Either “I was only following orders” is a valid defense, or it isn’t; either we agree that hired enforcers are absolved from responsibility because “they’re just doing their jobs”, or we don’t. – “Godwin’s Law”
- “If adulthood’s deferred, is it a wonder kids have a hard time growing up?“
- “Sane people realize words have different meanings in different contexts.“
- “Removing references to trafficking will hurt our ability to grab attention.“
- “If you don’t support the way people survive, you don’t support survival.“
- Some men use honest cash rather than trickery to obtain their first sex.
- “They’re good clients, they give good money, better than anybody else.“
- The 19th-century Chinese whore who became the greatest pirate ever.
- “The sex industry is filled with strong, smart, business-savvy women.“
- South African police punish sex workers for daring to demand rights.
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- “Prohibitionists would rather see sex workers dead than listen to us.“
- How do you expose a man pretending to be a woman on a chat site?
- When the media noticed “condoms as evidence” policies are asinine.
- Miniature baby dinosaurs that run around banging into one another.
- Men shouldn’t play BDSM games with emotionally-unstable women.
- Politicians can’t resist photo-documenting their sexual indiscretions.
- Why do mature escorts want sex when many mature women don’t?
- Disaster followed the passage of FOSTA by hours, as we predicted.
- “Deactivation would be a frightening form of thought surveillance.“
- The predictable failure of the first legal male prostitute in Nevada.
- Russians use “trafficking” hysteria as anti-American propaganda.
- A masterpiece of journalistic credulity and cop self-contradiction.
- How South Africa and the US changed places on human rights.
- The “gateway” fallacy is a perennial favorite of prohibitionists’.
- CNN is still channeling the spirit of William Randolph Hearst.
- How can I shift from agency work to independent escorting?
- A sex work-friendly therapist licensed to do phone sessions.
- The bizarre looking-glass world of sex work prohibitionists.
- “Celebrities must give up the fantasy of saving ‘Jane Doe’.“
- Don’t they teach research in journalism schools anymore?
- STOP CEDING GROUND TO FUCKING PROHIBITIONISTS!
- The aftermath of the Dallas hooker invasion that wasn’t.
- Would you out a client to further your political agenda?
- On the occasion of International Not All Women’s Day.
- Prosecuting sex workers’ kids for “living on the avails”.
- Increasingly vicious anti-whore and anti-client tactics.
- What’s the best way to perform oral sex on a woman?
- A few journalists begin to question prohibitionist lies.
- Sex workers could use a little help from our friends.
- How to recognize police doubletalk in news articles.
- Sometimes Nazi analogies are entirely appropriate.
- Are providers ever jealous or possessive of clients?
- Neofeminism is a form of internalized misogyny.
- Just how old is the “world’s oldest profession”?
- What should I do if a client starts stalking me?
- What do sex workers think of married clients?
- Gail Dines’ obsession with coeds’ pubic hair.
- The cognitive impairment of prohibitionists.
- The absurd premise of “consensual crime”.
- My first column for Sex Worker Rights Day.
- An attempt to reclaim the word “liberal”.
- A lovely week from beginning to end.
- A short glossary of prohibitionism.
- A cautionary tale for lawheads.
- I take Lorelei to see Hamilton.
- Man’s inhumanity to whores.
- A very uneven week.
