[Platonic doctrine] conveniently meant that philosophers, scholars and priests could say whatever they wanted about female behavior and motives, and it would always be right even if women didn’t actually behave that way. – “The Myth of the Wanton”
Introducing the new format of Back Issue columns…which, as I explained previously, looks a lot like my weekly Links columns (though without new material). Over the next two years it’ll keep looking like this, though without the introduction; eventually, the featured links will all be from ten years prior (though right now they’re still largely from three years earlier, with a few from 2010). I figure that since I’ve got almost a decade’s worth of material now, it’d be a shame to let the old stuff just sit there!
- When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
- Not a “mistake”, but a result of government-approved profiling guidelines.
- So much writing on something that doesn’t exist & never will in this form.
- This is where sex workers “rescued” by the likes of Somaly Mam are sent.
- Pretend your unsold product “fights sex trafficking” & watch profits roll in!
- “Gypsy whores” myth is so discredited, politicians need to spread it alone.
- Seattle cops destroy The Review Board & lie about it at press conference.
- Bollywood is pretty sex work-friendly even if the Indian government isn’t.
- Only very rare “perfect victims” are aided by so-called “safe harbor” laws.
- Bureaucrat imagines he can stop people from seeing porn he doesn’t like.
- Novelist declared “sex trafficking expert” on the basis of BDSM fantasies.
- Plus the fact that so-called “virtually reality” doesn’t involve actual touch.
- Myths and agency denial narrow the bottleneck for legal Swiss sex work.
- Swedish model fanatics won’t stop trying to impose their filth on the UK.
- Overblown, sensationalized interview with retired madam Jami Rodman.
- Anyone “alarmed” by a nipple needs to stay home with a coloring book.
- Morally-retarded academics invent bullshit to support your propaganda.
- Will gullible reporters ever stop publishing Ashley Madison ads for free?
- Kenyan sex workers say a serial killer is targeting and mutilating them.
- The reason for the strippers’ plight is Washington’s idiotic prudishness.
- If someone stole $100 from a store, would reporters call it a “quibble”?
- While cops have power over private behavior, this will keep happening.
- Non-issue complicated by sociopathic need to control others’ sexuality.
- Even when they question a few elements, they can’t let go of the rest.
- All prohibitionists are liars, but Irish ones may be the most egregious.
- Perverts want to inspect children’s genitals before they use the toilet.
- Ruchira Gupta wants women like me banned from ever having sex.
- If he had simply paid to enact this fantasy, he’d still have a career.
- A lawsuit vs credit card processor discrimination vs adult products.
- “Authorities” kill a woman’s husband, then humiliate and cage her.
- This is what prohibition looks like when given perspective by time.
- This won’t stop until Gay, Inc throws its full weight behind decrim.
- Dysphemisms and gawking abound in UK articles about sex work.
- The vile and self-contradictory sexual fantasies of prohibitionists.
- Landlady railroaded for allowing whores to work on her property.
- “What a Sex Worker Can Teach You About Working for Yourself“
- The “misogyny” explanation for police brutality is pure bullshit.
- “Re-parenting” & “restructuring their normal” = “re-education”.
- “How Laws Regulating Sex Work Ignore Workers Themselves”.
- Fetishist claims “black holes” are vacuuming up girls in India.
- Swanee Hunt tricks young people into aiding the police state.
- Politician tries to advance surveillance state via magic words.
- Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
- Would stopping masturbation help with my sexual problems?
- Suppressing dissident views is a typical behavior of religions.
- I’m not at all interested in sex robots unless it’s one like this.
- I’m infatuated with a sex worker, but I think she’s using me.
- New Hampshire politician introduces a decriminalization bill.
- “She was so desperate to raise money she got a better job!”
- According to Hong Kong “authorities”, I operate a “brothel”.
- In other words, he was a time waster, not a “sex trafficker”.
- Idiotic “signs of sex trafficking” proliferate to absurd levels.
- The right way to report on sex workers’ use of technology.
- State actors pretending that porn causes “sex trafficking”.
- An 18-year-old “man” and a 17-year-old “girl”. SHAZAM!
- The UK version of an app which first premiered in Ireland.
- This is the typical “Super Bowl sex trafficking” story now.
- A ridiculous and insulting new law takes effect in Florida.
- Men: pay your whores! Ladies: get the money up front!
- I sincerely doubt these pics were intended for a woman.
- How much longer can this absurd melodrama continue?
- In the US, this business would be violently suppressed.
- Mere “sex trafficking” isn’t shocking enough any more.
- Bogus “signs” and masturbatory “awareness raising”.
- Laura Lee published an open letter to prohibitionists.
- US Marine jailed for murder of Philippine sex worker.
- Yet another ridiculous “sex trafficking” fakumentary.
- In which I’m hailed as a badass for being stubborn.
- Actually, all website takedown cases are this weak.
- Penthouse is not shutting down its print magazine.
- Can you give me advice on blogging anonymously?
- The complex motivations behind female sexuality.
- Here’s what “regulated” sex work really looks like.
- A young gay man’s moving essay on being raped.
- Despite the ICE, the odor of this is unmistakable.
- Repeatedly refuting this bullshit gets exhausting.
- The year sex workers exploded into the media.
- In case you think Denmark’s “sexually liberal”.
- Finally, a compromise on the comfort women.
- Internet porn just claimed another casualty.
- On the intensity of my feelings for friends.
- “Youth pastors” are nearly as bad as cops.
- Why women lie about our weight and age.
- Noah Berlatsky on underage sex workers.
- An anti-porn propaganda film from 1962.
- Man who robbed sex worker imprisoned.
- A “stalemate” over mandatory condoms.
- Why I didn’t report being raped by cops.
- That’ll teach them dirty “sex offenders”!
- All of the interview that’s printed to fit.
- What wonderful company the US is in!
- One of the most vile rapist cops of all.
- Sex worker runs for congress in Peru.
- Women are such fragile little flowers.
- Lots of interviews and a lovely party.
- The legends about Mary Magdalene.
- An official red-light district in Leeds.
- Human trafficking is EVERYWHERE!
- “Woman has two jobs” is not news.
- More amazing activism from India.
- I’ve been saying this for 30 years.
- How sex workers play our parts.
- Fellow librarians: this is bullshit.
- My very first fictional interlude.
- Sweden, the feminist paradise.
- The slow death of Die Wallen.
- Rapist cops of January 2016.
- But what does “porn” mean?
- I’ll just leave this right here.
- Fantasy film double feature.
- Mind your dysphemisms.
- The myth of the wanton.
- My tits turn sweet 16.
- Well, this is different.
- Alea iacta est, y’all.
- Boo fucking hoo.
- “Peacekeepers“.