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Halloween 2019
Posted in Holidays, tagged holidays, paganism on October 31, 2019| 3 Comments »
In the News (#984)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Australia, Backpage, Believe Them, Between the Ears, brothels, censorship, China, Connecticut, Cooties, cops, Counterfeit Comfort, Dangerous Speech, diversion programs, Down Under, Eavesdropping, Georgia, holidays, hysteria, Illinois, internet, Iowa, prisons, prohibitionist myths, Pyrrhic Victory, Quiet Genocide, rape, scams, sex offender registry, Surplus Women, surveillance, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, transgender, United Kingdom, violence vs. sex workers, Washington (state), Welcome to the Future on October 30, 2019| 1 Comment »
I understand that…people…think…”this protects my kids”, but what they should be thinking…is “Does this protect my rights?” – Mark Yuracheck
Your government wants this to happen more often:
…[Jamel Alexander]…stomp[ed] a woman to death and le[ft] her body outside an apartment complex in Everett [Washington]…Alexander admitted…that he paid the woman for sex, but [claimed] when he left she was “alive and well”…[cops found] a van near the scene that contained women’s clothing, drops of blood and signs of a struggle. They also found a sports beanie…[which] Alexander [was wearing in]…apartment complex surveillance video…
Your government refers to this as “correction”:
A…[prisoner of the st]ate [of Connecticut had a heart attack due to]…being [repeatedly] pepper sprayed and [lock]ed in five-point restraints by [screws. He]…had rigor mortis in his jaw and upper body by the time [screws bothered to take his corpse]…to Yale-New Haven Hospital…Carl Robert Talbot…struggled with serious mental illness all his life and had been jailed for breach of peace and trespassing…[screws attacked him for] refusing to leave the…shower area. First they]…pepper spray[ed him three times, then locked him in restraints so he couldn’t breathe and dumped him in solitary confinement to die]…
In the US, his victims would have no recourse:
A Canberra brothel operator…told prospective sex workers they had to perform sex acts with him to prove they could do the job…Bradley Lester Grey, 54, allegedly told the nine women they needed to complete “training” as they were new to the industry and needed to know what clients expected. Grey went on trial in the ACT Supreme Court…on 16 counts of rape, 10 charges of committing acts of indecency, and one of attempted rape. He has pleaded not guilty…
UK cops keep desperately trying to draw others into their “sex slave” fantasies:
…police in Bristol have urged anyone who is renting out part or all of their home using sites like Airbnb should make themselves aware of the signs that modern slavery or sexual exploitation could be taking place within their properties…the organised crime bosses who have traditionally run brothels have…realised that they are far less likely to be caught if they can rent a property for a week at a time and set up “pop-up brothels” in someone else’s home…
It’s good to see so many challenges to these medieval laws:
A group of [people condemned to the] sex offender…[registry] in Georgia is suing the Butts County Sheriff’s office for [trespassing and vandalism. Last year]…Sheriff Gary Long directed deputies to place “Warning! No Trick-or-Treat at this address!!” signs in the front yards of over 200 [people without their permission]…from Oct. 24-Nov. 2. The sheriff’s office plans to use the same tactic again this year, and three [of the victims] have filed suit…“The law allows the sheriff to put a list of [the] sex offender…[registry] at his office, at the courthouse, on the internet,” [said] the lead attorney for the petitioners, Mark Yurachek…“It does not allow him to go door-to-door telling people you have a sex offender living next door to you…They’re coming onto their property [without permission] and putting the signs on there”…Long [bloviated] that regardless of the Judge’s ruling…he would do [whatever he felt like doing]…
They actually admit that part of the point is to normalize constant surveillance:
…the technology company Bark…offer[s] schools free, automated, 24-hour-a-day surveillance of what students…writ[e] in their school emails, shared documents and chat messages, and sending alerts to school officials any time the [algorithm] flag[s forbidden thoughts]…Before his school used Bark, [one] principal said, school officials would not know [every single detail of]…a student[‘s life]…unless one of their friends [tattled]…Bark and similar tech companies are now monitoring the emails and documents of millions of American students…[and it] doesn’t turn off when the school day is over: anything students type in official school email accounts, chats or documents is monitored 24 hours a day…Tech companies are also working with schools to monitor students’ web searches…internet usage…and…public social media accounts…Privacy experts [explain that] pervasive monitoring…hurt[s] children, and may be particularly dangerous for [those with trust issues]…but…proponents…[claim] monitoring in school [years] helps train students for constant surveillance after they graduate…
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time“:
At least 25 Illinois prison employees participated in online conversations that mocked, demeaned or disclosed personal and medical information about transgender inmates…in two private Facebook groups, each with more than 4,000 members. The degrading posts were written by [screws of all pay grades and euphemistic titles]…from across the state. Members…outed LGBT+ inmates and openly discussed private information about them…Many posts reference a then-incarcerated transgender woman, Strawberry Hampton, who was transferred to a women’s facility…The comments emerged amid a series of lawsuits…including a class-action claim brought by six transgender women…[including] Hampton…[for persistent and pervasive] abuse and mistreatment…
Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you:
…to my horror, a female voice that I don’t recognize starts talking to my 18-month-old son. He looks around the room and then at the ceiling, wondering who’s there…The voice is laughing…she says we have a nice house and encourages the nanny to respond. She does not. The voice even jokes that she hopes we don’t change our password…After about five minutes…the voice starts to get agitated at the nanny’s lack of response and then snaps, in a very threatening voice: “I’m [magically] coming [through the camera] for the baby if you don’t answer me, bitch!”…We unplug the cameras and change all passwords…Still helpless, I started doing the only thing I could [think of] do[ing]…I typed “Nest + camera + hacked” and found out that this happens frequently. Parent after parent relayed stories similar to mine — threatening to steal a baby is shockingly common — and some much worse, such as playing pornography over the microphone to a 3-year-old…
Cops show you what they are every day; why don’t you believe them?
In 2017, Carroll, Iowa [cop] Jacob Smith [was]…force[d to resign] after [he molested several]…teenaged girls. The Carroll Times Herald, published by the local Burns family since 1929, [published the news as they were supposed to], including a comment by Smith’s ex-wife accusing the [typical and representative] cop of being a “pedophile” and revealing that Smith’s previous employer, another Iowa police department, had [also] fired him for [molesting]…a teen girl. Despite the fact that everything the Herald reported was true, Smith (who admitted [molesting teenage girls] “wasn’t right” and “looks like shit”) was still able to launch a ruinous libel suit in retaliation, thanks to Iowa’s failure to enact anti-SLAPP laws to prevent this kind of conduct. The judge found [in favor of] the Herald…but they still ended up $140,000 in debt for the portion of the legal fees not covered by their insurer. Now, the paper is on the brink of bankruptcy, and begging for money on Gofundme…
“…history’s being rewritten to claim FOSTA took Backpage down, despite that not being the order in which things happened. The biggest issue, though, is that taking down these sites makes it harder to fight sex trafficking — and the feds know it…Reason‘s Elizabeth Nolan Brown…discuss[es] documents she recently obtained in which federal investigators repeatedly acknowledge that Backpage helped them do their job, and wasn’t run by a bunch of criminals…”
Just in case you weren’t horrified enough by China’s “re-education” camps for Uighurs:
[A Uighur woman who escaped China] explained: “They came to my house at night, put a black sack on my head and brought me to a place that looked like a jail…my husband and children [had already escaped]…to Kazakhstan…I…was ordered to teach Chinese to follow detainees”…Singing of propaganda songs and reciting slogans such as “I love China”, “Thank you to the Communist Party”…and “I love Xi Jingping” are mandatory…Anyone who didn’t follow the rules was punished…Ms Sauytbay…was beaten and deprived of food for two days after she was hugged by a woman who asked her for help…[cops routinely subject] pretty girls…to…gang rape….Ms Sauytbay…saw [other torture victims]…covered in blood and with fingernails removed…
Diary #487
Posted in Diary, tagged blogging on October 29, 2019| 1 Comment »
On Thursday night I hopped on a redeye for North Carolina to attend my friend Kaytlin Bailey’s wedding. It may have been the best wedding I’ve ever attended; Kaytlin has a keen sense for the gently unconventional, so the ceremony and reception were blissfully free of all the tiresome, hackneyed conventions which infest modern US weddings, while yet keeping all the meaningful rituals. As you can see in the picture below the bride was absolutely stunning, and yes that’s the lovely Jillian Keenan (another dear friend and one of Kaytlin’s bridesmaids) sitting next to me (the other lady is Kaytlin’s best friend & maid of honor). In addition to the lovely festivities and catching up with old friends (such as Alex Andrews of Swop Behind Bars, who I roomed with), I also got to spend time chatting with a number of the bride’s family members and other wedding guests. And even my return flight got me home at a reasonable hour on Sunday, where I’m now typing this now. Please join me in a toast to the bride and groom, and may they be happy and prosper!
Back Issue #76
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged blogging on October 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Superior authority does not grant superior wisdom. – “Q & A (Part One)”
- Cops & politicians enjoy vast circle-jerk to fantasies of enslaved teen girls.
- What “law enforcement” means in claiming it wants to “help” sex workers.
- It’s illegal to pay for sex in Sweden, unless you film it for everyone to see.
- This is pretty sleazy even for an anti-whore sleazefest like Law and Order.
- Americans keep pretending to be shocked, then keep caging more people.
- She “thought she was helping her friends” like I think I’m Maggie McNeill.
- Your periodic reminder that Dennis Hof is a revolting excuse for a human.
- Uber now wants its drivers to spy on sex workers & rat us out to the pigs.
- We’re not hearing quite as much of this “highway” bullshit as we used to.
- This man portrays men we choose to have sex with as “sexual predators”.
- Another private pogrom bankrolled by billionaire sociopath Swanee Hunt.
- May Rolling Stone‘s fortunes follow its credibility down the anti-sex toilet.
- Clown hysteria gives rise to organized violence & naked authoritarianism.
- Philippine president carrying the “War on Drugs” to its logical conclusion.
- More terrifying insanity from the Polk County, Florida pocket police state.
- Is any other work so often treated as a subject for “debate” by outsiders?
- ESPLERP vs. Gascon reaches a court which might actually do something.
- Liz Brown takes a scalpel to King County’s stupid response to her article.
- The majority of sex businesses worldwide are controlled by sex workers.
- Self-deception, pearl-clutching & offensive ignorance, all under one roof!
- I’m pleased for the very small part I played in helping expose this rapist.
- Lingerie shopping with other whores; Lorelei introduces me to Hamilton.
- Just a reminder that prohibitionism still exists in decriminalized regimes.
- Garments prostitutes were required to wear in medieval European cities.
- This ridiculous fantasy is nauseating even by “sex trafficking” standards.
- Picket-fence gay men are such wonderful, dependable sex worker allies.
- Nothing they can do to this monster would approach what I’d do to him.
- They can’t even maintain their own paradigm for more than a sentence.
- How could you have been promiscuous when you never amateur dated?
- Institutional responses to clown hysteria grow increasingly more stupid.
- Stupid assumptions about sex work result in incredibly stupid concepts.
- What happens when you don’t fight tyrannical laws from the beginning.
- “Operation Cross-Country” appears to be spreading to other countries.
- And some of you thought the clown thing was kind of off-topic for me.
- Po-faced twits with taped mouths carry pre-printed propaganda cards.
- An interesting article on getting funding for sex worker rights projects.
- Fascist scum like this will be first against the wall after the politicians.
- Why do so many losers want porn movies to be condom commercials?
- A program so unpopular cops need to force or frighten women into it.
- “Authorities” make another bogus claim about a “sex trafficking gang”.
- Future people will marvel at our deeply weird obsession with virginity.
- Amateur dating seems so creepy, weird and kind of disgusting to me.
- Seattle pretends to be “liberal”, but it’s home to vile bullshit like this.
- “…but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Will Asstoon ever get professional help for his delusions of grandeur?
- Control freak lobbies for law defining adult sex workers as children.
- “They lied, of course. That’s what police officers are trained to do.”
- The bizarre things one finds in news stories about clown incidents.
- Picture a crab waving its claws around and foaming at the mouth.
- Half of all Americans are now in a pig facial recognition database.
- A win for Backpage on one front and a huge setback on another.
- A sex therapist debunks prohibitionist propaganda about clients.
- “Sex addiction” is now a defense even for violent sex offenders.
- The Great Clown Panic of 2016 continues to spin out of control.
- We aren’t hearing a peep out of Gay, Inc about this any more.
- Will you settle a dispute between me and another sex worker?
- As long as these laws exist, all women are vulnerable to cops.
- I find it darkly amusing that amateurs are so shocked by this.
- “Futurists” should put their “predictions” further in the future.
- Yet another study confirms what we’ve been saying all along.
- Isn’t the Swedish model at least better than criminalization?
- Prohibitionists want these guys to “protect” us from pimps.
- Canadian cops are trying to intimidate sex workers again.
- A testament to the entrenched stupidity of authoritarians.
- Prohibitionists claim the Mafia wanted Prohibition to end.
- Kamala Harris’ highly illegal publicity stunt vs Backpage.
- Lambda Legal files an amicus brief in the ESPLERP case.
- Another sleazy scam artist raping aspiring sex workers.
- Dinner with Christina Slater and Desmond Ravenstone.
- Caty Simon on the “sex work leads to drug use” myth.
- It’s impossible to express how much this delights me.
- A disproportionate number of actual pimps are cops.
- More “beauty salon sex trafficking” idiocy from Ohio.
- The ACLU files an amicus brief in the ESPLERP case.
- Sometimes even a little bit of “authority” is enough.
- While the feds actively persecute some sex workers…
- That’s how extraordinarily dumb this sounds to me.
- The shorter phrase for this is “prudish busybodies”.
- Robot whore fantasy meets blow job cafe fantasy.
- On the Trump “grab her by the pussy” brouhaha.
- Be careful out there, my sisters in Philadelphia.
- What should I do if I fall in love with an escort?
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
- Sexually-unsatisfied males can be dangerous.
- Possibly the most promising cure for HIV yet.
- Clown hysteria is a moral panic in miniature.
- Man of La Mancha with three other whores.
- “Youth pastors” are nearly as bad as cops.
- Felicia Anna on the “My Red Light” scam.
- Mississippi cops go ape shit over clowns.
- Developments in the Celeste Guap case.
- I love it when they feed on each other.
- My very first (two-part) Q & A column.
- A setback for women’s rights in India.
- Another massive pogrom in Soho.
- In which I get a new smartphone.
- All rapist cops of October, 2016.
- A short history of clown panics.
- Liz did this so I didn’t have to.
- What really causes addiction?
- Let’s play “count the idiocies”.
- Not a police state, no sirree!
- This is an excellent analogy.
- Introducing Science Hooker.
- My sex-related pet peeves.
- THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
- “Safe house” = “jail”.
- Links for Halloween.
- Stop faking! Or not.
- In memory of April.
Links #486
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged Colorado, cops, Florida, illegal aliens, internet, Iowa, Ireland, Never Call the Cops, video on October 27, 2019| 7 Comments »
Let me out. It’s fucking dark in here. – the late Shay Bradley
There just aren’t many good Halloween videos any more, so I’m always happy when someone (in this case Kate D’Adamo) provides one. The links above it were contributed by Franklin Harris, Grace, Tushy Galore, Mike Siegel, Tim Cushing, and Jesse Walker, in that order.
- Florida man.
- A seasonal prank.
- I hate it when this happens.
- Not a police state, no sirree.
- What part of “not for any reason” is so hard to grasp?
- Who thought something called a “cloud” would be permanent?
From the Archives
- Moral panics only end after they start harming middle-class white women.
- Yet another pogrom in the pocket police-state that is Polk County, Florida.
- Just in case you think it’s only sex workers who will be harmed by SESTA.
- Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
- How is seeing a sex worker “harm reduction” in a monogamous marriage?
- Y’all didn’t stand up for actual pros; now they’re coming for you dabblers.
- You thought I was joking when I put that necrophilia item in this heading.
- New sleazy government trick: use civil suits rather than criminal charges.
- Claiming this constitutes “slavery” is almost as stupid as calling the cops.
- I always feel dirty when prohibitionists share wanking fantasies in public.
- A well-known prohibitionist publicly masturbates to “sex slave” fantasies.
- This is finally getting attention outside of libertarian & sex worker circles.
- “Authorities” claiming North Dakota is a “sex trafficking hub” is hilarious.
- Corporations are becoming the favored tool of censors around the world.
- When a non-sexworker uses the term “decriminalization”, read carefully.
- Where “predators” is used to mean “those who hire local entrepreneurs”.
- Outcry against the grotesque “Operation Northern Spotlight” is growing.
- When a law intended as political theater is defeated, politicians still win.
- Threatening landlords to get them to evict whores is a popular pig trick.
- The myth of Nigerian “sex trafficking” has grown ever more outlandish.
- Spending as much time as possible in less-haunted parts of the house.
- Pearl-clutching is both funnier and sadder when a young man does it.
- This popular UK cop masturbatory fantasy has crossed the Irish Sea.
- Politicians everywhere are obsessed with regulating women’s bodies.
- When a highway is destroyed, the traffic has to go into side streets.
- This was only necessary due to idiotic laws against sex businesses.
- I wonder what fraction of his rhetoric is directed toward “perverts”?
- Naturally, because it’s politicians’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
- Activists, shareholders and employees ask Amazon to be less evil.
- How can a client who was busted by cops help sex worker rights?
- Really not much more repressive than the so-called “free world”.
- Despite this popular UK cop fantasy, none has ever been found.
- Sex workers in Indonesia form an association to fight together.
- Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you.
- Indonesia is trying to criminalize all sex outside of marriage.
- Cops, Fats Domino, language, talking fish and much more.
- Cops call children abducted from sex workers “recovered”.
- Another sleazy scam artist raping aspiring sex workers.
- The beginning of the end for the “sex addiction” scam.
- It was inevitable they’d get around to transwomen.
- TSA is helping to build a giant biometric database.
- Another story touting bullshit “safe harbor” laws.
- What the fuck is going on in San Angelo, Texas?
- An excuse for being moody and cantankerous.
- Cops, books, Sesame Street and much more.
- “Sex trafficking” as the new “blood libel”.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2017 and 2018.
- October 2014 and 2015 in retrospect.
- Links for Halloween, 2017 and 2018.
- “This is not about sex trafficking“.
- Katie Herzog on Stephen Elliott.
In the News (#983)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged A Tale That Grew in the Telling, agency denial, Amnesty At Last, Business As Usual, Canada, cops, diversion programs, drugs, Election Day, First They Came for the Hookers, Florida, harm reduction, Having and Eating Cake, internet, law, lawyers, Mexico, Mississippi, Panopticon, Permanent Record, politicians, porn, prisons, prohibitionist myths, propaganda, psychology, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, Safe Position, shame, Shift in the Wind, Stop faking!, surveillance, teachers, Torture Chamber, transgender, Washington DC on October 26, 2019| 2 Comments »
The…carceral feminists[s]…are frightened. This is a culture war. – Nnenna
It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized:
[Washington DC’s] “Human Trafficking Unit” is…a misnomer…only two percent of [those they]…arrest…[are charged with] human trafficking…The many proponents of D.C.’s decriminalization bill say that violence is endemic in the sex trade, and that policing is the cause of the violence, not the solution…[most] of the violence comes from [cops] themselves…in 2012, [cop] Kenneth Furr was convicted of [attempting to murder] a transgender woman who refused to [submit to rape. Cops frequently]…rape people while…on the job, [using the excuse] of making an undercover arrest…MPD [claims] they have rules of conduct for prostitution stings [but the evidence shows these are ignored]…
Marijuana prohibition (in North America, at least) will soon be a thing of the past:
Mexico‘s Senate will vote for a bill to fully legalise marijuana in the next few days…marking a [long-overdue] step towards…removing it as a source of income for [the police and] violent drug gangs…Senator Ricardo Monreal, the leader of…[the majority] party in the upper chamber of congress, said…“The end of the prohibitionist policy is good for the country”…Late last year, the Supreme Court said lawmakers have until 24 October to legalise marijuana, after the high court ruled in several cases that the prohibition of the recreational use of the drug violates the constitution. Under Mexican law, if the Supreme Court issues the same decision five times, the rulings set a precedent and the court can then order the establishment of a regulatory framework as well as further legal action…
This could be the beginning of a new economic era in Mexico, and if they’re wise they’ll follow it up by legalization of all drugs and a campaign advertising that fact to tourists.
First They Came for the Hookers… (#900) 
New items of this type appear under the heading “Permanent Record”:
…28-year-old criminal defence lawyer Nadia Guo found herself thrown into the Canadian public eye [when] a local Toronto news story…outed her as a former escort…[with] the [stage name] “Dawn Lee”…the timing of the story…couldn’t be more conspicuous. The morning after it dropped, she was due to appear in front of the Law Society of Ontario tribunal to prove she was of “good enough character” to become a lawyer. This hearing was for reasons that had nothing to do with escorting…mostly…her outspoken social media…comments online about police, crown prosecutors and judges…in spite of the damage…Guo was finally granted her license to practice law [earlier this year]…[and has] used her platform to create a new story for herself, writing about navigating sex worker stigma in the legal world, using Tumblr to challenge how she’s been portrayed in media, signing with a literary agency to write a memoir, and officially starting her own legal practice. We caught up with Guo to find out how one rebuilds a reputation – and life – after facing the full wrath of public stigma…
Hearings for the DC decriminalization bill dwarfed similar meetings in NYC:
For more than 14 hours on [October 17th], D.C. officials heard…public testimony about decriminalizing prostitution. The…measure…would remove criminal penalties for…consenting adults…it would not touch existing prohibitions on sex work involving children, coercion, fraud, abduction, or violence, nor other criminal laws surrounding sexual assault, labor exploitation, or activity involving people under 18. You might not have guessed that…from listening to…[speeches] from “anti-exploitation” groups that…were rife with refusals to distinguish between voluntary sex work and human trafficking, or between what the bill would actually do…and the detailed tales of trauma they told. Again and again, nonprofit representatives invoked trafficked children and raped women…The president of…NOW…Toni Van Pelt, [fantasized] that the bill would [legalize kidnapping]…Councilmember David Grosso, who introduced the bill and is now among four sponsors, stressed repeatedly that, if anything, this measure would give police more capacity to handle the sex crimes that should actually be sex crimes…This…earned Grosso—a white man—a number of direct and indirect accusations [that]…he didn’t understand life in black and brown communities…But Grosso only brought forward the legislation after being approached by a coalition of activists…from…DECRIMNOW, [who] are overwhelmingly young D.C. residents of color, many with personal experience in sex work…
Your government refers to this as “correction”:
Robert Wayne Johnson…[was] grappling with mental illness…[and] couldn’t afford about $2,500 in municipal court fines and fees accumulated over three years for [minor] infractions such as driving without a license…a judge sentenced Johnson to a two-day stint in jail [but] instead…[he was caged without reason] for 52 more days until he killed himself in January 2018…county officials [have no explanation]…Johnson’s death is among the hundreds each year that make suicide the leading cause of death in local jails…in the days before his death, a distraught Johnson tied torn towel strips around his neck in an apparent effort to strangle himself. That [was ignored]…by staff…on…the day Johnson died, he tied shoelaces around his neck and…later cut his wrists with a razor blade until another detainee took the blade away and alerted [screws who locked him]…in [solitary confinement]…15 minutes [later]…he was [found dead] with his shoelaces wrapped around his neck and tied to the bed frame…
Pro-decrim articles are even common on conservative sites these days:
…Conservatives don’t have to like it, and they certainly don’t have to view prostitution as moral or acceptable. But if they want to embrace practical reality over moral idealism and help women, they’ll begrudgingly accept that we must stop waging state-led war on the world’s oldest profession. Criminalizing prostitution only pushes it underground, making it significantly more dangerous for the women that participate…Decriminalization doesn’t magically make the sex industry a wonderful place to work or eliminate the moral qualms that reasonable people might have with prostitution. But it does do a great deal to make the trade, which always will exist and always has existed, much safer for everyone involved…
A Tale That Grew in the Telling (#974)
This month, Florida became the first state in the nation requiring sex-trafficking [indoctrin]ation as part of every student’s curriculum…The new policy requires every school district to implement age-appropriate lessons about [how sex is bad and scary and women are too stupid to be allowed to make decisions about it]…Valerie Ellery, the Florida Department of Education’s new Human Trafficking Education Specialist [admitted] “[I am] very grateful we are able to have this rule passed so [I] can [ride this gravy train while it lasts]”…One of the lead proponents for the rule was Selah Freedom, a Sarasota-based…organization that [makes its money via a religious “diversion” program for sex workers that is so unpopular the only way it gets participants is by cops literally forcing or frightening women into it]…
If you aren’t worried about spy planes, how about this?
…satellite imagery…resolution keeps improving…[the ability to] identify individuals or license plates from space…[is] not far-off…In just 15 years, we’ve gone from being able to see things the size of 40-inch TVs to those the size of smart tablets. There are [US] government controls on the resolution of commercially available satellite imagery, but [not on the imagery available to any government. And even]…current American spy satellites…[have] about 0.10 meters resolution…Drones can be shot out of the sky, yet little can be done to combat or hide from cameras virtually invisible from the ground. No one consents to being imaged from space…Yet [in]…a…not-so-distant future…we [will be able to] direct very high-resolution satellites to any point on Earth, easily identifying a person’s location or activities. Who will have access to this data? The police? Politicians looking for dirt on their opponents, or angry spouses with a vendetta? How will this data be used in courts — and who can be trusted to interpret it? The thought of potential misuses is chilling…
Misuse by “authorities” in both the US and under other oppressive regimes is 100% certain, and given that China, Israel and other police states are already selling data and surveillance equipment, no law in any US jurisdiction will be able to keep this power out of the hands of American cops for much longer.
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake (#981)
This is getting both nastier and more tangled:
…the turmoil surrounding controversial adult website GirlsDoPorn took a sharp turn, when the Department of Justice unsealed details of an FBI investigation against the site’s owners…[which] complicate mainstream coverage of this as a cliché tale of innocent girls from the heartland getting duped by sinister smut-peddlers. Go through the very strange story of GDP and you will encounter a teen affiliate marketing tycoon, accusations of rape and sexual assault, “uncharged conspirators” rolling on former associates, a remote island paradise full of financial secrets and a conveniently dead lawyer who set up shady companies with names like Bubble Gum Media…In July 2015, [GDP owner Michael Pratt and his associates] began publishing their victims’ personal information ([legal] names, links to social media accounts, hometowns, pictures, etc.) en masse to a website called PornWikileaks.com…[which the following] November…was transferred to an email address belonging to…Pratt. Turns out PornWikileaks — the infamous website started by the even more infamous adult industry pariah, Donny Long, and which hosted a doxxing and extortion fodder forum against adult models called “Whore Hunting”…was owned by none other than the GirlsDoPorn owner…
Triple Threat
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged cops, drugs, License To Rape, rape, Tennessee, Triple Threat on October 25, 2019| 5 Comments »
Every so often there’s a news story I at first intend to feature in a news column, but once I start trying to edit it down to a quote I discover that there’s just far too much there to use without really unbalancing the layout. This one was slated for the “License to Rape” subheading of tomorrow’s news column, but there’s so much more to it that…well, see for yourself. Let’s start with the disgusting and all-too-common pretext of a “search” to justify sexual assault:
…on April 21st of this year, [cops in Hamilton County, Tennessee]…stopped a car [Angel] Johnson’s daughter was riding in, along with four other girls and a boy…[pig Daniel] Wilkey [lied that] he stopped them on a window tint violation, even though…the car did not have its windows tinted…Wilkey [then changed his story, pretending]…he “smelled weed” coming from the vehicle, even though…no one in the vehicle had smoked…Wilkey then ordered all six minors out of the vehicle…during a driving rainstorm, and [demanded they leave] their phones inside [so nobody could film the ensuing bizarre behavior culminating in sexual assault]…“As [fellow pig Jacob] Goforth stood by and watched, Wilkey began [proselytizing] to the minors…and [said] he was ‘praying’ for them”…Goforth [joined in the proselytizing, insulted his victims and]…wouldn’t let them call their parents…Wilkey then [demanded] the boy in the group [do a striptease while he groped]…Johnson’s [14-year-old] daughter [over her entire body, concentrating on her]…breasts…buttocks…and…crotch…[he then groped] the other [teenage girls]…in the same manner…while…Goforth watched [and made furtive movements in his pants]…the entire [assault] took two hours…in the cold rain...
Naturally, Johnson filed a lawsuit against these abusive creeps. But if that were the whole story, it would’ve fit in the news column. Apparently, Wilkey routinely molests women using similar excuses, and as you can see above he seems to believe he has the right to molest people spiritually as well as physically:
…Shandele Riley…[reported] that…Wilkey followed her to a friend’s house from a nearby gas station…[and accused her of] holding meth…to [justify]…a full body [groping]…He then asked if she had anything illegal in her car. She said she had a marijuana roach stashed in a pack of cigarettes…Wilkey became verbally abusive. Then he…asked her if she was “saved” and believed in Jesus Christ...Wilkey then [said]…God was talking to him…and…wanted him to baptize [Riley]…If Riley agreed…Wilkey said he would only cite her for marijuana possession and speak to the judge on her behalf. Riley complied with Wilkey’s demands, which included grabbing towels from her friends house and following Wilkey…to a nearby lake…[where they] were joined by…Goforth, who [watched and made furtive movements in his pants] as Wilkey proceeded with the “baptism”…[by stripping to] his boxer shorts…he…placed one hand on [Riley’s] back, and his other hand on [her tit] and completely submerged [her]…
Needless to say, Wilkey didn’t keep his promise so Riley’s suing him and Goforth as well. But lest you think we’re done with two creepy molestation-and-voyeurism-by-inbred-looking-cops lawsuits, remember that Wilkey apparently enjoys molesting males as well:
Wilkey followed [James Mitchell and Latisha Menifee]…and [pulled them over] on the false claims of “window tint violation” and that he could smell the odor of marijuana as [he] followed the[m]…Wilkey handcuffed [Mitchell]…and…began to grab [his] genitals. When [Mitchell] told Wilkey that [he] had an untreated and large hernia and that Wilkey’s actions were [hurting him]…Brewer and Wilkey jerked [Mitchell’s] arms high above his back, and slammed [him] face-down onto the hot engine hood…[they] then beat…and [kicked him], slammed [him] to the ground, and…anal[ly raped him with a gloved hand. Mitchell]…suffered numerous injuries including “tearing of his anus” and an aggravation of his existing hernia. The [pigs also planted]…drugs in his underwear…[but the charges] were…dropped after the dashcam video was made public…
Apparently three lawsuits in as many weeks were enough for Sheriff Jim Hammond to reward Wilkey with a paid vacation for all the good publicity. But lest you feel inclined to imagine that Hamilton County can correct their police brutality problem by getting rid of this violent wacko, consider that there are at least two cops (and probably more we haven’t heard about yet) who were willing to go along with him; that judges have never questioned his repetition of the same idiotic claims about window tint and clouds of weed smoke detectable at highway speeds from other cars at great distance and/or in the rain; and that at least one politician thought it was a good idea to give a dangerous buffoon nearly absolute power over anyone in the area who dares to get into a car.
Sex Positive Now
Posted in Guest Columns, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, tagged Book Reviews, porn, psychology, sacred prostitutes, shame on October 24, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A while back my friend Allena Gabosch asked me to write an essay for a new collection called Sex Positive Now, and a few days ago I received a press release for the book with the request that I share it. So without further ado:
Allena Gabosch and Jeremy Shub have written Sex Positive Now , a book about sex-positivity. The book contains essays and interviews by and with sex positive celebrities, activists and educators along with additional content written by Allena and Jeremy. The book covers topics including the History of Sex-Positive Culture , Sex Negativity, Cultural Taboos about Porn and Sex Work, Health and Emotions, Intimacy, Relationships, Polyamory, Kink, Tantra/Sacred/ Taoism, Consent, and Community. Our goal is to support the change of cultural norms around sexuality and relationships so people have the freedom and permission to be the sexual beings they already are. Pleasure and joy are vital to our wellbeing and sexual shame is a thing of the past. People are celebrated for their sexuality, gender, who or how they love. Consensual sexuality in all of its forms is healthy and life affirming. People can make conscious choices about their sexuality and relationships. A few of our 55 contributors include Annie Sprinkle, Janet Hardy, Race Bannon, Susie Bright, Buck Angel & Cunning Minx. If you want to review and promote the book, free ebooks will be available for review. You can purchase the book at sexpositivenow.com and the book launch will be in Melbourne and Seattle on 28th Oct.
In the News (#982)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged agency denial, Bottleneck, brothels, California, Canada, cell phones, censorship, Check Your Premises, China, cops, disease, Don't Call It Trafficking, drugs, end demand, Florida, holidays, Hollywood, hysteria, internet, Ireland, Kansas, language, law, Legislators Gone Wild, Loose Cannons, male prostitutes, Nevada, New York, Opting Out, Pennsylvania, pimps, Played Out, porn, prisons, prohibitionist myths, Pyrrhic Victory, scams, shame, slavery, Stalkers in Blue, streetwalkers, surveillance, The Clueless Leading the Hysterical, underage, United Kingdom on October 23, 2019| 1 Comment »
[Rachel Moran] is a liar, a bitch and a bully and…was never even a sex worker. – Gaye Dalton
Hollywood has its collective head so far up the collective prohibitionist rectum that it has to bend over backward describing an actual pimp as a “male madam” and a “sex fixer” rather than simply admitting that the truth about sex work doesn’t resemble a bad screenplay full of evil “traffickers”, pathetic “victims” and brave “rescuers”:
Scotty Bowers, whose explicit, best-selling 2012 memoir revealed a covert realm of Golden Age Hollywood sexuality, died [on October 13th] of natural causes…He was 96. The former U.S. Marine and gas station attendant turned erotic fixer to the stars (including, he said, Katharine Hepburn and Rock Hudson) was the subject of an acclaimed 2017 documentary, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood. Bowers helped keep the (often queer) secrets of contract players who were bound by morality clauses during the heyday of the studio system…a business he would later describe as sexual matchmaking…notable Hollywood figures were…set up with Bowers’ network of prostitutes — both men and women…
Prohibitionists never understand how unhinged they sound to normal people:
For the past four years, [Edmonton, Alberta] has taken a harm-reduction approach to body rub parlours…[breaking a long tradition of abusing and dehumanizing sex workers.] But at a committee meeting last month, city councillors supported a motion that would pivot sharply away from that model…Susan Holtby, a [violent prohibitionist, vomited out nonsense about]…”We can [forcibly castrate men]…We can have police go in and charge [people for having sex drives or needing to pay their bills]; we can publi[cly shame people] like [puritans have always done]. I think [all of society should obey me as supreme moral authority]”…
Let’s hope Moran discovers the Streisand Effect:
[Prohibitionist shill] Rachel Moran [is suing former sex worker]…Gaye Dalton [in an attempt to silence her for telling the truth about Moran]…on social media…Moran [claims to have] been left in a state of distress after [the truth about her scam came out, because]…“She makes a good living out of free travel and loads of attention out of bullying and persecuting sex workers and that is all she is capable of caring about. The fact that innocent women are seeing their lives destroyed by her isn’t even on her radar”…Dalton…also [revealed that] SPACE International, an organisation founded by…Moran [with the backing of prohibitionists] in 2012…[is] run by frauds who…sell…out the lives of sex workers…
“Crime”: introducing two people. Sentence: life as a pariah:
Hope Joy Zeferjohn…is serving a nearly six-year sentence in [a cage in Kansas, followed by]…life…on the state sex offender registry…Zeferjohn, now 21…is seeking a pardon…Prosecutors [of course] defend their case against Zeferjohn…Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay [said] “If you give a pass to every [legal minor] who [introduces another legal minor to an adult on Facebook]? I don’t know that society actually wants that to happen”…
Don’t Call It Trafficking (#788)
It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it:
Los Angeles courts force roughly 100,000 people [in]to…weeks and even months of [slavery] each year, exposing some of them to exploitative and hazardous working conditions without enjoying basic labor rights and protections…UCLA…researchers analyzing [so-called] community service also found that government departments and [fascist cronies] rely on workers threatened with debts and jail time to complete labor that would otherwise be paid – and that those affected are overwhelmingly people of color…[the extent of the slavery is shocking:] an estimated total of 8m hours…a year, the equivalent of 4,900 paid jobs. Government agencies receive an estimated 3m hours of [that slave] labor, replacing 1,800 jobs…[the slavery includes] imposed deadlines, and…nearly one in five people sentenced to [this so-called] community service ultimately face a probation violation or arrest warrant as a result…
Once in a while, there are witnesses to the way cops act toward women:
An off-duty NYPD [cop threatened a waitress with] his gun at a Queens karaoke bar while partying with his sergeant…he…pointed it at a waitress’s head and threatened to shoot her…[if she refused to “]hang out[” with him]…Two of the bar’s waitresses went to the 109th Precinct stationhouse to report what happened, [foolishly] thinking…he [was impersonating a cop]…Hyun Kim…was suspended without pay, as was the sergeant, who was not charged criminally…
A proposed amendment to a Nye County ordinance…would forbid Nye County legal prostitutes from leaving brothels for more than six hours within a 10-day period. Additionally, prostitutes would only be allowed to leave the premises of a brothel between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. If they failed to follow these rules, they would need re-test for venereal diseases and HIV, which they are already required to do weekly under Nevada law…The proposed changes were decided by a group of…brothel owners…and [politicians to suppress whores and remind them that they]…cannot be trusted…and…are…dirty, disgusting women that have to be kept from the public and be locked up…
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical (#886) 
There has literally never been a case of a kid getting drugged candy in his trick-or-treat bag:
…Pennsylvania police are [once again trying to frighten ignorant parents with bullshit about people supposedly giving expensive]…drug-laced edibles [to their brats for free]. The Johnstown Police Department [repeated the myth]…on their Facebook page…after [stealing a package of]…”Nerds Rope edibles containing 400mg of THC” while [rooting around in a private home where they had no legitimate business to be]…the department [claimed] “Drug laced edibles are package [sic] like regular candy and may be hard [for illiterates] to distinguish from the real candy”…
Every time the claim of drugs or other tampering with Halloween candy has been made, it turns out to be either an intentional hoax or some nefarious shit by the parents. Cops will keep this up as long as people let them pretend that adults never like sweet flavors.
Any non-politician would have given this up as a bad idea long ago:
…the U.K. government has backtracked on its efforts to implement the [unworkable and repeatedly-delayed] Age Verification scheme that would have compelled anyone who accessed adult websites in the realm to officially verify they were not minors. Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, released a statement…that the government “has concluded that this objective of coherence will be best achieved through our wider online harms proposals and, as a consequence, will not be commencing Part 3 of the Digital Economy Act 2017 concerning age verification for online pornography”…
“Wider online harms proposal” sounds ominous, so I wouldn’t count this as a victory just yet.
When this (soon) arrives in the US, the excuse will be “sex trafficking”:
Picture a world in which the baseline requirement for a new smartphone is a facial recognition test…in China, beginning December 1, that’s the scrutiny to which the country’s over 850 million internet users will be subject, without exception. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology [vomited out a bunch of ridiculous excuses, but the real reason is that China is trying to establish a literal panopticon]…A rule imposed by the German interior ministry in 2016 requires that domestic telecoms ask customers for ID cards, foreign passports, or temporary ID papers when they buy a SIM card or a cell phone. Under French law, carriers must collect identifying information of all users and subscribers of prepaid services…
We’re lucky cops and prosecutors moronically chose to target such a wealthy client:
Lawyers for…Robert Kraft are suing Florida prosecutors…[for] withholding evidence related to prostitution charges faced by the football magnate…[after] the Florida attorney general’s office filed an appeal of a court order that the massage-room video footage of Kraft was inadmissible as evidence. If they were smart, the state prosecutors would let this one go — and hope everyone forgets the embarrassing, abusive shenanigans law enforcement pulled with their six-month “human trafficking” stakeout…Some have scoffed that of course a rich, powerful, white man like Kraft would employ mighty resources in an attempt to skirt punishment for things those in less privileged positions cannot escape. But the flip side is that people like Kraft — who have both vast financial resources and sufficient cultural power — are often the only ones non-precarious enough to push back and considered newsworthy enough for coverage…Each week, across the country, women and men are rounded up, thrown in jail, shamed in the press, and saddled with criminal records simply for introducing money into consensual sexual relationships between adults. But few people care or even notice, and those that do tend to cheer it on…
Diary #486
Posted in Diary, tagged blogging, drugs, psychology on October 22, 2019| 1 Comment »
Last weekend I went out to Sunset on Saturday and returned on Monday; in addition to allowing me to avoid Tacoma traffic, it also made the week feel shorter (which was quite nice considering that I had several lovely appointments in that shortened week). And now this week I’m flying off to North Carolina for my friend Kaytlin Bailey’s wedding, then next week I’ll have a small birthday celebration mostly involving getting high as a kite with some dear friends. All in all, it has been an exceptionally pleasant autumn for me; I’m no longer young enough to dance through the dry leaves under the moon, but I’ve at last reached an emotional space where I’m OK with my life as it is, and I live in the present rather than always in the future as I used to. And since I’ve learned how to manage my summer anxiety through the magic of cannabis, my brain has already relaxed into dark mode rather than taking months to do so as it has for a number of years now. My life isn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but the awful things locked up in crates under my mental stairs have been relatively quiet for a while now, so I’m going to enjoy that for as long as it lasts.
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