I think my spaceship knows which way to go. – David Bowie
Within a few hours of last week’s links column going online, It was announced that rock legend David Bowie had died. Had you asked me earlier that day whether I was a fan of his, I would’ve said “no”; I liked his music very much, and listening to him was always a pleasure, but I didn’t run out to buy his new albums or anything like that. But when I read the news I felt an emptiness, and I realized that Bowie was one of those people I had always taken for granted; the idea that at some point in my life the world wouldn’t have him in it never crossed my mind. And while Mistress Matisse and I were tweeting back and forth about his death and sharing videos, I suddenly found myself in tears; such is the cultural power of a true icon. Bowie was King Freak, and proudly waved the freak flag practically from the moment he arrived on the scene; in doing so he sent a message to all the other, younger freaks like me that there really was a place in the world for us. So I think it’s only right I should salute him by featuring his farewell video from his farewell album, released only a few days before his passing. The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, and Radley Balko (the last two), in that order.
- Smarter than we give them credit for.
- Some sex workers are way ahead of you on this.
- I proposed this procedure at my library 22 years ago.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- I’m not sure which is more ludicrous, the cops’ insistence that this is prostitution, or the cuddlers’ insistence that it isn’t.
- Evolution, government, Beowulf, cops, journalism, bureaucracy, Hell, Barbie and censorship.
- Prohibitionist claims she has never talked to a happy hooker while talking to a happy hooker.
- Idiot thinks internet censorship and expanding the “sex offender” registry are good things.
- They actually thought “sex trafficking” was a more credible explanation than jealousy.
- Sweden, Nancy Grace, D&D, cops, Australia, cops, dogs, phalluses & more.
- For those surprised by feminists getting in bed with evangelical Christians.
- Sometimes education actually makes it harder for people to accept reality.
- Neofeminist lunatic Meghan Murphy attacks a pro-sex worker video game.
- Polite guys women can hire to do romantic but non-sexual stuff for them.
- Mark Draughn thought that “trafficking hotspot” map looked familiar.
- “Sex trafficking” is the new excuse for locking up young black men.
- “Trafficking signs” include generous boyfriends & staying out late.
- Louisiana politician claims sex work “can easily destroy a society”.
- In which Dennis Hof spreads lies about independent sex workers.
- The 30-year fight to de-classify kink as a psychiatric disorder.
- Professor sacked for teaching nonsense goes back to doing it.
- It’s always satisfying to catch a “trafficking” lie as it expands.
- Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and The Making of the FBI.
- You don’t realize it’s a panic when you’re in the middle of it.
- Swedish rape defense: just claim you thought it was BDSM.
- “Sex trafficking” study finds hotels tend to be on highways.
- An article about Project ROSE is censored by Al Jazeera?
- Kenya considers criminalizing the outing of sex workers.
- Club owner claims he was kidnapped by three strippers.
- Sleazy strip club owners sic the pigs on rival strip clubs.
- A registered sex offender describes what his life is like.
- Laura Lee’s ill-treatment by Northern Irish politicians.
- The alien visitors are more like us than we imagined.
- More anti-coffee hysteria from Everett, Washington.
- Marijke Vonk on the facts about Dutch sex workers.
- Woman convicted in France for her fashion choices.
- The awful way the news media report on sex work.
- “Victim”. Can these people even hear themselves?
- More clueless anti-whore pomposity from Zambia.
- Prohibition always makes things more dangerous.
- A sign of the decline of the “gypsy whores” myth.
- In which I announce my relocation to Seattle.
- Serial rapist of sex workers caught in Spain.
- Elizabeth Nolan Brown on kink and cookies.
- A report on human rights abuses in the US.
- There are two forms of female ejaculation.
- How to use law to make everything worse.
- Peruvian vigilantes attack sex workers.
- In which I get in bed with Susie Bright.
- The second story in my snake trilogy.
- Two strippers sue a vegan strip club.
- A new review of Sex Workers Unite.
- More “condoms in porn” nonsense.
- Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- A Korean sex work study.
- Is Jamie Dornan for real?
- Control freak of the year.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- A periodic table of kink.
- Liars for Jesus, again.
- La Libertine’s Salon.
- Bad laws never die.
- Male allies at work.
