Links #287

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

COME GET UR BITE.  –  “Officer” Keith Bush

Not quite a video, but in video format; this is the Philip K. Dick story “Impostor” adapted as a radio play.  And if you like that one, here are five more.  They were provided by Jesse Walker, who also gave us “Carmilla”; the other links were contributed by Cathy Reisenwitz (“protect”), Tushy Galore (“KKK”), Nun Ya  (“Christmas” and “18”), and Wendy Lyon (“limited”).

From the Archives

  • Surveillance, bureaucracy, Seattle, lawheads, cops, time travel, dogs, overcriminalization, propaganda & The Thing.
  • Why do “rescue homes” deny women’s agency & reduce them to passive, doll-like creatures?
  • Sometimes the connection between “sex trafficking” hysteria & Satanic panic is subtle…
  • It’s unusual to see an evangelical break with the party line on “trafficking”.
  • Cops pimp dead whore’s corpse by declaring her a “sex trafficking victim”.
  • “Cyber Civil Rights Initiative” is a front organization for Mary Anne Franks.
  • A retrospective of my columns from December 2010 and December 2011.
  • Self-proclaimed “authority” explains that porn causes “sex trafficking”.
  • Jin Ohashi…is being questioned for his unethical way of taking photos.
  • “Sex Trafficking Hysteria” as a heading in a national magazine article.
  • Cops use mere existence of whore’s child to felonize consensual sex.
  • How dare libertarians not privilege gay sex above other non-crimes!
  • Cops, masturbation, Donna Douglas, surveillance and much more.
  • “Rescuers” give arrested sex workers crayons & coloring books.
  • “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
  • It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen a creepy rapist doctor.
  • Melissa Gira Grant picks the best sex work writing of the year.
  • An attempt to partly re-criminalize sex work in New Zealand.
  • An orang-utan is legally recognized as a person in Argentina.
  • What a classic horror movie can tell us about human nature.
  • Cops & vigilantes use “pedophilia” as an excuse to run wild.
  • As I predicted, this trope is becoming much more common.
  • Another long, horrifying article on the Magdalene laundries.
  • Feminists never think of the implications of laws they push.
  • Prostitution-related charges in Toronto have dropped 90%.
  • Cop lets man die to keep his Pot Noodle from getting cold.
  • Previous columns for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
  • An excerpt from Mindy Chateauvert’s Sex Workers Unite.
  • West African “penis stealing” hysteria, now with whores!
  • An excellent December 17thcolumn by Clay Nikiforuk.
  • New Jersey works to instill moral panic in schoolkids.
  • More examples of “porn” blocked by the UK’s filters.
  • More totalitarian prudery from Everett, Washington.
  • Adults without lives demand a “plus-size” Barbie.
  • A rare Irish denunciation of the Swedish Model.
  • Why “sex trafficking” tall tales read like porn.
  • In which prosecutors literally pimp an escort.
  • The worst trauma of my “Year of Disaster”.
  • The Cartoon History of the Modern World.
  • Another casualty of the War on Whores.
  • Nursing fetishists persecuted in China.
  • “Forced prostitution”, because I-95.
  • Go ahead, please cringe with me.
  • What a difference a year makes!
  • Laura Lee at Harlot’s Parlour.
  • Rapist cop of the week.
  • Predictable as sunrise.
  • R.I.P. Andrew Hunter.