Links #217

We did this now to protect her for now and in the future, because this could get worse.  She could be taken.  –  one of the worst mothers ever

I’m on my way to New Orleans today, and will be home Thursday night; it’s been a wonderful tour, but it’s a good thing it didn’t go on much longer because I’m only barely on schedule now and I really need to catch back up.  Today’s first video is from Gideon and is one example of what is probably a very typical situation that, before video, always went undiscovered.  The second video is from Jesse Walker  (who also contributed “supervillains”), and though I don’t usually like “cute kid” videos I thought this little guy’s “logical” arguments were very funny.  Everything above the first video is from Grace, and the links between the videos are from Dave Barry (“headline”), Jemima (“Hello Kitty”), Popehat (“no reason”), Franklin Harris  (“texting”), Nun Ya (“lucky”), Michael Whiteacre (“Chelsea”), and Mike Riggs (“life sentence”).

• The crime: exhaustion.  The penalty: death by electrocution.
• Clearly this is MUCH BETTER than sex work.
• One of the worst mothers ever.
• Your police state at work.

• Headline of the week.
• Hello Kitty is British, and not a cat.
• The professionalism of Omaha’s finest.
• I really do mean NO REASON WHATSOEVER.
• Texting while driving is not OK. Unless you’re a cop, of course.
• BBC denigrates woman’s courageous battle as a “lucky escape”.
• Because nuclear-capable supervillains always live in ordinary flats.
• Chelsea Clinton says being paid a fortune to do nothing is too hard.
• Statists are beginning to grasp what “life sentence” actually means.

From the Archives

• Cops, politicians, selfies, cannibalism, funny animals, weird religion, tentacles, science, prohibition, universal criminality & space travel.
• How do I let my regular escort know that I truly value and appreciate her personality without coming off as creepy or patronizing?
• I’ve read that girls in Southeast Asia “treat men like kings” sexually;  what does that really mean?
• The police state, apes, hysteria, rhetoric, bogus math, surveillance, ass wi-fi and nom nom nom.
• How repressive governments use consensual crime laws to harass those they dislike.
• “Sex Worker Rights: (Almost) Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask”.
• Basic “trafficking” sting: consenting adults caged, 44; victims rescued, 0.
• High school wants virginity test entrance requirement, because whores.
• Advice for a new escort in Malaysia and an aspiring plus size courtesan.
• Lawheads imagine closing red-light districts will make whores go away.
• Politicians: censorship isn’t censorship ’cause the internet is dangerous.
• My masseuse suddenly got on top of me sans condom; what’s it mean?
• Malawians recognize “avails” laws as relics of “white slavery” hysteria.
• “Trafficking” fanatics claim all whores make more than $300,000/year.
• Another entry into “sex trafficking” fandom, clueless celebrity division.
• Confinement & “re-education” of sex workers: bad in Cuba, OK in US.
• Credulous reporters swallow Ashley Madison ads as “press releases”.
• Interesting article on the connection between harlotry and witchcraft.
• Tulsa cops persecute adult women by pretending they’re “trafficked”.
• Prohibitionists have a weird idea of meaning of “support” and “help”.
• Texas begins to realize that locking up whores is a waste of money.
• Emasculated Icelandic journalist discovers prohibition doesn’t work.
• Christians say GOP should do everything possible to increase rape.
• Mainstream gay rights groups have stayed quiet about Manning.
• Zurich opens tippelzones; some other cities already have them.
• 10-year-old girl charged with sexual assault for playing doctor.
• Mayor caught in brothel says he thought it was a family home.
• A long, thorough look Texas’ “prostitution diversion” program.
• The repeated usage of the word “victim” is especially grating.
• Cops steal three motels because some whores stayed there.
• Support for decriminalization continues to grow in Canada.
• Are tall men more endowed than those of average height?
• Sex strikes: good in theory, but usually poor in execution.
• The truth about “sex trafficking” of North Korean women.
• Some Italians want to lock whores up in brothels again.
• Most of the “condoms in porn” law is unconstitutional.
• The suspicious deaths of two Vancouver sex workers.
• Another soi-disant “ally” does more harm than good.
• How can I help my boyfriend’s erectile dysfunction?
• Yet another “sex trafficking” opportunist exposed.
• “The Inside of the White Slave Traffic”, from 1913.
• Suing the cops for failing to protect sex workers.
• Monkeys prefer to play with gender-typical toys.
• Tauriq Moosa on sex workers and the disabled.
• The many types of sex workers in 1920s Berlin.
• Because “sex traffickers” like cheese, perhaps?
• Why I remained silent about Hugo Schwyzer.
• Another unconstitutional “sex offender” law.
• Jessica Land interviews Dr. Melissa Ditmore.
• Another politician, another sexting scandal.
• Yet another horrible “sex trafficking” law.
• Bringing sex workers into the public eye.
• 800 years of slang terms for genitalia.
• Gail Dines threatens Radisson Hotels.
• Welcome to our world, gay activists.
• The Topless Tunisian leaves Femen.
• In Sweden, begging equals rape.
• Prohibitionism is a mental illness.
• Welcome to our world, chemists.
• Kristof’s prohibitionist omelette.
• The DMSC football tournament.
• Arkansas tries to ban body art.
• Censors block Hamlet as smut.
• Life in prison for dirty pictures.
• Alexis Wright takes the Fifth.
• David Vitter doesn’t tweet.
• The end of the Lusty Lady.
• The myth of “rape culture”.
• Back Issue:  August 2010.
• My ten favorite columns.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Ugly Mugs for Android.
• King of the hill!
• Shamboiling.