No amount of intuition from one’s training and experience is a substitute for the basic laws of light and physics.
The absurdity of malum prohibitum “crimes” is amply demonstrated in this WWII propaganda video, in which the US government encourages farmers to grow cannabis (specifically hemp, but even that was illegal for decades). The video was contributed by Jesse Walker and the links above it by Emma Evans (“porn”), Charles Hill (“works”), Mike Chase (“clone”), Tim Cushing (“taunts”), Kevin Wilson (“Australia”), and Mike Siegel (“water”).
- No, porn won’t kill you.
- I really hope this works.
- Can we clone this judge?
- When children’s taunts come true.
- These are the times I really love Twitter.
- Australian states analogous to US states.
- Cops murder mentally ill man by denying him water for 10 days.
From the Archives
- When a cop wants to destroy someone, universal criminality makes it easy.
- The link between abortion prohibition & “sex trafficking” hysteria increases.
- Tired of hard stuff like standing, getting dressed & making paper airplanes?
- Arresting criminals isn’t as fun as ruining people’s lives for consensual sex.
- More and more women who identify as feminists now support sex workers.
- I’m always pleased when someone attacks the concept of “empowerment”.
- Fairies, horses, Terry Pratchett, cops, teachers, politicians, poop & Grease.
- Thought the “anti-pimp hygiene products” trope couldn’t get any stupider?
- Trying to turn Lawrence into a “monogamous vanilla amateurs only” club.
- Why Eastern European women figure so heavily in “sex trafficking” myth.
- Uneven article marred by false equivalencies, but its central point is true.
- Ignoramuses love myth that sex work was always criminalized in the US.
- Some gay activists oppose this because it denies them special privileges.
- The UK press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of escort reviews.
- More continuity between the Satanic Panic & “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Air hostess can’t understand why sex workers object to being hunted.
- Sydney politicians lose fight against whores they hired a man to rape.
- Pimps! Sex slaves! Benevolent cops! And other imaginary characters!
- That whole “presumption of innocence” thing was nice while it lasted.
- Potty-obsessed politician wants to enforce his hangups with violence.
- Louisville cops insist transgender murder victim wasn’t transgender.
- The unchecked metastasis of the Department of Homeland Security.
- Giving fanatics what they want only encourages them to want more.
- Every decision like this, in any country, brings us closer to the goal.
- Sometimes politicians’ rhetorical devices are blatantly transparent.
- Remember the Dallas outfit cashing in on “sex trafficking” tours?
- Things had been going a lot better for my friend Kelly Michaels…
- The newest “sign” of “sex trafficking”: going to a beauty parlor.
- This is impossible to parody, because the reality is so ludicrous.
- Read this and tell me that Marxism & feminism aren’t religions.
- Spokane schemes to steal cars if driven across imaginary lines.
- Still crusading against imaginary “traffickers” in North Dakota.
- The controversy over escort reviews, especially those on TER.
- If any job indicates a need for “counseling”, it’s politician.
- BDSM practitioners are generally psychologically healthy.
- Why do some sex workers like to pay for social dates?
- They’re literally just making this garbage up now.
- See the resemblance to the “Satanic Panic” yet?
- On the simultaneous having and eating of cake.
- A synopsis of my 31-year history of sex work.
- A female client of sex workers tells her story.
- The world’s first successful penis transplant.
- Charlotte Rose’s work with the disabled.
- The unsinkable Liz Brown does it again.
- Revolting even by rapist cop standards.
- Laws are more important than people.
- Sadly, this was a foregone conclusion.
- Cops, Monty Python & much more.
- Teacher fired for having a sex life.
- My hectic first weeks in Seattle.
- The humility of Meena Seshu.
- The Revolt of the Prostitutes.
- Don’t you know who I am?
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Another Friday the 13th.
- Chimpanzee shrines.
- SASS 2016.
