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Back Issue #126

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged on December 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Many of the persistent myths about sex work are exactly the opposite of the truth.   –  “Catastrophic Consequences” Girl runs off with boyfriend; prohibitionist dreams up infant snuff sex ring. Cops, FBI, TSA, Dali, Snowden, drugs, bureaucracy, cheese and atheists. For those who still pretend government’s different from organized crime. In Sweden, whores are considered “unfit […]

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Back Issue #128

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged on February 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Orgasm isn’t only about “doing it right”, sexual satisfaction isn’t only about orgasm, and nobody has the right to define the parameters of “good sex” for you, or to tell you why you “should” or “shouldn’t” have sex.  –  “Mind Over Matter” Why can’t women grasp why men can’t be happy with sexless marriages? Sex […]

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Back Issue #124

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged on October 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

My sex appeal is about as gentle and understated as a brick to the face.  –  “Your Move” UK insists “sex trafficking” is rampant, despite never finding any victims. Whether the infection is biological or technological, it’s always the same. Writer hates some women being more interested in profit than romance. Some activists care more about feminist […]

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Back Issue #127

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged on January 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »

One distinguishing characteristic of the truly awful sex work story is its use of inane, annoying and dysphemistic language to pretend that sex work is “dirty”, “seedy”, titillating, lurid or otherwise fundamentally different from other kind of work.  –  “Case Study” Another pompous ignoramus pretends sex work ignores all economic laws. Pallets of inanimate “women […]

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Back Issue #115

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged on January 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Whenever a tragedy involving children is publicized, the vultures are never long in arriving.  –  “For the Children” I’m so frustrated I’m having sick fantasies & have begun to hate women. What’s the solution to sexual frustration beside whores or masturbation? If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs? Time glorifies the […]

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Back Issue #111

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged on September 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »

A successful life is judged by its character rather than by the number of years it endures.  –  “Enough is Enough” The phrase “vulnerable to economic opportunities” came from a sick mind. The CASE Act is so bad, even bona fide coerced prostitutes are against it. Basic “trafficking” sting: consenting adults caged, 44; victims rescued, 0. Yet […]

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Back Issue #112

Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged on October 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »

No normal person wants to control what other people think, and no sane person could believe that he can control what anyone else thinks.  –  “Thought Control” Reviews of Paying for It, Sex at the Margins, The Sex Myth & You Will Die. Poe, Python, 6-word stories, eyeballs, roaches, Pokemon and much more. Magdalene Laundries, Georgia Brown, Minnie the Moocher […]

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Melissa Gira Grant Puts Heroic Escort Heather Through The Buzzsaw On Buzzfeed

Posted in Biography, Current Events, Guest Columns, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, tagged , , , , , , on April 5, 2016| 4 Comments »

This is an important article by my friend Mistress Matisse, cross-posted from Medium. It’s ironic that journalist Melissa Gira Grant decided to write an article on how media attention can cause chaos in someone’s life, because in the life of a West Virginia woman named Heather, Melissa Gira Grant has become an agent of exactly […]

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Diary #301

Posted in Diary, tagged , , , , on April 7, 2016| 2 Comments »

Those of you who follow me on Twitter already know that last week was a painful one for those of us in the sex worker rights movement; journalist and former sex worker Melissa Gira Grant, who has long danced on the boundary between the “straight” world and the  demimonde, apparently decided she wanted a total […]

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Links #296

Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny, tagged , , , , , , , on March 6, 2016| 2 Comments »

Oh, here it is.  –  Deanne Choate, last words It’s funny how the number of links is kind of seesawing back and forth right now, though I reckon the relative fullness of my week has a lot to do with that.  A lot of that fullness this week was activism, but a good bit of […]

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