Please don’t touch me. – John Benji Haygood
Like nearly everything these days, this parody of the “your brain on drugs” video (provided by Lucy Steigerwald) is overdone and unnecessarily verbose. But it features the same woman who did the original, and that makes it worth a watch. The links above it are from Radley Balko (“fascism” and “together”), Glenn Kessler (“boxes”), Jesse Walker (“pinball”), Jillian Keenan (“autistic”), and Mistress Matisse (“prohibition”).
- Fascism in action.
- Why cats love boxes.
- The Internet Pinball Database.
- Cops arrest child for being autistic.
- Drug prohibition is dying, slowly but surely.
- Ken White on the “Nazi exception” to free speech.
- Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
From the Archives
- Articles questioning “sex trafficking” are now becoming more common in mainstream media.
- The Swedish model’s xenophobia shows in rhetoric designed to rationalize its failure.
- We need more men to write like this rather than licking neofeminist boots.
- The rescue industry is full of opportunities for the wealthy to play cowboy.
- Bad laws never die, even if they appear to have been staked & beheaded.
- What a large-scale, organized forced prostitution scheme really looks like.
- Small cities insist they’re infested with bogeymen and imaginary victims.
- Less human rights lawyer and more Hollywood propagandist these days.
- Massage parlors are targeted by cops because they’re low-hanging fruit.
- The bond between close friends is stronger than almost anything else.
- This is extra-stupid and dishonest even by prohibitionist standards.
- Harassing streetwalkers has become a popular “Christian” pastime.
- Cops, law, computers, irony, reading, Doctor Who and much more.
- Another software package designed to sell whores out to the cops.
- There weren’t any actual victims, but we just have to cage people.
- Anne Elizabeth Moore on “sex trafficking” & the garment industry.
- Misinterpreting ordinary interactions is common in a moral panic.
- What Ruhama’s “assistance” to sex workers actually consists of.
- Prince, cops, authoritarianism, sea monkeys, art & much more.
- “Sex trafficking” is an especially good excuse for money grabs.
- Another study shows most violence vs. sex workers is by cops.
- Noah Berlatsky on sex workers conducting our own research.
- Tara Burns, still doggedly fighting for sex workers in Alaska.
- Another Potemkin village designed to please the ignorant.
- A disabled Australian couple gets help from a sex worker.
- The start of a nationwide fight to decriminalize sex work.
- Cleveland tries to paper over an atrocity with a “policy”.
- Mostly just ignorant cheerleading for a do-nothing law.
- Are providers deliberately vague about their services?
- China is cracking down on exotic dancers at funerals.
- Greece abolishes its horrible HIV shaming law again.
- On the horrifying “Operation Underground Railroad”.
- How to share the restroom with a trans person.
- The more lawsuits against the cops, the better.
- On the supposed morality of overpriced clogs.
- A warrant for “suspected sexting”. Seriously.
- Another good profile of my friend Laura Lee.
- An excellent essay on the Tracy Elise case.
- A sex worker is arrested for placing an ad.
- Farm machinery causes “sex trafficking”!
- Yet another murdered trans sex worker.
- I just love watching them eat their own.
- A special edition of Ladies of the Night.
- A diary entry thumb-typed on a ferry.
- On the recrudescence of Puritanism.
- Chiropractor, client and exorcist.
- A weekend with Chester Brown.
- A sex worker’s rapist is jailed.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- This ain’t gonna work, y’all.
- Go, Stephanie Farnsworth!
- Movie review: My Normal.
- A King of the Hill twofer!
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Color me unsurprised.
