When one is neuroatypical, it’s necessary to come up with strategies – what the young folks call “life hacks” – to adjust for all the various ways in which one’s brain and nervous system are maladapted for life in a world designed by the neurotypical. For example, I’ve talked about the coping strategies I’ve designed for living with severe vertigo, and my entire career serves as a workaround for my inability to handle bureaucratic systems and my intolerance for any attempt to assert authority over me. And when one suffers from a seasonal anxiety disorder exacerbated by excessive daylight, but lives in a place where there’s enough light at 8:54 PM to take this selfie in one’s car, it’s helpful if one can figure out a way to dampen neural activity enough to relax and sleep (because adult life does not allow one to simply blow everything off for four months of every year). Well, I’ve finally found one: I simply start my edibles earlier than I do in other seasons. Last week I found that starting even an hour or 90 minutes earlier than I normally would makes a huge difference, and on Friday I decided to start a largish dose really early (like 8 PM) and was delighted to have about three hours of good quality tripping before I coasted into that twilight zone between “stoned” and “asleep” a bit after midnight. You’d think that loss of sober hours would result in a drop in productivity, but nope; I actually managed to get more accomplished last week than I typically would. I’m guessing it’s because my brain is calmer and quieter after a proper rest, so though the quantity of productive hours is less, the quality is higher. Which is probably what my friends have been trying to tell me for years, but my life had to be arranged in such a way that I could take advantage of the advice. Oh well, better late than never.
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Every year on her feast day, I honor St. Mary Magdalene; even though the Church does not officially recognize her as the patron of whores, she certainly is in the public imagination. And if beliefs have power, that recognition of sacred whoredom in the minds of millions has far more metaphysical and philosophical weight than any official Church designation.
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Some creatures…survive by migrating vast and hazardous distances…more recent discoveries hint at a different migratory mode: through time. – Daniel Ackerman
This brilliant re-imagining of The Simpsons intro as a Russian art film was provided by Furrygirl, and the links above it by Dave Krueger, Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, Tushy Galore, Clarissa, and Scott Shackford, in that order.
- But for video.
- Excavating Atlantis.
- R.I.P. Denise Nickerson.
- Beware of the shoggoths.
- Google Maps for the Roman Empire.
- Pig murders helpless man, rewarded with paid vacation for life.
From the Archives
- Cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they stalk & harass.
- Surveillance weapons are often tested on whores, but never stop with us.
- How countries with healthy ideas about sex react to the Swedish disease.
- Another crime victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
- Cracked has fewer pro-sex work articles than it did, but this is excellent.
- My dominatrix is ignoring me for accidentally offending her. Any advice?
- That vile use of “safer neighborhood team” to mean “vice squad” again.
- This woman reminds me very much of Annie Lobert of “Liars for Jesus”.
- This in a mainstream mag like Glamour is an extremely promising sign.
- We may have a winner in the “stupidest gypsy whore magnet” contest.
- Blaming bad behavior on an “addiction” is not accepting responsibility.
- My favorite seems to have ghosted on me; should I try to contact her?
- Historians will view this propaganda as our era’s Malleus Maleficarum.
- Cops, eels, pet sitters, action figures, Martin Landau and much more.
- Because Agatha Christie novels & TV cop shows increase real crimes.
- No fad spreads faster than a new way to tyrannize innocent people.
- A watered-down disease culture, but a disease culture nonetheless.
- Another vile apology for evil policies that enable uniformed rapists.
- This dude’s clutching his pearls so hard, he’s starting to turn blue.
- It’s train-wreck fascinating to watch the lies spiral out of control.
- It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
- Shaming clients is an exercise in evil fuckery that just won’t die.
- Alas, “creepy clown” panic can’t derail “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Locking pregnant women in cages for “trafficking” themselves.
- Dr. David Ley can always be counted on to speak good sense.
- When it’s a cop, sexual coercion magically becomes “bribery”.
- On the hypocrisy of Democrats cheering for Stormy Daniels.
- Still more victims of the Satanic panic released from prison.
- This scam has existed for as long as there have been cities.
- Delays in cases like this always benefit the government.
- And people wonder why I’m critical of “child porn” laws.
- I hope none of you find these even remotely surprising.
- Another sleazy scam artist raping aspiring sex workers.
- What is it with Alabama politicians and underage girls?
- Lorelei and I travel to Ireland; here are some pictures.
- Cops, KISS, margarine, Nyalathotep and much more.
- Stress tends to aggravate chronic health conditions.
- The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
- Another episode in the demonization of Backpage.
- Sex work can also be a boon for disabled workers.
- Another week full of gifts and good clients.
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- All laws are backed by a gun in the room.
- To St. Mary Magdalene on her feast day.
- Another bogus “super gonorrhea” scare.
- Not an article you’d see in the US.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- No More Sex Shame.
- Fascism in action.
- We told you so.
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It’s…a surveillance-first, ask-permission-later system. – Jake Laperruque
There are a lot of things I dislike about this article written by a brothel owner in New Zealand, not the least of which is the writer’s use of the term “ethical pimp” to mean “ordinary madam” (the term “pimp” is hopelessly contaminated by racism and copaganda; it cannot be “reclaimed”). But everything that helps to demystify sex work is good, even if its style grates on my nerves.
Stories about hooker jails are absolutely crammed with appalling euphemisms:
[More] victims of human trafficking [than exist in the United States] are expected to be [arrested] from [ordinary sex work] in Fresno alone this year. But…a $45,000 donation from Granville Homes will be used to help “Breaking The Chains” build a new [prison] facility…[for] 25 victims of [the police]…It will provide a [place to lock them up out of public view so cops can pressure them to provide fake “evidence”]…to help [convict people as] gangs or pimps…District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp [moaned with her hand in her pants, fantasizing]…”It happens in schools. People are taken from malls. There are all different types of ways [magic ninja] traffickers get these girls,” [panted] Smittcamp…
A Crawfordville, Florida couple preparing for Armageddon faces multiple serious charges after two females escaped the couple’s farm and [said] they were prevented from leaving and were physically and sexually abused for years…[by] Mirko…and Regina Ceska…The females…The females…were [given] “custodial responsibility” of the Ceskas [by the government, and were forced to begin]…working each day at 5:30 a.m…The females reported they were not allowed to go anywhere, couldn’t have friends, couldn’t have cell phones, nor talk to people in public places”…If they didn’t smile, they would face a variety of punishments ranging from verbal abuse, beatings or being deprived of food….”Detectives noted marks and bruises on the female’s back and arm.” Both females also described times that Mirko Ceska would force sex acts upon them…”with the support of Regina Ceska”…Mirko Ceska screamed at the females…
I wonder what biological sex the victims were?
I’m sure they don’t mind having their lives destroyed so bourgeois Englishwomen can feel good:
The Modern Slavery Act…helps cover up serious forced labour issues…while making [busybodies]…feel better…Article 54…assigns British companies the responsibility to clean up their global supply chains…[and they shove] this responsibility [of on] local factory managers in Sri Lanka…[who intrusively] monitor their [mostly-female] workforce…for fear of losing their contracts…[many of these] women…engage…in part-time sex work to [supplement their meager pay, as working-class women have done since at least Roman times]…But local managers fear…it would be [fantasized] by Western [busybodies to be] exploitation and threaten their contracts…one factory manager [said]: “If we do not fire part-time sex workers, our factories can get blacklisted, and our orders will be cancelled”…
Apply a label like “prostitute” or “gang member” and civil rights go out the window:
An NYPD database labels over 18,000 people in New York City as active gang members. Three…are 13 years old, and more than 400 others are under 18…nearly 88 percent are Black or [Hispanic]. If your name is entered into the database, you have no way of knowing about it and no way of contesting it…Across the country, people have been calling for significant reform of, or even an end to, gang databases and gang policing measures…The Chicago Police Department database is [an order of magnitude larger than New York’s], containing the names of an estimated 128,000 adults and at least 33,000…people 17 and younger…includ[ing] hundreds listed as dead or having no known gang affiliation…two men listed as 132 years old and several 118-year-olds…alleged gang affiliation [is] treated as a factor in immigration proceedings, bail decisions and sentencing, and treatment when in jail or prison. The NYPD [pretends] that it does not share information with other agencies but [that is well-known to be a lie]…
Guess who built California’s version of this? Palantir. And I’ll bet they had a hand in New York’s, too.
This looks like a huge victory against the powerful Indian rescue industry:
The Bombay High Court has said that an adult [arrested under the pretense of] rescue…under the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act cannot be sent to a [prison]…against her wish…The order will set a precedent…for all the women who are in [“rescue” prisons] against their wish…Advocate Satyavrat Joshi argued…that the Constitution provides every citizen a right to move freely through the territory of India and also the right to choose a vocation…
…In “hubs” of human trafficking such as Detroit, faith-based groups such Sisters of the Good Shepherd have [capitalized on the hysteria] by [pretending to] offer…services to [sex workers], including counseling, housing, career training, prevention programs and even [indoctrin]ating the community [in propaganda] about human trafficking…
Finding What Isn’t There (#870)
Britain is aiming to [exaggerate] the true scale of modern slavery and [invent] more trafficking networks [out of individuals] through the creation of a 10 million pound ($12.5 million) research center involving [hired guns, prohibitionists and rescue profiteers]…The initiative will [invent] research and boost [fascist] collaboration in Britain and abroad between various sectors…[and] law enforcement…[prohibitionists masturbate to the fantasy that] Britain is home to…136,000 slaves…a figure [dreamed up by rescue profiteers Walk Free Foundation]…whose accuracy has been [widely debunked] by academics and activists…
…police…stings are [claimed] to fight sex trafficking, but…simply instigate…arrests for prostitution. It’s a racket…Would Americans be in favor of spending these astronomical sums to fight sex work that is completely unrelated to sex trafficking?…they should at least…not be tricked into believing sex trafficking is happening all around them…FOSTA-SESTA has made sex work more dangerous, the internet less useful, and we are throwing money out the proverbial window in our zeal to fight a scourge that isn’t nearly as widespread as we are led to believe. We need elected officials brave enough to say a mistake has been made.
Just a reminder that this privacy-destroying abomination started as a means of spying on sex workers:
The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a [victim] and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives…they can use automatic license plate reader data to find out where they’ve been, and when they’ve been there…[they] can also find a person’s email address, phone numbers, current and previous addresses, bank accounts, social security number(s), business relationships, family relationships, and license information like height, weight, and eye color…The software can map out a person’s family members and business associates of a suspect, and theoretically, find the above information about them, too…
As I keep saying, it’s already far too late to stop this tyranny:
…Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years…reveal that [pigs and spooks] have turned state Department of Motor Vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure…Neither Congress nor state legislatures have authorized the development of such a system, and growing numbers of [politicians] are [publicly] criticizing the technology [to win support from voters while doing absolutely nothing to stop it]…Since 2011, the FBI has logged more than 390,000 facial-recognition searches of federal and local databases, including state DMV databases…The records…detailed the regular use of facial recognition to track down suspects in low-level crimes…with nothing more formal than an email from a federal agent to a local contact…
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A new Atlantic article on untested rape kits is very thorough and contains a lot of information which may be a revelation to those whose ideas about cops are largely drawn from cop glorification shows; unfortunately, it has a serious flaw which skews its analysis from the title onward. Rape cases don’t go uninvestigated because cops and prosecutors don’t believe victims; they languish because cops and prosecutors don’t care about victims, especially not the marginalized women who make up the majority of serial rapists’ targets. The notion that the purpose of cops is “protecting” people is a myth primarily believed by naive whites; that is not their function, and never has been since modern policing was invented by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. The simple and unpleasant truth is that cops don’t bother to get rape kits tested because it doesn’t advance their intended purpose, namely terrorizing & subduing the populace. Compare the non-testing of rape kits with the testing of drugs cops claim to have “found” on people they want to railroad. Instant roadside “tests” are used to cage people; proper tests, when performed at all, take months. That’s because the instant “tests” are incredibly inaccurate and usually result in feeding innocent people who would not otherwise be caged into the system; they are therefore high priority to people whose job is to cram as many bodies into cages as possible. The follow-up tests that could get people out of cages? Low priority. Cops can safely assume an uncaught rapist (especially a serial rapist) will commit other crimes, possibly even drug “crimes”, therefore catching them for a real crime like rape is low priority to the cops. They’d rather use the time/energy/money to cram dozens into cages for planted drugs rather than catching one rapist. Besides, how does it terrorize ordinary folks for them to take a rapist off the street? It doesn’t, and in fact leaving him free increases the fear that leads the hoi-polloi to support increasing the number, funding, and power of cops. Caging non-violent people for drugs has much more power to terrorize individuals and destroy communities, and therefore is a much higher priority for those who are paid to do exactly that.
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One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “Why don’t you ________?” where the blank is filled with some thing the questioner would like me to do, such as “Why don’t you tour?“, “Why don’t you advertise on such-and-such site?“, or “Why don’t you do morning appointments?” And the short-but-not-entirely-satisfactory answer is always the same: “Because I don’t want to.” As regular readers know, I’ve been doing sex work for a really long time: 34 years in all, almost 22 years as a career, and almost 20 years as an advertised escort. And as one might expect, I’ve learned a great deal in that time, and one of things I’ve learned is that it’s easy to burn out if one isn’t careful. It happened in only two years as a stripper, and as an escort I burned out several times and had to change my work style in order to maintain an income while giving myself time to recover (the longest break of this sort was from July 2006 to July 2010, during which my sole client was my then-husband). But now, the stakes are much higher; I’m much older and much more realistic, and I know very well I’m not likely to score any gig that’s both more lucrative and less stressful for me than harlotry. It isn’t that sex work is in and of itself uniquely stressful; it’s just that running a one-woman business of any kind is, and criminalization heaps an extra load of stress on top of that. So a sex worker, like any other businessperson, needs to prioritize, pace herself, and figure out the right work-life balance so as to make it possible to continue bringing in a solid, dependable income year after year without burnout.
One important part of that is figuring out what things cause one the most stress and/or resentment and eliminating (or at least minimizing) them; another is its counterpart, maximizing the things that one enjoys or finds rewarding. And as you’ve probably already guessed, most of the things I don’t do are things that I find stressful and/or annoying. I’m slow to awaken and hate waking up to alarms, so I have always refused to do morning appointments. I am not good at navigating formal systems, and since that includes filling out forms it’s rare that I can motivate myself to create a new ad. I tend to be very set in my ways where work is concerned (note how slowly the format of this blog changes, and how some features never change), so I only like to travel to see overnight clients or to do incidental shorter sessions in a place I’m visiting for some other reason, like a speaking engagement. Last year I realized how much I’ve grown to hate taking cold phone calls, so I stopped doing it; I also realized I need more time to unwind before bed than I used to, so I stopped scheduling sessions to end later than 11 pm. And because the inability to know my schedule in advance was probably the number one factor in my big burnout in ’06, I’ve been reluctant to take same-day sessions since the beginning of this decade and now don’t do it at all anymore unless A) it’s for a regular or by request of a sex worker friend (last-minute duo, that kind of thing) and B) I have at least a few hours’ notice. I think you get the idea; if I don’t do something, it’s probably because I dislike doing it, and asking me to do it anyway is not likely to win my favor.
(Have a question of your own? Please consult this page to see if I’ve answered it in a previous column, and if not just click here to ask me via email.)
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It’s a funny sort of justice that lets the government take your stuff and then say you have no recourse because you don’t have that stuff anymore. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Why, how could anyone have predicted this outcome?
…A student accused of sexual assault and subject to an unlawful, unconstitutional adjudication process filed a motion seeking class-action certification in his pre-existing lawsuit against Michigan State University. Rather than seeking to void the results only of his own flawed adjudication, he’s now seeking to void every adjudication where accused students were punished “without first being afforded a live hearing and opportunity for cross examination.” This new motion comes after a wave of cases across the country that have invalidated and reversed the results of campus kangaroo courts — and these rulings are coming from judges across the political/judicial spectrum. In California…judges issued rulings that effectively halted proceedings in 75 campus sexual-misconduct cases, while California universities reworked their processes…the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals joined dozens of other courts in ruling that university processes should face exacting legal scrutiny…
In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners:
In May…the Jackson County Detention Center In Kansas City, Missouri, with no warning to local attorneys, instituted a new [humiliation] policy that requires all visitors, including inmates’ attorneys, to pass through a metal detector…underwire bras are setting it off…instead of simply using a wand to determine what is setting off the alarm…the [cage stack] is refusing to let visiting women pass through until…their bras…come off…An even more draconian policy was implemented in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 2018: Visitors were given only two chances to pass the metal detector — and women were required to wear a bra under prison rules…A Maryland jail was sued [for similar reasons] in 2011…[in the current case] when women (and, later, men) complained about a policy they found unnecessary, humiliating and sexist, they were met with gaslighting, false solutions, accusations of privilege, stonewalling and, finally, retaliation. And this was against attorneys, who by definition are well positioned to fight back…
West African “penis stealing” hysteria has spread to East Africa:
A…man in Likoni, Mombasa, plans to travel to neighbouring Tanzania to seek the help of a famed witchdoctor…after an elderly sex worker allegedly cast a spell on him, which has seemingly rendered his sex organ useless, at least in the bedroom…Isaac Karisa…refused to pay an elderly prostitute he had spent a night with…[because] he was too drunk to accomplish the task and fell into a deep slumber after less than five minutes…Karisa refused to part with the thousand shillings he had promised and instead fished out a Sh200 note…A scuffle ensued, with the woman mumbling gibberish and hurling incantations, aimed at jinxing the man…
I can’t decide whether the phrase “night nurse” is clever or silly, but ladies in the global South, PLEASE start charging these bozos in advance!
Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this:
A new legal filing accuses prominent political activist and donor Ed Buck of violating federal human trafficking laws when he allegedly supplied an airline ticket to a man who flew to Los Angeles from Texas and died inside Buck’s West Hollywood apartment. The [filing bloviates that]…Buck…”knowingly utilized interstate commerce…for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex acts”…[in the real world] Moore’s death was…[the result of] an accidental methamphetamine overdose…
Cases are this are why even some not-completely-stupid people believe that “sex trafficking” is increasing; “sex trafficking” charges certainly are.
The Cold, Grey Light of Dawn (#824)
No one person can undo an entire system of fascist tyranny:
…Pennsylvania [politicians] have quietly muscled power away from reformist District Attorney Larry Krasner, passing new legislation giving authority to the state’s attorney general to prosecute certain firearms violations in Philadelphia — and nowhere else in the state. The provision will expire in two years, or just after Krasner’s first term ends…The bill was passed…with no public awareness. Even some of the [politicians] who voted for it say they [were more clueless than usual]…The maneuver…is the most significant legislative pushback to date against the new movement by criminal justice reformers to focus on seizing the power of the prosecutor…to decide when to bring charges and, critically, when not to. The new law means that even if Krasner decides to exercise the latter power and not bring charges, the police could go directly to the attorney general to pursue the case regardless…
A federal appeals court accepts Everett’s argument that “women who dress like sluts cause rape”:
…a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…vacated U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman’s 2017 decision that placed an injunction on a city ordinance requiring “quick-service facility” workers to wear, at minimum, shorts and a tank top…The ordinances will now go into effect as the decision is sent back down to a lower court….Everett [politicians] praised the court’s ruling, claiming that…”[sluts in bikinis cause rape]”…
If Rantz read my blog he’d know this stopped being a “fringe position” over a year ago:
[Seattle city] council candidate Tammy Morales announced on Twitter that she would like to decriminalize sex work in Seattle. She’s not the only candidate…if Morales lands on the Council with activists incumbents Lisa Herbold and Kshama Sawant, we may very well have to waste our time debating this fringe position…Mark Solomon, Former crime prevention coordinator with the Seattle Police Department, [also supports decrim, as does]…Chris Peguero…
Sawant has somehow managed to convince a number of people that she is pro-sex worker, but she is a socialist (a group which has always opposed sex work) and flat-out refused to meet with sex workers when she ran the last time. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if, with a pro-decrim member on the council, Sawant publicly espouses the Swedish model.
Everybody knows cops are stupid, but this is a new level of idiocy:
…Given how difficult it is to absorb fentanyl through the skin (which is why the companies that make…fentanyl patches for pain treatment rely on patented technology that took years to develop), the likelihood that [histrionic pigs who accidentally touched some] were actually feeling the narcotic’s effects is approximately zero…[a local news station reporting on such a porcine fantasy] consulted a [soi-disant] drug treatment specialist…who proceeded to [bloviate]…”Someone…who enters a room with a person who’s having an issue with fentanyl could become addicted to it instantly [emphasis added]”…there is no such thing as instant addiction. Addiction is a gradual process through which people become strongly attached to an experience that provides pleasure or emotional relief…patients who take prescribed opioids, including fentanyl, for pain relief rarely become addicted to them. So even if [a pack of porkers]…somehow absorbed enough fentanyl to experience its psychoactive effects (say, by accidentally injecting themselves with a loaded syringe found at the scene), they would not become addicted to it unless they liked those effects enough to repeatedly seek them out…
After her accident, Jae was on IV fentanyl for two weeks and didn’t show the slightest signs of addiction afterward. But as we all know, cops are delicate little pansies who can be so terrified by the sight of a black teenager running away from them that they are uncontrollably compelled to empty an entire clip into his back. So I guess the idea that they could become “instantly addicted” by touching a person with the drug in his system isn’t so farfetched after all.
The government keeps contradicting itself in its haste to crucify the former owners of Backpage:
…the 9th Circuit considered claims [last] week that federal prosecutors have improperly seized…money and property and used dirty tricks to prevent the courts from making things right…the feds have seized “26 real properties (some purchased before Backpage… ever existed), 89 bank accounts, and 268 domain names” from the defendants, their family members, and associated entities. Prosecutors also seized money held in trusts by the defendants’ lawyers, jeopardizing defendants’ ability to afford defense counsel…Under the twisted rules of civil asset forfeiture, the government can take money and property from those accused of wrongdoing before actually proving any wrongdoing, so long as there is “probable cause” to believe the assets were used in or derived from criminal activity. But for assets related to…First Amendment–protected activities…the government…must first show that the speech in question is not constitutionally protected. Prosecutors [pretend]…that all the assets it seized were derived from the operation of Backpage, that all ads on Backpage were illegal, and that this is self-evidently true…and…that there were no free speech issues…since Backpage had already been…sold by Lacey and Larkin in 2015…[yet] prosecutors [also] argue that defendants never really did let the company go…
Spooge-based sexual assaults are growing worse:
…Justin Schneider…admitted that he had [choked a woman until she passed out, then] masturbated onto her….[and] ejaculated on her face. But he was not charged with sexual assault. As a first-time offender, he accepted a deal to plead guilty to just a single count of second-degree assault, and he walked out of the courtroom a free man…prosecutors…never brought [a sexual assault charge]…because…In Alaska, sexual assault has a very narrow definition…because Schneider touched only his own genitals but didn’t touch Lauren’s or force her to touch his, his actions didn’t qualify as sexual assault…Alaska lawmakers last month voted to close what has been dubbed the “Schneider loophole.” But out of 54 US states and territories, 44 of these jurisdictions, including [Washington], do not have a legislated definition of sexual contact that explicitly mentions contact with semen…
And the incidents we hear about are only a fraction of the ones that happen:
…[screws] mistreated migrant children [caged] in Arizona…[one of them molested] a 15-year-old-girl from Honduras…[he] put his hands inside her bra, pulled down her underwear and groped her…in front of other [pigs]…a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy [reported screws] took the mats out of their cell in retaliation for complaints from him and others about the taste of the water and food…accounts…include reports of verbal threats, physical altercations…[and] sexual abuse…
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Last week was relatively quiet, which is probably for the best because my seasonal anxiety is very high right now. My time-sense is rather off because of the extra sunlight, so sometimes my brain thinks it’s much earlier than it actually is. Luckily, cannabis edibles kinda reset that by making me relax, and even though I felt listless all week I actually had a fairly productive week. I got some projects out of the way, did a bit of planning for Sunset, presented The War on Whores at a Pride event in Tacoma, had dinner with Kaytlin Bailey (who was in town for a few days), and edited my lecture on the politics of sex work for Thaddeus Russell’s Renegade University. Actually, I haven’t done that last yet at the time of this writing, but I promised to work on it today, so I’m saying it here in hopes it will push me to actually do it. Here’s hoping! And if I’m really ambitious, maybe I’ll even manage to get my flights for Woodhull scheduled this week.
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We’re slowly creeping toward the home stretch of my fundraiser! I know that many of you probably have “giving fatigue”, but we’re now over halfway there and less than $5000 from the goal, so I figured it was time to both remind and update y’all. First of all, a HUGE thank you to everyone who has already donated; if you contributed at the $60 level or more, you should’ve received your DVD today at the latest (I shipped them on Wednesday and Thursday, and I sent them Priority Mail which is supposed to be 2 to 3 days). If you have received neither disc nor an email from me, please mail me and let me know so we can straighten it out! I’m autographing the covers, but since the color scheme is dark I pulled the cover sheet out & signed them on the white inside. If I owe you a dinner or coffee date and you’re in the DC area, I’m going to be there very soon; I’m screening The War on Whores at the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit, 6 pm on August 16th at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, so even if you aren’t at the conference itself we can make plans to meet outside of that Friday evening time frame. And if August doesn’t work, I have more good news: I’ll be back in Washington for a screening event at the offices of Reason Magazine on September 26th! I don’t have the details for that yet, but watch my (usually-Tuesday but occasionally Monday or Thursday) diary columns for details. In other news, tomorrow I’ll be working on editing my video course on the politics of sex work for Thaddeus Russell’s Renegade University; I’ll keep you posted when that’s available. But for right now, please donate to help if you can, and if you’d like to make a large donation in person let me know and that can probably be arranged as well.
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I wandered lonely as a clod,
Just picking up old rags and bottles,
When onward on my way I plod,
I saw a host of axolotls;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
A sight to make a man’s blood freeze. – Mad #43
Given the sad news about Mad, it seemed appropriate to feature one of the songs from one of its albums (some of which were actually included in “specials”; if you’re old enough to remember those, you should remember “sound sheets“). The links above the video were provided by Radley Balko, Nun Ya, Emma Evans, Mike Siegel, Ivan Dragomiloff, and Radley Balko again, in that order.
- But for video.
- R.I.P. Mad Magazine.
- Much more of this, please.
- What would it look like had it “gone right”?
- It’s like RAY-AY-AIIIIIIIN on your wedding day…
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Despite this fantasy’s popularity with UK cops, none has ever been found.
- Adult man wearing a costume mansplains professionals’ own job to them.
- Politicians can’t grasp that whores might be neither criminals nor victims.
- More European government humanitarianism to “fight human trafficking”.
- Evil douchebags trying to criminalize Nevada brothels fall on their faces.
- Massage parlor licensing is widely touted as a way to “fight prostitution”.
- In my “ideal world”, hypocritical apologists for feminism wouldn’t exist.
- Clearly, critical thinking skills are not a prerequisite for nursing school.
- Another chapter in this grotesque campaign to intimidate sex workers.
- Small cities’ ludicrous concepts for supposed “gypsy whore” magnets.
- Useful idiots are surprised, though this was as predictable as sunrise.
- Scheme to cut sex workers off from the healthcare system continues.
- Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control of “authorities”.
- Some cops just can’t stick with the “all whores are victims” program.
- Prosecutors’ magic Shazam power can turn “children” into “adults”.
- Fetishists expend so much energy on something that doesn’t exist.
- Scumbags don’t get caging humans induces pathological behavior.
- Adult woman turns into “child” via the power of a magical camera.
- Your regular reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- An attempt to slander the good work done by SWOP Behind Bars.
- Is it “sexist” for a sex worker’s client to request a custom service?
- “Sex trafficking” hysteria spins out of control of the “authorities”.
- It’s not often a judge rules against cops in favor of a sex worker.
- A pet judge isn’t going to be able to make this scandal go away.
- A politician describes my flexible, lucrative job as “undesirable”.
- What happens when you refuse to tailor your pet law narrowly.
- Where “cutting-edge” is used to mean “hopelessly inaccurate”.
- Total number of frogs in Lisa Lewis’ self-destructive chorus: 3.
- Cops, sharks, spiders, Idi Amin, and other dangerous animals.
- Once Patreon started caving in to PayPal, this was inevitable.
- Fanatics are recycling old “sex trafficking awareness” stunts.
- Rapist cop escapes consequences of his actions by croaking.
- I’ve been a harsh critic of these do-nothing law for 7 years.
- More inevitable “monkey see, monkey do” from the UK.
- Seven years in a cage for drawing a fictional character.
- Mike Siegel on the “harm enhancement” of prohibition.
- Another victory for feminism against jobs for women.
- On the humorous, adventurous rapists of Disneyland.
- Yet another perfect example of the McNeill Rule.
- I suspect this sort of story isn’t all that unusual.
- A promising start for decrim in South Australia.
- My seventh and eighth anniversary columns.
- Another chance for you to help sex workers.
- Lorelei and I prepare to depart for Ireland.
- How Taiwanese police harass sex workers.
- A functioning police state needs no police.
- “Crime”: stillbirth. Penalty: life in a cage.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2017 and 2018.
- Welcome to our world, infertile women.
- Welcome to our world, cannabusiness.
- Some good stuff is better than none.
- Not a good move on Deen’s part.
- Cops, Vangelis and much more.
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