to meet Rachel herself! Regular readers may remember that she’s one of my sex work heroines, so I was fangirling very hard when I got there, and you can imagine how I reacted when the first thing out of her mouth was, “Maggie, I’m so happy to meet you at last!” She’s an amazing woman: personable and down-to-earth, a regular whore in addition to being an amazing activist and a deeply empathetic soul. I sincerely hope I get to meet her again soon; she said given that I can freely fly now, I have no excuse not to come visit her in Australia. Perhaps one day I shall! Before we went to meet Rachel I recorded an interview for a Canadian news outlet, then later in the evening Angela and I recorded a podcast with M.K. Lords (content warning: butt stuff and soap). On Thursday I recorded a podcast (out in the next week or so) with Conner Habib, and after we got back to Angela’s from there I did my level best to be sober for as little time as possible before returning to Seattle on Saturday evening. And on the trip home. And after I got home. And the next day. Because hey, I work hard, and now that I’ve learned to refer to inebriation as “self-care” I can even do it without feeling guilty.
Small Words
Posted in Fiction, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged cops, fascism, Hooker Humor, imaginative fiction, left-right myth, nanny state, politicians, psychology, Twitter on April 23, 2018| 3 Comments »
No matter how many times I explain it, police-state defenders keep popping up in my timeline to defend prohibition, cops and state violence. So I thought that perhaps my language was too complex for them; however, I have trouble with simple language, so I decided to enlist the help of the late, great Theodore Geisel to rephrase my feelings on the matter.
Cops are glam
I’m a fan!
Police-state fans!
Police-state fans!
I do not like police-state fans!
Don’t you like the smell of ham?
I do not like it, Fan-I-am.
I do not like those thugs of ham.
Would you like them here or there?
I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.
Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans!
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.
Would you like them in a box?
Would you like them with a fox?
Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.
Would you? Could you? In their car?
Lick their nice boots! Here they are.
I would not, could not, in a car.
You may like them. You will see.
You may like them in a tree!
I would not, could not in a tree.
Not in a car! You let me be.
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.
A camp-bound train!
A camp-bound train!
Could you, would you, on a train?
Not in a train! Not in a tree!
Not in a car! Fan! Let me be!
I would not, could not, in a box.
I could not, would not, with a fox.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.
Say! In the dark?
In a cell so dark?
Would you, could you, in the dark?
I would not, could not, in the dark.
Would you, could you, in the rain?
I would not, could not, in the rain.
Not in the dark. Not on a train.
Not in a car. Not in a tree.
I do not like them, Fan, you see.
Not in a house. Not in a box.
Not with a mouse. Not with a fox.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
You do not like men made of ham?
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
I would not, could not, with a goat!
Would you, could you, on a boat?
I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with a goat.
I do not like them in the rain.
I do not like them on a train.
Not in the dark! Not in a tree!
Not in a car! You let me be!
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
I do not like police-state fans!
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.
You do not like them. So you say.
But I will hound you anyway.
I will not respect your “nay”.
Fan! Since you won’t let me be,
I will mute you. You will see.
I do not like states, threats and ham!
I do not like their spineless fans!
I still avoid them in a boat.
I still avoid them with a goat…
And I still hate them in the rain.
And in the dark. And on a train.
And in a car. And in a tree.
They are so bad, so bad, you see!
So I will mute them in a box.
And I will mute them with a fox.
And I will mute them in a house.
And I will mute them with a mouse.
And I will mute them here and there.
Yep, I will mute them anywhere!
I always mute police-state fans!
Fuck you! Fuck you, Fan-I-am!
Links #407
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged cops, Ecuador, France, Michigan, surveillance, United Kingdom, Utah, video on April 22, 2018| 3 Comments »
Any reasonable person would have realized that it was highly unlikely that the content of the Book was true. – Alex Malarkey
Three hot chicks playing Metallica on the bagpipes. ‘Nuff said. The links above it were provided by Tushy Galore, Tim Cushing, Clarissa, Radley Balko, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and Tim Cushing again, in that order.
- To protect and serve.
- Much more of this, please.
- There’s no justice in the universe.
- Cops murder man for obeying them.
- Pleasant dreams, kiddies. Love, Snake Mama.
- They tell him he was born there, but he really can’t remember.
From the Archives
- The rescue industry is full of opportunities for the wealthy to play cowboy.
- What a large-scale, organized forced prostitution scheme really looks like.
- Ghanaian sex work articles can be just as weirdly stupid as Nigerian ones.
- Prohibitionists now claim Backpage was “barred” from publishing sex ads.
- Small cities insist they’re infested with bogeymen and imaginary victims.
- Less human rights lawyer and more Hollywood propagandist these days.
- Massage parlors are targeted by cops because they’re low-hanging fruit.
- The UK/US competition to destroy civil liberties using “sex trafficking”.
- Cops, cats, fascism, pinball, your brain on drug policy and much more.
- Cops empowered to diagnose us as “victims” no matter what we think.
- Defining adults as children makes it much easier to create bogus stats.
- Swedish model’s xenophobia shows in rhetoric rationalizing its failure.
- The bond between close friends is stronger than almost anything else.
- Trying to stop an omnipresent voluntary activity older than humanity.
- “Authorities” rape toddlers if shamans declare their parents unclean.
- Has this histrionic now made a rotting moral panic her whole career?
- Puritans hate women who are comfortable paying our rent with sex.
- Harassing streetwalkers has become a popular “Christian” pastime.
- There weren’t any actual victims, but we just have to cage people.
- Misinterpreting ordinary interactions is common in a moral panic.
- “Rescuers” swoop in to “regulate” women’s jobs out of existence.
- Prince, cops, authoritarianism, sea monkeys, art & much more.
- “Sex trafficking” is an especially good excuse for money grabs.
- Tara Burns, still doggedly fighting for sex workers in Alaska.
- Arizona wants hospitals to rat sex workers out to the pigs.
- Another Potemkin village designed to please the ignorant.
- A disabled Australian couple gets help from a sex worker.
- Men: pay your whores! Ladies: get the money up front!
- Cleveland tries to paper over an atrocity with a “policy”.
- US courts declare taboo pictures worse than child rape.
- It’s no longer safe for men to travel with their children.
- Mostly just ignorant cheerleading for a do-nothing law.
- The Libertarian Republic is Republican, not libertarian.
- Politician wants to prosecute crimes in civil court.
- How to share the restroom with a trans person.
- The more lawsuits against the cops, the better.
- Bollywood figures support sex worker rights.
- The larger implications of anti-sex toy laws.
- An excellent essay on the Tracy Elise case.
- A sex worker is arrested for placing an ad.
- I’d really like to be wrong once in a while.
- May Aphrodite grant that I learn to relax.
- Farm machinery causes “sex trafficking”!
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- A snazzy T-shirt to support sex workers.
- Yet another murdered trans sex worker.
- I just love watching them eat their own.
- A special edition of Ladies of the Night.
- My last visit to my ranch in Oklahoma.
- On the recrudescence of Puritanism.
- A weekend with Chester Brown.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Go, Stephanie Farnsworth!
- Color me unsurprised.
In the News (#831)
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The latest government attacks on online platforms used by sex workers are directly undermining [their] safety, health, and human rights. – David Grosso
Will gullible reporters ever stop publishing Ashley Madison ads for free?
A [slight] majority of America’s cheaters identify as Republicans, according to…Ashley Madison…The site surveyed nearly 1,000 users on their political affiliations…60 percent of those surveyed said they identify as Republicans, while nearly 40 percent said they affiliate with the Democratic Party…a vast majority (89 percent) of those surveyed said “opposing political views” would compel them to cheat on their spouse, while 55 percent said they’d prefer to cheat with a Republican-identifying voter…
“Legalization” of sex work always features weird, arbitrary laws written by obsessive bureaucrats:
Sex workers are complaining that their work is being hamstrung by ludicrous laws in Queensland that police what they can and cannot say to potential clients…advertising regulations…go into an almost perverse level of detail. Phrases sex workers could get arrested for using in ads includes seemingly innocuous terms such as “natural,” “tasty,” “kissable” and “sweet nectar”…stating they offer oral sex is prohibited, but oddly, saying they specifically do not offer oral sex is just fine…guidelines…also lists words that are fine to use including “magic hands,” “dominatrix,” and “man action”…
…California…massage therapists are dogged by a big problem: criminals using massage as a front for sex crimes. This situation isn’t unique to California. However, a new [fascist] partnership between [cops] and the entity that administers voluntary massage certification is a novel weapon in the fight against [sex workers]…CAMTC…[claims he right to define] what constitutes legitimate massage therapy services…and…has…created a Sexually Suggestive Advertising Task Force as a tool to weed out criminals posing as massage therapists…police agencies throughout the state are especially [sexually obsessed] with sex traffickers using the massage industry as a cover…
Because obviously pigs still don’t have enough excuses to cage people yet:
The [Louisiana] Senate has approved a bill designed to make it clear that bestiality is illegal…A law on the books prohibits “crimes against nature,” but it also outlaws so-called sodomy and was ruled unconstitutional in 2003…Senator JP Morrell says it’s important that the state has a way to arrest someone for having sex with animals. He told fellow lawmakers, “God forbid you vote against this bill, good luck explaining it.” Ten senators did vote against it…
The Backpage shut down…has…prompted fear of where prostitutes and pimps will look to advertise their services…Utah Attorney General’s Office Assistant Chief Nate Mutter [said]…“The demand is going to be there, what this will do is slow the supply side down a bit…My guess is a lot of advertisement from Backpage will find its way to more applications…People need to be aware of that they can accidentally find themselves being involved in trafficking.” Mutter says sex traffickers are manipulative and may try and extort online dating app users…
Look out, dating app users, someone may offer you quality sex at a set price! THE HORROR!!!!
Another state requires anti-whore indoctrination for licensing:
A new law passed by the Colorado legislature will require applicants for commercial drivers licenses…to go through indoctrination] on how to spot signs of human traffickers and their victims…Truckers Against Trafficking has fully supported the bill…
Grosso has consistently pursued this course for three years now:
D.C. Council member David Grosso…issued a statement…calling on District Police Chief Peter Newsham and U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu to temporarily suspend arrests and prosecutions of sex workers…Grosso said his request was based on concerns raised by sex worker advocacy groups that the recent forced shutdown of websites that allowed sex workers to operate with a “greater degree of safety than on the streets” has placed them in danger of violence and arrest…
[Toronto] has launched an investigation into the conduct of some of its bylaw officers in relation to [reports] from women working in…body rub parlors…Kristyn Wong-Tam said…women working at the parlours…felt they are being racially targeted…“They felt that having an officer come in three to four times a week…was rather punitive…It was very disruptive to their business”…the women were forced to sing for the officer’s entertainment, told to stand as a form of punishment and barred from using the bathroom during an inspection…
Prohibitionists call this “rescue”:
Two…sex workers… died after falling from the third floor of a building while trying to escape a police raid in…Mumbai…by climbing down…with the help of a rope…while climbing down, they slipped and fell…
It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized:
…prostitutes operating in…Bulawayo [Zimbabwe]…have expressed dismay over the abuse they endure at the hands of [cops] who continuously arrest them and demand sex in return for their freedom. Some…make the demands daily and sometimes more than once in a single night…The prostitutes…[are] threatened with arrest and to avoid the inconvenience would [allow themselves to be raped]…to avoid sleeping in the cells and losing business. The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in May 2015 outlawed the arrest of prostitutes on charges of loitering “for purposes of prostitution”…
Some activists believe that FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation on the part of the government; even the Christian-leaning American Conservative sees it as a bad idea:
…The language of FOSTA is both vague and extremely expansive. It prohibits website owners from “promoting or facilitating prostitution”. That can obviously be subjected to wide interpretation, and the penalty for violating the new law is up to 10 years in prison. Hence, multiple websites are erring on the side of self-censorship…Amending Section 230 is a terrible precedent and a slippery slope towards government regulation of the Internet and censorship…several privacy and personal freedom organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have criticized the expansive nature of the bill, worried that it could ultimately affect web content unrelated to prostitution…
The deeply-confused Rolling Stone published an article by our own Siouxsie Q:
The debilitating shock, sadness and panic that is moving through the sex-working community right now is palpable…Still, the community is rallying as hard as we are grieving, organizing in an unprecedented push to let the voices of those who will be affected by these pieces of legislation be heard. Survivors, allies, and sex workers from all over the country flooded the congressional phone lines last month…The #LetUsSurvive and #SurvivorsAgainstSesta social media campaign has garnered over 5 million impressions and even mainstream celebrities have started speaking up and standing with sex workers and survivors…
Millions of sex workers can thank Carl Ferrer for selling them out to save his own skin:
Backpage…CEO Carl Ferrer has entered a guilty plea…[saying] he knew that the “escort” section of Backpage was largely ads for prostitution…Court documents in the cases against Ferrer and Backpage don’t reveal any damning new information about the company, nor any new discoveries that allowed authorities to make their case…But this time, Ferrer decided to break from his colleagues and play ball with the state rather than fight. In exchange for the plea deal, he’ll provide information on the Travel Act and money-laundering cases against his colleagues…Money-laundering may sound sinister…but it’s one of those charges (like conspiracy) that our nation’s cops and courts often abuse. In this case, Backpage originally accepted payments for its…ads…via typical digital payment mediums…But thanks to hounding and intimidation by various government entities, Backpage was forced to stop accepting all those payment methods….and…to encourage people to use cryptocurrency for payments. The company also created intermediary companies to handle payments, so that the transactions wouldn’t raise alarms with risk-paranoid bankers and financial processors. Ultimately, the money-laundering that…Ferrer admitted wasn’t about shielding assets in offshore tax havens or otherwise hiding the company’s profits from government tax collectors…without subsidiaries and crypto, Backpage had no way to accept payment for…ads…
It’s dangerous to be a woman who knows the sexual secrets of powerful men:
[Thai] police have filed new charges against…a woman who claims to have evidence of Russian ties to U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign…Anastasia Vashukevich, also known as Nastya Rybka, has attracted widespread attention for claiming to have recordings of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a crony of President Vladimir Putin, discussing interference in the U.S. election. She is being held in an immigration detention center and has pleaded not to be expelled to Russia….[she was] arrested with eight others for holding a sex training course…
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