We have this myth that if we didn’t have the police, crime would be out of control, when the reality is very little crime…is solved by the police. – Alex Vitale
Last weekend at Sunset, while stoned, I watched a documentary on the making of Bat Out of Hell, and was reminded how much I like this song. So here it is. The links above it were provided by Popehat, Walter Olson, Tim Cushing, Carol Fenton, Emma Evans, and Walter Olson again, in that order.
- America in microcosm.
- Another day in a collapsing empire.
- Tell me again how the police “keep us safe”.
- Sweden: home of compassionate feminist government.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- “One bad apple” frames, guards & tortures man for 6 weeks, all alone.
From the Archives
- Maker of fascist surveillance software uses Backpage as self-fellation prop.
- The US tests oppressive tactics abroad before inflicting them domestically.
- Swedish-scented rhetoric from attempts to disguise the stench of tyranny.
- Why does Gay, Inc never speak up for sex worker rights until it’s too late?
- Light, nightmares, cops, spiders, suffocation, surrealism and much more.
- If this is a “brothel”, then a room with a foosball table in it is a “stadium”.
- Uber is training drivers to spy on sex workers and rat us out to the pigs.
- Having sex is apparently the worst thing this bird-brain can conceive of.
- Politicians just can’t understand why whores refuse to believe their lies.
- Persecuting whores with nonsense like “illegally subdividing a building”.
- Why they push the totally-debunked “Super Bowl sex trafficking” myth.
- Female free will is incomprehensible to “law enforcement” misogynists.
- Imagine the murder of any other person being described as a “scuffle”.
- It’s always “gangs”; women are too stupid to use AirBnB for ourselves.
- Keeping your questions concise greatly increases my ability to answer.
- Prohibitionists try to subvert our debunking of the gypsy whores myth.
- “Super Bowl sex trafficking” is dead, but not the “gypsy whores” myth.
- Sugar babies & sugar sites are invested in pretending it isn’t sex work.
- Governments weaken civil rights by urging profiteers to file civil suits.
- Ignoramuses equate marriage rates & childbirth rates with sex rates.
- So-called “pop-up brothels” are just mundane escort touring incalls.
- UK feminists win another battle against the employment of women.
- A perfect storm of stupidity, sex fantasy and authoritarian violence.
- Barely a peep out of “Super Bowl sex trafficking” fanatics this year.
- We have many more vocal allies now than when I started blogging.
- If enough of these are thrown at the wall one may eventually stick.
- UK cops fantasize “pimps” lurking behind every ordinary escort ad.
- What are they going to do to tourists who won’t turn? Arrest them?
- Just in case you didn’t think you were spied on enough in airports.
- I love Lenore Skenazy’s snarky treatment of these absurd stories.
- Prohibitionists are learning the hard way that the wind is shifting.
- The usual total lack of “sex trafficking” at this year’s Super Bowl.
- A profile of Tara Burns, with emphasis on her activism in Alaska.
- Rescue industry dudes pretending to have been reluctant pimps.
- An astronomer puzzles over his beautiful, mysterious employer.
- Naturally, my skepticism about this case was wholly warranted.
- A female “contributor” to GQ is paid to fellate Peter Qualliotine.
- It’s so nice to see sex work treated as the normal thing it is.
- Whores will not carry water for those who don’t support us.
- “Child predators” are mostly men in positions of authority.
- Sex workers are the best guardians against real coercion.
- European media aren’t afraid to call rapist cops rapists.
- These are the kind of people who call us “bad” women.
- California now has its own annual anti-whore pogrom.
- Cops, cocks, crayfish, cosmic cars and much more.
- The pleasant tiredness resulting from a busy week.
- Wendy McElroy on bitcoin and consensual crime.
- More absurd “air hostesses vs pimps” nonsense.
- On the latest attempt to Disnify New Orleans.
- Here’s what NYC’s extra vice pigs are doing.
- My previous columns for Valentine’s Day.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2017 and 2018.
- A review of Laura Agustín’s new book.
- What “safe harbor” laws actually do.
- Casual sex causes “sex trafficking”!
- Moral panic + censorship = profit.
- Things not to say to a sex worker.
- Orwell would be proud.
- Sex is morally neutral.
- R.I.P. Laura Lee.
