Archive for April, 2019
May Eve 2019
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on April 30, 2019| 3 Comments »
Diary #461
Posted in Diary, tagged activism, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Washington DC on April 29, 2019| 1 Comment »
Flying standby has its advantages, such as being able to change arrangements or make new ones at a moment’s notice, and often getting first class without having to pay first-class prices. But one of its bad points is that one can get booted off of a flight which looked fine the day before, and then one needs to scramble to figure out how to avoid getting stranded in some airport with no immediate way to get t one’s destination. All of my arrangements for this week of travel were easy-peasy and as of this writing still look very clear, with one exception: I could not figure out how to get to Minneapolis. Every combination I looked at was booked up, and though it wasn’t as bad as my return from San Francisco two weeks ago, it was bad enough to make me very nervous indeed. Finally I decided to ask for Ghost Rider’s help, and though the plan he came up with did indeed work (I wrote this last night in a hotel room in Minneapolis), it required going without sleep Saturday so I could make it to the airport in time for a 5:40 AM flight to Dallas. Steerage seats are apparently designed to be as uncomfortable as possible, and since they don’t recline any longer there’s not really a way for a princess like me to sleep any better than she could on a whole crateful of peas. I didn’t think I was going to make it onto the Dallas to Minneapolis flight, and in fact when the wonderful, beautiful gate agent called my name to tell me that I had indeed made it, I was working out the logistics of flying into Sioux Falls, South Dakota and then getting a one-way car rental to Minneapolis to pick up the rental I had already paid for to get to Mankato! But that wasn’t necessary, and today I’ll be presenting The War on Whores at Minnesota State at 4 PM in the Ostrander Auditorium in the Centennial Student Union. Then on Wednesday evening at 7 pm I’ll be presenting the film for Sex Positive St. Louis in the Brown Hall Auditorium at Washington University in St. Louis. Both of these FREE screenings were sponsored by my respective hosts and made possible by the fundraiser y’all have been so generous about supporting! Then on Saturday I’ll be speaking at the Libertarian Party of Illinois convention at the Parke Regency hotel in Bloomington, Illinois (not far from Chicago), and returning home on Sunday afternoon. Watch this space for more screenings, such as Tampa, Orlando & Miami in June, the Woodhull Sexual Freedom summit in the DC area in August, and then a sponsored screening for Reason (also in DC) probably in September. And with any luck those flights will be much less hassle to arrange.
Links #460
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged animals, Arizona, asset seizure, cops, drugs, Never Call the Cops, New York, Oregon, politicians, racism, Things We Choose To Do Together, video, Washington DC on April 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I would…suggest you not promote pictures of juveniles in this situation. – Muriel Bowser
Remember Harry Nilsson? Besides writing songs for The Monkees (“Cuddly Toy“), Three Dog Night (“One“), and others, he had a successful solo career and counted The Beatles among his fans (he later briefly lived with John & Ringo in 1973 during John’s “Lost Weekend”). I first encountered him via this TV movie (narrated by Ringo), which I watched when it premiered in 1971 and never forgot. I bought it when it became available on DVD and have watched it several times since, most recently while stoned with Grace & Chekhov at Sunset on Easter weekend. The links above the video were provided by Furrygirl, Peter Roman, Mike Siegel, Peter Roman again, Tim Cushing, and Tushy Galore, in that order.
- Headline of the week.
- Just protecting and serving.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Good to see the mayor focus on what’s truly important.
- What part of “no reason whatsoever” is so hard to understand?
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- A kind of essay that’s common in the Canadian press, but rare in the US.
- Michigan cops now have to lie about raping us, as in the other 49 states.
- UK press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of escort reviews yet.
- The last attempt to start this hysteria also involved exactly three cases.
- Again, prohibitionists demonstrate their total contempt for sex workers.
- This will happen much more until a replacement for Backpage appears.
- Cops, cats, Christians, convictions, algorithms, progressivism & more.
- Ric Curtis, Jon Jay study primary, is still debunking prohibitionist lies.
- NYC is way behind Seattle, Phoenix & Houston in promoting hysteria.
- One of those rare instances where a rapist really was a “former” cop.
- My feeings about cop fans, with help from the late, great Ted Geisel.
- FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation by the government.
- A disproportionate number of pimps who actually do exist are cops.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- The Young Liberals have pushed to repeal this law since it passed.
- Cops, progressivism, Waffle House, Bob Dorough and much more.
- Ken White explains the latest wrinkle in the Stormy Daniels case.
- This outcome was obvious once Trump appointed Huber to HHS.
- Are we now going to retroactively label all cults “sex trafficking”?
- Others recognize the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
- I’m sure she was chained up & actually owned in a legal sense.
- “Sex addiction” charlatans fight to keep the gravy train rolling.
- Every so often the Nevada brothels are threatened by zealots.
- 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?”
- The whorearchy here is so thick it can be cut with a knife.
- “An increase in sex trafficking in northwestern Montana“.
- 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.
- Who comes up with this infantile rubbish?
- Melissa Petro on working while pregnant.
- George Will is apparently going senile.
- Stereotypic conformation in progress.
- Getting to meet one of my heroines.
- This would never happen in the US.
- Welcome back to the 16th century.
- My most generous special of 2018.
- April 2014 and 2015 in retrospect.
- Rapist cops of this week in 2017.
- My last selfie at Avalon.
- An antique dildo.
- A MILLION!!!!!
In the News (#932)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, An Example to the West, Blunt Instrument, Broken Record, brothels, Comfort Zone, cops, fantasy, hysteria, illegal aliens, India, Ireland, Kentucky, law, left-right myth, License To Rape, masturbation, Montana, Neither Addiction nor Epidemic, neofeminism, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Out of Control, politicians, porn, propaganda, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, racism, rape, scams, semen, sporting events, streetwalkers, surveillance, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, The Lion and the Ox, To Molest and Rape, Top Cop, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state) on April 27, 2019| 2 Comments »
“Sex trafficking” [is] being used as a catch-all criminal charge against anyone accused of any sort of bad sexual behavior. – Elizabeth N. Brown
Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape:
Urlin Lloyd Clark was arrested April 6 by [Las Vegas cops]…after…he [raped and robbed a sex worker by pretending to be a cop himself]…During the [rape]…which…occurred just outside [his vehicle]…the woman…focused on the license plate…[and] memorized the plate number…the man [also stole] $100 from her and photographed her driver’s license…
Because they care so very much about “trafficking victims”:
I was invited to speak to the Peace & Social Action Committee…about sex work and human trafficking. It was meant to be a roundtable discussion with a diverse group of people so that the members could better access how they could best help the community…People in my community often hide underground because it’s safer than being found from our oppressors who call themselves liberators…and…desperately want the state to find us and confine us into prisons, deportations, orphanages, small and private “rehabilitation programs”, or temporary basic services they create, profit from, and build careers around…It wasn’t long [before] I…[received] an email that various antis were pulling out of the event…because I was undocumented. They [claimed]…that being at an event with me would associate them with “illegal activity”…The truth is these organizations and women came together and planned out how they would collectively pull out this event…
All prohibitionism is the same:
…the idea that deadly amounts of fentanyl are tainting…marijuana…is being [intentionally] spread by officials at the White House and the National Institute on Drug Abuse…Although that is true for heroin, and in some cases cocaine and methamphetamine, fentanyl-laced marijuana is not a real risk, according to experts who are concerned about…[politicians] repeating an urban legend [as they so often do]…epidemiologist Dan Ciccarone [said]…“It shows that concerns about fentanyl have reached the level of moral panic. Fear outweighs rational evidence”…
Indian sex workers are tired of politicians’ bullshit:
“Who cares about us anyway, all parties are the same.” The frustration and discontent among sex workers in and around Sonagachi, Asia’s biggest red-light area, is palpable weeks before the area votes…Their rose-tinted visions about elections, stemming from the hope that elected representatives would take up their cause and work for their rights, have faded. Most of these sex workers now seem inclined to press on the [None Of The Above] button…For decades workers like her have been campaigning to get their trade [decriminalized]…“They all make the same promises, but once voted to power never think about us, or talk about us in Parliament. Why should we think about them when they so conveniently ignore us?” asks Kajol Bose, secretary of Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC)…
A court restores a rapist cop’s power to rape:
A Pasco [Washington rapist cop] who had been on [paid vacation] for two years is back on the [prowl] after criminal charges were dropped because of [a successful cover-up]…Anthony J. Haworth recently saw the final two counts…dismissed with prejudice. That means the case is permanently done and cannot be brought back to court, even if new evidence or witnesses come to light…Haworth…had been on paid [vacation] since the spring of 2017…[when] he was charged…with…rape, indecent liberties and voyeurism…prosecutors [intentionally played around and eventually claimed]…the evidence was not there to prosecute Haworth…[even though he raped] a teen girl several times between 2008 and 2013 [after getting her drunk]…several nude photographs of the teen…were found on Haworth’s electronic devices…
Far beyond mere spooge-throwing:
Jared Walter, a…man convicted, implicated and charged in dozens of instances of cutting, masturbating into or gluing women’s hair on public transit during the past decade, was banned from [public transit] for life…Walter is in jail and charged with two more cases of sexual abuse on TriMet light rail trains, stemming from a March 20 incident…Walter’s history of attacking women on buses and trains dates to 2009…He was placed on probation for five years in March 2018 as part of his conviction for a May 2017 incident, where he cut a woman’s hair while riding a bus…
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#792)
At long last, the psychiatric community takes aim at “porn addiction” myth:
…Pornography addiction actually has been rejected as a codified diagnosis by every major diagnostic body…but misinformation online is rampant. In the last five years, anti-pornography groups have spent millions of dollars marketing fake science to consumers, then profit by selling untested therapies, anti-pornography apps, and books. This stops now. Scientists and therapists who are experts in human sexuality have come together to provide accurate information to the public in realyourbrainonporn.com…These experts include the principal investigator for the first research-based porn literacy curriculum for youth, the first person to coin the expression “sex positive”, the first neuroscience lab to test the addiction model of pornography, and the lab that demonstrated porn did not impact partner satisfaction…Experts’ background includes terminal degrees in addictions, communications and media, sociology, psychology, neuroscience, and physiology, among others…Connect with us on the website, Twitter…Facebook, YouTube, or Tumblr, with more resources being added as we expand our library…
Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse:
Ahead of the 145th Kentucky Derby, state prosecutors and [other prohibitionists]…are calling on the public to [spy on other people] and [snitch on them to the pigs]…”The grim fact is that [even though] large sporting events like the Derby [have been proven again and again to have no effect on crime, both cops and politicians like me love masturbating to fantasies of]…enslaved children”…said Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear…[who also] asked the public to be on the lookout for people with identical tattoos…or people who [tell busybodies to mind their own business]…
“Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean:
…a federal judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit accusing [Harvey] Weinstein of sex trafficking may proceed. The…judge…dismissed all but one of the claims in the 18-count lawsuit, including all claims against defendants other than Weinstein…[whom] defendants say…promised them film opportunities or career advancement if they engaged in sex…with him…Sexual assault and rape are bad enough on their own…So why the need to force these cases into a framework that doesn’t fit? Because the sex trafficking framework allows for a lot more prosecutorial possibilities. Anyone who is even remotely aware of potential trafficking can be wrapped into racketeering, money laundering, and conspiracy counts, which isn’t the case with sexual assault or rape charges. A rape case against Weinstein couldn’t have snared Disney, too. Nor could Allison Mack and others be indicted if [NXIVM cult leader Keith] Raniere was simply accused of assault. “Sex traffickers” can be sued in federal court, while cases against rapists must go to state court. Sex trafficking convictions bring an array of mandatory fees and fines for both the government and victims; sexual assault charges do not…Plus, sex trafficking is such a buzzword that cases employing it are guaranteed to get more attention…
“A brief period of time”, when DHS is building a giant biometric database:
…US Customs and Border Protection…expects to be able to scan [the faces of] 97% of commercial passengers within the next four years…If a picture matches information on file, the system creates an exit record. If it doesn’t, CBP officials look into it…The system [has already]…identified 7,000 travelers who overstayed visas…[people who aren’t stupid] say this CBP use of artificial intelligence is an invasion [of] privacy…CBP [pretends] the images are encrypted and that it only keeps them for a brief period of time…
A…bill aimed at [harassing]…sex [workers]…in Montana…provides $519,815 in funding for two [pigs]…to [harass sex workers]…full-time…The [pigs] will work with local [pigs] to [deceive consenting adults, harass motorists]…on the highway to [rob them]…and [spy on people]…The bill also…allow[s pigs] to [barge into massage] business[es] at any time [without warning, even to the point of]…interrupt[ing] a treatment session…[of] two hours or more…The measure was [specifically] crafted to…[harass Asian] massage businesses…[bill sponsors] are careful to [pretend] that the women working in…[Asian] massage businesses are being exploited…“These are trafficking victims”…
Kamala Harris…on CNN…cleared up…any notion that she actually supports decriminalization of prostitution. Harris still thinks paying for sex should be a crime, she just wants to classify all female sex workers as victims so as to avoid [their being able to claim civil rights such as a lawyer when] arrest[ed]…the…Nordic/Swedish model…[is] roundly panned by human rights agencies…migrant groups, doctors, criminal justice researchers, and sex workers themselves worldwide, for creating the same harms of full criminalization while letting police and politicians pretend to be taking a liberal and feminist tack…
The Course of a Disease (#925)
Remember that Irish prohibitionists celebrated this increase in violence vs sex workers:
Campaigners have called for Scotland’s [politicians] to reject [the Swedish model, which has been proposed again]…after recent statistics showed that violent crime against sex workers almost doubled after it was introduced in Ireland. Sex workers in Ireland have reported a 92 percent increase in violent crime since the “Nordic Model” came into place in March 2017…[experts] said the stats were “sadly not surprising” and added to evidence that the law hinders the ability of people “to report violent crimes, exploitation and abuse”…the Nordic Model [is] an “ill-thought-out policy” that puts [sex workers] at risk from “criminals and violent clients” by pushing the practice further underground…
Back Issue #70
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on April 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
From the very beginning, feminism has been a movement as divided in its sensibilities as women are divided in ours. – “Traitors To Their Sex“
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- The rescue industry is full of opportunities for the wealthy to play cowboy.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Journalist argues whores are cattle who should be harvested by the state.
- What a large-scale, organized forced prostitution scheme really looks like.
- Tiny minority of politicians manages to impose Swedish model on France.
- This listicle is more interested in being “cute” than it is in being accurate.
- Small cities insist they’re infested with bogeymen and imaginary victims.
- They say it’s about “pimps”, but it’s really about sex workers and clients.
- The only people ever charged with “sex trafficking” in Alaska are whores.
- Guys have offered to pay me with dogs and horses, but never a monkey.
- “A Man for Every Day in the Week”, “Rent”, “Hey Lady” & “Darling Nikki”.
- Molly Smith debunks claims the Swedish model “decriminalizes” whores.
- Less human rights lawyer and more Hollywood propagandist these days.
- Massage parlors are targeted by cops because they’re low-hanging fruit.
- How long will Gay, Inc pretend that decriminalization isn’t a LGBT issue?
- There can never be too many resources debunking “sex trafficking” pap.
- If government has its way, phone privacy will soon be gone completely.
- Fetishists pay for tattoo removal to get women to lie about bad choices.
- Yes, Zimbabwe is actually ahead of the US in this area of human rights.
- “Prince’s only sister to inherit his estate” isn’t good enough for the Mail.
- “Sex trafficking” fanatics’ ignorance is exceeded by their megalomania.
- Uber now wants its drivers to spy on whores and rat us out to the pigs.
- It was only a matter of time before male “survivors” started cashing in.
- Another fact-free anti-porn rant, quoting a bogus prohibitionist “study”.
- Cops continue to destroy people’s lives for the “crime” of being human.
- I doubt an unwitnessed, informal contract would really protect anyone.
- Few sources of sex rays are as dangerous as the names of body parts.
- Strip club alcohol bans are the most Puritanical of all sex “regulations”.
- Even most who really were coerced into sex work hate criminalization.
- Human rights suffer a predictable, but crushing defeat in South Korea.
- Defining human sexuality as a medical “problem” in order to control it.
- The creeps are progressing from spooge sneaking to spooge throwing.
- The bond between close friends is stronger than almost anything else.
- Swedish model’s xenophobia shows in rhetoric rationalizing its failure.
- Mistress Matisse, Brooke Magnanti and I discuss MGG’s lack of ethics.
- “Sex addiction” is the defense of choice for non-violent sex offenders.
- Wannabe “pimp” follows script learned from anti-whore propaganda.
- Anybody want to try these out & compare them to makeup sponges?
- Soon we’ll hear about how New Hampshire is a “sex trafficking hub”.
- Grady Judd destroys people’s lives for his own self-aggrandizement.
- The Swedish model has virtually eliminated prostitution in Sweden!
- Harassing streetwalkers has become a popular “Christian” pastime.
- “Clients per day” claims have returned to the realm of the possible.
- There weren’t any actual victims, but we just have to cage people.
- Danish prohibitionists claim sex work is “spreading” like a disease.
- Misinterpreting ordinary interactions is common in a moral panic.
- An interview with Chester Brown about his newest graphic novel.
- Colorado politicians make it easier to destroy teens for “sexting”.
- Only good thing about prostitution stings: cops getting arrested.
- Brutal thugs invade home, abduct mother & destroy child’s life.
- For most people, efforts to ignore reality are doomed to failure.
- Pig lawyers’ attempt to quash San Diego strippers’ lawsuit fails.
- “Sex trafficking” is an especially good excuse for money grabs.
- First they came for the students, and I said nothing because…
- A new low in the “cops busting kids’ lemonade stands” genre.
- One can never have too many anti-Swedish model editorials.
- Tara Burns, still doggedly fighting for sex workers in Alaska.
- Tara Burns with a guide on reporting about “sex trafficking”.
- OH MY GOD HE PAID THEM SALARIES! WHAT A MONSTER!
- An evening with Mistress Matisse & Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
- A good article on Ruhama, the Magdalene nuns’ new front.
- Another Potemkin village designed to please the ignorant.
- 1st-person sex worker accounts expose prohibitionist lies.
- A disabled Australian couple gets help from a sex worker.
- Massage therapists just can’t resist anti-whore posturing.
- This was, of course, expected; next stop, the 9th Circuit.
- Cleveland tries to paper over an atrocity with a “policy”.
- A few journalists are starting to see where this is going.
- It’s so good to see more widespread recognition of this.
- The Seattle Times continues its revolting badge-licking.
- Mostly just ignorant cheerleading for a do-nothing law.
- Politicians can’t grasp that all prohibition is the same.
- “Sex trafficking” smoke & mirrors obscure the truth.
- Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
- “Christian” vigilantes playing with people’s lives.
- How to share the restroom with a trans person.
- The more lawsuits against the cops, the better.
- How “feminists” have always betrayed women.
- Indian sex workers are getting tired of bullshit.
- A nice little collection of debunking resources.
- Is it common for sex workers to use AirBnB?
- An excellent essay on the Tracy Elise case.
- Malawi continues to do what the US won’t.
- A sex worker is arrested for placing an ad.
- A few movies with sex worker characters.
- A human-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Farm machinery causes “sex trafficking”!
- Now where did we put that serial rapist?
- I hope cops keep feeding on each other.
- Yet another murdered trans sex worker.
- I just love watching them eat their own.
- A special edition of Ladies of the Night.
- A review of The Girlfriend Experience.
- More truth about the Swedish model.
- On the recrudescence of Puritanism.
- Protest in support of Alisha Walker.
- Never let clients turn off the lights.
- Oooooh, it’s a SPOOOOOOKY hub!
- Dealing with a very difficult week.
- This is actually kind of revolting.
- On nuisances and time-wasters.
- My first Friday the 13th column.
- A weekend with Chester Brown.
- Introducing SWOP Behind Bars.
- The harlotography that wasn’t.
- This can only be a good thing.
- Bree Olson: Her Untold Story.
- How convenient for the State.
- Jemima on transactional sex.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Probably a wise precaution.
- Go, Stephanie Farnsworth!
- Rapist cops of April, 2016.
- Burn. It. To. The. Ground.
- Cambodian trauma porn.
- No, I won’t shill for you.
- Color me unsurprised.
- In praise of regulars.
- R.I.P. Amber Rayne.
- An April Fools gag.
This Right Here
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged Advice for Clients, Presents, sex work is work on April 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
For the second time recently, I’ve received an email that, while it isn’t a question, is something I’d like to share with y’all. This is from a gentleman I’ve seen several times since moving to Seattle; he’s not a regular because it’s usually a while between visits, but he is a repeat client (and has on a number of occasions asked for references from me for escorts in other cities). We had an appointment set for this coming Saturday, but then yesterday morning I received this email (which I’ve edited slightly for discretion; I also asked permission to share):
Hello, Maggie. I found out that I need to be traveling to a different city on Monday, which means I won’t be making the Seattle trip this weekend. I know I have had to cancel the last two appointments, so I went ahead and sent a “full” cancellation fee since you would have only a short time for a reschedule. I appreciate your flexibility and friendship! I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
Just a few minutes before the email, a payment notification had popped up on my phone letting me know that my full one-hour fee had arrived. Guys, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT! Let’s be honest; escorts are a luxury, and anyone who sees us with any regularity isn’t hurting financially. But working escorts arrange our schedules around appointments, which means that a cancelled (rather than postponed) appointment represents a loss of income; we can’t usually just reschedule another appointment into that time slot (especially when, as this gent mentions, I’m leaving town for a week the very next day). So if life happens and you have to cancel an appointment, a polite, respectful email like this one accompanied by at least some compensation (most guys send me $100 or a selection from my wishlist) goes a very long way to soothing the sting and staying on your provider’s good side. And if you’ve had to cancel before (as is true in this case), paying the whole cost of the missed session demonstrates that you respect her time and are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience; repeated excuses without compensation begin to sound like “the dog ate my homework” after the second or third iteration. The world isn’t a perfect place, and the best-laid plans of mice & men, etc. But making a little extra effort like this gentleman did goes a long way toward keeping you in the circle of gold-star clients whom escorts are happy to see and happy to recommend to others.
In the News (#931)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Across the Pond, adolescence, advertising, agency denial, brothels, censorship, China, cops, dirty, Disaster, escort review sites, Facebook, Florida, Full of Themselves, Gullible's Travels, Hawaii, hysteria, Illinois, internet, Islam, language, law, Minnesota, New York, Nigeria, Original Sin, politicians, porn, propaganda, Pyrrhic Victory, racism, rape, Rooted in Racism, serial killers, shame, streetwalkers, Surplus Women, surveillance, The Prudish Giant, The Scarlet Letter, To Molest and Rape, Top Cop, Under Review, underage, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Wisconsin, yellow journalism on April 24, 2019| 3 Comments »
[Under FOSTA] smaller platforms…face the real risk that a single lawsuit could put them out of business. – The Center for Democracy and Technology
Compare to “With the faggots out of the way, hopefully we can focus on helping their child victims”:
[Milwaukee politician Russell] Stamper introduced an ordinance that would raise the minimum fine for those caught soliciting a [sow role-playing a] prostitute from $500 to $2,500. The maximum, regulated by state statute, would stay at $5,000. The measure was unanimously approved…The name of the fine has also been changed…to put more shame on those arrested. It used to simply be a “loitering-soliciting” charge; now it includes the word “prostitute”. ..The city [also] hopes to use [a fascist] media [collaboration] to publicly shame those convicted. “With the johns out of the way, hopefully we can focus on helping these women,” said Stamper…
After years of local activists taking to the streets about the 51 Black women and girls murdered, the Chicago Police Department and the FBI…finally launched a review…the Murder Accountability Project…said the unsolved killings…“have characteristics of serial murder…It…stretches credulity to imagine that these 51 women were killed by 51 separate men”…[cops claim] DNA collected from 21 victims did not match to same person. But…because the women, some who were sex workers, had multiple sex partners, the DNA may be mixed, harder to decipher and match. It’s not a secret that…because almost all of these women were Black and from impoverished areas…police haven’t cared…
Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teenagers:
Teens are daring each other to eat plastic packaging, cardboard boxes and fruit peels — and posting videos of themselves doing it to Snapchat — in a bizarre new social media trend called “shell on”. While not as dangerous as the potentially fatal “Tide Pod challenge”…doctors still advise against eating anything that isn’t food…physician Max Plitt [bloviated]…“[blah blah blah] cancers”…[reporters asked] a [high school] sophomore [about it and repeated what he said as though it constituted evidence]…
Another complete shitshow involving a sleazy review board owner:
When Broward [County Florida cops raided the home of]…a 60-year-old escort website owner…they say they found a memory card of child pornography and evidence he paid…for sex with underage girls…Neil Greenberg…[hired] a 17-year-old girl living in a group home…[and] an employee of the home [found out]…the…[girl] told [cops] she met Greenberg two years ago through her sister, who advertised on Greenberg’s escort website, independentgirls.com…
Another typical & representative cop:
A…northern Minnesota [cop] is accused of sexually assaulting a teenager [of unidentified gender] on more than 10 occasions. Joshua Demmerly…raped [the teen]…more than 10 times between 2017 and 2019. He’s also been charged with kidnapping [via false arrest]…in front of several witnesses…Demmerly claimed to be in love with the victim, and…sent photos of himself with a gun to his head, threatening suicide if the victim didn’t spend time with him. He also [stalked] them…On one occasion, the victim said they’d woken up naked in [Demmerly’s] house and unable to recall what happened the night before…
UK cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they stalk and harass:
South Wales Police said sex workers who “refuse to engage” with support services in Swansea could face [police violence]…Swansea Women’s Aid…said it was “very concerned”…that…the “stringent enforcement”…could stop women from engaging with the [cop-infested] SWAN project…which aims to [harass] women [doing] sex work…
Sometimes they don’t even bother to hide the religious foundation of “sex trafficking” hysteria:
On the morning of April 6, the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City became…a site of pr[opaganda]…that connected the Stations of the Cross to the [masturbatory fantasy] of sex trafficking…“The cross is a metaphor for sex trafficking,” said the Rev. Adrian Dannhauser…Stations of the Cross for Sex Trafficking Survivors followed seven stations, abbreviated from the usual 14, across three of the city’s boroughs…Attendees visited a shelter…for homeless youth, a strip club, a…[stroll in] the Bronx…a human trafficking intervention court in Queens, John F. Kennedy International Airport and a hotel in Brooklyn [featured in a propaganda film]…Jim Klein, [a] New York…Vice [pig, masturbated surreptitiously while telling the fantasy]…that his team has found 12-year-old girls…forced to have sex 25 to 30 times a day…
It’s just going to keep getting worse:
…As of this week, Reddit is no longer allowing “ads for adult-oriented products and services,” nor will it allow any advertising to appear on subreddits that it deems “Not Safe for Work” (NSFW)…This is not just about blocking really explicit images or possibly illegal conduct but everything related to sex and sexuality…As platforms strive to keep up with an array of new tech regulations — from America’s ban on ads that facilitate prostitution under FOSTA to new “privacy” and “hate speech” laws in the European Union, a British ban on showing porn without checking viewers’ ages, and more—anything that might get above a PG rating is being quickly wiped clean from the internet…
Tyranny always starts with despised minorities, but it never stops with them:
The Chinese government…[is] using a vast, secret system of advanced facial recognition technology to track and control the Uighurs…the…technology, which is integrated into China’s rapidly expanding networks of surveillance cameras, looks exclusively for Uighurs based on their appearance and keeps records of their comings and goings for search and review…Chinese authorities already maintain a vast surveillance net, including tracking people’s DNA, in the western region of Xinjiang, which many Uighurs call home. But…police are now using facial recognition technology to target Uighurs in wealthy eastern cities like Hangzhou and Wenzhou and across the coastal province of Fujian…
Could this racist attempt to deter black migrants be any more transparent?
The UK government is backing a…[propaganda] campaign urging Nigerian women and girls to [stay in their native country] instead of “risking a life of modern slavery” [by migrating to] Britain. Posters are to be placed in schools, churches and marketplaces in an attempt to reduce [migration by black people]…The Not for Sale campaign is supported by…Nigerian [rulers concerned about their shrinking number of subjects]…
Puritanical language is an intrinsic part of any story about cops raiding massage parlors:
…the [Honolulu] Prosecutor’s Office…is…target[ing massage parlors without the usual “sex trafficking” pretense]…criminal activity…illegal businesses…made arrests…illegal businesses…busted 22 of them over the past 3 three [sic] years…15 people were arrested for prostitution…But nearly double that number were arrested for racketeering, which [makes prosecutors feel as though their penises are bigger]…
When “sex trafficking” is not used as an excuse, you can bet we’ll be told over and over again how people consensually touching each other without state licenses is a menace to society that must be stopped by police violence.
People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook:
…Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate [Facebook]’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data…In some cases, Facebook would reward favored companies by giving them access to the data of its users. In other cases, it would deny user-data access to rival companies or apps…For example, Facebook gave Amazon extended access to user data because it was spending money on Facebook advertising and partnering with the social network on the launch of its Fire smartphone. In another case, Facebook discussed cutting off access to user data for a messaging app that had grown too popular and was viewed as a competitor…All the while, Facebook was formulating a strategy to publicly frame these moves as a way of protecting user privacy…
I’m pleased to see how many reporters see through Harris’ rhetoric to her sociopathic evil:
Kamala…Harris’ fundraising from Hollywood interests is nothing new…[she] raised more than $1.1 million from PACs and individuals in the television and movie production and distribution industry from 2009-16 for her campaigns…Harris’ top five donors have included Warner Media Group, 21st Century Fox, and Venable LLP, a lobbying firm that works for Time Warner. Harris’ strong support from Hollywood follows her history of working to help the entertainment industry…fight…websites like YouTube that allow users to upload and link to content…Harris played a key role in advancing…SESTA…a Hollywood–backed bill poked a hole in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…SESTA [is] a step towards creating the filtered internet that the MPAA and RIAA have been pushing for for years, including…SOPA…a Hollywood-backed copyright enforcement bill that was withdrawn over censorship concerns following a massive internet blackout protest in 2012…“It’s easy to see the similarities between what Hollywood has been campaigning for in SESTA and what they’ve been campaigning for in the copyright space, which is ultimately an internet that is less interactive, more one-directional and more filtered,” [said] Elliot Harmon…[of] the Electronic Frontier Foundation…
Diary #460
Posted in Diary, tagged activism, drugs, psychology on April 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I’ve been feeling kinda weird the past couple of weeks; my mood is just fine all day, but then about 9 PM I start to get anxious for no particular reason. So one night last week, I mentioned this to Matisse, and she asked if it had anything to do with the increasing daylight, which of course it does so why didn’t I think of that myself? I mean, it’s my pineal gland being overstimulated, after all. The only thing I can guess is that it’s partly because the days are so much longer so much earlier this far north than they are in the land of my birth, and also perhaps because it’s still pretty cold here even though it’s light until practically 8 PM, and that confuses my brain. And because my brain doesn’t like being confused, I get extra-anxious. That’s my theory, anyhow, and in the absence of other information it’s as good as any. Anyhow, it only seems to affect me when I’m alone; on nights when I’ve been with friends or gentlemen, I don’t notice it. So it probably won’t bother me next week while I’m in Minnesota & Illinois, but if it does, well, better living through chemistry, you know?
Links #459
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged California, censorship, China, Colorado, cops, France, marriage, Michigan, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, porn, racism, video on April 22, 2019| 1 Comment »
I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine.
Last week Scott Greenfield made a reference to this song, which reminded me of how much I like it, so I decided to share it with you. The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Amy Alkon, Furrygirl, Mistress Matisse, Emma Evans, and Jillian Keenan, in that order.
- As one does.
- Ohio, not Florida.
- STOP CALLING THE FUCKING COPS!
- The sex hysteria just keeps growing.
- Vandals wantonly destroy valuable media collection.
- Possibly the most horrifying example of “But my penis!” this year.
From the Archives
- Ghanaian sex work articles can be just as weirdly stupid as Nigerian ones.
- Since judges are now the handmaidens of prosecutors, this is no surprise.
- Prohibitionists now claim Backpage was “barred” from publishing sex ads.
- CAMTC: pompous, stuffy, bootlicking language in anti-whore propaganda.
- Fascism allows for a form of censorship more effective than suppression.
- The more “mommy whores” they see, the more they’ll see it’s mundane.
- Another setback in getting rid of these tyrannical, unconstitutional laws.
- It’s not “trafficking” when that would be inconvenient for a government.
- Canadian cops claim sexual harassment of women is to “protect” them.
- Female free will is incomprehensible to “law enforcement” misogynists.
- Millions can thank Carl Ferrer for selling them out to save his own skin.
- Will gullible reporters ever stop publishing Ashley Madison ads for free?
- “Legalization” always has weird laws written by obsessive bureaucrats.
- It’s dangerous to be a woman who knows the secrets of powerful men.
- Defining adults as children makes it much easier to create bogus stats.
- Because obviously pigs don’t have enough excuses to cage people yet.
- Cops, cats, fascism, pinball, your brain on drug policy and much more.
- Cops empowered to diagnose us as “victims” no matter what we think.
- The UK/US competition to destroy civil liberties using “sex trafficking”.
- A lot of adult businesses are forced to use dodgy payment processors.
- Trying to stop an omnipresent voluntary activity older than humanity.
- The idiocy of tribalism has increased with the waxing of this century.
- “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.
- Too pathetic to make it as a sex worker; he should’ve stayed a cop.
- FOSTA may have been a serious miscalculation by the government.
- “Rescuers” swoop in to “regulate” women’s jobs out of existence.
- It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
- Grosso has consistently pursued this course for four years now.
- The US wars on all sex workers, even those in other countries.
- Another state requires anti-whore indoctrination for licensing.
- Arizona wants hospitals to rat sex workers out to the pigs.
- Cops, justice, bagpipes, geological time and much more.
- Men: pay your whores! Ladies: get the money up front!
- US courts declare taboo pictures worse than child rape.
- It’s no longer safe for men to travel with their children.
- The Libertarian Republic is Republican, not libertarian.
- Liz Hilton of Empower on “rescue raids” in Thailand.
- Politician wants to prosecute crimes in civil court.
- On the arrests of Michael Lacey & Jim Larkin.
- Bollywood figures support sex worker rights.
- The larger implications of anti-sex toy laws.
- How can I deal with work-related anxiety?
- I’d really like to be wrong once in a while.
- May Aphrodite grant that I learn to relax.
- A snazzy T-shirt to support sex workers.
- A rare victory for sex workers over pigs.
- My last visit to my ranch in Oklahoma.
- Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
- Lots of rapist cops this week.
- A cartoon version of myself.
- Rapist cop of the week.
Easter 2019
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays on April 21, 2019| 3 Comments »
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