Regular readers know that every Friday the Thirteenth, I ask those who aren’t sex workers to stand up for us. If you’re one of them, you already know the sorts of things I’m going to say; if you aren’t, you can simply go back and read the essay for the previous occurence in November, and the one before that from March 2020. So this time, as I did on July 4th this year, I’ll content myself with reminding y’all of everything I’ve previously said on previous occurences of this particular day and date combination.
Governments sending brutal thugs to inflict violence upon those who enjoy themselves in ways their overlords dislike is less popular in this country than it has been in a century, so now is the time to push even harder to chip away as much of the edifice of prohibition as possible before the pendulum inevitably begins to swing the other way again. – 11/13/20
Though many people conceive of sex worker rights as a “special case”, in truth it intersects with many other movements. – 3/13/20
If our allies get lazy and think we no longer need their help because the politicians are finally giving us lip service, we’re going to lose the ground we’ve worked so hard to win. – 12/13/19
One of the reasons so many outside the demimonde are afraid to stand up for the obvious fact that the government has no business “regulating” private sexual arrangements is they’re afraid of guilt by association. – 9/13/19
We need your support more than ever, because now voices calling for sex worker rights are more likely to be taken seriously than ever before. – 7/13/18
Though the sex trafficking hysteria is dying, moral panics get worse as they collapse, and even after the panic is history the tyrannical laws it engendered will still be there for “authorities” to destroy lives with. – 10/13/17
It doesn’t so much matter what you do today, as long as you do something to promote sex worker rights. – 5/13/16
Stupidity, ignorance, prudishness, statism, control-freakishness and bigotry run deep in human society, and it will take vast resources and millions of voices to beat those back into the outer darkness where they belong. – 11/13/15
Any contribution – loud or quiet, public or private, eloquent or laconic, lengthy or brief – is important and worthy, and everyone one will hasten the day when governments no longer believe it’s acceptable for them to persecute sex workers, our clients and our associates in any way they please. – 6/13/14
It’s time we let the prohibitionists know that if they want to pick on sex workers, we have a whole lot of brothers and sisters they’re going to have to face as well. – 9/13/13
Even though any one person’s influence is small, lots of buckets eventually fill a pool. – 7/13/12
Sex worker rights are human rights, and there can never be too many voices speaking up for them, nor too many occasions on which to speak. – 4/13/12
No collective, “authority” or government has the right to tell women what we can and cannot do with our own bodies. – 1/13/12
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Maggie, once again I am on the warpath to make the Marin County anti-trafficking outfit heel and adjust their website. You can see the travesty here: https://www.mcceht.org/humantrafficking
That page has a local paper’s report of a prostitution sting. This was the first one done in a few years–notice that 2 of the 3 have Spanish surnames, as these stings have always had at least 66% of those caught with Spanish surnames.
Also on the page is the ILO number of 21 million enslaved and Polaris getting 100 calls a day.
When that coalition first started about 8 years ago or so, they had the Penn study its authors had disavowed and the Farley twist of Mimi Silbert’s walking survey, and those two are the first on the list on that site even though I told them years ago that both of those were wrong and to remove them. They did, but there they are, again.
The warpath means I am writing the DA, one of the Coalition’s directors (who told me she knew the numbers were wrong) and a Deputy DA and telling them why the first two are wrong. I’ve not heard back even though I informed them that I would tell the county to revoke the grant of $10K–yet to be paid–to the Coalition by writing the grant administrators and the county supes, all of whom are friends and to whose campaigns I’ve donated.
The Coalition is really wanting to abolish sex work, but they’re not being up front about it.
You asked for those of us not sex workers to stand up for you guys, on a day which signifies the Rabbi Joshua and his 12 disciples, and so here I am doing so.
Thanks again for being so helpful over the years.
Warmly,
Jonathan Frieman
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San Rafael, CA 94901
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