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Links #358

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

I can’t breathe.  –  Justin Thomson

I don’t know why this video of a brick in a washing machine on a trampoline is so funny, but it is.  The video was provided by Mike Siegel, who also provided “does”; the other links above the video are from Popehat (“hate”, “cancer” & “monsters”),  Emma Evans (“state”), and Tim Cushing (“tone”).

From the Archives

  • Even “sex trafficking” fetishists now have to address the debunking of one of their pet myths.
  • Brooke Magnanti schools politicians on another attempt to persecute adults for wanting sex.
  • How does one separate sex from feelings so one doesn’t become attached?
  • Why do “rescuers” always push whores into menial garment-related work?
  • As our wanker switches from pimp fantasy to incest fantasy, fade to black.
  • How long before judges start fining these lawyers for filing nuisance suits?
  • Fact: woman with drug problem goes missing. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
  • Brains so narrow they can only conceive of humans existing in two states.
  • When a respected scientist starts spouting nonsense, it’s time for pasture.
  • Massachusetts tries to define the disabled and those over 60 as imbeciles.
  • Siouxsie Q on the only newsworthy thing about sex work in Silicon Valley.
  • That so many could believe in such lunacy explains a lot about the world.
  • Imagine if big foundations started giving grants for sex worker advocacy.
  • Arresting sex workers & clients to “build a positive relationship” with us.
  • This would’ve been better without her moral signalling at the beginning.
  • Expensive salons are trying to drive out reasonably-priced competition.
  • Why bother looking for victims when cops can just pretend to be them?
  • What does it mean if my regular escort stops using protection with me?
  • Police chief decides to destroy a few lives to give bored cops some fun.
  • A sex worker’s murderer didn’t realize someone knew where she was.
  • If this doesn’t make you nervous, you haven’t been paying attention.
  • Phnom Penh sex workers denounce police brutality and corruption.
  • Cops, prohibitionism, airplanes, faith healers, animation and more.
  • This sounds good until one gets down to the “end demand” poison.
  • South Africa is another country with awesome sex worker activists.
  • Another woman’s child abducted by the state because of her work.
  • Guys, please do your research, and let the pigs hunt each other.
  • Men urged to control uppity women by choking off their income.
  • Sometimes “authorities” prefer to rape vulnerable men instead.
  • Cops are forgiven for rape, but not for seeking consensual sex.
  • In the US, we’re barely even tolerated, much less listened to.
  • Cops, consequences, laws, Bradbury, dogs and much more.
  • Some sex workers’ mothers really do love unconditionally.
  • Must a queer sex worker hide her queerness to succeed?
  • Canadian cops “rescue” sex workers by deporting them.
  • Decriminalization in New South Wales is safe for now.
  • The violent death of sex workers in Japan & Hungary.
  • More young lives destroyed by the anti-sexting jihad.
  • All censorship seems this futile and ridiculous to me.
  • The Seattle sex work community is just so amazing.
  • The 8 Minutes story just kept getting more horrible.
  • The ridiculous self-contradictions of anti-sex laws.
  • Politicians just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
  • A prohibitionist’s notion of “helping” sex workers.
  • Old people must be punished for being sexual.
  • Endza Adair on being a student & sex worker.
  • The advantage of a bifurcate consciousness.
  • The cover of the New York Times Magazine.
  • I literally laughed out loud reading this.
  • An instant ticket to my Hall of Shame.
  • More on Dutch sex workers’ protests.
  • The demonization of Alix Tichelman.
  • It’s everywhere! It’s everywhere!
  • Sex worker rights in Uganda.
  • Yet another Friday the 13th.
  • Somaly Mam, bad penny.
  • Rapist cops of the week.
  • Paging Dr. David Ley.
  • More of this, please.
  • Sex Worker Diaries.

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