September 25, 2021 by Maggie McNeill
[Do] they have a deal with the police...or is this simple freelance vigilantism? - Laura Agustín
Surplus WomenThe same everywhere sex work is at all criminalized:
Decentralization (#313)In light of the death of Nigerian sex worker Eunice Osayande, who was brutally murdered by a 17-year-old client in 2018, an ethnographic study on sex work in the area...was commissioned by the city of Schaerbeek...The sex workers who were interviewed stressed that they faced violence on a regular basis, but especially at night, including robberies and beatings...and people trying to have unprotected sex with them. The women also spoke of discriminatory attacks, often by young people, and...highlighted that...they are often reluctant to call the police...
Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
If Men Were AngelsCoinbase will provide [ICE]...with [the] blockchain [surveillance] software...[it] has also provided...to the U.S. Secret Service and [UK] Inland Revenue...Details as to exactly what the ICE wants Coinbase software for are [being hidden]...Last year, Coinbase announced its desire to sell [the same surveillance] tools to...the [DEA] and [IRS]...
Basically the same as a "youth pastor":
Rotting FruitA...California attorney and church leader was sentenced to 40 years...after pleading guilty to molesting young girls...Steven Matlak...[was first] arrested...in 2017...All of [his] victims were under the age of 10, with the youngest being five years old...Matlak...led a Bible study in his home for young members of the First Presbyterian Church... He [tried to claim] sex addiction [as an excuse] for his crimes, but the families did not accept the [attempted responsibility-dodge]...
Presented without comment:
Negative Secondary Effects (#1122)Prince Andrew...'s efforts to avoid facing...[an] American...lawsuit launched against him by...Virginia (Giuffre) Roberts...have now [failed. British judges] accepted a request..."to formally contact Andrew about the civil proceedings launched in America"...Roberts' lawyers have complained that Andrew...has thwarted efforts to serve him with the suit...[which] claims that when she was 17...[Jeffrey] Epstein forced her to have sex with Andrew at [Ghislaine] Maxwell's London townhouse...
It's rare for an article on sex work in the UK press to be so free of dysphemisms:
Predictable Consequences (#1125)Blackpool Council announced in January th[at]...it planned to phase out lap dancing clubs in order to [protect THE CHILDREN!!!™ from dangerous sex rays]...The existing four clubs would be allowed to continue operating, but once those licences lapse for any reason they would not be renewed. [Club] operators...[poin]t out [th]at..."The industry will be forced underground and girls will be tempted, if not forced to work...for private bachelor parties"...[without] security...or..."underground clubs or might have to get into more dangerous forms of sex work"...
Prohibitionists learned nothing from the Atlanta massacre last March:
In Arizona and across the country, [prohibitionists]...have set up massage parlors as [targets] for sex trafficking [hysteria]. Women [who travel] from China, Korea and other countries...may be [raped by cops pretending to "rescue" them, then caged] in unsanitary conditions [to await deportation]. The Arizona Republic and USA Today are [try]ing [to help cops commit] this...legal[ized abomination]...
Frontpage Confidential featured quotes from activists sharply criticizing this exercise in yellow journalism, directly intended to attract either organized or individual violence against migrant sex workers.
Droit du Seigneur (#1135)
What the people who enforce "sex trafficking" laws are really like:
Larry Allen Clay Jr., the [typical and representative]...police chief of [a] small town [in West Virginia]...is charged with sex trafficking a...17-year-old girl...[by paying her stepmother, Kristen] Naylor-Legg...[$50 to] rape...her...[the prosecutor thought it was super-important to note her rapist was]...wearing his [magic clown costume and]...rap[ed] her [in his pigmobile]...He...[later] told the teen "he could be her sugar daddy"...and [pimp by charging]...other [pigs]...$100 to rape her...
Note how deeply the "journalist" who wrote this buried the identity and responsibility of the actual initiator of this crime; they didn't even print his picture.
