Though the actual reason I went out to Sunset this weekend was to celebrate Lammas with my friends, it also served to get me out of Seattle during SeaFair, and thus away from extra traffic, closed streets and fighter planes roaring over my house every day. Instead, I had several lovely days of relaxing and getting high. My apples, plums and blackberries are all starting to come in, and the replumbing project (necessary for the floor repair) is underway. Some friends also came out to build a yurt for Jae so she can have a little private space of her own, and we did some planning for future projects. I tried to snap a picture which showed as much of this as possible; you can see the partly-finished yurt, a wheelbarrow for moving gravel, a piece of pex pipe we’re allowing to uncoil for use, and (if you look carefully) some apples on the branches over my head. I hope to have some even more exciting news and pics in the near future! 
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I’ve been studying moral panics since I was in high school, and I’ve noticed something a bit odd about the current one over “sex trafficking”. Normally, as I’ve written before, such panics tend to get more and more hysterical until they implode; that is certainly happening with this one, as anyone knows from following my “Widening Gyre” columns chronicling cop attempts to regain control of the narrative from the “sex traffickers followed me in Ikea!” crowd. But the “official” hysteria, that is the kind vomited out by cops and politicians and eagerly lapped up for re-regurgitation by the media, has since FOSTA taken on a very tired, perfunctory tone. For example, this recent USA Today iteration of the same old ridiculous, repeatedly-debunked “statistics” contained the following disclaimer:
…Law enforcement has ramped up it’s [sic] tough-on-trafficking language in recent years, touting raids on illicit spas as proof of crackdowns. Yet…the outcomes don’t match the rhetoric. Only one woman in the raids that saw Kraft arrested faces a charge related to trafficking. And in other cases…business at sex spas returned to normal within months of police activity…
The rest is the typical farrago of lies about “the enormity of the global sex trade”, billions of dollars and millions of victims “hidden in plain sight” and somehow “growing”, yet it’s almost as though the reporter is saying in an aside, “I’m sorry y’all, I know you’ve heard this a thousand times but I need to obediently parrot this if I want to be paid.”
And here’s one which starts with politicians bloviating about “pervasive evil” while pompously calling their propaganda “educating the public”, but quickly degenerates into a bunch of professional “survivors” and other “rescue” profiteers on the make. After some demands for more government handouts and complaints about how the cops can’t find “pimps” and “traffickers” who only exist in “rescue” fantasies, the politicians almost sheepishly follow their initial bluster with empty promises to “do better” while loons like “Cuckoo Clock” McCain and the head of Polaris spout incoherent nonsense about why decriminalization is bad. You can look at the resulting dog’s breakfast if you care to, but I honestly can’t even imagine most “sex trafficking” fetishists making it to the end.
So what’s going on here? Why do these media outlets repeatedly publish the same tinned nonsense over and over, even in outlets such as the Washington Post that employ their own fact-checkers? Why are the cracks in the narrative spreading so slowly, despite repeated debunking and the total inability of cops & FBI to produce more than a handful of “pimps” when we’re told they’re lurking around every shopping mall, bus stop, school and Facebook page in the country and magically home in on runaways in under 48 hours? The answer, I think, is evident in the sources of most of the disinformation: Government. This is no ordinary moral panic, but one manufactured and maintained by government as an excuse to expand its own power and feed the carceral system; it is, as I have said before, the replacement for the dying War on Drugs (another campaign of terror started and fed by relentless government propaganda). But even though the mainstream media joined the fascist establishment decades ago, individual reporters are still individuals and not everyone can effectively turn off their brains and obediently parrot the propaganda they’re ordered to dish up. As the popular hysteria dries up and the War on Whores is maintained only by state money and misinformation, we can expect to see reporters growing ever wearier of the nonsense, and that it will become inceasingly noticeable in the tone of their articles.
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Time to die. – Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer)
Rutger Hauer died last week, and while I’m not really a fan of Blade Runner I couldn’t resist sharing this video as a memorial. The links above it were provided by Billy Binion (“faking”), David Ley (“protecting”), Tim Cushing (“showing”), Emma Evans (“sitting”), and Rick Horowitz (“looking”).
- Stop faking!
- Sounds legit.
- The final solution?
- Just protecting and serving.
- Showing a house while black.
- Crime: Curb-sitting. Penalty: six months.
- Cop threatens to murder people for looking at him.
From the Archives
- People who can’t admit their kinks unknowingly display them to the world.
- Only the individual has the right to determine conditions for their consent.
- The real purpose of this scheme is to cut sex workers off from healthcare.
- I’ve a strong feeling that this will be the nadir of the “gypsy whore” myth.
- “Studies” claiming an impossibly-tiny fraction of men pay for sex are BS.
- Cops, eggcorns, nightmares, advertising, Southern Gothic & much more.
- The deeply-stupid babble spouted by “officials” in low-population states.
- “Repatriation” is the currently-fashionable euphemism for “deportation”.
- “Believe women!” vanishes when a woman contradicts feminist dogma.
- Cops, stupidity, Doctor Who, headlines, children’s books & much more.
- Just a reminder: I owned an escort service like this one, only smaller.
- Prohibitionists think we can’t see them wanking to the “pimp” fantasy.
- It’s unusual to see them actually use the word “rape” in this context.
- I debunked COSA in this blog five and a half years before Salon did.
- When a headline asks a question, the answer is almost always “no”.
- The Pope continues to recklessly promote “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- If sex work weren’t illegal laws like this would be easily overturned.
- COSWAC mocks the absurdity of “signs of sex trafficking” in hotels.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Pro-decriminalization essays in newspapers are no longer a rarity.
- Why are men pearl-clutching even more than women these days?
- Liz Brown on the warped mind of Seattle prosecutor Val Richey.
- Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people”.
- The infantilization of sex workers is growing ever more absurd.
- Calling rape “sex trafficking” is a good way to inflate numbers.
- The censors who want the internet destroyed are at it again.
- As the hysteria collapses, this will happen much more often.
- What fraction of online casual sex ads are really escort ads?
- From now on, most of my Friday columns will be low-effort.
- Sometimes the ignorance of pigs is utterly mind-boggling.
- No, there are no good reasons to root for Kamala Harris.
- A sign of how much things are shifting.
- Decriminalization is just the beginning.
- My two previous columns for Lammas.
- When my new chickens started laying.
- I’ll be watching this race with interest.
- Welcome to our world, tattoo artists.
- No, porn isn’t a “superstimulus”.
- A special for the Dog Days.
- Oh, what a surprise.
- Moving troubles.
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Why is it only that sex workers should be the ones to have a skill set but give services away for free? – Phoenix Calida
Truthful headline: “Police Pay Man to Rape Immigrant Women”:
A[n Ohio] woman was arrested [after cops paid someone to violate her at her]…massage parlor…Ping Wei, 53…[was victimized and accused without tangible evidence by a so-called] confidential informant…
One day, “People have to work to make money” will be recognized as the non-news it is:
Increasing numbers of women in low-paid jobs who have children are being forced to [find more remunerative work] to survive…[demand for one flexible work-from-home job] has risen by 29 per cent in the past year alone…[but] women [a]re now having to work longer hours for less money due to the market…becoming increasingly saturated…
Yet another example of the McNeill Rule:
…Tennessee [politician] Bill Sanderson resigned…[after] Grindr messages and nude photos…exposed the fact that he’s a closeted hypocrite with a gay son who has voted against every LGBTQ issue that has come before him…He has [also] been a co-sponsor of some of the most extreme anti-abortion legislation, including this year’s heartbill bill…Sanderson has voted against…bills that would have given access to bathrooms to trans students, blasted the SCOTUS marriage ruling, voted to support allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against gay couples, supported a bill allowing therapists to discriminate against gay people, and voted agaisnt allowing municipalities in Tennessee to enact LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances…in his 2013 Grindr profile, which could be seen by anyone using the app, he writes…“I really haven’t had a connection with a guy and I have a burning desire to have that relationship. I like down and dirty guy to guy play too! So, I guess you might say, nothing will be held back …” (Sanderson says he did not write this)…
Our government refers to this as “correction”:
Jarrett Leaman…is…a typical college student…[whose] only prior involvement with police is two speeding tickets. On June 29, he was arrested for public drunkenness…the next thing he remembers is waking up in a jail cell at 5 a.m., covered in blood, bumps, and bruises…[while he was passed-out drunk, multiple screws and one pig] pummeled [him] to the ground, face down on the cement floor…[attorney Leticia] Chavez-Freed…saw it on video…as part of a [so-called] internal investigation…“They put him into a chair. They strap him in. His hands are behind his back and, again, the kicking, the hitting”…at least five [screws] and one [pig] participated in the beating…a spit mask was also placed on Leaman’s head, even though he was barely conscious…at one point…the [pig]…and [one of the screws] lifted the mask from Leaman’s head to take a picture of his injuries like a “hunting trophy”…
Sometimes the War on Whores is the War on Drugs rather than its successor:
[Politician] Sherrod Brown…reintroduced a [US Senate] bill that would officially [conflate selling]…drugs [with] human trafficking, thereby making it easier to [load extra charges onto young black men that cops or] prosecut[ors wish to target]…”Ohioans are bought and sold in our own backyards”…[Brown idiotically bloviated while making furtive movements in his pants pockets.] Brown’s bill, called the Protect Act, would officially list drug addiction as a method of coercing someone into either commercial sexual acts or other forced labor against their will…
No, you can’t “save the planet” by going vegan:
…some activists are propagating the idea that everyone on the planet should go vegetarian or even vegan…The former head of the United Nations’ climate change organization, for example, suggested that meat-eaters should be made to feel like pariahs…[such rhetoric] blithely ignores the reality that…we can’t stop temperature rises with our diets…A systematic peer-review of studies of going vegetarian shows that a non-meat diet will likely reduce an individual’s emissions by…just 4.3%…In a first world setting, the reality is that [your share of corporate pollution]…means [lifelong veganism would] reduce your emissions by about 2%, according to a study of the environmental impact of Swedish vegetarians…
Also: veganism does not reduce animal deaths and environmental damage; it increases them.
Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you:
Apple’s Siri AI assistant sends audio of sexual encounters, embarrassing medical information, drug deals, and other private moments recorded without users’ knowledge to human “graders” for evaluation, a whistleblower has revealed…contractors around the world…grade the AI based on the quality of its response and whether its activation was deliberate…accidental activations are much more frequent than Apple lets on, especially with Apple Watch users…In what sounds like a sick joke on the part of some programmer, the sound of a zipper unzipping often triggers Siri to wake up…While Apple emphasized that a user’s Apple ID and name are not attached to clips reviewed by contractors…the company is aware of how easily even a recording stripped of its user ID can be connected to the user who made it…Amazon’s Alexa infamously has entire chat rooms for its human trainers to discuss difficult-to-understand audio clips (or mock funny recordings) and Google Home uses a similar system of outsourced “language experts” that allows the company to claim that no one at Google has access to the recordings its devices make…
Puritan fanatics have given tyrants an accusation they can hurl at nearly anyone:
A 9-year-old American citizen on her way to school was a[rrested] by [border patrol thugs] and [locked in a cage like an animal] for some 32 hours before she was released back to her family…[“authorities”] later [bloviated] that the girl, who was carrying a U.S. passport card with her, gave “inconsistent information”…Julia Isabel Amparo Medina …her 14-year-old brother and two friends were being driven to school by the friends’ mom from their home in Tijuana to San Ysidro…Thousands of people travel through the Tijuana-San Ysidro crossing daily for school or work. When traffic slowed to a crawl, the mom told the children to walk across the border so they wouldn’t be late. A…[pig] detained Medina, saying she didn’t look like the photo on her passport card…Medina’s brother, who is also a U.S. citizen, said [thugs]…demanded he sign a paper saying that his sister was really his cousin…[threatening him with prison and telling the boy] “they were going to charge him [with]…sex trafficking”…
I’m not sure why it took four months for this story to gain traction, but I’m suspending my usual rule about not sharing stories more than a month or so old.
Phoenix Calida on the absurdity of a sex-work-free “Utopia”:
Many on the left have told me that sex outside of procreation or love is icky. They say that…non-male people, should not be allowed to be fully in charge of their…sexual lives…they insist sex workers are bad because they commodify sex and the soul, meaning sex workers have been made into objects, and are no longer humans…the left dreams of a post-revolution utopia where people only have sex for free and for love…The idea that sex work will cease to exist after capitalism falls has always been bizarre, since trading sex existing before capitalism did. No matter how many times I am told that the revolution will end sex work, I’ve yet to be provided with realistic scenarios of how that will happen…
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If you don’t follow me on Twitter, here’s a sample of recent tweets you missed out on:
I don't like the odor of that line, "Workers whose jobs are legal." It smells like an oncoming bus. https://t.co/HMTR1TqEJu
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 25, 2019
"Problematic" is a projection of an individual's distaste onto the object of that distaste. It's like a person who has a cat allergy blaming that on the cat ("You are allergenic") rather than herself ("I have a cat allergy").
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 20, 2019
So, what hacker wants to start an overseas-hosted website dedicated to outing vice pigs? These are men who are allowed to rape sex workers in order to destroy their lives, yet the press conspires with the cops to hide these rapists' identities. They need to ALL be outed.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 20, 2019
Remember "your mama" insults? Now whores are delivering "your dad" insults on Twitter and it's hilarious.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 19, 2019
Amateurs are so weird I have given up trying to understand them at all. It's clearly some kind of cognitive disorder.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 23, 2019
These people really do believe dollars have a set value and that banks have giant vaults like Scrooge McDuck, don't they?
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 23, 2019
Guys: my availability to you is subsidiary to your acceptability to me. The former isn't important until we determine the latter, so asking when I'm available is pointless until screening is complete.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 23, 2019
Pelosi has exactly one redeeming feature: she isn't running for president.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 25, 2019
Bindel is a drunk and a charlatan who is paid to spout out quack nonsense. She is fond of quoting thoroughly-debunked "studies" and making moronic, misogynistic statements about consent that make no sense to anyone with a functional moral compass. https://t.co/2gyScuMwfE
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 25, 2019
The wages of sin have kept my bank account in the black for over two decades.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 24, 2019
Please don't use ugly euphemisms in my timeline. If you mean "cop", say so; "pig" and "thug" are also acceptable.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 26, 2019
They're not leaders, they're politicians. And the sooner people learn that, the better.
— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 26, 2019
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Happy Lammas, dear readers, and Blessed Be!
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If registries are…about punishment…we need to admit it and deal with the unintended consequences. – Michael Seto
Facts have absolutely nothing to do with US sex laws:
In 1994, when Congress passed the first sex offender registration law, the list was reserved for [cops] and only applied to the most serious offenders. Since then, American lawmakers at every level have relentlessly increased its scope and severity. The registry now includes more than 900,000 people, a population slightly greater than Vermont’s. At least 12 states require sex offender registration for public urination; five apply it to people charged with offenses related to sex work; 29 require it for consensual sex between teenagers…people [are] forced to spend decades on the registry for crimes they [were accused of at] as young as 10 years old…More than 30 states now require registrants to live at least 1,000 feet away from schools, churches and other places children congregate — a requirement that renders up to 99% of ho[uses] and apartment buildings off-limits. Some states require regist[rants] to submit to regular polygraph tests and random police inspections. Florida adds “sexual predator” to the front of registrants’ driver’s licenses. Louisiana doesn’t allow [registrants] to evacuate from their own homes before natural disasters…Despite child sexual abuse declining by 60% between 1992 and 2010, states continue to legislate as if lenient sex offender laws are a national emergency…registries are disproportionately black and overwhelmingly poor…registries continue to enjoy enthusiastic bipartisan support and meager media scrutiny despite any evidence that they achieve their stated goals…
Why do straight vanillas have so much trouble recognizing sexual behavior when they see it?
Multiple victims have come forward to accuse a New Jersey [Presbyterian minister] of sexually assaulting them as part of exorcism rituals…Newsweek reported…[that Rev. Dr. William] Weaver…would…tell the men that he needed to “suck” out demons through their semen, citing Native American rituals and a verse from Ephesians telling Christians to “put on the full armor of God”…Weaver would order [men]…to strip naked and lie down. Then he would place an “angel coin” on their foreheads and have them balance stones on their hands and ankles…then…perform oral sex on them…An investigation by the Presbytery found credible evidence of “multiple acts of idolatry and sexual misconduct”…[including] gay porn on a church-owned computer in Weaver’s office…
A baby step forward for disabled Australians:
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal recently granted a woman with multiple sclerosis the right to have a sex therapist paid for under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)…This is a significant milestone in the advancement of sexual rights of people with disability…To further recognise this, [they] should also be able to access sex workers under the NDIS…While a sex therapist will offer verbal coaching, a sex worker has a specified role in providing a paid sexual service. Sexual expression is a fundamental part of being human, and disability does not dampen a person’s sexual desire, nor their need for intimacy…
“Youth pastors” are as bad as cops:
[An] Alabama youth pastor has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing a young girl…Christopher Cody Stutts pleaded guilty…to abusing a child younger than 12 [in order to escape] four other charges, including rape and sodomy…
Ohio…[politicians] are [now claiming that] victims [are forcibly and magically] hooked on drugs and then forced into a life of prostitution…Judge Renee DiSalvo is beginning [yet another “diversion” brainwashing] program through Youngstown Municipal Court…DiSalvo…[pretends] the women are not able to make clear decisions…the…program…can take up to two years to go through…[during which time] some women may be [locked] in secret [prisons under the pretense of] protect[ing] them from [imaginary ninja pimps]…
Prohibitionists supported at least one delusional cop who was deeply involved in this hoax:
A [man] who lied about being abused by a murderous VIP Westminster paedophile ring is facing a lengthy jail sentence after he was convicted of perverting the course of justice and fraud. Carl Beech’s malicious, repeated and determined deceit ruined the reputations of those he accused and led the Metropolitan Police to raid the homes of 91-year-old Normandy veteran Field Marshall Lord Bramall, the late Lord Brittan and former Tory MP Harvey Proctor…Their £2 million Operation Midland [probe] into the lurid allegations…ended without making a single arrest…Beech…[himself a paedophile with an interest in pre-teen boys, fantasized] to…detectives…how his late step-father, an Army Major, raped him, then passed him on to generals to be tortured at military bases and sadistically sexually abused by other Establishment figures in the 1970s and 1980s. He named former prime minister Sir Edward Heath…disgraced TV star Jimmy Savile and security chiefs Sir Michael Hanley, the head of MI5, and MI6 boss Sir Maurice Oldfield among the gang…Beech…was due to be tried on indecent images and voyeurism charges last summer but went on the run to Sweden, where he bought two remote properties and tried to evade [the cops] using false identities…
Sharp readers may recognize the resemblance of these accusations to those made by brainwashed children during the daycare prosecutions of the Satanic Panic.
Redbridge has a history of harassing sex workers while belching up stupid “crime” rhetoric:
Police are encouraging [busybodies] to use a new real-time phone line to [snitch on women they imagine might be sex workers]…”There have been very few prostitutes on Ilford Lane for the past few weeks,” a…spokes[pig oinked]…”These ladies can sometimes be seen walking through seemingly on their way to work which we believe are in brothels…[disguised pigs] start at 7pm targeting…any person [they don’t like the look of, with no evidence whatsoever. A busybody group called]…Clean up Ilford Lane is also urging residents to use the line if they see…people [visiting each other or emitting sex rays]…
Remember, indoor sex work is legal in the UK, hence this branding of incalls as “brothels”, which aren’t.
Everything cops and other “justice” officials tell you is a lie:
…an ongoing lawsuit against the…NYPD brought by the Bronx Defenders…[revealed] that the police department has for years illegally used databases of arrests that were supposed to have been dropped, declined by prosecutors, downgraded to citations or infractions, or otherwise thrown out in court…cops…have access—on their smartphones—to reservoirs of records they shouldn’t be able to see, allowing them to continue to stop, search and arrest people…based on “criminal histories” that shouldn’t even exist. The lawsuit, which in the coming weeks may be ruled a class-action on behalf of potentially tens of thousands of New Yorkers, comes just as a nonprofit research organization releases a 50-state report revealing that in 25 states, police are allowed to access sealed or expunged arrests—and then profile you based on these past allegations that no judge or jury ever found you guilty of…Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, the lead attorney on the Bronx lawsuit…[said] “They’re running their algorithms and their facial-recognition software on arrest records and mugshots that were supposed to have been destroyed”…
As proceedings against Backpage.com founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin continue unraveling in California courts, the sentencing of former associate Carl Ferrer, now cooperating with the government as a witness against them, has been delayed until July 2020. Ferrer, the former CEO of Backpage.com, was due to be sentenced this [month]…Lacey’s attorney, renowned criminal law and First Amendment expert Paul Cambria…[said the] delay is an expected ploy by the prosecution to exert pressure on Ferrer to testify against his client and Larkin…
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Any week which includes a Who night with Lorelei is a good week, but last week was good in other ways as well. It started early Monday morning with a lecture (via video link) to an anthropology class at the University of Michigan, then continued Tuesday with one of my regular beauty treatments and a lovely evening with Lorelei (which beside Doctor Who also included the last two episodes of Good Omens). I had a productive week of both remunerative work and writing (after editing my video lecture for Renegade University last week), and I even got two lovely presents: the seventh season of Bewitched from Chekhov, and a Stornoway black pudding all the way from Scotland via Brooke Magnanti! I like regular black pudding, but the Stornoway variety is without peer and at the time of this writing I’m still savoring the memory of the flavor from dinner a few hours ago; I’m going to take what’s left of this one out to Sunset on Thursday to share with Grace for Lammas. Anyhow, that’s all I have to say for now; the selfie is simply one I took last Thursday and thought my hair looked extra-nice.
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The most heroic actions are those which are performed only because they are right, and not for glory. – “Whore Madonnas”
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- “Pimp” classification schemes are among the stupidest tropes of the panic.
- Bizarre, stilted language is used to describe a very ordinary escort service.
- The “big events” that supposedly attract “sex trafficking” grow ever sillier.
- A craptastic mixture of the obvious, the pearl-clutching & the dead wrong.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Media never tire of presenting ordinary sexwork practices as new & novel.
- Sex workers who pretend they aren’t are almost as bad as prohibitionists.
- I wonder if any of them recognize how pathetic their denials sound to us?
- Another crime victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
- In case you thought cops raping whores to arrest us was just a US thing.
- Aussie reporters lap up noxious idiocy vomited out by “rescue” fetishists.
- Calling a prison an “immigration centre” doesn’t make it less of a prison.
- There aren’t enough real “victims”, so the rescue industry creates fakes.
- Pro-censorship loon wants parents to panic about “artificial necrophilia”.
- Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying them fairly that isn’t.
- They “see it as a business transaction” because that’s exactly what it is.
- The gap between what actually happened & what cops claim happened.
- Let’s hope this myth is dead, or at least nearly so, by the next election.
- “Religious” guy spends time gawking at, then defacing escort websites.
- Why idiocies like “mid-range prostitution is new” infuriate me so much.
- Hawaii joins other states in recriminalizing acts that are already illegal.
- This is obvious to whores, but it’s nice to see academics discovering it.
- Seoul adopts ever-sleazier tactics to please its masters in Washington.
- Migrant women harassed by cops who declare them infantile “victims”.
- Every little bit helps to undermine the “sin and degradation” narrative.
- Calling a prison “Freedom Place” is as Orwellian as one could imagine.
- Portraying whores as depraved monsters rather than pathetic victims.
- A thorough debunking of “sex trafficking” hysteria by Brittany Turner.
- It’s great to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
- It’s only a “shock” to those who live with their heads in their rectums.
- Scaling back claims about Charlotte, NC being a “sex trafficking hub”.
- Florida cops claim to “help” marginalized women by brutalizing them.
- Government uses especially nasty crimes to undermine liberty for all.
- Even among “sex trafficking” publicity stunts, this is painfully stupid.
- When will lawheads learn whores can’t be vanished by proclamation?
- Note this was accomplished by the usual whorearchical line-drawing.
- How about “calling on police” to stop arresting sex workers, period?
- Pro-censorship morons are still trying to destroy the entire internet.
- No, you fucking filthy liar, it’s not “unique” and you fucking know it.
- Clueless reporter is surprised that most whores’ clients are married.
- Ever wonder where all those supposed “sex trafficking victims” are?
- People need to be frequently reminded of what Ruhama actually is.
- Batman, Sesame Street, socialism, cops, “rescue” and much more.
- Labeling a particular street a “hotbed” of sex work or “trafficking”.
- “Fancy”, “It’s All the Same”, and “Texas Has a Whorehouse In It”.
- If interstate highways are so dangerous, why don’t we ban them?
- More mainstream media are debunking “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Anybody we claim is a victim is one, regardless of what she says.
- You know things have changed when this can appear in the VOA.
- Is it OK to ask a sex worker friend if she’d see me professionally?
- Do you want prosecution for acts that weren’t illegal at the time?
- This is pretty typical of the level of “evidence” in sex work trials.
- “Anti-trafficking” publicity stunts are growing ever more bizarre.
- Are clients of sex work as varied as those of other service work?
- A vile collection of prohibitionist lies, mostly from a prosecutor.
- The deep connection between the rescue & garment industries.
- Is the ACLU finally beginning to do the right thing, at long last?
- I hope people don’t get the idea that this is unique to Oakland.
- Marin County isn’t really small, but this is still patently absurd.
- Without full decriminalization, cops will always harass whores.
- Note how closely this resembles “sex trafficking” propaganda.
- Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
- This is not “decriminalization” as some sources are reporting.
- This story has far too many lapses to be considered credible.
- Even when Vice isn’t being directly prohibitionist, it’s no ally.
- Yet another surveillance tool for hunting down sex workers.
- Dr. Marty Klein on the recent upsurge in anti-porn hysteria.
- An article so totally ridiculous I felt compelled to vivisect it.
- A guest columnist writes about Dennis Hof & Lamar Odom.
- This is pretty appalling, especially given the disease factor.
- It’s impossible to overstate how important this reversal is.
- Another in an anti-“sex offender” registry series from Vox.
- How “authorities” intentionally spread diseases in prisons.
- Seattle pigs conspire to destroy literally hundreds of lives.
- Judge orders jury to find an “authority” not guilty of rape.
- The answer is, “Because it doesn’t actually exist as such”.
- Germany prepares a horrible new set of anti-whore laws.
- This campaign has Swanee Hunt’s foul stench all over it.
- This jewel of self-contradiction was too good to pass up.
- “Sex trafficking” is a convenient excuse for any tyranny.
- Prohibitionist nuns hunt down American whores as well.
- NPR licks the arsehole of “Truckers Against Trafficking”.
- Another small country stands up to American bullying.
- Hey, kids! Fight “human trafficking” for fun and profit!
- There aren’t many genuine cases of coercion like this.
- Don’t try to get freebies from sex workers. Seriously.
- Chi Adanna Mgbako on sex worker activism in Africa.
- But picket-fence queers say cops aren’t our enemies.
- $60 would’ve been a cheap price to pay for a lesson.
- Another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- The Philippines’ weird crusade against “cybersex”.
- I’m rather skeptical of the claimed disparity here.
- And her police record is important…why, exactly?
- Laura Lee braves the hostile waters of Mumsnet.
- A nice article on the Desiree Alliance conference.
- The woman I’ll always think of as my “little girl”.
- Kate Iselin gets it, though four years after I did.
- Notable American proponents of “end demand”.
- A rebuttal to Madison Graham’s guest column.
- Heading to the Desiree Alliance conference.
- The “condoms in porn” controversy begins.
- The madonna/whore dichotomy is bullshit.
- More on EMPOWER’s sex work museum.
- Don’t think this is unique to Oakland.
- China aspires to be more like the US.
- The Desiree Alliance in New Orleans.
- An apology for inadvertent offense.
- My favorite New Orleans eateries.
- Don’t say I didn’t tell you before.
- This is what “rescue” looks like.
- It’s enough to make one vomit.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- More articles like this, please.
- Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
- “Next generation of condom”.
- My very first update column.
- Glenn Kessler does it again.
- Writing a column in the air.
- A lovely weekend-long gig.
- Fault Lines interviews me.
- Rapist cops of July 2016.
- A short trip to Portland.
- The story of Storyville.
- My sixth anniversary.
- Say their names.
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We shudder to think what [a duck] hyped up on meth would do.
– Loretto Police Department
Art Neville, the eldest of New Orleans’ own Neville Brothers, died on Monday at the age of 81; like Dr. John, the Nevilles were more an institution than a mere band. This is my favorite of his songs, recorded with his band The Meters in 1975; you may also remember this hit about a New Orleans whore, which the Meters produced (along with Alan Toussaint) and were the backing band on. The links above it were provided by Mark Draughn, Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, Emma Evans, David Wraith, and Brooke Magnanti, in that order.
- And it wasn’t in Florida.
- WTF is wrong with Florida?
- Everything old is new again.
- How do you like your hot dog?
- How much further can this go?
- Cops imagine tin talismans grant expertise in all fields.
From the Archives
- Whatever a sex worker does later, they’ll always be a whore to the media.
- Even a horrifying case like this doesn’t look like the “sex trafficking” myth.
- Campaigns against sex work are part of a war against all sexual behavior.
- Soi-disant ally thinks we’re childlike morons in need of licensed handlers.
- Disclaimers won’t stop charlatans from pretending this is “sex addiction”.
- “Trafficking is EVERYWHERE!” articles sound so tired & perfunctory now.
- Another case of state using sex work as “evidence” of mental disability.
- Even for the prohibitionist New York Times, this is pretty jaw-dropping.
- Critical thinking skills are not a prerequisite for passing medical school.
- Think I’m wrong about sex worker rights having passed the watershed?
- I’ve never seen anything raise support for sex workers like FOSTA has.
- The fanatically-prohibitionist Seattle Times again revisits the TRB raid.
- Only another month or so before the “creepy clown” hysteria returns!
- Another amateur profiting from sex workers while giving us nothing.
- Remember this when you hear pigs oinking about arresting “pimps”.
- A live-action version of that moronic “escape the pimp” video game.
- Another dumb, sensationalized article, now with added whorearchy.
- Just in case you forgot about the other sex workers Trump paid off.
- Picket-fence gays have become an active threat to sexual freedom.
- “Walk Free” got tired of its old wanking fantasy, so they inflated it.
- Why don’t actresses who play sex workers actually learn about us?
- What kind of “rescuers” lock the “victims” they “rescue” in a cage?
- This actually recognizes criminalization as a major cause of stress.
- Sex workers are fighting India’s terrible new “anti-trafficking” bill.
- Australian prohibitionists are just as vile as those in the US & UK.
- Get your kids into the facial recognition database before puberty!
- More insulting, patronizing, COAST-type “sex trafficking” bullshit.
- We certainly can’t have those dirty pedos not molesting children.
- Yellow journalists assist cops to protect and serve crime victims.
- Cops, Skynet, maps, rogue planets, June Foray and much more.
- I hope this finger-pointing keeps up until the hysteria implodes.
- The quaint non-“law enforcement” term for this is “blackmail”.
- “Repatriation” is the fashionable euphemism for “deportation”.
- Even by prohibitionist standards, this is hilariously hysterical.
- Judge rejects FOSTA challenge for bogus, cowardly reasons.
- Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you.
- One wonders if this loon asks her vibrator for its consent.
- Agricultural workers are routinely harassed & even raped.
- A retrospective of my columns from July 2014 and 2015.
- Naturally, Cassandra McNeill was saying this years ago.
- Congress made a bizarre pro-FOSTA propaganda video.
- Another creepy cop entrapment & surveillance game.
- Another effect of France’s jihad against sex workers.
- Where does the phrase “turning tricks” come from?
- No doubt caused by the presence of corn and I-35.
- Cops, feminism, yoga, Jim Croce and much more.
- No cops. No cages. No shaming or brainwashing.
- I gave an interview to Dr. Heather Branstetter.
- A quiet week, a new phone and a blue rose.
- Lorelei, Ghost Rider and I visit Ireland.
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