Today is International Whores’ Day. It is not “Sex Worker Day”; that is March 3rd. Today is a day to shamelessly celebrate our shameless history, not a day for sanitized words or concepts; it is a day to fight society’s attempts (via law and police violence) to sanitize the wilder, unrulier, more chthonic aspects of sex. This is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”; it is a day to celebrate the triumphs of criminalized human beings against a society that would rather we didn’t exist. It is a day to oppose censorship, not to engage in self-censorship; a day to honor a means of survival that predates laws and governments by eons; and a day to celebrate a power which will always defeat even the most pernicious attempts to domesticate it.
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When a movement reaches a point of threat, the powers that be begin actively trying to scare them out of existence. – Dan Berger
Apparently, this wasn’t a rape attempt, just a cop being a dumbass:
A San Diego [cop named]…Anthony Hair…arrested [a woman] on suspicion of stealing a car outside a convenience store…She also had a bench warrant out for her arrest…In bodycam footage released by the SDPD, [s]he…was heard…off[ering him] sex [in exchange for letting her go, saying]…“What’s it gonna hurt me if I work the system, you know what I mean? That’s the way I see shit”…Hair turned off his bodycam and [parked in] a residential street, the[n]…about 20 minutes later…called for a[nother member of his gang] to help him out of the p[igmobile because he had accidentally locked himself into the back seat while collecting his bribe]…Hair [tried to claim that he was there because he] believed the woman was suffering from a medical emergency…[but] police found traces of semen on Hair’s belt…
Kaytlin Bailey on the realities of sex work Down Under:
What does decriminalized sex work look like in practice? People in…New South Wales…and New Zealand know the answer, because they decriminalized sex work decades ago. I recently spent six weeks touring my one-woman show, Whore’s Eye View, in Australia and New Zealand, where I met sex workers, clients, and brothel owners who negotiate sexual services openly without fear of arrest. After my shows, people from the sex industry—both workers and clients—stayed to tell me their stories…Decriminalization has reduced violence and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and it has made it easier for sex workers to hold people accountable who try to hurt them…
Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths:
Ikbahl Singh Machhal…and [his mother] Shila Devi…were bound over to stand trial…on…Human Trafficking [charges]..for…forc[ing Machal’s wife] to move from Pennsylvania to Michigan when…Devi [bought a convenience store]…in Michigan…[they forced her to] work…at the…store…[without] pay…for…8 to 9 hours a day, 7 days a week, against her will and under threat of severe physical, mental, and emotional abuse…for approximately 8 years [starting in 2012] until the victim [fled] with the assistance of…a…domestic violence char[ity]…
Rapist cops often specifically target vulnerable women:
A [typical and representative Indianapolis cop named]…Myron Howard…ha[s] been…[arrested and] charged…with rape…and various other [associated crimes after specifically targeting]…a domestic violence [victim]…after [her] boyfriend was arrested…Howard [returned to her]…house [after the other cops left and threatened her with jail if she refused]…him…he rep[ea]tedly [harassed her via text]…messaging…[over the next] month…[so] she [eventually gathered the courage to]…report…[him]. When interviewed by detectives, Howard admitted to [fuck]ing…the woman…but [claimed] she had [not only wanted it but initiated it]…He also [absurdly claimed that] “ladies hit on me a lot”, and…admitted [to raping other women, but pretended] that…[the] victims [had wanted it those times as well]…IMPD Chief Bailey [barfed up nonsense about how this typical and representative cop was not representative]…
Most coverage of this story hides the fact that the abuser was a screw: “A [Connecticut screw named David Martins] died by suicide [after beating his wife]…on [May 25th. Fortunately the wife’s]… injuries [were] not considered life-threatening…”
Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists:
Atlanta police have been carrying out around-the-clock surveillance in several neighborhoods for months, on people and houses linked to opposition against the police training center colloquially known as “Cop City”. The surveillance…has included following people in cars, blasting sirens outside bedroom windows and shining headlights into houses at night…The ongoing actions started soon after an 8 February pre-dawn, Swat-style raid on three…houses in which [pigs] and [ATF spooks]…sought evidence relating to arson of construction and police equipment…Social movement historian Dan Berger said this low-tech type of surveillance and related behavior – blasting sirens and flashing lights, following people – has precedence dating at least to the civil rights era. He called the actions “naked intimidation with plausible deniability attached to it”…
Once again: it does not help young victims of state violence to infantilize them as “children”.
Dozens of [legal minors] suffered physical and sexual abuse including violent rapes inside juvenile [prison]s and similar facilities in Pennsylvania, according to four related lawsuits..[which] describe how 66 people, now adults…were victimized by guards, nurses, supervisors and others…attacks [that] were reported…were ignored or met with disbelief…Jerome Block, who…[filed the suits]…has also pursued similar lawsuits in Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Michigan…
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Though the mob may cheer when some awful person’s sins are exposed, it will react with equal exuberance when the blood on the sand is yours. – “Blood on the Sand”
- Given the lies about her education & weight, the back-out was predictable.
- Silly preacher, only politically-connected companies are allowed to do this.
- How government gets private sector to do what it’s prohibited from doing.
- Cops busting lemonade stands isn’t news any more, but this is a new low.
- Cops, robots, bureaucracy, Giger, potholes, wishlists, Catholicism & more.
- Swedish cultists so deluded they want disagreeing with them to be illegal.
- Prohibitionists pretend concern for women, but they’re all about the men.
- Cops, correlation, shit, honesty, laws, politicians, pet rocks & much more.
- Cracked demonstrates it has the smartest talent pool in journalism today.
- The fantasy of the high-income male prostitute with gorgeous customers.
- State wants parents to control, abandon, or betray 33-year-old daughter.
- Brooke Magnanti on efforts to control women using excuse of pregnancy.
- Sweatshops aren’t exploitative when operated by “rescue” organizations.
- Is the CPS hiring bad TV writers to produce scripts for their accusations?
- A “sex trafficking” cluck lectures us about the importance of word order.
- Is there anything so stupid adults won’t believe teens use it to get high?
- Sheriff considers himself the owner of every human being in his county.
- Sure, I’d have sex with an android; their money’s as good as anyone’s.
- Free market provides defense to a nasty tool of the fascist panopticon.
- Besides other flaws it’s just a policy, rescindable at a moment’s notice.
- Much of this seems to be the product of one woman’s BDSM fantasies.
- Cops, propaganda, robots, Sweden, crocodiles, Tom Lehrer and more.
- Lawheads think barricades magically abolish the need to earn money.
- If cops can use these tactics against legal businesses, is anyone safe?
- A long, confused article on the latest attempt to destroy the internet.
- Workers are not responsible for the moral failings of their employers.
- Megalomaniac speaks for thousands, claiming they all want celibacy.
- Headlines, robbery, censorship, cops, turtles, rocks and Al Feldstein.
- Another empty-headed actress lies about her less-privileged sisters.
- If you’re a fan of “sex offender” registration, meet your bedfellows.
- Once a weapon is available, nothing can stop anyone from using it.
- Too bad he lost the suit; this kind of ethical breach is unforgivable.
- Not every outed sex worker has Belle Knox’s strength and resolve.
- How the Golden Age was destroyed by the Comics Code Authority.
- Pennsylvania likes destroying the lives of kids who aren’t asexual.
- “A pure policy of prohibition couldn’t win a flower pot in Germany.“
- Politician thinks US can criminalize prostitution in other countries.
- “Sex trafficking” crusader by day, kiddie porn consumer by night.
- Dateline lures men to be fodder for their televised Roman circus.
- Lawheads are willing to shut down a city to stop consensual sex.
- Louisiana wants to criminalize “obvious patterns of prostitution“.
- What are we to make of Joe Arpaio’s crusade against zoophilia?
- 400 cops to arrest 19 masseuses. Need I mention the motive?
- Female prison guards’ delicate ladyfeelings trump men’s lives.
- Is an escort safe if she has years of well-documented history?
- An escort figures out how to deal with a most unusual suitor.
- Indian censors want to ban international telecommunication.
- The “Harvard of sex trafficking”? WTF does that even mean?
- What do porn performers and gun dealers have in common?
- The evangelical Christian basis of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- An American medical student is auctioning off her virginity.
- Texas court uses prohibitionist bullshit to uphold “pole tax”.
- Amazon declares some of its own products “inappropriate”.
- Miami guards scald a prisoner to death in a locked shower.
- What would a young escort swindler look and behave like?
- Cops caught on camera abusing massage parlor manager.
- More horrible gadgets for micromanaging your child’s life.
- The havoc wrought by “sex trafficking” hysteria on Nepal.
- As a pagan, do you believe in magic and psychic powers?
- Another blow against the absurdity of consensual crime.
- Infantilizing whores & demonizing clients, or vice-versa.
- Would a photo of a “topless” male baby also be banned?
- The grandiosity of these delusions increases by the day.
- Gypsy whores hysteria, Commonwealth Games edition.
- “Eat the Poo Poo” sounds like the title of a punk album.
- “Those who…sit on the fence…side for…the ruling party.”
- Canadian cops envy US cops’ “sex trafficking” budgets.
- Reporter casts violent rapist as a victim of prostitution.
- In which I answer questions about Ladies of the Night.
- The utter failure of California’s “sex offender” registry.
- An app to connect clients to sex workers in Germany.
- Skepticism about “sex trafficking” tropes is growing.
- An Indian sex worker tells the truth about “rescue”.
- Another mob-with-torches story from Los Angeles.
- Yet another awful article about “safe harbor” laws.
- On the fallibility of human memory as “testimony”.
- More anti-criminalization journalism from Reason.
- The growing fight against sex offender registries.
- Another dumb iteration of “robot hooker” idiocy.
- Australian brothel wins customer service award.
- Canadian media publish articles by sex workers.
- Mobs with torches are back in fashion, it seems.
- Arrested for dancing in two oppressive regimes.
- What the hell is going on in Washington state?
- Prohibitionists are “rescuing” whores to death.
- “Sex trafficking” as an example of The Big Lie.
- A home in Mexico City for retired sex workers.
- Bad client falls to his death while fleeing cops.
- “Sex trafficking” fetishism really is like a cult.
- Arizona jumps on the “escort licensing” fad.
- Can you imagine this in an American paper?
- The beginning of the end for Somaly Mam.
- Man convicted of raping eight sex workers.
- Another excellent essay from Felicia Anna.
- In which I ask readers for makeup advice.
- Sex worker rights activists won’t go away.
- The endgame of “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- The Herring and the Brine and Whirlygig.
- Selling furniture causes “sex trafficking”!
- Kim Jong-Un’s ex-lover is alive and well.
- The state views children as its property.
- An ally writes to placate prohibitionists.
- The ethical nightmare of Project ROSE.
- “Sex trafficking” is caused by abortion!
- Blackmailer investigated for blackmail.
- West African “penis stealing” hysteria.
- Chinese public sides with sting victim.
- A story with absolutely no good guys.
- Understanding sex work and allyship.
- Serial sex worker rapist found guilty.
- New York arrests men for being gay.
- Good satire sticks close to the truth.
- A short biography of Lillie Langtry.
- France rejects the Swedish model.
- Another case of the missing word.
- Disgruntled client sues stripper.
- Another Ashley Madison scam.
- The degeneration of the SPLC.
- Rapist TSA thug of the week.
- Susan Trimarco’s witch hunt.
- The Streetwalkers’ Brigade.
- Debunking magic formulae.
- My very first diary column.
- Another thoughtcrime law.
- Introducing Felicia Anna.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- “Exploiting” each other.
- Me in the media again.
- So much for “Sin City”.
- The Wiener exception.
- “HELP HELP HELP!“
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I don’t think I will ever be able to forget the violent execution of the last pathetic vestiges of my faith in any kind of government actor.
– “A Night to Forget”
I’m often called a saint, but I can assure y’all that theurgy is not in my skill set. – “Teacher’s Pet”
If you want to be cured, what you really need to do is stop believing the abusers who keep telling you that you’re sick. – “Incurable”
Better to be thought a homewrecker than a vegetable. – “Whores and Wives (#841)”
Nobody who does not claim to be acting for “the government” or “the people” is “accountable” to any politician; they’re just trying to confuse you about who owes what to whom. – “Accountability”
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What is presented as an effort to stop…violence…ends up being the main source of violence. – Erika Lust
If he truly had trouble before, why did he call the same agency again?
Varinder Singh Deo…was celebrating with a friend…in Deo’s detached garage, drinking alcohol and consuming cocaine, while Deo’s wife and child slept…Deo arranged for a sex worker to come over…[but] didn’t think she looked like her online photograph. Deo [and]…the woman, referred to as B.K…argued over a cancellation fee…Deo [brandished]…a handgun…later [claiming to] police…he’d had a traumatic experience with the same escort service a few years earlier when he was supposed to meet up with a sex worker but was instead robbed by multiple men at knife point…B.K. and [her duo partner] M.C. started retreating back to their vehicle…[and] Deo fired two shots at them. One…struck the back of M.C.’s left shoulder…[she] spent three days in hospital and suffered nerve damage…and…scarring…and…also had to pay a more than $7,000 bill for blood stain removal from the rental car…[the British Columbia judge] chose to sentence Deo to four years in prison…[and] ordered [him] to reimburse B.K. for the blood stain removal bill…
It’s good to see someone actually studying this problem:
A new Pew Research Center analysis shows just how fleeting online content actually is: A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible…For older content, this trend is even starker. Some 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are not available today, compared with 8% of pages that existed in 2023…23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link, as do 21% of webpages from government sites…54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists…Nearly one-in-five tweets are no longer publicly visible on the site just months after being posted…
The Course of a Disease (#1244)
The Spanish case of the Swedish rot has been especially virulent, so this is encouraging:
Spain’s Socialist Party…[has] suffered a sound defeat…in its attempt to recriminalize sex work…[after] the party’s ruling coalition allies…withdrew their backing from the widely reviled “Abolition of Prostitution” law…PSOE’s…Laura Berja, unequivocally stated last year, “We must abolish [women’s sexual freedom] because it is incompatible with human rights.” El Mundo [said the]…defeat holds “symbolic weight” and sends the abolition law “right to the trash bin.” It is the first time, the newspaper noted, that the PSOE has failed to rally its coalition allies in support of an important piece of legislation, which may indicate a “crack” in the coalition that could further endanger its chances to remain in power…
The censors got what they wanted in this case:
A public library in Boise is transitioning to an “adult only” library. The Donnelly Public Library s[tated]…that the change is due to the passage of HB710…that en[courages] anyone to sue the library if [they claim] children are exposed to…adult material…due to its small size and the…ambiguous…language of the bill, the change is the only way the…[library] can assure compliance with the law, which goes into effect on July 1…The bill…was signed into law by Governor Brad Little earlier this year, [despite his veto of an earlier version]…
…in April 2021, Georgia Baldwin…was clearly in the throes of a severe mental health episode…[but] she was arrested…[on a trumped-up] felony charge [anyway] and sent to jail in Tarrant County, Texas. Six weeks later, in June, a psychiatrist determined Baldwin was “incompetent and thus unable to stand trial”…[but instead of sending her to] a state hospital…”Tarrant County chose to [keep] Ms. Baldwin [locked] in a small cell, where she could not see through a window or view other human beings,” remaining there from July 27 until her death on September 14…from…”severe hypernatremia” —high levels of sodium in the blood typically resulting from dehydration… [two other prisoners] with severe mental illness [also died] of dehydration in Tarrant County’s c[ages] over a two-year period…Abdullahi Mohamed [was arrested] in June 2020 for…[a violent] manic…bipolar [episode]…Nine days later, jailers…found him unresponsive in his cell, and he died soon after. And in December 2021, Edgar Villatoro Alvarez was [caged]…after having been hospitalized for a bipolar episode the previous month…he died [the following] February…
The government doesn’t care about all those charges, as long as Lacey dies in a filthy cage:
Government attorneys in the Backpage case…want…Lacey and two co-defendants to be sentenced on their respective guilty verdicts so the three men can appeal to the Ninth Circuit…[before] the government will decide if it will retry Lacey…Judge…Humetewa vacated Lacey’s previously scheduled Aug. 6 retrial date and set sentencing for July 9 for Lacey…Scott Spear and Jed Brunst…Humetewa [refused to consider]…the possibility that Lacey be allowed to remain out on bond pending the outcome
of any appeal…The one thing the judge and the parties agreed on was that there are weighty matters to be decided by the Ninth, including [multiple kinds of] prosecutorial misconduct…It could take anywhere from eight months to two or three years before the Ninth issues a decision. Which means there is no immediate end in sight for this vindictive prosecution, now in its seventh year…
Why are people shocked when men paid and encouraged to behave violently, behave violently?
A [typical and representative Kentucky cop] has been found guilty of murder[ing the husband of his girlfriend, Lena North]…Jeremy Lewis…murder[ed]…Tyler North…[in 2018, but it took the Kounty Kops] two…year[s to find the remains]…
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Longtime readers may remember that Memorial Day is generally bad for me emotionally due to some very bad memories associated with the day. But since I moved to Sunset full-time, it hasn’t been nearly as sharp. Part of it is probably just time working its magic; it’s been almost thirty years now, and though the feelings stayed intense until beyond the 20-year mark, the trauma seems to have receded far enough into the past now for the feelings associated with its anniversary to be more manageable. Another part is that living here keeps me a lot busier than living in Seattle did, and having a more rigid schedule than was possible when I was still working full-time provides me with a sort of fence that helps to keep memory monsters out of the yard of my conscious attention. And then there are aggravating factors; I think in the past, other stressors tended to hitch rides with the bad memories, creating one big bandwagon of unpleasantness every last weekend of May. But in the past few years I’ve managed to cultivate a better emotional state in general, so those other bugaboos are neither as noisy nor as active as they once were. I’m not going to tell you that this past weekend was perfectly peachy and funk-free, because it wasn’t (as evidenced by the fact that I thought about it enough to write this column); however, neither was it as bad as such weekends have mostly been in the past. And that is definitely something to be thankful for.
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One of the main manifestations of my OCD is that I have a system for nearly everything I do. My readers can see it in my blog: a new post every day, always at the same time, with certain kinds of columns appearing on certain days of the week and/or month in a strictly-managed format. There’s even a lot of deep structure in the blog that few of y’all probably even notice, but which in my mind is an integral part of the blog’s structure. And beneath that is another layer of organization completely invisible to y’all: I write certain kinds of columns on certain days, and to a lesser extent certain times of day. For example, I’m typing this on the evening of Tuesday, May 21st, because (unless life forces me to do it another time) I write Monday columns on the preceding Tuesday (after two of the news items for the next Saturday’s news column). I pore over Twitter with my breakfast, collecting news items, commenting on what I find, and promoting things I’ve already written; I’m generally done about noonish and then move on to my morning ablutions, followed by my chores. Afternoons vary by the day; I usually wash clothes on Monday and Friday, and also do my groceries on Monday. Other days are for appointments or weekly chores like vacuuming the floor or burning the garbage, and some days I actually manage to sneak in some other task I want to accomplish like baking cookies or tackling some kind of odious paperwork. I cook dinner nearly every day, and there are patterns there too: red beans & rice on Mondays, soup & sandwich on Tuesdays, pasta on Thursdays, meatless Fridays, Tex-Mex Saturdays. My cooking patterns aren’t merely daily and weekly, either; I usually make waffles on the first Friday of every month because we only eat a few, and the rest go into the fridge so Grace can rewarm them in the toaster oven for breakfast. And similar patterns apply to other day/month combinations, which are of course subject to interruption by seasonal events; on top of that the times I cook, turn the lights on, feed the animals, and other such tasks follow a set schedule which varies by season. Overwhelmed? I’m not, because that’s how my brain works. And directing my OCD toward scheduling chores and planning meals keeps me from obsessing too much about far more distracting minutiae, even though I also have the counting to 16 thing.
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I can’t breathe. – Anthony Johnson Jr.
I remember this song from The Doctor Demento Show in the late ’70s, and recently thought about it again; if it sticks in your brain for almost half a century as it did to me, my work here is done. The links above the video were provided by Mike Siegel, Jesse Walker, Scott Hechinger, Billy Binion, IncarcerNation, Walter Olson, and Brooke Magnanti, in that order.
- Headline of the week.
- R.I.P. Dabney Coleman.
- Don’t live next to one, either.
- Because laws are more important than people.
- Cops cover up their murder of man who asked for help.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Cops do to homeless folks’ possessions what they want to do to them.
From the Archives
- Why pay for surveillance when useful idiots can be talked into providing it?
- I’m not sure who Bindel thinks she’s convincing with this tedious claptrap.
- A little bit of good news about mob-rule attempts to castrate Section 230.
- Crypto-moralists believe that people enjoying any food makes it “unsafe”.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is declared unconstitutional.
- Cops have been doing this for years, and platforms do nothing to stop it.
- The BBC feeds stigma as much as the Russian media this story criticizes.
- Cops, The Riddler, violins hepa, vagina-scented flames, and much more.
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Even in a crisis, politicians have to advertise their hate for sex workers.
- Using “public health” as an excuse for tyranny is increasingly popular.
- Now that the pandemic is fading, cops are back to their usual panics.
- Civil rights violations often start with whores, but never stop with us.
- Wayne County, MI has extorted money for years with similar tactics.
- Potty-obsessed politicians attempt to circumvent a federal ruling.
- Another sexual predator specifically targets traumatized women.
- Looks like we’re going to have to rethink the safety of the mail.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- How much longer will the Western Establishment ignore this?
- Remember, Twitter claims this surveillance isn’t surveillance.
- Are there really sane adults gullible enough to swallow this?
- It’s so nice to see them feeding on their own for a change.
- One wonders if any actual crime ever occurs in Redbridge.
- Washington state politicians demonstrate their hypocrisy.
- Another baby step toward recognizing sex work as work.
- On the departure of my lifelong musical friend, Vangelis.
- No matter how little their victims have, cops will steal it.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Cops, “discovery”, rolling ball thingies, and much more.
- My go-to argument for skepticism about flying saucers.
- Of course Florida had to have its own “bathroom bill”.
- The next level beyond spooge-based sexual assault.
- This batshittery is virulent, and will only get worse.
- One small victory against a rising tide of bigotry.
- Your curated selection of tweets for May 2023.
- This cop just keeps demonstrating what he is.
- Cops, antimatter, Fred Ward, and much more.
- There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
- This guy is lucky his evil wife wasn’t smarter.
- Getting ready to remove that shitty awning.
- The pullets come forth from the nursery.
- Our cat Aeryn was born in March, 2002.
- Thoughts on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Bewitched as an allegory for sex work.
- Finally getting my fountain into place.
- I love it when they feed on their own.
- Lifeforce and The Fantastic Journey.
- Another curated selection of tweets.
- So many rapist cops of the week.
- Clearly, this is all Trump’s doing.
- It’s two! Two! Two fads in one!
- Another section of atrium roof.
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The new [Belgian] scheme seems…to grant government too much say in the employer-employee relationship. – Elizabeth N. Brown
German…politician…Martin Neumaier…was [featured] in…several videos and photos…performing…fetishistic acts [which] began to circulate this week…the media was verified as authentic…[and Neumaier] said he had filmed them “voluntarily and with pleasure,” adding that all viewers…“had the right to…publish it wherever they see fit.” In one of the videos, Neumaier could be seen naked while reciting the first verse of Nazi-era German national anthem and using an anal dildo…in another, Neumaier inserted a feces-covered dildo into his rectum before smearing it on a Quran. In other videos, Neumaier was heard expressing his desire to “rape to death” one of the 12 wives of the Prophet Mohammed, smearing feces on his face and body, and licking public toilet seats…[now another] politician…[named Rene Dierkes claims] he ha[s] evidence [of] Neumaier…procuring young boys for sexual abuse…Neumaier [has in response] filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons alleging blackmail…
As long as sex work is criminalized, rapist cops will target sex workers:
A [typical and representative Florida cop named]…Stephen Corbin [h]as…be[en]…arrested…[for attem]ting [to] sexual[ly] assault…at…[least two sex workers in Daytona Beach]. Sheriff Mike Chitwood [used the occasion to bloviate a lot of pompous nonsense one could barely believe was spewed by a grown adult]…Corbin…threaten[ed] the women [with arrest]…and [has apparently] picked…up [sex workers] in [the past] and [properly] paid for sex…
Oh look, she managed to call for help without “hotlines” and magic bathroom stickers:
A 17-year-old girl was able to save herself from [an abductor] by texting 911…with “pleas for help” around 3 a.m. on May 9…[in] Ventura County [California. She]…began texting landmarks and other “identifiable information” she was seeing, which helped the agency quickly dispatch deputies to the correct area…Investigators…believe…[she] was [brought] to Ventura County roughly two months ago from Mexico. She has been placed with the county’s Children & Family Services until authorities can locate her family…[cops] arrested Gerardo Cruz…his bail is set at half a million dollars…
The story repeatedly uses the words “trafficking” and “trafficked”, but in the absence of information about the purpose and manner of the abduction, more neutral words are called for to avoid making the girl the unwilling subject of prohibitionist wanking fantasies.
The shittiest-paying sex work ever:
…many of OnlyFans’ top earners…hire…a management agency to help keep up with…customers’ demands for personal attention…they…provide…a team of contractors whose sole job is to masquerade as the creator while swapping DMs with her subscribers…agencies tend to favor contractors who reside in lower-wage countries…like the Philippines and Venezuela…these workers are relatively well-educated, with university-level English and ace typing skills that some developed in high-pressure call centers…Even for positions with a starting hourly wage of just $2, agencies often demand…evidence that applicants ha[ve] not only chatted on OnlyFans before but had also cajoled subscribers into purchasing thousands of dollars’ worth of so-called exclusive content…
Cop excuses produced by human bootlickers are bad enough:
…giant [fascist corporation] Axon [has] announced Draft One, a new product that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo to automatically generate police reports from…bodycam audio. The product promises to make police…reports…[more] helpful in…prosecution [rather than more factually accurate]…the user [has] to select what…[level of] severity [they want] the [report spin to justify], be that no charge, an infraction, a misdemeanor, or a felony…[cops are supposed] to proofread the draft, make any corrections, and sign off on its accuracy….Matthew Guariglia…at…the Electronic Frontier Foundation [said]…“Policing, with its legal power to kill, detain, or ultimately deny people’s freedom, is too powerful an institution to outsource its official narratives to technologies in a way that makes officers immune to critique, transparency, or accountability because they have…plausible deniability that they…were not aware of mistakes the [algorithm] made”…
Cop violence is never limited to members of the public:
A Prince George’s County [cop] has been suspended and placed on house arrest fo[r attacking his wife on May 14th]…Robert Harvin III smash[ed] his wife’s iPhone and assault[ed] her after she…caught him on the phone with his mistress…Harvin…pushed her, dragged her to the floor and…choke[d her]…once she was able to break free, she grabbed Harvin’s…police radio and called for help. Harvin [absurdly]
claims the [violence] was “mutual, like Matrix”…[but his own] Google Nest kitchen camera revealed…Harvin’s wife “yelling and screaming for him to get away from her.” Their doorbell camera footage also shows him “actively assaulting [his wife] by dragging and punching her”…
Nor is it limited to male cops:
Two [married] Detroit [cops have been]
suspended [and] charged with child abuse….Jared…and Liana Shaw…are…[typical] and…representative…and…both…[aggressively choked] Liana’s two children…a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl….[because the] son…tried to intervene when the pair had been fighting…[the boy’s] grandmother…called the cops when she saw what was happening. The two children are staying with her while this case works its way through the courts. Three of Jared’s children have also been placed with relatives. The Shaws…bond[ed out and are currently at large]…
Leaving the 20th Century (#1438)
Looks like I was wrong about Belgian decrim:
…Belgium…is trying to bring sex workers into “social protection” programs and employee benefits…The decriminalization law was a first step to making sex workers eligible for such things. The second step was the law…that The Publica makes sound like a horrifying, dystopian mess…Under the decriminalized system, sex workers could be self-employed, and they could hire third parties to help them in various ways. They could also be freelance workers in an establishment run by someone else. But sex workers could not themselves be employees. Under the new law, “sex workers will also be able to work under an employment contract, thus gaining access to social security: pension, unemployment, health insurance, family benefits, annual vacation, maternity leave,” according to UTSOPI…the law imposes obligations on both businesses that employ sex workers and on sex workers who work for those businesses…we’re not talking individual “pimps” (a one-person sex work business cannot legally hire employees) but registered businesses that have contracted as a sex work employer and taken on all the responsibilities that entails…
In my defense, I must point out that the scheme grants government so much say in business relationships I confused it for legalization until Liz Brown broke it down for me.
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