She could…have paid for the panties before she put them on. – Halmstad District Court
I discovered this darkly funny Indian insurance company commercial while reading an item featured in yesterday’s news column; don’t worry, you’ll be able to understand the plot even if you can’t understand the language. The links above it were provided by Mike Chase (“Orwell” & “marry”), Police Misconduct (“protect”), Jesse Walker (“headline”), Mike Siegel (“archaeology”), Scott Greenfield (“wrong”), Wendy Lyon (“Sweden”), Elizabeth N. Brown (“laws”), and Radley Balko (“volunteer”).
- The Orwell cometh.
- To protect and serve.
- Headline of the week.
- Arthurian archaeology.
- What could possibly go wrong?
- Sweden, the Florida of Europe.
- Because laws are more important than people.
- Do not under any circumstances even think of marrying one.
- Do I really need to say “Don’t volunteer to let them shoot at you”?
From the Archives
- It takes a special kind of obtuseness & cultural illiteracy to actually name your disguised prison “Gingerbread House”.
- What is it with stupid ex-whores who actually expect people to believe they never had sex with their clients?
- We don’t want our market disrupted, & the power is already in our hands; that’s why we can charge.
- Lone man on crusade manages to censor adult content on internet by circumventing court order.
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, non-cop rapists often pose as cops to facilitate the crime.
- Why do prohibitionists always push “rescued” whores into menial garment-related work?
- As long as these laws are on the books, cops can use them against any woman they like.
- Politician says college students’ brains aren’t developed enough to handle free speech.
- Remember when communism was bad ’cause commies didn’t let people travel freely?
- NGO abducts whores’ children & brainwashes them against their mothers.
- Why would an intelligent girl with a good family & boyfriend sell her body?
- Prohibitionists want to cut off sex workers’ noses to spite their own faces.
- The reporter blames the advertising venue & the cops blame the victims.
- Mainstream journalists now question central dogma of “trafficking” cult.
- Tara Burns’ personal account of how criminalization harms sex workers.
- Amnesty International finally comes out in support of decriminalization.
- “Authorities” will call it anything to avoid saying a cop raped someone.
- Seattle sex workers fight propaganda while politicians keep making it.
- Expect this trope to become more common in the next few months.
- Al-Jazeera wants us to believe in a whole “sex trafficking” country.
- Ah, so “flat rate” isn’t actually flat rate; no wonder the girls like it!
- Why doesn’t an escort’s performance turn into real sexual desire?
- A letter to Amnesty International in support of decriminalization.
- Mistress Matisse talks to Huffington Post about “sex trafficking”.
- Cops, government, authoritarianism, Rock Sugar & much more.
- I really, really love it when Jacob Sullum tears into Nick Kristof.
- Prohibitionist steals confidential reports, writes play from ’em.
- Marijke Vonk on “sex trafficking” hysteria in the Netherlands.
- Another example of the effectiveness of disruptive protests.
- Now useful idiots don’t even need to dial a phone to snitch!
- Pennsylvania expands its already-bad asset forfeiture laws.
- Lock up your children! Sex traffickers are EVERYWHERE!!!
- A harlot in a world of high fantasy finds a new clientele.
- Imagine the NOW going to bat for sex workers like this.
- Cops, beauty, signage, the ACLU & spontaneous order.
- My visits to Boston, New York & other nearby cities.
- Paying with cash is now a “sign of sex trafficking”.
- What actually happened here is anybody’s guess.
- Aya de Leon on prohibitionist “documentaries”.
- The War on Whores is the new War on Drugs.
- Welcome to our world, surrogate mothers.
- The Economist calls for decriminalization.
- Super-ally Elizabeth Nolan Brown again.
- Once in a while a reporter wakes up.
- “Politicians lie” = “the sky is blue”.
- Even Godwin’s Law can be funny.
- Criticism of the “Cupcake Girls”.
- The dangers of findomming.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Cops are liars everywhere.
- A busy week in Oklahoma.
- Rapist cop of the week.
- Strippers vs. fundies.