There are people who make bad decisions sometimes and unfortunately we don’t…know his story [or] anything about him. - Miranda Harbor
This week’s top contributor was Jesse Walker, with everything down to the first video and also the video itself (chosen due to the media attempting to whip up a panic about Slender Man). The second video (via Jillian Keenan) is another example of a commercial worth watching, and the links between the videos were provided by Brooke Magnanti, Dave Krueger, Paul Maginn, Rick Horowitz, Walter Olson, Mike Riggs, Mike Siegel and Radley Balko. (in that order).
- World incarceration rates with every US state treated separately.
- Batman, Cthulhu, Robin Hood: An Eternal Golden Braid.
- It seems they aren’t satisfied with dogs any more.
- Oh! You kid!
- Robbery without official permission.
- Surprisingly, this didn’t happen in Florida.
- Cops beat and tase man for “bicycle violations”.
- US government suddenly decides to ban cheese.
- The crime: kids play hooky. The penalty: death in jail.
- Emasculation & humiliation, with a side order of wound salt.
- Understand that they could have planted drugs & this would still be “legal”.
From the Archives
- How does a responsible, intelligent woman reconcile her decision to terminate all sexual activity with a man she still professes to love?
- Language, the police state, aging, cops, lost city, griffins, ants, kittens, communism and censorship.
- Al Franken says tyranny isn’t bad if you wave a flag while stomping on people’s faces.
- Journalists don’t learn truth about sex work because they don’t want to.
- Matthias Lehmann & Sonja Dolinsek debunk German prohibitionist lies.
- Swedish housewife sets up a BDSM dungeon in an abandoned bunker.
- Thai sex workers ask prime minister to stop licking Uncle Sam’s boots.
- The ordeal of the victims of New Orleans’ sadistic game is over at last.
- Irish police raid homes looking mostly for people who don’t live there.
- This won’t stop until we stop giving cops so much power over people.
- Cop threats to persecute traveling whores aren’t confined to the US.
- Drowning is less exciting than abduction by Russian “sex traffickers”.
- I sometimes feel like the Eeyore of the sex worker rights movement.
- UK organization fights for the sexual rights of the mentally disabled.
- Chinese cops beat up policewoman after mistaking her for a whore.
- Canadian sex workers rally before the Bedford vs Canada hearing.
- Ignorant reporter believes “explain” is a synonym for “rationalize”.
- A helpful guide to not getting your comments posted on this blog.
- Yet another maniac chooses his victims from among sex workers.
- Amnesty International begins to move toward supporting decrim.
- The more laws a society has, the less moral its people become.
- Prudes object to their own lascivious thoughts about a statue.
- Dania Suarez announces plans to start a sex worker charity.
- The putrid heart of the Ezekiel Gilbert escort murder case.
- Sarah Woolley on the myth of the “damaged” sex worker.
- A much more firmly anti-hysteria essay from danah boyd.
- How “sex trafficking survivors” are like UFO abductees.
- Scottish cops embark on a scheme to rob sex workers.
- Malawian sex workers fight oppression via civil courts.
- Scarlet Alliance urges Australia to widen a bottleneck.
- Sex worker rights, big tents and lockstep conformity.
- Ronald Weitzer on the mythology of “sex trafficking”.
- The UK emulates China and the Muslim theocracies.
- I really wish politicians would stop proving me right.
- Bolivian feminists support sex workers’ demands.
- The continuing adventures of Aella the Amazon.
- Franklin Harris on Hollywood’s sex-negativity.
- Libertarianism in science fiction and fantasy.
- Dating and highways cause sex trafficking!
- An ambivalent essay on “sex trafficking”.
- A rare defeat for anti-sex control freaks.
- Happy 50th birthday, silicone implant!
- The Art of Not Being Governed.
- Jury Independence Illustrated.
- A profile of activist Laura Lee.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Penguin perversion.