Links #199

How I love the way I get them to swallow all the sludge I hand out!  
-  The Prodigy

Some people might look upon the situation in the first video with horror; I see it as a thing of beauty and a fine example of spontaneous order.  The video has been making the rounds, but was first called to my attention by Radley Balko  (who also provided all the links above it).  The second video was contributed by Kevin Wilson, and the links between the videos by Cop Block (“thoughtcrime” and “together”), Aspasia (“whip”), Carol Fenton (“police state”), Jesse Walker  (“Spider-man”), Popehat (“lawheads”), and AL 360 (“price”).

• Lawheads want prohibitionist regime financed by those without one.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, dog edition.
• Gotta “send a message” to all those “innocent children”.
• Our litigious society.

• Thoughtcrime.
• Should you whip it?
• The phrase “police state” comes to mind.
• I wonder if we can get Spider-Man to fight Melissa Farley?
• The inevitable result of giving power to lawhead ignoramuses.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
• The price of putting overwhelming power in the hands of people too stupid to learn from experience.

From the Archives

• My take on the Secret Service scandal attracted quite a bit of media attention, but US personnel running over whores did not.
• D&D, Star Wars, creationism, wizardry, the police state, CISPA, Zardoz, children’s books, statist bingo & medieval incest.
• Jezebel blogger saves unwitting women from accidentally prostituting themselves “in fucking Thailand or some shit”.
• In honor of Vinalia Urbana, a catalog of aspects of the goddess Venus.
• Porn watching has a negligible effect on young adult sexual behavior.
• She hated sex work so much she married a client & owned a brothel.
• The New York Daily News strongly criticizes Anna Gristina’s treatment.
• Last year’s attempt at banning “condoms as evidence” in New York.
• Study shows that laws targeting “pimps” actually hurt sex workers.
• Who are the real monsters when sexual minorities are persecuted?
• Politicians are totally unable to comprehend the bottleneck effect.
• Tennessee joins the list of states defining miscarriage as murder.
• Northern Ireland has railroaded convicted its first “sex trafficker”.
• Cops partied for four months at a strip club, then busted girls.
• The fight in the SCOTUS over the “anti-prostitution pledge”.
• Heidi Fleiss is helping to renovate Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch.
• When a law fails, politicians assume it didn’t go far enough.
• Government is practically the definition of “necessary evil”.
• What is the market for heterosexual male prostitutes like?
• Why the media perpetuate the ignorance of their readers.
• The methodological deficiencies of prohibitionist “studies”.
• Young people are pragmatic about sex; adults freak out.
• “Sex trafficking” fetishists start contradicting each other.
• The end of the beginning of “sex offender” registration.
• Three months in prison for downloading cartoon porn.
• Prohibitionist claims Beyonce causes “sex trafficking”.
• In Asia, sex workers are welcome at feminist events.
• Cops make excuses for raping whores to bust them.
• Another idiotic and dangerous “sex trafficking” law.
• Why brothel raids are an enormous waste of time.
• Greta Christina invited whores to tell our stories.
• My favorite books and my favorite authors.
• Ugandan men refuse to use condoms.
• Real men support sex worker rights.
• The self-destruction of Somaly Mam.
• A selection of poems about harlots.
• An escort critiques The Client List.
• The Thing and No, They Can’t.
• Iceland’s futile war on porn.
• Early CISPA shenanigans.