Back Issue #86

Until…women present a unified front against collective ownership of our bodies, progress will be slow at best.  –  “What a Week!”

From the Archives

• Naturally; they can steal more money from whores & we don’t shoot back.
• When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
• People who can’t admit their kinks unknowingly display them to the world.
• Only the individual has the right to determine conditions for their consent.
• I’ve a strong feeling that this will be the nadir of the “gypsy whore” myth.
• There are now two outfits cashing in on “sex trafficking” tours in Houston.
• Just because someone opposes bad guys, doesn’t make them a good guy.
• Just in case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to prisoners.
• Scheme to cut sex workers off from healthcare system spreads to the UK.
• Europeans wank to thoughts of Nigerian women enslaved by black magic.
• Apparently Dan Rubinstein has never heard of a thing called “pregnancy”.
• Even when the reason is clear, “authorities” prefer to blame sex workers.
• Is it normal to feel like a failure when you’re behind your peers in school?
• Half the population of New York City would be contaminated by sex rays!
• What’s the proper way for a client to express dissatisfaction with service?
• As long as these laws exist, all women are vulnerable to cop persecution.
• This whole “letting go and enjoying the ride” thing is pretty novel for me.
• The media won’t recognize Julie Bindel as a broken-down one-trick pony.
• I’m glad somebody beat the pompous politicians of Seattle to the punch.
• “Studies” claiming an impossibly-tiny fraction of men pay for sex are BS.
• “Sex trafficking” panic will be over soon, but the damage has been done.
• Authoritarians would be more dangerous if they’d get their shit together.
• While these laws exist, all women are vulnerable to persecution by cops.
• ESPLERP vs. Gascon reaches a court which could possibly do something.
• The depravity of prohibitionists’ lurid fantasies about our lives and work.
• The State wants us to refer to these evil thugs as “correctional officers”.
• The long US tradition of harmful policies that fly in the face of evidence.
• Texas dreams up some of the sleaziest anti-abortion tricks of any state.
• “Repatriation” is the currently-fashionable euphemism for “deportation”.
• “Believe women!” vanishes when a woman contradicts feminist dogma.
• Woman regrets shunning her father for getting caught in a client sting.
• Australia appears much more committed to human rights than Europe.
• Lots of reporters still masturbate to this thoroughly-debunked fantasy.
• Heroic Irish “authorities” save a man from getting a kidney transplant.
• Prohibitionists think we can’t see them wanking to the “pimp” fantasy.
• More scumbags profiting from whores by promoting lies that harm us.
• “Sex trafficking” hysteria is spinning out of control of the “authorities”.
• Hiding migration control behind “sex trafficking” cant is often obvious.
• Prohibitionists try to turn the truth about “gypsy whores” on its head.
• It’s unusual to see them actually use the word “rape” in this context.
• Why must decrim supporters promote myths, lies & insulting tropes?
• It’s good to see young “feminist” writers taking interest in this issue.
• What “legalized and heavily regulated” actually looks like in practice.
• No government “commission” will ever recommend giving up power.
• Mr. Bell’s company is under increasing scrutiny for prostitution calls.
• On the strange belief that historical courtesans were not prostitutes.
• I debunked COSA in this blog five and a half years before Salon did.
• The Adam Smith Institute continues its support of decriminalization.
• How different the same story sounds when stripped of euphemisms.
• Charlie Sheen, a mega-brothel, cop violence and the Hall of Shame.
• US victims would’ve been arrested when they reported the attacks.
• Remember when commies were bad for having militarized borders?
• The Pope continues to recklessly promote “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• COSWAC mocks the absurdity of “signs of sex trafficking” in hotels.
• A very reasonable article, considering the BBC’s usual prudishness.
• Despite this UK cop wanking fantasy, not one has ever been found.
• If Backpage was so awful, why did politicians need lies to attack it?
• Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• The “official” end of Operation Choke Point, but expect it to return.
• When “diversion” programs are subject to prosecutorial discretion.
• It’s sick and sad how Gay, Inc abandoned him to the government.
• Pro-decriminalization essays in newspapers are no longer a rarity.
• Why are men pearl-clutching even more than women these days?
• Criticism of “anti-trafficking” propaganda from inside their ranks.
• Why do massage parlors bring the puritans out of the woodwork?
• British model uses “sex trafficking” hysteria for a publicity stunt.
• More interested in promoting an agenda than protecting society.
• Nick Kristof and others share their fantasies of enslaved whores.
• When political & private interests “partner”, it’s called “fascism”.
• If you think they’ll keep this limited to sex crimes, you’re a fool.
• Liz Brown on the warped mind of Seattle prosecutor Val Richey.
• A rare victory for sex workers against “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Peak hysteria: when a moral panic features in afternoon soaps.
• Liz Brown ridicules the “solar eclipse sex trafficking” nonsense.
• Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people”.
• Why do so many sex workers not want to fight criminalization?
• Syphilis outbreak among filthy amateurs is blamed on whores.
• Nobody still believes cops’ pretense that this isn’t about profit.
• Seems the same as an earlier news item, but worth revisiting.
• At last, a very small measure of justice for Fran & Dan Keller.
• The censors who want the internet destroyed are at it again.
• Pakistan surpasses the US in at least one area of civil rights.
• As the hysteria collapses, this will happen much more often.
• From now on, most of my Friday columns will be low-effort.
• Looks like LA still isn’t done beating this very dead horse.
• No, there are no good reasons to root for Kamala Harris.
• Australia has far more sane feminists than does the US.
• Pigs just love to make their fantasies sound “scientific”.
• They’re literally recycling “gypsy whore” tall tales now.
• More on the censors who want to destroy the internet.
• My seasonal anxiety is usually worst in the Dog Days.
• On the actual cost of my exceptional characteristics.
• An essay by the mother of the late Grace Bellavue.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
• Do you offer business coaching for providers?
• A fake “trafficking study” done by marketers.
• I really hate buying and selling real estate.
• Yet another example of the McNeill Rule.
• I wonder how many hand jobs this took?
• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
• Swanee Hunt’s foul reek is all over this.
• A sign of how much things are shifting.
• The first load finally arrives at Sunset.
• I hope she gets every damned penny.
• Seeing the total eclipse with Lorelei.
• What real “sex slavery” looks like.
• Problems in the move to Sunset.
• All prohibitionism is the same.
• Rapist cops of August 2017.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• A thoroughly awful madam.
• Yuletide and Toys for Tots.
• Remember “titcoin”?
• Moving troubles.