The paperclip was bent in a manner that could allow for use as a weapon. - school disciplinary report
Losing over a day this week (see the next “Tour Diary”) didn’t stop me from putting together a good collection of links! The first video is an example of a kind of Soviet funk from 1975, and was provided by Saladin Ahmed (who also gave us “science fiction”); the second is another episode of The Kronies, via Cathy Reisenwitz. Everything above the first video is from Radley Balko, and the links between the videos from Nun Ya (“funny”), Kevin Wilson (“robot”), Jason Kuznicki (“Shaka”), Janet Bloomfield (“depraved”), Michael Whiteacre (“kinky”), Furry Girl (“good news”), Lenore Skenazy (“schools”), Mike Siegel (“predictable”), and Cop Block (“disobedience”).
- States where cops are allowed to track your cell phone without warrant.
- Maker of game designed to be offensive apologizes for succeeding.
- Another isolated incident.
- What a funny guy!
- A hitchhiking robot.
- Your tax dollars at work.
- Shaka, when the walls fell.
- “Depraved” is the right word.
- Not nearly as kinky as it sounds.
- For a change, good news from Florida.
- Another way schools are preparing kids for prison.
- An online archive of early science fiction by women.
- The predictable result of current US laws and policies.
- Cop beats old man and pepper-sprays his wife, for “disobedience”.
From the Archives
- Cops, Batman, carnivorous plants, altruism, bullies, surveillance, concrete, Scooby Doo, New Zealand, registries & Penn Jillette.
- Despite annoying visuals and a few clumsy phrases, an excellent argument against prohibition of sex work.
- What’s the best way for sex workers to be out, yet not completely compromise their futures?
- When this happens in India: media circus. In Sweden: {cricket sounds}.
- Young sex workers vs. system which treats them as infantilized victims.
- Dear unethical sex businesspeople: Stop videotaping clients, you idiots.
- Forced feminization of little boys isn’t enough for Swedish neofeminists.
- Attempt to fast-track Swedish Model legislation in Scotland is defeated.
- “Pimp” myths used to justify Nevada’s draconian “sex trafficking” law.
- Even some male scientists believe in the “sex loosens vaginas” myth.
- Debunking the moronic claim that sex work is immune to economics.
- Dutch police and politicians keep beating the “sex trafficking” drum.
- Sex workers who espouse Marxism or misandry are self-defeating.
- Two trials of men who raped whores, with two different outcomes.
- Amateurs refuse to understand that prostitution laws affect them.
- Woman miscarries after attack by two women’s rights champions.
- Parents angry that sex education teacher answers sex questions.
- In which we learn that nail parlors are havens of “sex trafficking”.
- Why do so many politicians think sex overrides the Constitution?
- There is no magic formula which can protect a whore from a cop.
- How to increase “trafficking” by inventing imaginary “traffickers”.
- Several criticisms of an especially-revolting “end demand” sting.
- British cops are allowed to rape women while spying on them.
- US tries to pretend “Trafficking in Persons” report is apolitical.
- The “anti-prostitution pledge” is struck down in the SCOTUS.
- Another year, another bogus “Trafficking in Persons” report.
- New York defines people as crime victims against their will.
- The inevitable result of criminalizing consensual behaviors.
- Another P411 security breach betrays 22 escorts to pigs.
- What about clients who really need a woman to orgasm?
- More cracks in the “sex offender” registration regime.
- Man dials 999 to complain about a prostitute’s looks.
- Sweden finally realizes that drawings are not people.
- How reframing a picture can completely change it.
- My two previous columns for the summer solstice.
- The 44 most ridiculous Cosmo sex tips of all time.
- Spain lifts a ban on advertising by sex workers.
- The trial of Franck Ribery and Karim Benzema.
- What if The Shining were a romantic comedy?
- Judge rules that a website is not a building.
- The prevalence of HPV has dropped by half.
- A sensible article about student strippers.
- Support for “apostrophe laws” is waning.
- Two mainstream articles by sex workers.
- The recrudescence of yellow journalism.
- Another of the TSA’s many pedophiles.
- Meet the Fokkens and Diamond Men.
- Canadians heckle prohibitionist lies.
- Lost erotic painting rediscovered.
- Still more fatal butt injections.
- A few words about my father.
- Doublethink as a way of life.
- Whores In History revisited.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Do as I say, not as I do.
- On bachelor parties.
- The missing word.