Links #231

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

The police are becoming our enemy, and society is becoming the enemy of the police.  –  Frank Serpico

We’re not seeing many Christmas links yet, but since today’s second video (provided by Cathryn Berarovitch) is about a toy, I think it qualifies.  The first video, from Deep Geek, is a parody of the trailer for Fifty Shades of Gray; I don’t think one has to be a lesbian to appreciate it, but it might help.  Everything above the first video is from Radley Balko, and the links between the videos are from PopehatJason Kuznicki, Jillian Keenan and Tushy Galore, in that order.

From the Archives

  • Cops, prisons, castration, The Onion, religious nuts, neofeminism, shit, censorship, astronomy, frogs, Yoko Ono, monsters & dumb ways to die.
  • Propaganda, mesmerism, superheroes, cops, statism, prison, Archie, surveillance, politicians and more.
  • For those who still pretend government’s different from organized crime.
  • Satanic Panic victims are still in prison for “crimes” that never happened.
  • In Sweden, whores are considered “unfit parents”, but child molesters…
  • Credulity and sloppy scholarship aren’t Sudhir Venkatesh’s only flaws.
  • The assumption that there’s always a “trafficker” hiding somewhere.
  • Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
  • Under Swedish law, animals can consent to sex while women can’t.
  • I think we all know what was going through these cops’ sick minds.
  • “Sex trafficking” claims are growing too absurd for most to believe.
  • One can never have too many scathing critiques of Melissa Farley.
  • This might make sense if selling sex were a bona fide criminal act.
  • Even cases which could be called “trafficking” rarely fit the myth.
  • The difference between sad, rude, immoral, illegal and criminal.
  • How “sex trafficking victims” can magically regain their agency.
  • Maharashtra consults sex workers on affairs concerning them.
  • Another lurid, dysphemism-laden article on Brazilian sex work.
  • Pearl-clutching Brits just can’t let this two-year-old study go.
  • Still more victims of the Satanic panic released from prison.
  • When it looked like France would get the Swedish model.
  • How can I get my husband re-interested in sex with me?
  • Denmark’s anti-Swedish model television show episode.
  • A predictable result of the suppression of prostitution.
  • The “Sponsor a Scholar” scammer/rapist is unmasked.
  • How can I get my wife to give me blow jobs willingly?
  • When horrible people misuse Santa’s image for evil.
  • Another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
  • Matthias Lehmann debunks more prohibitionist lies.
  • Buried lust doesn’t go away; it just rots in the dark.
  • A whore with a certificate and title is still a whore.
  • Israeli prostitution op-ed inverts myths and facts.
  • On the simultaneous having and eating of cake.
  • Federal drug prosecutor arrested for child porn.
  • The 80th anniversary of the end of Prohibition.
  • Flexibeast presents a clever sex/food satire.
  • Another example of the “gang” myth-motif.
  • Jessie Nicole reviews American Courtesans.
  • Over 1500 sex workers are voting in Delhi.
  • Dr. Brooke Magnanti vs. MSP Rhoda Grant.
  • Eight common migration myths debunked.
  • Another example of feminine pragmatism.
  • The beginning of my run in Cato Unbound.
  • German politicians ban flat-rate brothels.
  • Rabbi says UK should legalize brothels.
  • The news about DSM-V is mostly bad.
  • Chris Baughman & the magical pimp.
  • Fiji moves toward decriminalization.
  • Utrecht moves its red-light district.
  • The amazing hypocrisy of Femen.
  • In honor of St. Nicholas.
  • Rapist cop of the week.
  • Melissa Petro is broke.