Love & Sex Magazine

Links #351

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

I’m just not right in the head.  –  Michael Lane

You’ve probably heard by now that rock and roll legend Chuck Berry died last Saturday at the age of 90; you’ve probably also seen video of him at the height of his popularity in the late ’50s, but whether you have or haven’t you’ll probably enjoy this performance of “Roll Over Beethoven”.  The links above it are from Jason Kuznicki (“serve”), Popehat (“paradise”), Ally Fogg (“rape”), Radley Balko  (“exposed”), and Tushy Galore (“friends”).

From the Archives

  • If you’ve eaten poison & need to make yourself vomit, you should watch Dennis Hof & Nancy Grace debate sex work.”
  • Small towns can’t credibly claim to be “sex trafficking hubs”, so they call themselves “stops” instead.
  • The fact that money is tight and online porn free couldn’t possibly have anything to do with this.
  • Steinem’s been peddling this malarkey since 1978, and I’ve been mocking it since at least 1984.
  • And how does the judge plan to “keep” these “children” in the “safe house” to endure “therapy”?
  • The fascist industry glamorizing government actors who violently suppress consensual activity.
  • Anyone who understands the dynamics of group psychology should already have known this.
  • Another “rescue” scam designed to recruit unhappy whores into the anti-whore brigade.
  • Just imagine this absurd defense working for anyone in another profession.
  • For a change, many outside the demimonde recognize anti-whore garbage.
  • How an ordinary man’s life was destroyed by cops & prosecutors for profit.
  • New “sex trafficking” law is so bad an “anti-trafficking” NGO denounced it.
  • The connection between belief in snuff films and belief in “sex trafficking”.
  • Whores in the Global South are so much better at activism than US ones.
  • Another US-style “crackdown” in a country the US proudly resembles.
  • The media slowly grows more skeptical of ludicrous statistical claims.
  • The lawyers behind this shitshow only appealed to cover their arses.
  • Horrifying new government surveillance tools, FOR THE CHILDREN!
  • For a sex worker to out a prohibitionist is not an ethical violation.
  • “One time that…using abortion as a political tool may…be a boon“
  • Idiots don’t actually understand what the word “average” means.
  • Prohibitionist tries to recruit Richard Gere to make propaganda.
  • How real life intervened in the process of writing a new book.
  • The carceral state is a far greater threat than any one rapist.
  • Cops, lemons, evil, 2001, affirmative consent & much more.
  • The “sex trafficking” equivalent of a lake in a basement flat.
  • Cops, resistance, Snoopy, hate, bureaucracy & much more.
  • Trying out new mass-surveillance tools on sex workers.
  • Politicians just can’t keep their minds out of the toilet.
  • A monumental heap of reeking prohibitionist bullshit.
  • Why did my favorite escort pull a fadeaway on me?
  • Are people still pretending this was unpredictable?
  • Interactive map of legal treatment of prostitution.
  • Serial rapist of sex workers caught in Seattle.
  • Is this idiotic enough yet?  Can we stop now?
  • South Africa’s National Sex Worker HIV Plan.
  • Bureaucrats can turn anything into a hassle.
  • Potty obsession is rotting politicians’ brains.
  • A short biography of the courtesan Takao.
  • This article could’ve been so much better.
  • Rapist cops of the week, 2015 and 2016.
  • Too bad this doesn’t happen more often.
  • This is what prohibitionists call “failure”.
  • I certainly hope you saw this coming.
  • Another example of the McNeill Rule.
  • Routine torture in a Florida prison.
  • My friend Laura Lee does it again.
  • St. James Infirmary’s new clinic.
  • More editorials like this, please.
  • Another hectic week in Seattle.
  • Once a whore, always a whore.
  • Monica Jones goes to Geneva.
  • A bad week and a new book.
  • R.I.P. Sashimani Devi.
  • “Prostitute tester“?

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