Back Issue #89

The public considers the opinions of pop-tarts with no personal experience in [an] issue to be more important than those of activists who actually know what they’re talking about.  –  “December Updates”

From the Archives

• Woman-shaped toasters have no “moral code”; they are mindless objects.
• This wasn’t a “mistake”; it was both deliberate and government-approved.
• Brian Bates is hostile to both sex workers and “sex trafficking” mythology.
• Assume anything that connects to the internet can be used to spy on you.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
• Even when cops want to tell the truth, their bosses may force them to lie.
• Politicians can’t grasp that whores might be neither criminals nor victims.
• A cop’s masturbatory fantasy of omnipresent “pimps” with magic powers.
• Cop faces longer sentence for texting than others face for rape & murder.
• The “generous cop” scam isn’t “nice”; it’s a threatening consent violation.
• “Christian” politician has a thing for underage girls. Gee, what a surprise.
• Cops threaten & harass sex workers, then disclaim responsibility for this.
• Often, the War on Whores is the War on Drugs rather than its successor.
• Man’s garbage will have a more lasting effect on this planet than he will.
• Want to write an article supporting sex workers? Actually talk to us first.
• Bad laws disproportionately harm small businesses and poor individuals.
• He could’ve copied this from other parrots without even leaving London.
• Everett defends its sick need to control women’s clothing as “feminism”.
• It’s a shame this is what it took to bring down the “sex addiction” scam.
• It’s no surprise conservatives like sleazy entrapment schemes so much.
• “Establishing a committee to study decriminalizing sex work“; we’ll see.
• Criticize Playboy if you like, but it’s always been ahead on social issues.
• It’s good to see so many questioning the “human trafficking” narrative.
• Self-declared “expert” can’t grasp why “pimp” conviction rate is so low.
• Because giving free sex to boorish, penniless young men is “feminism”.
• Naturally, the bootlicking media doesn’t report the cost to sex workers.
• Scumbag gets comeuppance thanks to Sydney Brownstone’s diligence.
• Do idiots who use the phrase “child rape” even remember being teens?
• Declare anything a “public health crisis” and it can be harassed at will.
• My regular escort suggested dinner off-clock; should I tip her anyway?
• Cops non-consensually use sex workers as props in wanking fantasies.
• It’s disturbing to get even a whiff of the Swedish filth in Latin America.
• Defense attorneys should know it’s not cops’ job to “protect” anybody.
• Wanna ban a consensual activity? Find a problem case to shill for you.
• The more out sex workers there are, the harder it will be to ignore us.
• Sweden only cared about this rape case as a means to “get” Assange.
• There can never be too many articles on sex workers for the disabled.
• It’s good to see mainstream articles critical of the “john school” scam.
• It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
• It’s satisfying watching the “sex addiction” myth implode in real time.
• Fashion designers profit from whores’ images while giving us nothing.
• None of my friends know her, but the “oral sex” thing is total bullshit.
• It’s good to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
• A disgusting hypocrite, but not a “child sex trafficker” by any stretch.
• Any call for more laws policing sexuality is authoritarian propaganda.
• Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
• Authoritarians imagine a link between sex work and barroom brawls.
• Really, guys, just hire actual pros; it’s much cheaper in the long run.
• Not for any reason whatsoever. No, your reason is not an exception.
• The “most dangerously delusional ‘sex trafficking’ propaganda” race.
• lawsuits are for the present our best weapon against prohibitionists.
• Why shouldn’t sex workers charge different prices for different acts?
• Some companies will destroy the internet for a business advantage.
• It’s sad that conformists are unable to simply respect others’ rights.
• Convicted of “sex trafficking” for running an ordinary escort service.
• Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again.
• The “Facebook pimps” myth is one of the silliest of the whole panic.
• If sex work weren’t illegal laws like this would be easily overturned.
• What exactly is the rationale behind destroying two women’s lives?
• Another look at Nevada’s deeply-oppressive crony brothel system.
• How could even cops believe that Fresno is a “hub” for anything?
• Are there still people who believe the French are sexually liberal?
• How many fakumentaries there will be before the hysteria ends?
• Netflix produces another lurid wanking fantasy about teenagers.
• Once Patreon caved to PayPal the first time, this was inevitable.
• Ron Jeremy’s bad behavior has been an open secret for a while.
• A rare victory for sex workers against “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Could you introduce me to a sex worker I can correspond with?
• Cops, skeletons, Louisiana, amateurs, Cthulhu and much more.
• There’s so much disinformation here it’s almost mind-boggling.
• The beginning of the failed UK attempt to censor internet porn.
• The War on Whores, like the War on Drugs, is a jobs program.
• “There was no evidence…[of] threat…or any form of…coercion…”
• The quaint non-“law enforcement” term for this is “blackmail”.
• Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you.
• Why do massage parlors bring puritans out of the woodwork?
• Sex workers are and always have been the real “resistance”.
• Rapist graduates from slandering his victims to suing them.
• New York bartenders are now competing with the strippers.
• Weeping quietly over memories of beloved things now lost.
• Did he really think more than 30 bodies would stay buried?
• The crypto-moralists have been relatively quiet for a while.
• It’s a little reassuring to see somebody else recognize this.
• Another argument in favor of sex workers for the disabled.
• Ugly regurgitated sexual fantasies from a sexual predator.
• A good criticism of “slavery” talk on Laura Agustín’s blog.
• Are reporters actually paid to be clueless ignoramuses?
• Violence vs sex workers is a “hate crime” in Liverpool.
• “Strange accents” sums up what this is really about.
• Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
• The 2017 clown panic was extremely disappointing.
• “Signs of trafficking” idiocy spreads to Dutch pigs.
• An excerpt from Andrea Werhun’s Modern Whore.
• It’s good to see this getting more attention lately.
• Once again, prudishness trumps the Constitution.
• We need anarchy to protect us from government.
• Another probable casualty of the War on Whores.
• Celebrity “activists” talking over affected parties.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• It’s good to have Grace nearby for the holidays.
• The 100th anniversary of Mata Hari’s execution.
• Craigslist eliminates its “adult services” section.
• Facebook can’t even follow its own “standards”.
• Another attempt at library internet censorship.
• The fictional equivalent of a Christmas cookie.
• What should I do about intense social anxiety?
• The McNeill Rule, like its namesake, is a bitch.
• Good riddance to bad anti-whore rubbish.
• OK, so maybe she was listening after all.
• That’ll teach them dirty “sex offenders”!
• Exposing a fake-reviews-for-pay scam.
• This claim is so absurd it defies sanity.
• A raid on the Eros Guide call center.
• I called this one three years earlier.
• Nope, this isn’t sex work, no sirree.
• My first mention of “john schools”.
• A clash with a belligerent activist.
• The nanny state’s dating advice.
• Rapist cops of November, 2017.
• Thoughts on a difficult autumn.
• Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
• Sweden, the feminist Utopia.
• Bronte sisters action figures.
• You are going to die.  Soon.
• My birthday week 2017.
• On whore goddesses.
• SCIENCE!