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If you accept money from someone that he gives due to sexual interest in you, then you are a whore and everything else is just semantics.  –  “Whorearchy”

Only by living in a state of complete denial can someone pretend that the only valid, “healthy” and legal sex is that which is so sanitized and neutered that it resembles the real thing about as closely as a hamburger does a heifer.
“Tales from the Dark Side”

The prohibitionist philosophy…is that it’s perfectly acceptable for women to be endangered, harmed or even killed if it keeps some men from thinking Bad Thoughts.
–  “All About the Men”

Statists are fond of pretending that the slippery slope is a “fallacy”, because they don’t want you to think about how either legal precedent or human psychology work.  –  “Conceptual Ledge“

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Police departments all over have discovered that criminal accusations are a valuable way to enrich themselves at the expense of the public.  –  “They Just Don’t Get It”

Sex worker rights are human rights, and there can never be too many voices speaking up for them, nor too many occasions on which to speak.
–  “Never Too Many”

[Some “feminists”] seem…to imagine that if it weren’t for…bogeymen like “the Media” and “Patriarchy” subjecting girls to “sexualization”…we would all grow up in a blissful, chaste state and never, ever, ever be interested in dirty, nasty sex…and that this would be a good thing.  –  “China Dolls”

It’s probably impossible these days to work for any company larger than a mom-and-pop that doesn’t have some questionable association.  –  “Dilemmas”

Overbroad laws, no matter how good they may sound to some, are only ever used to increase the power of those who already have it at the expense of those who don’t.  –  “Rough Trade (#1129)“

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A woman’s right to own and control her own body includes not only the right to decisions about the possible consequences of sex, but also the right to decide how, why and with whom she has sex in the first place.  –  “Double Deal”

The belief that rape is a “fate worse than death”…portrays the penis as some sort of semi-divine instrument capable of destroying a helpless woman’s entire life at the whim of the man to whom it is attached.  –  “A Fate Worse Than Death”

I literally cannot even imagine a situation in which I would conceivably pay a man for sex.  –
“The Law of Attraction“

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The war on whores affects all women, not just professionals.  –  “Man’s Inhumanity to Whores”

As long as we keep giving unlimited power to the least-evolved members of our society, none of us should be surprised when they then use that power to act out their own twisted fantasies on living human beings.  –  “Absolute Corruption”

Sex workers have been turned into a pariah caste against whom rhetoric that wouldn’t last five minutes when directed against anyone else, suddenly becomes palatable.  –  “Sincerely Seeking”

Censors…are chronological adults burdened with a child’s view of a universe without free will, where things just happen because of malign forces from outside of themselves.  –  “Le Tabula Rasa“

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Like any attractive woman who dares to be sexual, Barbie has inflamed the passions of losers everywhere.  –  “Barbie”

Though some religious leaders claim that it’s a “basic fact of the moral universe” that businesses should be held responsible for criminals wrongfully using their services, they certainly don’t support holding churches or church programs responsible for exactly the same thing.  –
“Where Are the Protests?”

When the pejorative “sad” is applied to people who prefer computer games to drinking it is usually understood to be wholly subjective and irrational, but when applied to sex work it somehow becomes a valid argument for criminalization.  –  “Conflation Creates Criminality”

To prohibitionists, human rights, happiness and even life are subsidiary to “sending a message”, and the cost of that message can never be too great.  –  “Ignoble Experiment”

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A politician hires whores more often than other men do for the same reason a dog licks his genitals:  because he can.  –  “Elephant in the Parlor”

People with healthy sexualities do not generally feel the need to police the sexual or quasi-sexual behavior of others.
–  “Buried But Not Dead”

Authoritarians are apparently unable to conceive of any solution to any problem that doesn’t depend upon some kind of enforcers using violence to impose “regulations” conceived of by the ruling elite, with any deviation punished by still more violence.
–  “Kiss Freedom Goodbye“

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If everyone grew up to be what he or she wanted to be in childhood we would have a workforce made up almost entirely of firemen, ballerinas, astronauts, teachers, cowboys and nurses.  –  “Amazingly Stupid Statements”

Each person has to decide whether he will go forth into the world as an active adult or just sit in the nursery with folded hands.
–  “With Folded Hands”

Though every normal person has sexual feelings and every last one of us is the product of heterosexual intercourse, the American media (and to a lesser extent the British) seem to function under the premise that people having sex is something unusual and worthy of note.
–  “Standard Operating Procedure”

The claims made in moral panics are usually so extreme and outrageous that in retrospect they seem wholly absurd.  –  “Dark Corners”

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Usually, the personal is just personal, and declaring it to be political merely holds the door open for increasingly tyrannical intrusion into people’s private lives.  –  “Politicizing the Personal”

As long as the public accepts everything “authorities” say with the approximate degree of skepticism a toddler affords to the Tooth Fairy, this moral panic will be followed by an endless succession of others, each as absurd as the last.  –  “The Young and the Brainless”

If I felt anything like the kind of near-constant desire men feel, I’d ask my gynecologist if there was anything we could do about it without ruining my looks.  –  “Borrowing Trouble“

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The imitations of their fashion and dance styles by American belly dancers since the 1960s are all that remain of a once unique and fascinating culture, now ground into the dust of the Sahara by the twisted schemes of tyrants.
–  “The Ouled Nail”

The laws and regulations produced by the American political system no longer reflect sense, morality, the well-being of society, the will of the people, or any other recognizable principle of good government, and are therefore not binding on free people.  Police, prosecutors and other government actors who enforce such laws are not legitimate authorities, but rather the myriad tentacles of a mad, amorphous abomination flailing about wildly in its delirium and killing or maiming everything with which it comes into contact.  –  “Against Conscience”

When those with a history of attack, oppression and exclusion say they need a certain weapon for defense, you can be as certain as the sun rising in the east that it will also be used for offense.  –  “Buttons, Bags & Banknotes“

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In furtherance of your narcissistic concerns you either lobbied for the rights of certain women to be restricted or remained silent while others did so, and now you’re crying because the crop which has sprung up is the very one you planted.  Unfortunately, it isn’t just you who will be forced to eat it. –  “Selective Blindness”

It’s inevitable that politicians will say stupid, ignorant, bigoted, offensive things because only a brutal savage wants control over other people; therefore only brutal savages seek power, and we are governed by the most foolish, greedy, irresponsible, power-mad and least evolved among us.  –  “Legitimate Outrage”

Nothing that rightfully belongs to everyone alike can reasonably be called a “privilege”.  –  “The Privilege Paradigm“

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