We remain very concerned that…legal [products] are being sold openly in our high streets. - Detective Superintendent Dave Knopwood
Whenever the topic of nursing in public came up in my younger years, I let it be known that I fully intended to nurse my babies whenever they were hungry, no matter where I might happen to be at the time, and that anyone who complained would learn just how sharp my tongue is. As it turned out I never had the experience myself, but my feelings on the subject haven’t changed so I really appreciated this funny video my husband discovered. Everything above it is from Clarissa, and the second video (from Mistress Matisse) is a real ad for an actual lawyer; the links between the videos were provided by Kevin Wilson (“comics”), Thaddeus Russell (“graffiti”), Lenore Skenazy (“libertarianism”), Popehat (“paranoid”), Jesse Walker (“map”), Mike Siegel (“paintball”), Cthulhuchick (“goats” & “handcuffed”), and Radley Balko (“nothing”).
- Police raid shop, steal legal products they don’t like.
- Don’t make drunken bets with Kiwis.
- Headline of the week.
- 15,000 free comic books.
- Textbook graffiti masterpieces.
- Libertarianism happens to people.
- Some of y’all thought I was paranoid.
- Map of things cops claim to have mistaken for guns.
- A brief history of the microwave oven as murder weapon.
- Tax-funded involuntary paintball games for the delusional.
- “People often underestimate how dangerous a goat can be.”
- Nothing I could say would be nice, so I’ll just leave this here.
- Another handcuffed young man materializes a gun and shoots himself.
From the Archives
- Mars, machines, aliens, zeroes, criminalization, censorship, cops, captions, courts, cocks, teeth, tits and welcome to our world.
- While pretending to care about “trafficking”, Ireland turns down nearly all asylum requests from “trafficking victims”.
- Prosecutor lies about a service’s fee to ratchet up the number of counts.
- One of the larger prohibitionist groups of the first “sex trafficking” panic.
- Government creates the legal climate that allows oppression to flourish.
- Feminists are starting to realize that neofeminist policies hurt feminism.
- This is only “stunning” to those who believe in the “pimps & hos” myth.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on Comic Relief’s subscription to prohibitionist lies.
- Swedish neofeminists label surrogate motherhood “human trafficking”.
- The tale of a parallel Maggie in the world envisioned by Ray Bradbury.
- The deep connection between addiction rhetoric and crypto-moralism.
- Politician says caging people & giving them criminal records is “help”.
- Another good, clean charity refuses money from nasty, dirty whores.
- Cops claim hiring whores was a “botched prostitution investigation”.
- The sex blogger whose sex blog was cancelled for being about sex.
- Dallas tries to push off its “diversion” scheme on the rest of Texas.
- A legal clinic in Cape Town provides legal services for sex workers.
- The media finally notice that using condoms as evidence is insane.
- Government officials attacked for failing to find what isn’t there.
- A federal appeals court struck down Virginia’s anti-sodomy law.
- In which I actually agree with a prohibitionist district attorney.
- In the UK, being a cop confers expertise in oncology research.
- In Mumbai, there is a bank which serves only sex workers.
- Is the sex worker rights movement nearing a watershed?
- The radical concept of paying people for things they sell.
- In California, crime is whatever school officials say it is.
- The tale of a lonely woman who found a higher calling.
- Tullia d’Aragona: courtesan, poetess and philosopher.
- The underage whore who became a fashion designer.
- Michael Weinstein opposes HIV prevention measures.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on the concept of “empowerment”.
- Another attempt to decriminalize in South Australia.
- Jesse Walker’s good short piece on Santa Muerte.
- Jennifer Reed debunks the “sex trafficking” panic.
- Supporting moral panics with bogus checklists.
- Reviews of four movies with hooker heroines.
- Why banishment has come back into fashion.
- Tyrants find neofeminists to be useful idiots.
- How Switzerland deals with streetwalkers.
- PayPal backtracks on a censorship policy.
- Man dies while visiting his sugar baby.
- Two reader-authors exchange books.
- Iranian women’s topless protest.
- The Healing Power of Sex Work.
- Another Canadian serial killer?
- A few things I did last March.
- A profile of Grace Bellavue.
