We’re not anti-fairies but it’s in danger of getting out of control.
– Steven Acreman
There was a good assortment of links this week, but only one video of note again. And again, that one video was provided by Mistress Matisse; the links above it were contributed by Jesse Walker (“fairy”), Grace (“horse” and “art”), Sarah Woolley (“RIP”), Angela Keaton (“naked”), Eddie Cunningham (“movie”), Lucy Steigerwald (“rules”), and Gideon (“cleaning”).
- Fairy control.
- Walmart dot horse.
- R.I.P. Terry Pratchett.
- Cop murders man for being naked.
- Teacher caged for showing a movie.
- Portrait of a man dedicated to his art.
- Rules are more important than people.
- Much easier than actually cleaning up the police.
- Another politician trying to ban something that doesn’t actually exist.
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”.
- Is it possible to rescue trafficked victims, whilst not interfering with willing sex workers?
- 10 Things You Need to Know Before You Support the Swedish Model of Sex Work.
- Prosecutor lies about a service’s fee to ratchet up the number of counts.
- This is only “stunning” to those who believe in the “pimps & hos” myth.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti on Comic Relief’s subscription to prohibitionist lies.
- Cops, Kiwis, fossils, nursing, comics, graffiti, ovens, goats and lawyers.
- Swedish neofeminists label surrogate motherhood “human trafficking”.
- The deep connection between addiction rhetoric and crypto-moralism.
- Cops use “sex trafficking” as excuse to send SWAT team to strip club.
- Politician says caging people & giving them criminal records is “help”.
- Cops claim hiring whores was a “botched prostitution investigation”.
- 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.
- Cops have a strange way of showing they dislike stupid myths.
- Advocate arrested as “pimp” for helping sex workers organize.
- An introduction to Linda Smith and Shared Hope International.
- Dominique Roe-Sepowitz makes up bullshit & calls it a “study”.
- Propping up the narrative by calling male sexworkers “pimps”.
- Male delusions about sex work start extra-early in Sweden.
- 4% of the adult female population of Chicago are whores.
- Is the sex worker rights movement nearing a watershed?
- The radical concept of paying people for things they sell.
- The tale of a lonely woman who found a higher calling.
- Spanish whores offer an “intro to prostitution” course.
- Tullia d’Aragona: courtesan, poetess and philosopher.
- Dr. Laura Agustín on the concept of “empowerment”.
- Another attempt to decriminalize in South Australia.
- Another politician demonstrates reaction formation.
- Joyce Arthur hits it out of the park with this satire.
- Jesse Walker’s good short piece on Santa Muerte.
- Another state arrests whores to brainwash them.
- Jennifer Reed debunks the “sex trafficking” panic.
- Dr. Brooke Magnanti reviews Ladies of the Night.
- Three incorporeal beings share travelers’ tales.
- Supporting moral panics with bogus checklists.
- Why banishment has come back into fashion.
- Believing in nonsense does not make it true.
- One of those awkward sex work moments.
- Why Rachel Moran’s story is pure bullshit.
- Virginia Postrel on anti-Barbie nonsense.
- McMartin Preschool: Anatomy of a Panic.
- Video ridicules condom criminalization.
- Two reader-authors exchange books.
- Prohibitionists sometimes wake up.
- Couple arrested for witchcraft.
- Why Viagra ruined sex work.
- Another stupid licensing law.
- A profile of Grace Bellavue.
- Rapist cops of the week.