I really like sharing my nice things with those who appreciate them. That includes the fresh eggs my chickens are churning out at a truly stupefying rate, which I’m sharing with my friends and neighbors; it also includes space on my Amazon wishlist, which sometimes contains things for Grace to use in working to fix up Sunset, like the miter saw table sent to me this week by the extremely generous Square Peg! I also received a new can opener and one of my favorite varieties of tea from Akalalalalamala. Thank you both so much! I’ve asked Jae to make a list of things I should get for Shiloh, because she is a pretty pony and therefore needs pretty pony stuff; if you’re of a mind to give me stuff like that, please keep an eye on my wishlist over the next week or two. Also, have a listen to the most recent episode of Thaddeus Russell’s podcast, in which Thad interviews Joshua Childress, who resigned from the US Border Patrol after listening to the previous episode of the same podcast featuring yours truly. At one point he tells Thad, “Maggie McNeill has more courage than I will ever have. She’s my hero.” And that kind of testimonial, y’all, is exactly what gives me the strength to keep doing this.
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It’s no secret that I do not suffer fools gladly, and never have. In the past few years my reaction to imbeciles online has resulted in my being compared to a Western gunfighter, various warriors, a wronged wolverine, and even a psychic mutant (sorry, I can’t find that column); earlier this year, Matisse said I was like a “flaming sword of doom on Twitter”. But while at one time I had a great deal more patience with work calls, the events of the past few months have necessitated a change in that department as well. Up until this year, a large enough fraction of the texts and phone calls I received led to paying work to justify my taking at least a few minutes with each caller. But now that Backpage is gone and the guys who used it have flooded into all the other sites, and Eros has made the incredibly asinine decision to remove all advertiser’s website links (thus driving browsers to contact providers by phone or email), I’ve been forced to improve my phone-screening skill set so as to eliminate the > 80% of phone callers or texters who are time-wasters, clowns, or cheapskates. Even if I’m awake, I’m unlikely to answer a voice call before noon or after midnight, because those guys are most likely looking for a session nownownow and I don’t work at any AM hour (if they really want to see me, they can text or email). Texts from any number not already in my phone book receive a short reply with my website link (and I wish I had a way to save that as something like a macro), and most of those don’t reply once they see my rates (or else they’re too lazy to even visit the site). Guys who voice-call and mumble, ignore my questions, make stupid comments or just keep saying “hi” are going to be hung up on, and those who then try to pursue by texting are likely to get their feelings hurt. Some of you reading this may not understand why this strictness is necessary, but I know the sex workers get it: if I spent just five minutes with everyone who contacts me I’d be on the phone for about two hours a day, and less than a fifth of that effort would actually lead to any money. So it’s absolutely imperative that I quickly separate the grain from the chaff so as to concentrate on the former rather than wasting my time and emotional energy on the latter.
Still, I recognize that there may be some men who want to be good clients, but simply lack the phone skills to present that way; maybe English isn’t their first language, or they’re painfully shy, or nervous about contacting an escort because they never have before. To those guys, I advise doing what a new client I saw last week did: use email. All the emails I received from this gent were clear and polite, and I had no trouble screening him, but when we chatted so I could give him directions I noticed he wasn’t very verbal, and when we actually met I don’t think he said 40 words in the whole hour. The reason it worked out anyway was that he made a realistic assessment of his competence in spoken English, understood that his written English was much better, and so followed his strong suit. So unless you’re both eloquent and confident, and quite familiar with my rates and such, email is probably the best approach; not only does it give you the opportunity to put your best foot forward, but it also allows me to answer when I’m in the proper frame of mind.
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A phantom pregnancy is actually a real pregnancy but you have a phantom inside you rather than a human baby. – Amethyst Realm
Our society is in love with unnecessary warning signs, but the ones in this video (courtesy of Lenore Skenazy) are absurd even by modern US standards. The links above it were provided by Mistress Matisse, Franklin Harris, Radley Balko, Walter Olson, Phoenix Calida, Emma Evans, and David Ley, in that order.
- Florida man.
- Paging Milli Vanilli.
- She sounds reasonable.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- What part of “not for any reason” do y’all not get?
- More connected to reality than “sex trafficking” fetishists.
- Amateurs should be licensed & regulated for their own good.
From the Archives
- We don’t want to be “legalized & regulated”; we just want to be left alone.
- Isn’t it obvious that when pigs are actively engaged in stings, arrests rise?
- Despite genuflecting to ugly myths, this seems a step in a good direction.
- “Unbelievably” is a good adverb for nearly every sentence in this fantasy.
- New sleazy government trick: use civil suits rather than criminal charges.
- Stick to ladies with established reputations & you’ll be safe from this evil.
- Despite exaggerated numbers to make it more lurid, this is a huge yawn.
- Since this fascist wankfest hasn’t sold as a TV show, they made a movie.
- Exactly what prohibitionists wanted, despite their claims to the contrary.
- Another rape victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
- Remember, cops, you’re allowed to RAPE us, but not to obtain consent.
- 1.5% is my standard estimate of coercion among Western sex workers.
- Amateurs: a public health menace who should be licensed & regulated.
- “Virginity tests” are a sign of our culture’s deeply-sick sexual attitudes.
- US prohibitionists refer to this kind of lying as “reframing experiences”.
- No, I won’t “debate” you, nor will I tolerate filth in my online presence.
- Only in Australia would a politician follow this insult with this apology.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, especially not whores.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Pathetic losers wanking to their fantasies of superhuman sex robots.
- Buried lede: cops sexually assaulted women in order to arrest them.
- A coalition between fundamentalist groups is in no way “surprising”.
- Prudes freak over a common arrangement as old as human culture.
- What was the point of talking to Annie if she wasn’t going to listen?
- The word for a place people are kept against their will isn’t “home”.
- Cops, bootlickers, Seattle, “Those Were the Days” and much more.
- A reminder that in most of the US, the situation is still worsening.
- Quickly becoming one of the stupidest tropes of the whole panic.
- A fairly typical abomination, but with an extra racist component.
- I’m aghast at everyone involved in the creation of this shitshow.
- Article equates sex workers with child molesters and murderers.
- Watch for escorts to be prosecuted for “trafficking” themselves.
- Government-backed internet gentrification harms sex workers.
- The State covering up for rapist cops isn’t confined to the US.
- We’re witnessing the end of the beginning of these evil laws.
- Politician hires sex worker; meanwhile, bear shits in woods.
- Cops, fascism, clowns, rock opera, The Prisoner and more.
- Why governments are more dangerous than corporations.
- Like something Melissa Farley would make up, only true.
- Pigs steal $26,000 from citizens & spend it on strippers.
- It’s nice to know that at least a few reporters get this.
- Imagine this article in an American parenting column.
- My friend Kaytlin Bailey, on coming out to her father.
- Is it bad if I can only feel intimacy with sex workers?
- How can an anonymous blogger accept donations?
- It’s nice to see at least a few reporters waking up.
- In which I finally finish decorating my apartment.
- How you can help me wake up in the morning.
- Cop stalks sex workers via police records.
- You know you’re in a moral panic when…
- The real result of “sex trafficking” laws.
- A whirlwind trip to San Francisco.
- Nothing happened; film at 11!
- Rapist cop of the week.
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My body is my business – and it is a money maker. – Vera Sidika
“Human trafficking” has become nothing more than a dysphemism for sex work:
A trio of bills before the [Frederick] County [Maryland] Council [cl]aim to address human trafficking…[one] would require hotels and motels to conduct human trafficking training for new employees, [the second would] hold landlords and tenants liable for criminal charges for [not evicting sex workers on a cop’s say-so] and [the third would] regulate “bodyworks” establishments, which [prohibitionists pretend] are relatively common locations for human trafficking…The landlord and tenant bill would would make it unlawful for any tenant or landlord or property owner to [lease to anyone a cop decides to call]…a potential problem…Prince George’s County has…implemented this bill and has seen success in [evicting] some [sex workers]…the goal of the bill isn’t to punish the landlords,
but to get them to [become fascist tools] by evicting the tenants or reporting [them] to police…
Instant karma’s gonna get you…
On [May 16th], Sahar Sarid, Thomas Keesee and Kishore Vidya Bhavnanie—three out of four alleged owners of Mugshots.com—were arrested and charged with extortion, money laundering and identity theft…[for] harvest[ing] people’s mug shots and charg[ing] them exorbitant fees
to have the photos removed…$399 and up…many people have filed lawsuits against the site…California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said…“Those who can’t afford to pay into this scheme to have their information removed pay the price when they look for a job, housing, or try to build relationships with others. This is exploitation, plain and simple”..
And yet I don’t see Becerra pushing for a law to make mugshots not public records. Is that the stench of hypocrisy I smell?
Beware of male “feminists” who try to stop women from organizing:
Spain’s fiercely anti-prostitution Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was left red in the face…after it emerged a sex workers union was approved by his own administration. Sex work is…neither illegal nor regulated [in Spain] but Sanchez came to power in June with a strongly feminist agenda promising to fight…women. “Prostitution in Spain isn’t legal and this government won’t support any organisation that includes this illicit activity,” he tweeted…
“Abatement”. A term used for things, especially nuisances, here applied to people. But NHI, right?
…[spokespig] Gaetano Caltagirone…announced the initiation of a “Sex Worker Abatement Unit”…Some 20 [cops] applied [for obvious reasons], but only four were selected…the unit has arrested “Johns” — men soliciting prostitutes — as well as pimps. Any ensnared sex workers, he said, have been offered [brainwashing sessions or else]…This [paternalistic scheme] was modeled after a pilot program in Seattle…This news was, by and large, well-received by the meeting attendees…[but] Tessa Brown, a Mission resident, pinned the rise of street prostitution on the closures of popular personal websites like Backpage…“I just wanted to push back at the idea that all neighbors agree that we should be arresting all sex workers and more clients of sex workers,” Brown said…Another attendee, Aaron Sunshine, chimed in and suggested the police ease up. “Let’s just leave the sex workers alone,” Sunshine said…
Slowly but surely, we’re getting through to people who aren’t predisposed to bigotry & bootlicking.
What an actual attempt to abduct a woman into forced prostitution looks like:
…her former pimp crept up from behind and dropped her with a roundhouse punch. Two men heaved her into a car trunk and they were off, forcing the woman to claw for her life in the dark as the vehicle careened along crowded city streets…Soon police were in pursuit across the Bay Bridge. Minutes later the car would slam into a pole in a fiery, fatal wreck. But before the deadly crash, the woman in the trunk remembered an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that informed viewers about emergency trunk latches. In her panic, she found her lifeline and escaped from the vehicle as it headed to the bridge…
…the exchange of youth and beauty for long-term financial gain, motivated not by hunger but by aspiration, glamorised by social media stars, and often wrapped in the trappings of a relationship. Older men have always used gifts, status, and influence to buy access to young women. The sugar daddy has probably been around, in every society, for as long as the prostitute. So you might ask: “Why even have a conversation about transactional sex in Africa?” The answer is that in Kenya, and in some other African countries, “sugar” relationships seem to have become both more common and more visible: what once was hidden is now out in the open – on campuses, in bars, and all over Instagram…
Ashe Schow debunks the absurd numbers behind the “campus rape crisis” propaganda:
A potential draft of new federal campus sexual assault policies was leaked this week, so expect a new round of false and misleading statistics to be shared by those who claim due process “protects rapists” and “hurts victims”. Rape and sexual assault are serious offenses, and shouldn’t be watered down to create a narrative that America is somehow the rape capital of the world, nor should we pretend that non-offenses are offenses…I’ve taken down every one of these statistics before — sometimes many, many times — but it’s time to debunk them all in one place…
Schow debunks the “1 in 4” lie (“numbers thousands of times higher than war-torn Congo”), the “serial predator” bogeyman, the “all rape accusations are true” poison, the “universities which report no rapes are lying” libel, and the “1 in 3 men intend to rape” bullshit. It’s worth reading in its entirety.
[Cops] in the Louisville Metro Police Department’s youth Explorer program…interrogated…a girl who [was the victim]…of sexual abuse [by one of their cronies], took her cell phone and refused to let her parents be present when she was questioned during an out-of-town trip…the head of the program tried to keep the allegations quiet through what amounted to a bribe — offering to pay the cost of the trip to Atlanta…Louisville Metro P[ig] Brad Schuhmann…sexually abus[ed] the girl from 2008 to 2009…and sought sexual pictures and acts from her. The abuse [was perpetrated] in [pigmobiles], at Explorer events and through text messages. The lawsuit was initially filed under seal in Jefferson Circuit Court in October but was moved to federal court earlier this year. It is among five other similar suits unsealed [on August 30th]…the teen told her parents, who confronted Schuhmann and met with the program’s leader at the time, Lt. Curtis Flaherty. Schuhmann is under criminal investigation and [was rewarded for the rapes with a] paid [vacation]…
In which “sex trafficking” hysteria is employed to mask the stench of xenophobia:
Britain is ramping up efforts to [charge people with] sex trafficking of girls…amid [fantasies] that cases uncovered by police are just “the tip of the iceberg” with modern slavery ever-evolving…Britain this week announced a 2 million pound ($2.6 million) scheme to [divert funds to cronies under the excuse of] help[ing] stop at risk children falling into the grip of traffickers and gangs who rape them and force them to move drugs…from cities to rural areas…Britain has been rocked by a series of child sex trafficking and abuse [s]ca[r]es over the past few years, with hundreds of girls [claimed to be] exploited by large gangs..of mainly Asian men…
The Course of a Disease (#850)
We were warned that Israeli whore-censorship was only “part of a wider plan”:
The State Attorney’s office, along with Israeli police, decided…to take severe measures against the practice of lap dances in strip clubs. The new enforcement intends to eradicate “the activity that in certain circumstances constitutes prostitution”…The police issued a written notice to owners of strip clubs clarifying the new policies…[Prohibitionist] Nitzan Kahana of the Task Force [for Pearl-Clutching smugly bloviated]…“The treatment to root out prostitution in Israel has begun…Strip clubs are a major part of this industry…lap dances, posing for years as ‘an innocent dance’ when it is apparent to all that they are essentially a sexual act of physical contact intending to please customers”…
OH MY GOD WE CAN’T HAVE CUSTOMERS EXPERIENCING PLEASURE!!! THE HORROR!!!
I’ve never seen anything galvanize public support for sex workers like FOSTA has:
…Coyote…RI…conducted a survey of 262 sex workers between April 14 and May 25, 2018. Seventy percent…reported that sex work had been their primary source of income before FOSTA and 77 percent…were the sole providers for their families. Within a week of the laws’ passage, 70 percent noticed a drop in their income, rendering them unable to pay for rent, food, utilities or phone…Sixty percent…now take on less safe clients in order to make ends meet. Sixty-five percent…reported that someone had tried to threaten, exploit or [rape] them…censorship of sex workers’ content…means that many are turning to street-based sex work…including people who have little to no experience working on the streets…street-based sex work…increases vulnerability to predators, including police…
The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs:
Some residents of [the] small town [of Acatlan] in central Mexico [abducted] two men accused of trying to kidnap children from police custody and burned them to death…A crowd of about 150 people gathered and stormed the jail…then doused the…[men] with an accelerant and burned them [alive]…
In the comments, a witness wrote, “The two men were innocent. They were drinking in the street and they got arrested. A small group of people [then] began gossip[ing] that they were kidnapping children…Everything was broadcasted on Facebook Live and the mother of the younger man was watching the stream of her son getting killed. There are posts of her begging them to stop…”
Here’s another entry in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter. Notice we’re back to Ikea again; apparently “sex traffickers” just can’t resist picking up cheap furniture and enjoying Swedish meatballs while shopping for their “sex slaves”. I wonder how many abductions it takes to make a furniture store a “hot spot”, and how many women have been abducted from the Covina Ikea in comparison with, say, the Cost Plus in San Dimas or the Ethan Allen in Pasadena?
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To be “Orwellian” is to speak with absolute clarity. – Frank Luntz
A few days ago a source shared this image with me; it’s a portion of a report by Luntz Global, commissioned by Swanee Hunt’s “Demand Abolition” prohibitionist organization, directing Seattle “authorities” in how to mislead the public about sex work. It’s only two pages, so you might be interested in taking note of the number of “sex trafficking” shibboleths that appear in it, including “holding sex buyers accountable”, “our girls are not for sale”, “trafficking and prostitution are inextricably linked”, and “your mother, your sister, your daughter…” This much is unsurprising; I’ve written for years about Hunt’s purchase of the Seattle prosecutor’s office, and two excellent articles earlier this year went into depth about the extent of this depraved and illegal subversion of the so-called justice system. But what many of you may find interesting is the identity of the spin doctor at work here: Luntz Global is the company founded by Frank Luntz, best known for his work shaping the language, talking points and propaganda for the US Republican Party, the UK Conservative Party, and pro-Israeli groups. Luntz was a pivotal figure in the ’90s political campaigns of Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot and Newt Gingrich; he currently contracts for Fox News; he is the creator of the phrases “death tax”, “climate change” (to replace the more severe “global warming”), “energy exploration” (i.e. oil drilling), and many others; he is the man who made the jingoistic term “traitors” acceptable in US political speech again. His entire philosophy of political speech is that politicians should eschew appeals to reason or intellect and instead concentrate on arousing strong emotions. This is the man whom “feminist” Swanee Hunt hired to shape the anti-whore language of the recipients of her “progressive” campaign to deny the agency of adult women and unleash the violence of the fascist police state on peaceful people engaged in consensual and mutually-beneficial transactions. But please, tell me again about “wings” and how the two US political parties are so distinctly different.
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny | Tagged agency denial, end demand, language, left-right myth, politicians, propaganda, psychology, Too Close To Home, Vendetta, Washington (state) | 8 Comments »
I often get questions from women who are interested in becoming sex workers. Sometimes they have specific questions, but more often they want general advice; you can find past questions like this in my Mentoring tag, or on my “Previously Asked Questions” page under “Mentoring”. But while I was answering last week’s question I realized that I cannot in good conscience continue to advise young American women to enter full-service sex work (i.e. escorting or other forms of prostitution) at all until “sex trafficking” hysteria has imploded and the ramped-up persecution of sex workers, our clients, our loved ones and our associates has at last died down. Every day I read stories of women being raped, beaten, humiliated, locked in cages and even murdered by cops who claim either that they’re “rescuing” us or “abating” us (like a disease). Every day I receive communications from time-wasters and psychos, and read other ladies’ complaints of similar incidents. Every few weeks another advertising site or escort service falls victim to a high-profile pogrom, and a constant stream of new surveillance weapons are deployed against us (and this doesn’t even count the shockingly-invasive amounts of information websites like Eros are demanding as a condition of carrying escorts’ ads). On top of all that, I myself keep advising gentlemen to stick to contacting well-known and well-established providers, and to avoid unknowns; that’s excellent advice for them, but very bad for new ladies just getting into the business. And while the vast majority of clients are probably unaware of my advice, it would be pretty shitty of me to help women get into the business while simultaneously warning men to avoid them. No, I’m afraid that for the duration of the moral panic I’ll have to limit myself to helping those who’ve already crossed the Rubicon, while suggesting that those who haven’t consider taking up a branch of sex work that hasn’t been criminalized…yet.
(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 time to stop letting zealots…not only destroy the lives of innocent people but hijack police and media focus for their weird authoritarian ends. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
They were “safeguarded”, no doubt at a “safe house”. How stupid do these pigs think we are?
Police have busted what they believe to be a suspected brothel in Moseley…[they] discovered dozens of condoms and…around £200 in cash in…[a woman’s] purse…Sparkbrook Police tweeted… “SparkbrookWMP have raided a suspected brothel in Moseley today. Two females have been safeguarded…often you find organised Sex Trafficking behind them”…
This is your regular reminder that massive police operations in the UK have never found more than a single-digit number of “sex trafficking” cases. Plus condoms and pocket change as “evidence” of “sex trafficking”. What a pathetic, misogynistic wanking fantasy.
Amateurs are a menace to public health; they should be licensed and heavily regulated:
Rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have climbed for the fourth consecutive year in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced…Last year, nearly 2.3 million US cases of these sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed…That’s the highest number ever reported nationwide, breaking the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000 cases…
A good example of why “legalized” sex work is a bad idea:
In November 2016, Massachusetts voters approved a ballot initiative legalizing marijuana for recreational use. But nearly two years later, there are still no stores licensed to sell pot to the public. One business owner now she faces criminal charges for trying to find a way around the roadblock…Humble Bumble, a since-closed health and wellness store, would overcharge for regular items. In return, customers were “‘gifted’ specific amounts of a green, leafy substance consistent with marijuana”…Humble Bumble…wasn’t technically selling marijuana to customers, and it seems like the store did its best to comply with local regulations…Under Massachusetts law, it’s not illegal to give away weed for free. The transfer simply can’t be “advertised or promoted to the public.” Other companies in the state have been taking advantage of this loophole as well. But…only Kattar has been prosecuted…
Another inmate has died in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, making 12 deaths this month. Troy Pittman…died at Promise Hospital…The manner and cause of death are pending autopsy but [Coroner David] Ruth [claimed] Pittman likely died of “natural causes”. Pittman was an inmate at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, making him the fifth inmate death at the facility this month…The ages of the 11 other deceased inmates in August range from 24 to 78. Three were housed at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution, four were at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, three were at Parchman and one was housed at the privately run Wikinson County Correctional Facility…
More on child abuse by nuns at US orphanages:
…for all the…[recent] revelations [about abusive Catholic clergy] — including this month’s Pennsylvania grand jury report on how the church hid the crimes of hundreds of priests — a darker history…remains all but unknown. It is the history of unrelenting physical and psychological abuse of captive children. Across thousands of miles, across decades, the abuse took eerily similar forms: People who grew up in orphanages said they were made to kneel or stand for hours, sometimes with their arms straight out, sometimes holding their boots or some other item. They were forced to eat their own vomit. They were dangled upside down out windows, over wells, or in laundry chutes. Children were locked in cabinets, in closets, in attics, sometimes for days, sometimes so long they were forgotten. They were told their relatives didn’t want them, or they were permanently separated from their siblings. They were sexually abused. They were mutilated…[some] entered orphanages but did not leave them alive…these deaths…were not natural or even accidents, but were instead the inevitable consequence of the nuns’ brutality…
Another prosecutor claims he let a serial rapist cop off to “protect” his underage victim:
…Georgia [cop Richard Gooddine]…accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl…has been fired…and is under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation…Gooddine detained the girl [on August 19th] for violating curfew…he…drove [her] around for hours and sexually assaulted her at an apartment complex before driving her home…GBI previously investigated Gooddine over a 2011 sexual assault [of]…a minor. The case wasn’t prosecuted. Fulton County D.A. [pig mouthpiece claimed]…the office was concerned about traumatizing the victim in that case…
Victimless “crimes” such as curfew violations exist for the sole purpose of giving cops excuses to harass and victimize peaceful people who are harming nobody.
Liz Brown on this year’s Swanee Hunt psychodrama pogroms:
Last week concluded the latest “National Johns Suppression Initiative”, an appropriately draconian name for a coordinated cross-country targeting of sex workers and their customers…The [Chicago] Tribune headline describes it a “national sex trafficking crackdown”. But let’s do the math from the figures it gives us: 473 people arrested for attempting to pay for sexual activity…6 people arrested for pimping…0 people arrested for sex trafficking…This “national sex trafficking operation” has a zero percent success rate if the goal is, you know, actually catching sex traffickers. Even counting the six alleged pimps, these arrests make up less than 1.3 percent of the total arrests reported (and that’s without including sex workers arrested in the course of these stings)…
If this is a “brothel”, then a room with a foosball table is a “stadium”:
…Aura Dolls is launching what it claims is the first sex doll brothel in North America on Sept. 8…Names, photos and descriptions of the dolls can be found on the company’s website along with rates which range from $80 for one doll for 30 minutes to $960 for two dolls for four hours…the customers will only interact with the dolls when they visit the business, which will have a private entrance at the back and a buzzer system to exit. “They put their payment down on the counter and they go straight to their room,” [marketing director Claire] Lee said…“We don’t have staff there, just a camera”…The company also encourages the use of lube and condoms and said the dolls will be cleaned after each customer using a three-step routine to get them as clean as possible…
Do I really have to add, “Not because a 30-year-friend touched your butt”?
…”Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who ran the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for eight years under President Obama, was arrested…and charged with groping a woman in his apartment in October 2017″…Before the vicious attack occurred, the “survivor” was deeply involved in the #metoo movement as an artist creating #metoo art…In April, she wrote an article in an online publication describing her transition from activist to victim, and related the events of that night without naming her abuser. What was this horrifying act of depravity that cause her to go to the police ten months later to seek criminal charges against this person she’s known for more than 30 years? He touched her butt…She said Dr. Frieden groped her while their spouses were not looking, and apologized later…It was certainly prescient of Judge Yavinsky to order the surrender of his passport to avoid him fleeing to a tropical island to avoid prosecution, and issue a no contact order, since there was a grave chance that Frieden might stalk her to touch her behind one more time…
What kind of mind files criminal charges against a lifelong friend who got a little handsy? Especially a YEAR after the incident? Wouldn’t it have been enough to say, “Whoa, hands off!” and ask for an apology? Or at most to tell his wife? What justice is served by feeding non-criminal people into the police state sausage grinder?
Judge slaps down two out-of-control politicians:
A federal judge ordered Nye County to restore and reinstate Dennis Hof’s brothel and liquor licenses for his Love Ranch South brothel…Judge Richard Boulware ordered a preliminary injunction based on perceived First Amendment retaliation by Nye County Commissioners Dan Schinhofen and Andrew “Butch” Borasky. Hof has lawsuits against both commissioners for comments and actions they’ve made about him…Boulware banned the pair of commissioners from voting on any action regarding Hof and his brothel licenses while pending litigation goes forward…
Hof is a complete douchebag, but these little power games hurt the sex workers and other employees of the brothel.
More on the rapist cop who murdered a sex worker in Columbus, Ohio:
…Andrew Mitchell…has already made 80 prostitution-related arrests in 2018, overwhelmingly of women…he is the subject of an internal affairs investigation, opened before the shooting, and multiple previous complaints…Though [cops gave the victim’s married name, Castleberry, to the media]…she went by Donna Dalton…a…CPD spokesman…[referred to the victim as] a nuisance to the neighborhood…[and her murderer] as a 30-year veteran. It declined to discuss the dozens of arrests he made for prostitution-related offenses like “soliciting” and “loitering soliciting”…Mitchell faced at least eight complaints since 2006…in two he was found be “outside of policy”…In 2018, there have been 17 incidents involving [Columbus cops] shooting people…Seven of those people died. Between 2013 and 2017, CPD officers fatally shot 28 people. Columbus officers are also almost always cleared of wrongdoing…In fact, since Franklin County prosecutor Ron O’Brien was elected in 1996, he has never indicted any [cops] for fatal on-duty shootings…
The article also points out that it was the Columbus police who arrested Stormy Daniels on bogus charges in July.
…Massage Envy is facing a rash of lawsuits by women who say…they were sexually assaulted while getting massages in at least five Florida locations. The Arizona-based company, which has some 1,200 franchises across the country, was the subject of an investigation by BuzzFeed last November that revealed more than 180 customers said they had been sexually assaulted at the spas…attorneys for the…women claim the company knew of these allegations and took steps to make sure they were never brought to law enforcement…and/or state massage therapy boards…The Palm Beach suit comes on the heels of a lawsuit by five plaintiffs in San Mateo County, California, who accused Massage Envy of negligence, sexual battery, gender violence, false imprisonment, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, after they they were allegedly harassed or sexually assaulted at franchises…Buzzfeed’s original investigation found…[that] women…were groped, digitally penetrated, and raped [by masseurs] all across the country and that the company either ignored or mishandled the complaints…
Here’s another entry in the “sex trafficking” scare story invasion of Twitter; as you can see they’re getting stupider and more dangerous all the time. This one is an attempt to replace wariness of the very real phenomenon of “phishing” (clicking on the link could download spyware or other malware into your device) with panic over an imaginary peril. 105,000 retweets for this idiotic garbage; is it any wonder the US has turned entirely into a police state, with the enthusiastic support of the Great Unwashed?
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A busy work week coupled with much cooler weather was a perfect remedy for anxiety, and taking a dear friend to dinner for her birthday made it even better. Then on Saturday I went out to Sunset for the weekend (not just to see the pony, though that was a nice highlight), and when I came back I spent last night with Ghost Rider. It isn’t often that I feel as much at peace with myself as I do right now; the warring forces in my head seem to have declared a temporary truce, allowing my soul one of those rare moments of calm I’ve had precious few of in this stormy, difficult incarnation. How long will it last? It’s impossible to say; I’ve never had one endure more than a year before. But that was before I was willing to admit that sometimes unbalanced brain chemistry needs a little outside chemical aid to restore the balance, and before I was willing to admit that there are some things I simply can’t have, no matter how much I might want them. Right now, I’m in a space where I’m finding a lot of joy in helping people I love, fighting the good fight, and building a legacy which may outlast me for a brief moment in the cosmic scale, like the faint reverberation of one beautiful note in a very complex symphony. And after all I’ve been through over the past half-century, that is enough.
Posted in Diary, Philosophy | Tagged activism, animals, psychology, Sunset | 1 Comment »
Instead of raising children in an adult world…we prefer to live much of our lives in a make-believe children’s world. – Hugh Hefner
Up until the nineteenth century in the West (and much later in most of the world), people understood that the point of childhood was to prepare for adulthood. As psychologist Robert Epstein pointed out, “In every mammalian species, immediately upon reaching puberty, animals function as adults, often having offspring…In most nonindustrialized societies, young people are integrated into adult society as soon as they are capable, and there is no sign of teen turmoil. Many cultures do not even have a term for adolescence…” And yet nowadays, we have artificially extended childhood not just past puberty, but in some ways into the third decade of life; people who though most of human history would’ve been working in a profession, been married, and even held positions of responsibility are now un-ironically referred to and treated as “children”. The confusion between the biological reality of childhood and the increasingly-extended legal concept is so profound that many people quite seriously label sex between someone over 18 and a 17-year-old young adult (above the age of consent in over 80% of the world) as “child rape”, as though the 17 year old were actually (rather than just statutorily) a complete incompetent who might as well be 4 for all the rights she has. But I’ve discussed this topic on a number of essays, including “The Shape of the Spoon” and “Still a Child“; it’s not really the infantilization of young adults (under the misapprehension that they aren’t adults) which I want to address today, but rather the infantilization of adults that everyone agrees are indeed adults.
I realize that’s probably not very clear, so I call your attention to today’s epigram, and also to Robert Heinlein’s statement that “The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.” Or the very concept of “family friendly”, which not only pretends that all families have young children, but that the entire family should be limited to what is appropriate for the youngest. Furthermore, the bluenoses and control freaks want to seal all of society, even older adults who have no dependent spawn, into a worldwide nursery where everything conforms to their idea of what is “safe” for young children; these Procrustean prudes want to censor books, television, movies, the internet and even society until they are satisfied that nothing exists, even in private, which might confuse or upset a 7-year-old. Lest you think I exaggerate, consider the War on Sex (of which the War on Whores is only the front lines), whose excesses and violence are excused under the banner of “child protection”; sex workers are repeatedly infantilized both in our intellectual and emotional capacities, and in a pretense of fact. It’s no accident that one of the most ludicrous myths of the “sex trafficking” hysteria, the notion that the average sex worker debuts at the age of 13, is also one that prohibitionists cling to most doggedly and repeat most obsessively: it implies that we are all psychologically and emotionally locked into a juvenile state due to the supposed “trauma” of our work in a way that the dogma we were all molested as children (or have daddy issues or whatever) can only hint at. But even this trope isn’t as revealing as the astonishingly stupid statement that “no little girl dreams of growing up to be a prostitute”; leaving aside the evident absurdities of this non-argument (which I’ve previously discussed), consider what it is actually saying: that adults (or at least adult women) should only be allowed to do work, or presumably any activity for that matter, which a young child can comprehend. Obviously, even those who vomit out such idiocies don’t really believe them; nobody complains that “no little girl dreams of being a middle manager” or “no little boy dreams of being an accountant”. No, it only applies to sex…which is what “family friendly” means too, despite that every family owes its existence to sex. What it all boils down to is, people who are uncomfortable with their own sexual feelings want to keep everyone else from having any kind of sexual life that hasn’t been sanitized into unrecognizability, and “the children” are just a convenient excuse.
Posted in Perception, Tyranny | Tagged adolescence, censorship, cult of the child, dirty, prohibitionist myths, psychology, sex work is work | 8 Comments »
Would you ever see Andy Griffith tase an 87-year-old woman?
– Timothy Douhne
Since I like both Rube Goldberg machines and unusual musical instruments, I just had to share this video. The links above were provided by Phoenix Calida, Mark Bennett, Clarissa, Franklin Harris, Radley Balko, Nattie Roman, and David Ley, in that order.
- Another ludicrous drug war failure.
- The predictable outcome of naivety.
- The latest from the crypto-moralist lobby.
- I’ve eaten some very old food, but not this old.
- Cop tases 87-year-old woman for picking weeds.
- Cop beats up old deaf woman for crossing street.
- Politicians have no race or gender except “sociopath”.
From the Archives
- When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
- “Pedophiles” can shoot dangerous “male gaze” radiation through internet.
- Europeans wank to thoughts of Nigerian women enslaved by black magic.
- Houston judge orders hotel to pay off cops & discriminate vs sex workers.
- Scheme to cut sex workers off from healthcare system spreads to the UK.
- Even when the reason is clear, “authorities” prefer to blame sex workers.
- Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking” & stupid people will give you money.
- ESPLERP vs. Gascon reaches a court which could possibly do something.
- Seattle “officials” think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use.
- Latest battle in France’s ongoing war on Muslimahs’ personal autonomy.
- The long US tradition of harmful policies that fly in the face of evidence.
- The State calls torture “correction” and torturers “correctional officers”.
- Massage parlors are popular pogrom targets; they’re low-hanging fruit.
- Extra nasty: reporters gloating over popular stars’ sex worker siblings.
- Woman regrets shunning her father for getting caught in a client sting.
- Lots of reporters still masturbate to this thoroughly-debunked fantasy.
- “Expert sex therapists” have never labelled “sex addiction” a disorder.
- Lawheads’ capacity for denying reality is nothing short of astonishing.
- Philippine president carrying “War on Drugs” to its logical conclusion.
- Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
- I’m an adult virgin with a new girlfriend; should I see an escort first?
- In the modern US & countries it occupies, evil doesn’t have to lurk.
- US victims would’ve been arrested when they reported the attacks.
- “Punitive and stupid” describes all “sex offender” registration laws.
- The defense of choice for non-violent sex offenders, plus “autism”.
- Cops, busybodies, nutritionists, early animation and much more.
- “Erroneous” implies an honest mistake; this is willful conflation.
- Thugs brutalize two old women, rob over $500,000 from them.
- Why do so many sex workers not want to fight criminalization?
- Sheltered reporter thinks a cop groping a woman is “shocking”.
- Syphilis outbreak among filthy amateurs is blamed on whores.
- Transmen are also the subjects of violence and discrimination.
- At last, a very small measure of justice for Fran & Dan Keller.
- Bindel is increasingly becoming a transparent laughing stock.
- A retrospective of my blogging from August 2013 and 2014.
- I’m really enjoying “grocery store sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Kudos to the IWW for supporting sex workers in Iceland.
- Just another reminder of what “rescue” actually means.
- Melissa Petro on her post-sex work dating experiences.
- Make sure you swallow your drink before reading this.
- The leading edge of a wedge is often extremely thin.
- Why Brazil turned down $40 million in US handouts.
- Cops, clowns, kratom, Gene Wilder and much more.
- Remember, this is pretended to be about sex work.
- Most whores love Dolly as much as she loves us.
- Canada really is trying to be more like the US.
- Mostly just a lot of prohibitionist posturing.
- A memorable cam duo with Lorelei Rivers.
- Another sex worker on a TV reality show.
- Yet another example of the McNeill Rule.
- I wonder how many hand jobs this took?
- It’s almost like he wants to get caught.
- I really admire this lady’s chutzpah.
- Problems in the move to Sunset.
- Sweden, the feminist paradise.
- Of course it’s a fucking setup.
- Holy idosing, Batman!
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Tyranny | Tagged California, cops, crypto-moralism, drugs, Egypt, Georgia, Islam, law, Michigan, North Carolina, politicians, racism, restaurants, Tajikistan, video | 2 Comments »
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