As you may have already guessed from this picture, my chickens have begun to lay! And not just a few measly pullet eggs, oh no; they all seem to have started laying simultaneously and at full adult rate! Nor are the eggs all tiny; though some are small, others are normal-sized and one of them is consistently laying big double-yolk eggs! Those are noticeably larger, which is how I managed to get two of them into my skillet at the same time; for those interested in such things, these went onto a nice piece of sourdough bread, topped with two slices of cheese, two strips of crispy bacon and another slice of bread. Such are the simple, homely meals I prepare for myself when I’m alone; they make a nice contrast to restaurant meals I share with friends or clients. I’m learning to enjoy my time alone much more than I did in the past; I’ve even managed to figure out a work schedule that neither overwhelms me nor triggers my inner nun to start shaking a ruler at me and calling me a “lazy creature”. But anyway, back to Sunset: the new (smaller & more fuel efficient) pickup Grace put together is out of the shop & ready to run, and I bought a new chainsaw & brush cutter so Chekhov can extend the animal fence to take in a dense brush patch on the east side of my property. By the time you read this Grace should be digging new French drains in preparation for repairing the floor, and soon we’ll be opening up another protected chicken yard. And this autumn, I’ll have some lovely pictures of fresh apples from my trees.
Archive for July, 2018
Diary #422
Posted in Diary, tagged animals, blogging, psychology, recipes on July 31, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Back Issue: July 2015
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on July 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while someone does something so clearly wrong, so obviously rude and so predictably off-putting that one has to wonder if he might not have been under the influence of some potent psychoactive drug at the time. – “Too Many Cooks”
It’s strange to think that as of this month, the “back issue” feature has gone on for two years longer than the blog had existed when the feature started; it’s even stranger to realize that before much longer I plan to start a feature looking back ten years! This one will also need to change before it shrinks out of sight; once the holidays (“My Police State, ‘Tis of Thee” for July 4th, “Fifth Anniversary“, and “Saint Mary Magdalene“); the guest columnist (Hawk Kinkaid); the fictional interlude (“Willpower“); and the Q&A columns (“Mixed Signals“, “New Girl in Town“, “Dating Game“, and “A Friend in Need“) are set aside, the only columns left to describe are “Seizing Power” (a megalomaniacal local US politician interferes with sex workers all over the globe); “Too Many Cooks” (my reaction to “helpful suggestions to improve” my blog); “Fit To Print” (a gossip rag outs a client without reason or solid evidence); “Caution to the Winds” (I start escorting under my famous name); and “If You Want Something Done Right…” (a brave sex worker shoots a serial killer).
Links #421
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged California, cops, Georgia, neofeminism, Never Call the Cops, Pennsylvania, racism, Texas, video on July 29, 2018| 4 Comments »
The second male was located under the rear of the bulldozer deceased. – David Beohm
Two weeks ago I featured a video whose subject reminded me of Donald Trump, and now I’m going to do it again with this Jim Croce song about a man who is basically what Trump might be like if he had been born poor. Some of my younger readers may be unfamiliar with the brilliant Croce, whose career and life were cut short by a plane crash in central Louisiana on September 20th, 1973, only about two months after this video was made (Maury Muehleisen, accompanying Croce in this video, was also killed). The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Marc Randazza, Tim Cushing, Mistress Matisse, Dave Krueger, Radley Balko, and Dave Krueger again, in that order.
- To protect and serve.
- Doing yoga while black.
- STOP CALLING THE FUCKING COPS!
- This is what a male feminist looks like.
- Brave hero threatens to murder young children.
- “Crime”: traffic ticket. Penalty: robbed and deported.
- “Crime”: horticulture. Penalty: summary execution by bulldozer.
From the Archives
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- Whatever a sex worker does later, they’ll always be a whore to the media.
- The “big events” that supposedly attract “sex trafficking” grow ever sillier.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Campaigns against sex work are part of a war against all sexual behavior.
- I wonder if any of them recognize how pathetic their denials sound to us?
- Soi-disant ally thinks we’re childlike morons in need of licensed handlers.
- In case you thought cops raping whores to arrest us was just a US thing.
- Even for the prohibitionist New York Times, this is pretty jaw-dropping.
- Critical thinking skills are not a prerequisite for passing medical school.
- This is obvious to whores, but it’s nice to see academics discovering it.
- The fanatically-prohibitionist Seattle Times again revisits the TRB raid.
- Every little bit helps to undermine the “sin and degradation” narrative.
- Calling a prison “Freedom Place” is as Orwellian as one could imagine.
- A thorough debunking of “sex trafficking” hysteria by Brittany Turner.
- Only another month or so before the “creepy clown” hysteria returns!
- Government uses especially nasty crimes to undermine liberty for all.
- Even among “sex trafficking” publicity stunts, this is painfully stupid.
- Note this was accomplished by the usual whorearchical line-drawing.
- Another amateur profiting from sex workers while giving us nothing.
- Remember this when you hear pigs oinking about arresting “pimps”.
- A live-action version of that moronic “escape the pimp” video game.
- Another dumb, sensationalized article, now with added whorearchy.
- Pro-censorship morons are still trying to destroy the entire internet.
- People need to be frequently reminded of what Ruhama actually is.
- Picket-fence gays have become an active threat to sexual freedom.
- Batman, Sesame Street, socialism, cops, “rescue” and much more.
- Why don’t actresses who play sex workers actually learn about us?
- More mainstream media are debunking “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- This is pretty typical of the level of “evidence” in sex work trials.
- Cops, Skynet, maps, rogue planets, June Foray and much more.
- Note how closely this resembles “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- It’s impossible to overstate how important this reversal is.
- How “authorities” intentionally spread diseases in prisons.
- Judge orders jury to find an “authority” not guilty of rape.
- The answer is, “Because it doesn’t actually exist as such”.
- One wonders if this loon asks her vibrator for its consent.
- A retrospective of my columns from July 2013 and 2014.
- Naturally, Cassandra McNeill was saying this years ago.
- Don’t try to get freebies from sex workers. Seriously.
- Another creepy cop entrapment & surveillance game.
- No doubt caused by the presence of corn and I-35.
- I’m rather skeptical of the claimed disparity here.
- No cops. No cages. No shaming or brainwashing.
- I gave an interview to Dr. Heather Branstetter.
- A rebuttal to Madison Graham’s guest column.
- More on EMPOWER’s sex work museum.
- Lorelei, Ghost Rider and I visit Ireland.
- China aspires to be more like the US.
- Don’t say I didn’t tell you before.
- Fault Lines interviews me.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- A short trip to Portland.
In the News (#858)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, activism, Against Their Will, agency denial, asset seizure, Between the Ears, bogus studies, Canada, censorship, cops, Counterfeit Comfort, Dirty Amateurs, disability, Disaster, disease, drugs, Eavesdropping, Europe, Florida, France, Held Together With Lies, India, Kenya, language, law, Legalization a Good Idea?, Michigan, Monsters, Nigeria, Profound Mental Disabilities, propaganda, racism, Rhinoceros, Rooted in Racism, sex toys, stripping, surveillance, Texas, That Old Black Magic, transgender, Under Every Bed, violence vs. sex workers, yellow journalism on July 28, 2018| 2 Comments »
What is trafficking, anyway? – Kanchan, an Indian sex worker
What kind of “rescuers” lock the “victims” they “rescue” in a cage?
Police in Kenya rescued 21 young Nepalese women during a raid on two strip clubs in…Nairobi…”the…girls…had been trafficked to Kenya for exploitation,” [pigs] wrote on…Twitter…Images of the operation…showed three young women dressed in brightly coloured blouses hiding their faces as they were [dragged] away…”We are holding the 21 girls and three other local suspects. We are probing their links to international human trafficking rings”…
Another effect of France’s jihad against sex workers: “French health authorities are warning the general public to use protection and get tested after their latest findings suggest chlamydia and gonorrhoea cases in the country tripled between 2012 and 2016…” Pay close attention to the timing. When “authorities” increase persecution of sex workers and clients, men are more afraid to buy sex from competent professionals, and instead turn to careless, filthy amateurs; this is the result.
We certainly can’t have those dirty pedos helping each other to stay off the “sex offender” registry:
…the online “virtuous pedophile” community…[is] a network of both adults and youth who are attracted to children but are committed to never, ever acting on those attractions. They are pedophiles, but they aren’t child molesters…there are few outlets for…non-offending pedophiles to find support. In the U.S., therapists are obligated to [rat out] their clients to authorities if they think there is a chance the client will abuse a child…just disclosing the attraction can be a risk…online [communities are] one of the few places pedophiles can anonymously discuss their problems. These forums aren’t places to trade kiddie porn or solicit sex (there are strict rules against this); they are places where pedophiles can talk honestly about how to deal with their attractions and exist in a society that views them as subhuman. But…[their] message boards and forums have been targeted and shut down by hackers, and [last] week, an online community…with over 400 members was shut down by Discord, the company that hosted their server…”for violations of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines”…
Yellow journalists assist cops to protect and serve crime victims:
A transgender woman was found dead [on July 19th] at an Orlando apartment complex…her body…had signs of trauma…Sasha Garden…was a sex worker…many in the community are worried after Garden’s death and the murders of three transgender woman in Jacksonville this year…[local activist] Montrese Williams says Orange County deputies came to her house around 7:30 a.m. for her help identifying Garden…”As soon as I opened the door, I get, ‘I hear a bunch of transvestites stay here.’ I had to let them know, I’m a transgender woman and I’m the only one that stays here”…Despite Montrese Williams telling deputies that Sasha Garden was a trans woman, in the official report they described her as a 27-year-old man from Jacksonville, who “was wearing a wig and was dressed as a female.” Naturally…Orlando television stations followed suit with headlines that described her with phrases like a “man in a wig” (WESH) or a “man dressed as a woman” (WFTV)…
Profound Mental Disabilities (#512)
Another case of the state using sex work as “evidence” of mental disability:
London [Ontario] police [claimed a 20-year-old woman called “C.S.”] was imprisoned by a human trafficker, and forced into selling sex…Amy Dykes…was charged in July 2015…But…Superior Court Justice Alissa Mitchell acquitted the accused woman on all charges. Her ruling speaks to the [state’s desire to deny the power of]…consent…[to] disabled adults…[and the] danger…[of the] narrative about…rescuing sex workers…The Crown alleged that Dykes forced C.S. into prostitution and controlled her with threats and by taking her disability payments, cell phone and bank card…[cops discovered] C.S. [in an “Operation Northern Spotlight” sting and pretended]…that C.S…was not fully aware of her situation…But [another cop]…had taken a different view of C.S., when he’d met her a month earlier…Although C.S. seemed naive, she showed a level of independence by…using her own debit card in front of him, and spoke well of [Dykes]…Other testimony and evidence showed C.S. could look after herself, bought her children toys and clothes, maintained a bank account, paid her share of the rent, cooked, maintained a cell phone, and kept up with friends on Facebook and texts and in person. C.S. has…[the] intelligence…of a child aged eight to 11, but is not a child in terms of life experience and accomplishments…“There is no evidence to support a finding that [C.S.] was incapable of providing her voluntary agreement to work as a prostitute…C.S. was adamant (with the [sting pigs]) that she had no interest in being rescued. Their discussion was lengthy and…C.S. remained steadfast…[until the cops’ continuing pressure caused her to] fear…she might find herself in trouble with the law if she did not agree she was the victim,” Mitchell said…
COAST isn’t mentioned here, but this is the same sort of insulting, patronizing bullshit they peddle, pretending that pigs, bureaucrats and other busybodies know more about our profession than we do:
Shane Harrington…wants his employees to know what to watch for to make sure his clubs aren’t the target of traffickers. “If there’s an entertainer who’s like [“I have bills”]…that’s a sign,” Stephanie Olson said. Olson, the CEO of the “Set Me Free” project, is against sex…Her passion drove her to share her [propaganda]…So, she teamed up with Club Omaha to [indoctrinate] employees…Harrington, the nude dance club operator, said his club gets a bad rap and part of this [indoctrin]ation is to [virtue signal]…
Held Together With Lies (#648)
Looks like “Walk Free Foundation” got tired of its old wanking fantasy, so they inflated it:
[Propaganda] on modern slavery around the world [now claims] that the number of slaves in developed nations…is much higher than previously [pretended]. The Global Slavery Index is published annually by the Walk Free Foundation…In its new report, Walk Free Foundation is still using the 40.3 million figure, but says that [inflation of] its [fantasy] mean it [now pretends] country-level figures [are higher] than ever before: it now [claims] that in the United States 403,000 people — or 1 in every 800 — are living in modern slavery, seven-times higher than it previously believed. In the UK, it [claims] there are 136,000 slaves, almost 12-times higher than previous figures. The numbers contrast with UK government’s [already-inflated] estimate that there were between 10,000 and 13,000 potential victims of modern slavery in the UK in 2013. There is no equivalent government figure for the US…Walk Free Foundation [claims] the reason for the dramatic increases in its slavery estimates for some countries is that the latest report uses far more data sources than previously…
Click on the subtitle link to see how “Walk Free” comes up with these ridiculous “slavery” numbers.
The quaint non-“law enforcement” term for this is “blackmail”:
Under Michigan law, Stephen Nichols was supposed to get a “prompt” court hearing to challenge the forfeiture of his car, which police…[stole] in 2015 because he was driving it without valid insurance…Nichols still hasn’t had his day in court…[he] and two other plaintiffs filed a federal class-action lawsuit…[because] Wayne County police and prosecutors seize residents’ property and force them to wait months, sometimes years, for a hearing…the delays violate the 14th Amendment right to due process. In addition, Wayne County prosecutors offer to settle cases out of court for $900, leaving owners to choose between getting their vehicle back quickly…or shelling out even more money for a lawyer and waiting months to get their means of transportation back…The two other named plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Adam and Ryan Chappell, are a father and son…the younger Chappell was borrowing his dad’s car one day in July 2016 when Wayne County sheriff’s deputies saw him pull into a medical marijuana dispensary in Detroit. The cops pulled him over as he left and [stole] the car. No [legal medical] marijuana was recovered from the car, and no criminal charges were filed in the case…Chappell’s car was one of hundreds [stolen] by the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office for visiting a [perfectly legal business]…
Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you:
…Lovense [sex] toys can already be controlled remotely using an app, but now Alexa voice commands will activate them too…anyone with a Lovense toy and the Lovense Remote app will be able to simply update the app to use the feature…Asking [Alexa] to make you “smile” will result in a less powerful buzz than asking to “moan,” or even “scream”…Alexa will also be able to sync your toy to a Spotify account, making it buzz along to the music…
Think I’m paranoid? Check the subtitle; Lovense has already been caught doing it.
“Repatriation” is the fashionable euphemism for “deportation”:
What to do about illegal migration from Africa into Europe? The EU’s repatriation programme seems at first like a great idea [to racists who don’t want black people in Europe]…we persuade them [at gunpoint] to go back home and help them to remake their lives there. The EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa has coughed up £125 million for the scheme and about 25,000 migrants have already taken part, most heading home to west and central Africa…60 per cent of all illegal Nigerian migrants to Europe [travel by way of Benin]…in the 1980s, a group of local women went as guest workers to Italy, and came back to their hometown rich after becoming prostitutes. Word spread of their success, and so people-smuggling networks were set up that thrive to this day…The city now has a huge red-light district with many families knowingly sending their daughters into prostitution abroad. Malign local juju cults have been revived by the smuggling gangs, who make their clients undergo secret rituals of obedience. The most feared deity, a vengeful slave goddess called Ayelala, is now nicknamed “the patron saint of sex traffickers“…For all the opportunities on offer, what the [deported] migrants mostly felt was a sense of failure. The people smugglers’ ticket had often cost their family its life savings. Returning meant all that effort and money had been wasted…
Though the reporter clearly understands that these people are migrating of their own free will to make a better life for themselves, he still can’t resist the urge to demonize their religion and infantilize them by pretending they are passive objects to be “trafficked”. Follow the links for previous examples of the same bigotry.
For Those Who Think Legalization is a Good Idea (#846)
Sex worker rights activists are fighting India’s terrible new “anti-trafficking” bill:
A number of social workers, sex workers, lawyers, child rights and trans rights activists have…spoken out against the anti-trafficking bill…drafted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development…if enacted [it] will further marginalise vulnerable communities…activists…met [with the Minister] to discuss a petition…containing comments from 30 civil society organisations and 247 activists and lawyers, and endorsed by over 4,000 sex workers across the country …The bill conforms to a rescue-rehabilitation approach and…adult sex worker…rights would be completely negated if it is enacted…The bill…asserts that “the consent of the victim is immaterial in the determination of the offence of trafficking”…
Notice how tired and perfunctory “sex trafficking is EVERYWHERE!” articles are beginning to sound?
…Central Texas…is a focus for human trafficking because of its proximity to the southern border, Interstate 35 and its strong demand for labor, UnBound Director Susan Peters said. UnBound…It has recently worked with the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office on several trafficking cases, including at local massage parlors where [cops pretend] women were…forced to offer sex acts for money…
I’ve never seen anything galvanize public support for sex workers like FOSTA has:
…women and advocates…speaking on Native America Calling, a live call-in program dedicated to issues specific to Native communities, charged that the so-called FOSTA-SESTA legislation has made life more…dangerous…for sex workers—and has left Native American women especially vulnerable…Becki Jones, a sexual health educator for Planned Parenthood…and a member of the Diné tribe…said…FOSTA-SESTA’s restrictions on commercial sex sites effectively removed sex workers ability to “screen for particular clients that might be super violent.” By shutting down what amounted to protective online resources for sex workers, the measures in effect closed off a source of networking and mutual aid…sex work deserves legal protection and must be de-stigmatized…
Damned Lies
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Backpage, censorship, Damned Lies, hysteria, law, propaganda, video on July 27, 2018| 5 Comments »
FOSTA is so universally despised, Congress took the unprecedented and bizarre step of making a propaganda video to support it:
Mike Masnick of Techdirt has already gone off on this video, but I was especially appalled at the incredible assertion that “FOSTA has shut down 90% of ‘sex trafficking’ on the internet”. If you’re wondering what bogus study that figure came from, permit me to explain: It was made up, just like all “sex trafficking” numbers. I know that may sound glib, but it’s the truth; in eight years of studying this, I’ve found the majority of the numbers used by prohibitionists are literally just invented out of thin air. To start with, “sex trafficking” doesn’t mean any specific thing; “authorities” use it to mean any of several dozen things, from irregular border crossing to ordinary sex work. Then even if you’re talking about a specific crime, how would such figures be determined? The only way we get figures for any “crime” is by either convictions or filed complaints. But this supposed “crime” is claimed to be secret, so…where would “authorities” find the figures? And even if they did, such reports take time to compile; they don’t just spring into being from the head of the FBI director like some warped Athena. Notice that actual crime figures always refer to the calendar last year, or even further back; they can’t be determined in real time. Therefore, this is a blatant & egregious lie, not even an exaggeration or distortion. The only “source” for this I can even imagine is the oft-repeated claim that Backpage was responsible for some huge (indeterminate and ever-changing) fraction of “online sex trafficking”; if we accepted that this lie was actually true, and the claimed number had been 90% (which I’m sure has been the claimed figure somewhere), then it might follow some kind of warped logic. The only problem with that notion is that FOSTA wasn’t used to shut down Backpage; that happened days before FOSTA was signed, and the charges are just the typical “money laundering” and other BS federal charges. No FOSTA charges were made. So I repeat: the number is simply a lie without even the most tenuous basis in reality, previously-released propaganda or public fantasy. It’s just a damned lie.
Turning Tricks
Posted in Perception, Q & A, Words, tagged France, language, prohibitionist myths on July 26, 2018| 10 Comments »
Savannah Sly asked me his question on Twitter, and I replied that I think it’s most likely from cards. In card games like rummy, a “trick” is one hand, and to “win the trick” or “turn the trick” is to win that single hand, though not necessarily the whole game. So I strongly suspect “to turn a trick” is closely related to the general “that did the trick”, meaning “that thing just accomplished what I was trying to do in the moment”. Turning a “trick” in sex work, getting one gig, is like winning one hand in a very long game of cards.
After I’d given this answer, a reader chimed in with this link wherein a non-whore attempts to trace the origin to the French triquer, due to a slang usage meaning “to fuck in a bestial fashion”. My sense is that this is a false cognate; it’s not unusual for languages to have words which resemble those in other languages, but have nothing to do with them either etymologically or semantically. For example, the German word gift means “poison”, but the French poisson means “fish”. The thread following the original attempt at derivation is quite interesting in that it’s made up of a bunch of men trying to trace the meaning of a word used by women to the client side of the equation, when obviously that’s silly. I’m often fascinated by amateurs’ attempts to explain the demimonde when they know nothing about it, as exemplified by the one dude who attempts to derive it from 19th century criminal slang by claiming that street whores working with robbers was once “common”; of course it was nothing of the kind, as reflected in the fact that there are a number of historical slang terms for such women to differentiate them from honest whores. Obviously, even professional lexicographers cannot be certain of the derivation of a word, but given the origin of the term in the US of the early 20th century, I think my hypothesis a much stronger one than either the “French” or “criminal” hypotheses.
(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 (#857)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged All-Purpose Excuse, Australia, Canada, censorship, dehumanization, Disaster, Elephant in the Parlor, Good News-Bad News, halfway whores, hysteria, illegal aliens, law, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, neofeminism, New Zealand, pimps, politicians, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, shame, slavery, Spain, surveillance, Swedish model, The Face of Trafficking, The Real World, The Sky is Falling!, Theatrics, underage, Washington (state), Watershed on July 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »
It is not possible to support individuals and also call for the abolition of their profession. – WAVAW Board
Even by prohibitionist standards, this is hilariously hysterical:
“Sugar daddy” dating sites such as Seeking Arrangement…are aggressively targeting college students — with free premium memberships for signing up under an .edu email plus plenty of assurances that being a “sugar baby” is safe, empowering and profitable. But sugar babies typically do not, in fact, have control over these relationships, which often turn dangerous and exploitative, [pearl-clutchers whined]…at a “World Without Exploitation Youth Summit” held in Downtown Brooklyn for high school and college students…“Sugaring” almost always involves a coercive exchange of money for sex, the [pearl-clutchers moaned]…even if the coercion is subtle and regardless of the dating website’s promises of “pampering,” “mentoring” and “networking”…“There’s an expectation that the buyer or the sugar daddy can do whatever he wants, so very often we hear there’s extraordinary violence when the door gets shut,” adds Lauren Hersh, national director of World Without Exploitation, a [prohibitionist] group…
This is your regular reminder that Lauren Hersh is a former prosecutor who was forced to resign in disgrace after she was caught trying to railroad two innocent black men for rape.
For those who think I’m wrong about sex worker rights having passed the watershed:
As a [rape crisis centre] we always say that systems and perpetrators of violence need to be held accountable. This is no different when we have enacted harm ourselves…We have taken actions that have caused harm to sex workers, and it is important that we take responsibility for those actions. In 2008, we produced a position paper on sex work titled “Stepping out of the Binary”. The paper framed the sex work industry as inherently violent and oppressive…and…conflated sex work with trafficking and exploitation…Our [excuse] was that we critiqued and challenged the sex work industry as a whole, but would not turn away individual sex workers who wanted to access our services. This position is inherently flawed. It is not possible to support individuals and also call for the abolition of their profession…We support sex work. We support the rights of sex workers. We believe sex workers should have access to the services they need, when they need them…
Though this subtitle is now used for prohibitionist publicity stunts, the original covered this:
…dozens of female workers in Spain’s Huelva region, most of them Moroccan…reported having been harassed, raped, blackmailed, physically assaulted or insulted by their superiors…
Australian prohibitionists are just as vile as those in the US & UK:
Prostitution legislation is currently being discussed in the Northern Territory…Prostitution affects everyone because…[the private acts of individual women magically inflict] violence against [other] women…Australia’s acceptance of [civil liberties] is becoming embarrassing internationally, as progressive countries move towards [authoritarian regulation]…of [the bodies and lives of] all women. When it is acceptable for women to [make their own choices]…every woman is devalued [to the state]. The availability of women’s [sexual services for free] creates a sense of entitlement in too many men which inevitably plays out in their day to day interactions with women…
Only in the warped prohibitionist mind could reducing women to mere parts of a collective entity and demanding government control over people’s private lives be characterized as “human dignity”.
The Face of Trafficking (#646) 
One of New Zealand’s most sickening criminal cases, just the third conviction for slave trading in the country’s legal history, can now be revealed. A mother of a teenage daughter has been jailed for six years and 11 months [for pimp]ing her daughter…some 1000 times over a two-year period…as many as five times a day. The teen…escaped…in November 2016 and fled to police. Kasmeer Lata, the teen’s mother, was sentenced…for dealing in slaves and receiving earnings from commercial sexual services from an underage person…
While I usually edit items to point out the truth in authoritarian propaganda, in this case I did so to eliminate the lurid language the reporter used to exploit this young woman’s ordeal for clickbait. Because yellow journalists are just as awful in New Zealand as anywhere else.
Just in case you forgot about the other sex workers Trump paid off:
…investigators discovered recordings made by Michael Cohen which include a then-candid Donald Trump talking about a payment to…former Playboy model…Karen McDougal [who] previously claimed that she had an affair with Mr. Trump…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#833)
All the disclaimers won’t stop charlatans from pretending this is their imaginary “sex addiction”:
The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD) list…filed “compulsive sexual behavior disorder” — often [incorrectly] referred to as sex addiction — as an impulse-control disorder…WHO’s new list will not take effect until Jan. 1, 2022, as revisions still need to be made…clinicians…fear that recognizing compulsive sexual behavior disorder would pathologize normal sexual behavior, [said] Dr. Stefanie Carnes…“One of the things WHO did…is say specifically, ‘You can’t make the diagnosis of the compulsive disorder just due to shame or moralistic thoughts and feelings’”…In other words, a diagnosis cannot be made for someone with conservative religious views who frequents pornography sites a few times a month and thus believes that is a problem…the…proposed inclusion characterizes the disorder as “a persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges, resulting in repetitive sexual behavior over an extended period (e.g., six months or more) that causes marked distress or impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning.” Carnes…[said] “I have patients who…spend $300,000 on a prostitute”…
Say, Dr. Carnes, would you introduce me to these guys? I’ll take good care of them, I promise.
I hope this finger-pointing keeps up until the hysteria implodes:
…the Trafficking in Persons Report directly references the vulnerability of migrants and children to trafficking without mention of recent U.S. policies that increased family separation and detention. This dissonance is not new [to this administration], although recent events have been particularly egregious. Since his inauguration, President Trump has espoused strikingly different — and dramatically inconsistent — approaches to immigration and human trafficking…Despite the administration’s [typical] rhetoric about protecting survivors of trafficking, the brutal fact is that indiscriminate targeting of undocumented immigrants…has sown chaos and fear in immigrant communities. This makes survivors much less likely to cooperate with [pigs], and more likely to be targeted as victims…on June 28, 2018, USCIS issued a new policy memorandum specifying that any survivor who applies for T visas — and is denied — will be placed in deportation proceedings…
Trumpists: “YOU’RE helping ‘human traffickers’!”
Anti-Trumpists: “No, YOU’RE helping ‘human traffickers’!”
Me: “LOL, please continue.”
Sex workers already operate at the social and economic margins. SESTA-FOSTA makes it increasingly difficult for them to advertise and screen clients safely, deeply cutting into their incomes and threatening their livelihoods…The conflation of consensual sex work with trafficking, abuse, moral decrepitude, and shame is as pervasive as is it is lacking nuance…Mental health providers must wade through social discourse thick with misinformation to be effective allies to sex workers in their practice. Scholars and practitioners alike propose harmful and stigmatizing models of understanding sex work…Although sensationalist media outlets frequently use sex trafficking as a boogeyman to encourage tougher policing of sex work, research from New Zealand, Australia, and Spain shows that decriminalizing sex work has made the industry safer…In the wake of SESTA-FOSTA, sex workers are scared that they won’t be able to provide for themselves and their families…
RealNetworks, the Seattle company best known for pioneering streaming media…will offer a new facial recognition technology, called SAFR, for free to K-12 schools to help upgrade their on-site [surveillance] systems. SAFR can be used with the same cameras that traditional surveillance systems to recognize students, staff, and people visiting schools…in addition to security, the tool can also help with [normalization of constant surveillance] and [the school-to-prison pipeline]…
Woodhull, et al’s request for a preliminary injunction vs FOSTA is a thing of beauty, and even if you don’t really understand legalese you should read it, because most of it is in plain English and its arguments are solid. Reading it for yourself is the only way you can fully grasp what a crock of shit the judge’s inaction was:
A federal judge on Thursday tabled a motion brought by the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and four other plaintiffs, who are suing to stop the government from enforcing…FOSTA…Judge Richard Leon…made no ruling on Woodhull’s request for a preliminary injunction that would stop the law from remaining in effect until the group’s lawsuit…is decided. Nor did he announce a date when he would issue a ruling. According to one account from inside the courtroon, Leon “sounded skeptical” that the law had actually caused harm to the plaintiffs in the case…
Basically, the judge wants time to try to think of the proper legal wording for “Yes, I know this law is blatantly unconstitutional, but I’m not gonna be the one to issue an injunction on it because whores”.
Diary #421
Posted in Diary, tagged blogging, cell phones, psychology on July 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Last week was a relatively quiet one, with a normal amount of work; this allowed me to get caught up on a number of things without stressing about money. In fact, I actually got my income taxes paid, which is a huge strain of of my mind; that lets me devote most of the rest of my income for this year to the various projects that need to be done at Sunset, such as fixing the floor, correcting the drainage problem which contributed to damaging it in the first place, and expanding the animal pens. I was there overnight Saturday; Jae wanted to help out with some of the work, and it gave me an excuse to visit. So Friday night I switched to my new phone; I knew the transfer would take some time, and I figured the best day to do that was one in which I wouldn’t need the phone to work. There were a few problems, but not too bad, and about 14 hours after I started the process the automated part was done; I uploaded this picture of my blue girl’s first rose of the season from the new phone. Redoing all my contacts by hand is a huge pain in the arse, but at least everything’s there to update; maybe by the time I am forced to get another phone, they’ll actually have the process streamlined a bit.
Links #420
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged Australia, cops, Egypt, Florida, I can't breathe, Indiana, Never Call the Cops, Pennsylvania, psychology, racism, Russia, video on July 23, 2018| 3 Comments »
I can’t breathe. – David Dungay
A string quartet of hot Russian chicks playing a KISS cover? What’s not to like? And the one in the Paul Stanley makeup is especially cute. The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, Tushy Galore, Mike Siegel, Dave Krueger, and Scarlet Alliance, in that order.
- As one does.
- Nyarlathotep?
- Kübler-Ross margarine.
- Pigs playing prejudiced pool police.
- STOP CALLING THE FUCKING COPS ON PEOPLE!
- “Crime”: eating crackers. Penalty: summary execution.
From the Archives
- “Pimp” classification schemes are among the stupidest tropes of the panic.
- Bizarre, stilted language is used to describe a very ordinary escort service.
- Cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they stalk & harass.
- Sex workers who pretend they aren’t are almost as bad as prohibitionists.
- Surveillance weapons are often tested on whores, but never stop with us.
- Calling a prison an “immigration centre” doesn’t make it less of a prison.
- Pro-censorship loon wants parents to panic about “artificial necrophilia”.
- My dominatrix is ignoring me for accidentally offending her. Any advice?
- That vile use of “safer neighborhood team” to mean “vice squad” again.
- This woman reminds me very much of Annie Lobert of “Liars for Jesus”.
- This in a mainstream mag like Glamour is an extremely promising sign.
- More crime victims caged to force participation in a state morality play.
- Let’s hope this myth is dead, or at least nearly so, by the next election.
- Why idiocies like “mid-range prostitution is new” infuriate me so much.
- We may have a winner in the “stupidest gypsy whore magnet” contest.
- Seoul adopts ever-sleazier tactics to please its masters in Washington.
- Migrant women harassed by cops who declare them infantile “victims”.
- Historians will view this propaganda as our era’s Malleus Maleficarum.
- It’s only a “shock” to those who live with their heads in their rectums.
- Florida cops claim to “help” marginalized women by brutalizing them.
- Cops, eels, pet sitters, action figures, Martin Landau and much more.
- Because Agatha Christie novels & TV cop shows increase real crimes.
- When will lawheads learn whores can’t be vanished by proclamation?
- How about “calling on police” to stop arresting sex workers, period?
- A watered-down disease culture, but a disease culture nonetheless.
- Another vile apology for evil policies that enable uniformed rapists.
- This dude’s clutching his pearls so hard, he’s starting to turn blue.
- If interstate highways are so dangerous, why don’t we ban them?
- You know things have changed when this can appear in the VOA.
- “Anti-trafficking” publicity stunts are growing ever more bizarre.
- Alas, “creepy clown” panic can’t derail “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- The deep connection between the rescue & garment industries.
- When it’s a cop, sexual coercion magically becomes “bribery”.
- Even when Vice isn’t being directly prohibitionist, it’s no ally.
- Still more victims of the Satanic panic released from prison.
- This scam has existed for as long as there have been cities.
- This is pretty appalling, especially given the disease factor.
- Seattle pigs conspire to destroy literally hundreds of lives.
- “Sex trafficking” is a convenient excuse for any tyranny.
- And people wonder why I’m critical of “child porn” laws.
- Prohibitionist nuns hunt down American whores as well.
- I hope none of you find these even remotely surprising.
- NPR licks the arsehole of “Truckers Against Trafficking”.
- Lorelei and I travel to Ireland; here are some pictures.
- Another episode in the demonization of Backpage.
- Cops, cannabis, short horror and much more.
- To St. Mary Magdalene on her feast day.
- Another bogus “super gonorrhea” scare.
- The Desiree Alliance in New Orleans.
- An apology for inadvertent offense.
- Glenn Kessler does it again.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- No More Sex Shame.
- Say their names.
Magdalene’s Day 2018
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on July 22, 2018| 1 Comment »
Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination. And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.
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