People who define sex work as the selling of a body, or who say sex isn’t work, are telling you a lot about their own sex lives. I mean, think about it; what does it say to you for a person to claim they believe sex consists of a woman lying passively in bed like a doll while a man “accesses her body cavities”? What would you conclude about the sexual experiences of a person who claimed to believe that sex required no labor at all from the woman, but was simply done to her, with the man as the only active party in the transaction? And yet, when I made this simple point last week, I was inundated with angry responses from prohibitionists trying to “explain” that I was wrong (and a misogynist, natch) because sex really does involve a woman lying there like a cadaver, with a man “masturbating into her orifices”. I got similar responses from almost a score of prohibitionists, who thus boosted my tweets while amply proving my point over and over again (even after I suggested they stop digging). Too bad the general public is just as ignorant as they are and are therefore unable to see through their embarrassing self-exposure as easily as those of us in the demimonde can. 
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I’ve got an article on sex work, money and consent in the new print edition of Reason, and I think y’all should show your support by picking one up! But if you have neither subscription nor newsstand handy, here it is online. A sample to get you started:
…In the realm of sex, consent has been elevated to the level of a sacred word. But in practice, most of us believe in a host of exceptions…Many if not most of these exceptions involve sex, money, or power, so it’s not surprising that sex work—which involves all three—inspires some truly absurd mental gymnastics on and around the concept of consent. Statists, both in and out of government, like to play Kafkaesque games with the idea of consent. We are told by a certain type of feminist that consent must be explicitly verbal, ongoing, and “enthusiastic”. They say it must be tiresomely re-ascertained over and over and over again, no matter how clearly it was expressed in the first place. Modern Puritans, meanwhile, claim that people who engage in “deviant” sexual behavior (including sex work, BDSM, and—until very recently—homosexuality) are suffering from “Stockholm syndrome,” “trauma bonding,” or “false consciousness” and thus cannot consent to things they claim to enjoy because they are not in their right minds.
But the most bizarre of these tortuous mind games, popular among radical feminists for years but gaining momentum today among “progressives,” is the idea that if a person is paid to do something he wouldn’t do for free, that constitutes “coercion” or even “violence”. As Reason‘s Elizabeth Nolan Brown pointed out a few years ago, “In Seattle, sex must be a ‘leisure activity’ for both parties or it’s nonconsensual, according to one area prosecutor.” Brown was writing about Val Richey, a senior deputy prosecuting attorney for King County, Washington, who argued that all sex workers are victims of rape because someone paid them “essentially to turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes.'” This dogma is deranged. Richey doesn’t do his job for free; does that mean he is coerced, too? This contradiction doesn’t seem to occur to anti–sex work crusaders, because they’re unwilling to accept that sex, like every other part of the material world, is not distributed “evenly” or “fairly”…
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I don’t know where the justice is. – Roger Byard, on prosecuting a mother for an infant’s unexplained death
Los Angeles prosecutors said…they hope a civil lawsuit will [bankrupt] two San Fernando Valley massage parlors they accused [without evidence] of being fronts for…human trafficking rings. City Attorney Mike Feuer said his office filed the lawsuit against the…owners…[and] the landlord of the strip malls where both are located. Prosecutors are seeking a permanent injunction against the spas, as well as financial [loot]…the city attorney’s office accused Xiaoxi Ding and Hongshan Wang of running a “sophisticated prostitution ring at both locations”…
Targeting landlords with “pimping” charges is a typical prosecutor trick to avoid having to prove anything, and “Sophisticated prostitution rings” is the most popular cop excuse for raping sex workers.
Beth Grate…started learning [fantasies] about human trafficking when a family visited her…church…She went on to found and head…a chapter of the Michigan Abolitionist Project….She attended and spoke at programs about human trafficking…and…[st]alked [sex workers in] neighborhoods…She is working toward earning certification as a human trafficking international subject matter expert, a new program that is being developed [by unnamed parties]…Victims of trafficking are usually Americans with ages ranging from one to 70 years old…“I believe in Jesus Christ. I was sitting with the Lord and I said, ‘Why can’t I find my niche? God put in the idea I wasn’t supposed to have a narrow niche, but a broad spectrum ministry…People don’t think it’s happening here…it’s [fantasized] in every county of Michigan…Traffickers can live in your neighborhood”…
Do not EVER talk to the pigs. Just shut the fuck up except to demand your lawyer:
When Addeline Brindle woke up on March 29, 2018…her 3-month-old baby, Tre’Velle…[was dead] in the bed beside her…Mansfield, Ohio, police…[interrogated the traumatized 19-year-old at] the hospital…and she [foolishly] told them that she had used cocaine two days before…six months later…she was charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, endangering children, and possession of cocaine…Her attorney, John Boyd, pushed for probation…[but] Judge Brent Robinson [grunted]…“[Oink oink] drugs [are bad]…and [I am] going to [make you] suffer”…But…medical experts who reviewed the baby’s autopsy report…said…it was unclear whether his death stemmed from his sleeping situation, or from an undiagnosed medical condition…the prosecutor and judge used Tre’Velle’s death to send a message about [defying the police state]…In the past…many…deaths were attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a catch-all diagnosis…But in recent decades, thanks to [expansion of the carceral state]…forensic pathologists have shifted away from SIDS and toward [blaming the mother]…
People are so unwilling to let go of the “pimps & hos” myth and the “enslaved children” wanking fantasy, that even when they question a few of the elements they can’t let go of the rest:
…In 2017, nearly 25,000 runaways reported to NCMEC and nearly 3,600 were likely victims of sex trafficking. Of those, 88 percent came from the social services system…The most common reasons for [kids to be abducted by the State]…were neglect (62 percent) and drug abuse by one or both parents (36 percent). [But so-called] drug abuse can be as simple as failing a single voluntary drug test. Neglect can mean as little as missing homeschooling paperwork, or even letting a child eat sweets before dinner…Once the child is in the system, it can be exceedingly difficult for the parents to get their child back…Pimps are…skilled at developing dependency in their victims…Their main targets are children aged 12-14…“When law enforcement takes these kids back home, many times these kids walk right back out the door on their own and right back into the clutches of these offenders,” said [NCMEC bureaucrat Robert] Lowery…himself [a former pig]…
It absolutely true that most underage sex workers [not “sex trafficked children”] come from the “foster care” system, and that the system is a police-state abomination which destroys lives without adequate reason. But they average 16-17, not 13; only a very small number [about 10%] have “pimps”; they run away again because the foster homes are very often more intolerable than street living, not because of ninja “pimps” with magical mind-control powers; and NCMEC is a dangerous anti-sex organization which hides its agenda behind “protecting children”. Its claims about “likely victims” are pure nonsense with absolutely no basis in statistics; in fact, they even contradict NCMEC’s own published statistics. But I guess none of that matters when there’s money to be made, a police state to enlarge and exciting fantasies of 13-year-old “sex slaves” to be wanked to.
A [typical and representative] Jackson [Mississippi cop who] repeatedly [raped] a 15-year-old in the back of his patrol car committed suicide shortly after news broke about the abuse…James Hollins.[tricked the girl into thinking he was her friend and then demanded sex. In typical pig fashion, he did not kill himself in a dignified and private manner, but instead shot himself in his car with a gun stolen from another cop]…on I-220 [on the afternoon of May 27th, resulting in a massive rush-hour traffic jam as cops closed] both lanes of the interstate…for over two hours [while unsuccessfully trying to figure out how to pin the shooting on someone else. Hollins raped the girl]…several times a week over…six month[s and made]…several sexually explicit videos of the [assaults]…The teen’s mother caught on…and…reported it to the police chief…[who gave Hollins a paid vacation]…
Saving Them From Themselves (#775)
Maryland’s highest court will soon decide whether a 16-year-old girl, “S.K.,” can face child pornography charges for taking a video of herself performing…consensual oral sex on an unidentified male [and sending it to] two close friends and [a snitch]…who [ratted her out to the pigs]…S.K.’s attorney, Public Defender Claudia Cortese, [naively] argued that the statute in question was not intended to punish minors…”the prosecutor [lied that] the state was not ‘trying to [send a message but]…is just trying to help her” [by sexually traumatizing her and branding her mentally ill for normal teen behavior]…
Four national non-profits dedicated to protecting civil liberties and personal freedom…have lodged…amicus briefs with the federal court in Phoenix in support of a recent motion to dismiss by defendants in the Backpage case…the DKT Liberty Project, the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation — joined forces in one brief, asking the court to grant the motion to dismiss. Meanwhile the ACLU of Arizona submitted its own amicus curiae, focusing on the First Amendment implications of the prosecution…At the heart of the case is the government’s assumption that the ads in Backpage’s adult section for putatively legal services…were actually selling illicit sex. But as the motion to dismiss and the amicus briefs point out, that is not an assumption that the First Amendment allows prosecutors to make…the First Amendment, and…the…charges under the Travel Act, require a specific knowledge and intent to promote the specific illegal act in question…And yet, prosecutors are not claiming that the defendants ever saw the…50 ads…which the government says it can connect to illegal acts. Obviously, Lacey and Larkin were not engaged in the mundane task of reviewing ads for publication. And most of the 50 ads the government cites were published after the two men sold their interest in the company in 2015…
An Avalanche of Bullshit (#929)
Is there anything fetishists won’t try to link to “sex trafficking”?
…the U.S. Department of Justice is now subpoenaing records related to the Floridian entrepreneur and small-time Republican donor Li “Cindy” Yang…her husband and parents, several former members of her staff, her colleague on the National Committee of Asian American Republicans, and several other Chinese Americans…Yang—who built up and then sold a spa and massage chain in South Florida—had in recent years launched G.Y. U.S. Investments, an endeavor that helped Chinese business owners navigate U.S. regulations and make contacts, investments, and operational inroads here. As part of this consulting business, Yang sometimes offered clients access to events at Trump’s private club in Palm Beach and to other Republican parties. Prosecutors say some of these events were ticketed fundraisers…and non-citizens are prevented from donating to U.S. political campaigns…people are already spinning wild tales about what we supposedly know about Yang—that she funneled money from China to Trump, and that she earned her money from human trafficking…
Imagine this actually going to trial in the US:
Nikki Cox…thought…she [would not be believed by] police…after she was sexually assaulted by a client, who booked with the name Alex, in February last year. But Alex was on [May 28th] handed a partly suspended sentence of 15-months in jail — of which he must serve two months — for one count of aggravated sexual assault, to which he pleaded guilty in April…Nikki has told her story…because she felt the chance of her assault being taken seriously enough to result in an arrest, let alone in a successful prosecution, was microscopic…
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I would think it’s obvious to anyone who isn’t a complete moral imbecile that when one voluntarily accepts responsibility for a living creature, human or not, one is then responsible for the health and well-being of that creature. It’s not a toy to be thrown away when one tires of it, and yet – as anyone who has ever lived on a farm or similar property can attest – many people do exactly that. They get some kind of pet and then, when they decide on some whim that they don’t want it any more, they just drive it out to the area of the nearest farm, ranch, or stable and dump it. Sure, they could contact some kind of animal welfare organization and ask for help rehoming the pet, but that’s too much like work for these entitled turds; it’s so much easier just to put the poor trusting beast in the car, take it for a ride, and then dump it off without any regard for the fact that it has absolutely no ability to take care of itself. Well, week before last somebody did exactly that at a farm belonging to a neighbor of my friend Winnie; the lady went out in the morning to find a kunekune, a small breed of pig from New Zealand, making friends with her horses. It’s about 80 pounds full-grown, so Winnie asked me if we had room for it out at Sunset and Grace, being an animal lover (who happens to have a special fondness for pigs), of course said yes. So I bought a large dog kennel at the local Goodwill and Chekhov came to fetch him last Wednesday. I named him Orville, and I’m happy to report that he seems very happy at Sunset. He and Shiloh immediately became friends, but since all llamas are temperamental and Jonathan is a complete drama queen, he carried on frightfully the first day and has since been giving the little porker a wide berth. It won’t last; he played “keep away from Shiloh” the entire first week she was there, but now they’re inseparable. I can’t say I’m personally all that fond of pigs, but I’m told he is extremely friendly and clearly has the deportment of a house pet, so I’ll probably get used to him pretty quickly. And if Jae can have a miniature horse, it only seems fair for Grace to have a miniature pig. Besides, crazy cat ladies are pretty common; a crazy cat, dog, chicken, llama, pony and pig lady is much rarer.
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When we eventually win our rights back we will, in a strange way, have our oppressors to thank for it. – “Cornered Animals”
Contrary to popular American belief, no French government since the Revolution has been friendly to sex workers who catered to the middle and working classes, and after the Second World War mere oppression escalated into outright hostility; eventually, however, the French cops’ and politicians’ attacks on sex workers grew so incessantly violent that 44 years ago today they protested by occupying the Church of St. Nizier in Lyon. The occupation lasted only a week before the cops dispersed it with their usual methods, tear gas and horrific beatings, but the seed had been planted and sex worker rights organizations popped up in many countries; these groups won many victories in their first 30 years, until prohibitionists started to counterattack with lies, propaganda and huge amounts of money. Since its beginning in 2004, the synthetic “sex trafficking” hysteria (a recycling of the deeply-racist late 19th & early 20th century “white slavery” hysteria which resulted in the imposition of many awful laws in the British Empire and full criminalization in the US) has undermined sex worker rights in much of the world and spawned an immense, expensive and vicious War on Whores in the United States, following in the footsteps of the equally-ruinous War on Drugs which has eroded civil liberties, turned the police into an occupying army and destroyed the lives of millions.
Then early last year, the prohibitionists achieved what they thought would be a definitive victory: they persuaded and bribed the mob of moral imbeciles we call the US Congress to nigh-unanimously pass a blatantly-unconstitutional censorship law called FOSTA-SESTA intended to bankrupt, harm and kill sex workers and turn the entire internet into a walled garden controlled by the fascist coalition of Washington politicians, Hollywood media companies and a few hand-picked internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Amazon. But as I noted just a few weeks after the law’s passage, it has had the opposite of its creators’ desired effect: rather than silencing sex workers, it has frightened the quiet majority of our profession (including the less-criminalized branches like strippers) into raising their voices in support of the minority who have always been vocal. Rather than convincing the public that our violent suppression was some kind of good, it has instead galvanized public support to a level never before seen in the US, and media outlets which actively supported the hysteria for over a decade are now publishing debunkings of prohibitionist propaganda and editorials in favor of decriminalization. Rather than being seen as a holy tool of salvation for imaginary “sex slaves”, FOSTA-SESTA is being widely questioned, ridiculed and even attacked by reporters, commentators and even comedians. And perhaps most tellingly, politicians who up until recently coudn’t even be bothered to accept that sex workers have basic civil rights are now actively calling for decriminalization. As I wrote last year, “the tyrants have…inflicted so much brutal violence that even the sheep are fighting back alongside bitches like me who have never submitted obediently to the control of our self-appointed masters.” And it’s about fucking time; maybe even Gay, Inc will eventually pull its swollen head out of its collective rectum and support us as it should have all along. It will be neither an easy fight nor a quick one, but neither was the struggle for LGBT rights and look how far that’s come. I don’t know if I’ll be around to see the end of that struggle which began in France over 40 years ago, but many of you reading this will. And I’m perfectly satisfied with that.
Posted in History, Perception, Tyranny | Tagged activism, censorship, cops, Disaster, fascism, France, holidays, hysteria, internet, law, LGBT rights, politicians | 1 Comment »
The justification that [cops need to be allowed to rape sex workers because] “it’s hard to prosecute otherwise” is like the justification that waterboarding is necessary to obtain confessions. – Tom Kelley
…A [recent] investigation into…prostitution [entrapment] stings in south-central Pennsylvania has found several recent cases that raise questions about whether [cops] needed to go as far as they did to make an arrest and successfully prove the crime beyond a reasonable doubt…On several occasions, [pigs] took off all, or most, of their clothes. In one case, a woman masturbated a [lying pig] for “several minutes” before [the rest of the herd busted in to terrorize her]…Prostitution is one of the lowest-level offenses in the crimes code. Several of these cases ended with someone being sentenced to probation or ordered to pay fines and court costs…The Pennsylvania Superior Court [declared that] someone [did not] need…to actually have sex to be found guilty of prostitution in 1980…
Why do these puritans insist on pretending that the literally prehistoric practice of shaming constitute a “modern” approach to intentionally harming people for wanting consensual sex? This article on Alabama’s new bill to legalize client shaming interviews a soi-disant “trafficking expert” who salivates and makes furtive movements in his pants pockets while vomiting out nonsense about how the sex trade magically disobeys every known law of economics and sociology, how one of the most powerful human motivators is somehow “skyrocketing”, how he should be the person who defines what constitutes “free speech”, and how 1/12 of the US population now consists of “sex slaves”. Pay especial note to his fascination with the claim that over a third of those “sex slaves” are boys.
When the Lady Juliana arrived in Sydney in the winter of 1790, it was 11 months since the ship departed England. Hundreds of colonists gathered to greet the ship they believed was bringing them desperately needed supplies for the near-starving colony…But…instead of food and livestock, the ship had carried more than 200 women…While the arrival of the Lady Juliana did little to alleviate the starvation crisis in the colony, the ship did bring long-awaited letters from loved ones and news from England…Every man on-board…indulged in a sexual relationship with a convict woman, so — not surprisingly — most of the women either arrived in Sydney pregnant or gave birth at sea…
The government calls this “border protection”:
A Border Patrol agent has been arrested and charged with three counts of sexual assault and three counts of aggravated assault…Steven Charles Holmes [raped a woman]…he [stalked via] a dating app…After checking into Holmes’ past, the Tucson Police Department said, “The investigation uncovered multiple victims with similar reports occurring from Jan. 2012 to Jan. 2019″…
When the stuffy Boston Globe publishes an article like this, you know things are changing:
Prostitution in America has been thoroughly and purposefully conflated with trafficking, leading to a prohibition of many kinds of sex work in most parts of the country. These laws are based on a false morality which claims that all sex work is, by definition, coerced, and that no…woman…can consent to sell sex for money…There’s a solution to this…backed by scientific research and data, and one that’s already in place in other countries. The best way to fight human trafficking is to decriminalize all sex work. [The claim that] all sex work is trafficking…became popular in the late 19th century…and…began as a racist backlash against nonwhites and immigrants, marked by campaigns against “white slavery”…Politicians still use trafficking to score cheap points with both liberal voters — who see sex work as misogynist, coercive, and oppressive — and conservative voters — who see it as sinful…
Here’s another entry in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter. What makes these especially funny is that there has never been a single case of an adult woman abducted by so-called “sex traffickers” from any public place, much less a crowded shopping mall. But get a load of the number of number of retweets and faves, for a tweet from an account with 343 followers who apparently dabbles in sex work.
A number of swimwear and lingerie brands have spoken out against a new policy on Instagram which is causing them to have lower engagement and, consequently, to lose money…Facebook (Instagram’s parent company) [announced]…that they would be working to reduce “the spread of posts that are inappropriate but do not go against Instagram’s community guidelines”. It went on to explain that “sexually suggestive posts” would be limited in the explore and hashtag sections of the app, but that it would still appear in your feed if you follow the account. This means that accounts which post images deemed “sexually suggestive” will be less visible to accounts that don’t follow them – and they are therefore less likely to be discovered by new customers, which is how a lot of smaller swimwear and lingerie brands grow their audience and sales…
White people’s latest racist trick: trying to scare African people out of migrating:
Forty-one [cops]…in Sierra Leone have received [indoctrination] on how to [label ordinary behavior]…human trafficking. The [propaganda claims that]…thousands of young girls and boys are trafficked into sexual slavery or forced labor in Sierra Leone…[even though] there has been no conviction of trafficking in persons in the country. This is in part because officials [were]…not [yet] sufficiently trained in [how to call just about any behavior] human trafficking [for purposes of]…prosecut[ion]…The [indoctrination] is…funded by the US Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
Note that buried lede way down in the last sentence. Talk about following the money…
Spain’s new prohibitionist government, like its cronies, just makes shit up as it goes:
[Spanish anti-migrant spooks] have arrested 12 people [using the excuse of]…human trafficking…[they also arrested eight sex workers. Pigs then oinked a lot of moralistic pap about]…illegal sexual activities, [negating the sex workers’ agency and misgendering transwomen]…All of them were advertised…in…a…thousand advertisements…ringleaders…deceived with the promise of a job…
Reporters using words like “ringleaders” and “illicit” or “illegal” sex always reminds me of this.
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For a man to…stare into my vulva as though he expected to see the future in it, makes me very uncomfortable. – “Aversions“
- Sleazebag takes it upon himself to persecute strangers for consensual sex.
- As our wanker switches from pimp fantasy to incest fantasy, fade to black.
- Mike Crawford: one of the most eloquent male voices on sexworker rights.
- Massage parlors are popular pig targets because they’re low-hanging fruit.
- These articles aren’t even funny any more; they’re just pathetically stupid.
- Why do “rescuers” always push whores into menial garment-related work?
- How long before judges start fining these lawyers for filing nuisance suits?
- Fact: woman with drug problem goes missing. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
- Brains so narrow they can only conceive of humans existing in two states.
- Women are passive dolls unable to make decisions without male coercion.
- Politicians keep promising the impossible & the stupid keep believing ’em.
- Can people not see that “sex trafficking” hysteria is rooted in xenophobia?
- Another asinine “crackdown” on massage parlors, using the usual excuse.
- Emily Bazelon pisses off prohibitionists by promoting Amnesty’s platform.
- Another ridiculous tale of spineless women & pimps with magical powers.
- Brooke Magnanti schools politicians wanting to hurt adults who want sex.
- Luckily, cops can diagnose us as “victims” no matter what we may think.
- Despite political claims, regulations aren’t meant to protect sex workers.
- This excellent article about anti-porn hysteria is also very droll at points.
- Anyone “shocked” by this should move to a remote farm without media.
- Arresting sex workers & clients to “build a positive relationship” with us.
- Officials invite religious fanatic to preach, feign surprise when she does.
- The meat of an article about whether escorting will survive dating apps.
- This would’ve been better without her moral signalling at the beginning.
- Fanatic finds data disprove “sex trafficking”, decides we need new data.
- What would they have said had she been arrested instead of murdered?
- Fetishists trot out more lurid wanking fantasies than usual for the RNC.
- KIRO has my number & should call it before printing ludicrous garbage.
- In US media, “sex trafficking” is now just a dysphemism for “sex work”.
- Fashion shows promote “sex trafficking” hysteria to enrich sweatshops.
- What does it mean if my regular escort stops using protection with me?
- Why bother looking for victims when cops can just pretend to be them?
- Police chief decides to destroy a few lives to give bored cops some fun.
- A revolting exercise in bootlicking in support of an unwinnable lawsuit.
- Police state exploits technically skilled but naive kids to attack whores.
- Countering the Seattle Times‘ nauseating bootlicking & prohibitionism.
- A woman who fought New York’s agency-denying “trafficking courts”.
- New surveillance weapons are usually used against sex workers first.
- Canadian prohibitionists desperate to cash in before panic implodes.
- South Africa is another country with awesome sex worker activists.
- A basic primer on sex worker rights, focusing on France & Belgium.
- This sounds good until one gets down to the “end demand” poison.
- Another woman’s child abducted by the state because of her work.
- This case horrifies me more than almost any other of this century.
- Reporters compete to write the most cop-fellatory article possible.
- When whores advance, cops soon arrive to “teach them a lesson”.
- Censorship is OK because Donald Trump is running for president.
- Why just stand around, when you can HIKE to “raise awareness”?
- The Dutch seem determined to slowly throttle sex work to death.
- A powerful takedown of “porn is a public health crisis” nonsense.
- Can a loving but pragmatic whore/client relationship really work?
- How persecuting ridesharing companies is like stripper licensing.
- Guys, please do your research, and let the pigs hunt each other.
- “Anti-trafficking” publicity stunts are growing ever more bizarre.
- Elizabeth Nolan Brown has become a force to be reckoned with.
- Sometimes “authorities” prefer to rape vulnerable men instead.
- Why do people just accept these ridiculous made-up numbers?
- In the US, we’re barely even tolerated, much less listened to.
- But it’s not a surveillance measure, because THE CHILDREN!
- Sex workers’ ideas of what a perfect brothel would look like.
- The best parts of my life have always involved other people.
- Another transwoman murdered and misgendered in death.
- There can never be too many anti-Swedish model articles.
- Some sex workers’ mothers really do love unconditionally.
- Cops are allowed to rape, but not to have consensual sex.
- In which NSWP counters absurd prohibitionist arguments.
- An article on student sex workers with a “so what?” tone.
- Spokane cops are on a fanatical client-targeting crusade.
- “…the pattern of legislating over their heads continued…“
- Which is to say, the second country in the entire world.
- Missouri wants to define escort ads as “sex trafficking”.
- This is TOTALLY different from what American cops do.
- Decriminalization in New South Wales is safe for now.
- All censorship seems this futile and ridiculous to me.
- How to fail at writing a pro-decriminalization article.
- A glimpse at the return of the Sex Workers’ Opera.
- So many rapist cops they needed a whole column.
- The ridiculous self-contradictions of anti-sex laws.
- Politicians just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- A prohibitionist’s notion of “helping” sex workers.
- The whore who became an empress and a saint.
- On the cover of the New York Times Magazine.
- This anti-whore article’s language is horrifying.
- The people prohibitionists want to “rescue” us.
- A tale of cookies, mud and chances not taken.
- New Orleans’ nasty little “sex offender” game.
- Don’t be fooled by this “guest post” in Forbes.
- Whore-murderer seeks early release in Dubai.
- Endza Adair on being a student & sex worker.
- The War on Whores is the new War on Drugs.
- Why do so many women have rape fantasies?
- I really love it when they feed on each other.
- I hope he wins and establishes a precedent.
- Sexual behaviors that drive me up the wall.
- A visit to California with my purple blanket.
- Public opposition to yet another toilet bill.
- Rapist cops of May 2016. Plenty of them.
- Another teen’s life destroyed for flirting.
- Another rapist preying on sex workers.
- An instant ticket to my Hall of Shame.
- Would you be my mentor in sex work?
- It’s impossible to state this too often.
- When a client is someone you know.
- The murder of Renee Duckmanton.
- Another reason not to do cowgirl.
- On the sentencing of Tracy Elise.
- Another murdered transwoman.
- Testing a new vertigo remedy.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- Sex worker rights in Uganda.
- Rapist fake-cop of the week.
- Facebook, the prudish giant.
- Rapist officials of May 2016.
- Yet another Friday the 13th.
- Rapist cops of May 2016.
- R.I.P. Charles Gatewood.
- A week of good and bad.
- When a client is famous.
- The “third party” fallacy.
- The clipboard effect.
- More of this, please.
- Advice for clients.
- The McNeill Rule.
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I get that amateurs don’t think like whores, but…don’t most of y’all put at least some value on your time? Every time I buy anything online or even go anyplace with my cell phone on, I am assailed by requests to provide “feedback”, answer “a few questions” or otherwise provide information for free. Even if each of these requests took only two minutes, I receive dozens of them a week; I’d easily spend 40 hours or more a year doing uncompensated labor for corporations that make more in a day than I will in my entire life. Amazon, Google, Wal-mart, grocery stores, restaurants, even fucking gas stations…the list is endless. Day before yesterday I found in my mailbox a questionnaire from Seattle public transit – a service I only use when it’s cheaper & easier to catch the light rail from downtown or the airport than to find a parking place – asking for my “help”, with no offer of compensation in sight. Hell, at least a few of them offer to enroll me in a drawing for some el cheapo prize that would barely compensate me if I won it on a regular basis (though the odds of finding a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk are probably greater), but most of them (I’m looking at you, Amazon and Google) don’t even throw out that parsimonious crumb. I imagine many if not most people just ignore these begging leviathans as I do, but enough people must participate to make it worthwhile. Good grief, don’t y’all recognize that the number one commodity in the developed world today is information? It’s bad enough that these immense leeches skulk around behind us online and off, hungrily licking up the data traces we all inadvertently leave behind us as horses leave shit everywhere; do y’all really have to give them information voluntarily as well? Google’s “We need some human help” is probably the most brazen of these, because it overtly acknowledges that it’s dealing with a human, then proceeds to treat that human as a machine from whom “help” (ie, valuable and marketable information) can be extracted merely for the demanding, with no offer of payment. Fuck you, Google, and the same goes for all you other turgid, omnivorous blobs haunting Silicon Valley and Seattle. Cut me in for a percentage of the profit on any data I give you and maybe I’ll consider it, but until then stop sniffing around my crotch and trying to get something for nothing like some gigantic Twitter rando demanding “debate” for free or a titanic time-waster trying to glean wanking material with your creepy questions.
Posted in Perception, Philosophy | Tagged advertising, cell phones, Google, internet, psychology, restaurants | 5 Comments »
A child is three times as likely to be hit by lightning than to be kidnapped…by a stranger. – Lenore Skenazy
This timing is very suspicious; will cops care?
Transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker, who was at the center of a viral video
where she was beaten near an apartment complex, was found fatally shot in east Dallas [on May 18th]…Edward Thomas was arrested and charged with aggravated assault in the [previous] case…
Just two typical, representative cops:
Two [Alabama cops] were arrested…at Empire, a Birmingham night club…[after] Markeith Williams and…Jonathan Hill [raped]…an employee in a bathroom…Both were
[rewarded with a vacation]…
…A new bill from state Rep. Brett Hillyer…would let people subjected to sexual misconduct by doctors at land grant universities between 1978-2000 sue those universities. [Dr. Richard] Strauss worked at Ohio State from the mid-1970s into the 1990s. He killed himself in 2005. More than 150 men claim Strauss sexually assaulted them while they were students and athletes at Ohio State. Nearly 50 are part of a lawsuit against the school that is headed for mediation…Ohio State’s lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss the case in part because the abuse fell outside the statute of limitations. Hillyer’s bill would remove that limitation for civil claims…
Yet another pogrom in the pocket police-state that is Polk County, Florida:
A massive [entrapment scheme] in Polk County ended with 154 [human beings brutalized and humiliated by the minions of chief psychopath] Grady Judd…[almost half of those arrested were sex workers]…
This will continue until the majority of those arrested fight back with lawsuits, as they’re doing not far away in Palm Beach County.
Rent paid for with sex is not “free”; it has been paid with sex:
…sordid homeowner[s]…are demanding romps, threesomes, S&M, naked photos and a “girlfriend experience” in exchange for free rooms from those who cannot afford to pay. And the vile exploitation of potential tenants is still going on despite it being outlawed in January…[puritans trying to stop feminine pragmatism] found dozens of sex for rent ads…on…Craigslist…
The level of hysteria this simple arrangement provokes in judgy puritans is hilarious.
…on March 30, 2017…Holly Curry…had all six of her kids — ages 5, 4, 2 (twins) and 10 months (also twins!) in her 10-seater van…Curry parked in front of…a…cafe…[for] less than 10 minutes [and when she emerged she found] two [cops lurking to harass her]…the next day…a [bureaucrat]…from the [infamous] Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services came to the Curry home…with a sheriff’s deputy…[and no] warrant…[the pig and the bureaucrat threatened her]…with an emergency custody order [to abduct] all her kids…Curry [folded and]…the [bureaucrat molested]…each child, male and female, [stripping them] down to the genitals (removing the diapers of the two youngest)…a few weeks later, the [bureaucrat]…told Curry she viewed her decision to get muffins as…a one-time mistake in judgment. The forced entry, the threat of taking the kids and the strip searches…were not viewed as mistakes at all…
All prohibitionists have emotional problems, but Guinasso seems to be an unhinged obsessive:
…a creepy Reno lawyer named Jason Guinasso [has] been on an 18-month religious crusade to shut down the brothels…For a year and half now Guinasso has been trying to force Lyon County to give him the full names and addresses of every legal sex worker in the county’s four brothels…District Attorney Steve Rye denied Guinasso’s request…but…In a letter dated February 1, 2019, Guinasso [threatened to sue the county so he can get the information and thereby shame the workers]…All the Nevada Legislature needs to do is amend the current public record statute to explicitly declare that the work card applications for commercial sex workers in Nevada’s legal brothels are confidential, just like gaming employees. That would put an immediate end to Guinasso’s crusade…and…remove a “gray area” in law that could potentially result in a court overruling District Attorney Rye…
Does anyone other than local news fail to recognize what a disaster FOSTA is?
Virtually the only people who still profess to believe this nonsense are cops and politicians:
A $1 million campaign will be launched this week to combat prostitution and human trafficking during the Super Bowl in Miami…State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said her office is looking to develop a “rapid intervention response team” to attack what [politicians keep pretending is] a persistent problem for major sporting events [despite plentiful evidence to the contrary]…“Our concern is that a lot of predators will bring other dancers and their victims that work in strip clubs. We have seen that with other major destinations”…the [fascist] effort…which also will involve [surveillance and profiling of customers of] the ride-share services Uber and Lyft, taxi companies and the hotel and restaurant industries…
Cops don’t “act as” sex predators; they are sex predators:
…Police Scotland’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has [finally decided to admit] that [cops] are [routinely] abusing their position to carry out “predatory sexual behaviour”. The ACU said it had received 22 [complaints about] sexual misconduct [in the first quarter of this] year…and…[is] monitoring 13 serious organised crime groups (SOCGs) amid fears they could be attempting to corrupt [already-corrupt cops]…Scottish Greens justice spokesman John Finnie…said he intended to raise the issue of sexual misconduct in the Scottish Parliament next week…
The fairy tale that cops need to be corrupted by “organized crime groups” in order to become rapists would be almost charmingly naive if it weren’t so dangerous to women.
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