Brand New, I will take $800 for it. – Erek Balentine
A few days ago, Mike Siegel tweeted that whenever some random idiot challenges me on Twitter, “I feel like I’m in a Western saloon and should close up my piano.” I replied, “I shoot like Matt Dillon, but I dress like Miss Kitty.” And then Tim Cushing suggested the song below for my soundtrack. See how much fun my Twitter feed is? So if you aren’t following it, why don’t you? Tim also provided “serve” and “hostage” in the links; the others were contributed by Nun Ya (“headline”, “Cassandra” and “suicide”), Dave Krueger (“safety”), Radley Balko (“demand”), Scott Greenfield (“feed”), Wendy Lyon (“laws”), Lucy Steigerwald (“broke” and “together”), and Carol Fenton (“reason”).
- To protect and serve.
- Headline of the week.
- Cassandra McNeill strikes again.
- Suicide is so convenient for jailers.
- No, not even in a hostage situation.
- Because officer safety, or something.
- The next logical step in “end demand”.
- I love it when they feed on one another.
- Because laws are more important than people.
- And people wonder why the country’s going broke.
- What part of “no reason” is so hard to understand?
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
- Cop sics vicious dog on woman sleeping peacefully in her own office.
From the Archives
- Porn actress argues that peers fight for decrim by drawing line between themselves & other whores.
- Using one consensual “crime” as an excuse to persecute another is like building a house of cards.
- Chinese officials violently suppress city’s major industry, then wonder why its economy dies.
- It’s good to see the mainstream media publishing truth about at least one form of sex work.
- Ordinary business practices don’t magically become newsworthy when hookers use them.
- Cops, prisons, hospitals, superheroes, inherited debt, the police state & magic for pets.
- It’s a good sign when a claim is too ridiculous even for cops and reporters.
- You’ve got to love the way she makes it sound as though it were her idea.
- Following in the illustrious innocent-railroading tradition of Lauren Hersh.
- More on the German politicians who want to make life harder for whores.
- Monster porn, evolutionary psychology and the idealization of ignorance.
- Politicians, cops and naïve, whiny women are a dangerous combination.
- Politician introduces “sex trafficking commode sign” bill; hijinks ensue.
- Cops blatantly lie to justify persecuting peaceful, consensual behavior.
- Nursing home ignites controversy by hiring sex workers for residents.
- Trafficking victim takes fall for his captors; deafening silence ensues.
- Korean sex workers challenge constitutionality of prostitution ban.
- Because “sending a message” is more important than human life.
- Men: Pay your hookers! Ladies: Get the damned money up front!
- Pro-decrim articles appear in the mainstream media in Canada.
- Another politician wants to destroy the internet because of sex.
- When screening, are there any good alternatives to references?
- Cops arrest lawyer for offering to defend arrested sex worker.
- The Assembly of Sex Work Pro-rights Activists of Catalonia.
- Phoenix “authorities” give arrestees choice of church or jail.
- New forms of tyranny are often tested on sex workers first.
- Note the moronic “people can be sold repeatedly” canard.
- Yes, these are actual adults panicking over coffee stands.
- Do you have any advice for interviewing with an agency?
- Yet another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
- Drugs, cops, robot cars, Ray Bradbury & much more.
- It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a spooge sneaker.
- Muslim escort in London will agree to nikah mut’ah.
- Can an escort avoid reviews and still be successful?
- Anne Elizabeth Moore on the US rescue industry.
- The constraints on my time continue to increase.
- The Swedish model is like burying women alive.
- Rhode Island cops try to make up for lost time.
- An unusually-sensible attitude for a politician.
- In which I hint at a return to active sex work.
- What the hell does she think prostitution is?
- How some prohibitionists handle donations.
- Another mega-sport event, another purge.
- Sheri’s Ranch is robbed by its bookkeeper.
- “I wasn’t even the nudest one there.”
- Woman imprisoned for miscarriage.
- Rome tries to corral sex workers.
- An interview with Valerie Scott.
- Stop closing our windows!
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Another pole tax.
- Boo fucking hoo.
- The AHF scam.