Links #361

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

I could see planes circling in mid-air.  They grew in number and hummed, darted and dipped low.  I could hear something like hail falling upon the top of my office building.  –  Buck Colbert Franklin

If you’re phobic of snakes or just easily disgusted, you probably don’t want to watch this video, contributed by Scott Greenfield; the links above it were provided by Mike Siegel, Walter Olson, Amy Alkon, David Ley, and Lenore Skenazy (in that order, skipping the first link).

From the Archives

  • The most loudmouthed and ridiculous Hollywood “sex trafficking” fetishists.
  • Yes, they’re actually claiming the laws had effects reaching into the future.
  • The national “safe harbor” law is just as useless & dishonest as state ones.
  • Why are amateurs surprised that sex workers use ordinary business tools?
  • Thai whores love contradicting prohibitionists who claim they’re “victims”.
  • Amateurs: a menace to public health who should be licensed & regulated.
  • Elizabeth Brown on the War on Whores as replacement for War on Drugs.
  • Violet Blue exposes the connection between a number of anti-sex op-eds.
  • Cops are allowed to rape whores, but not to have consensual sex with us.
  • Another jurisdiction classifies women as passive objects without agency.
  • Cops, historical figures, ignoramuses, Cassandra, Senpai & much more.
  • Some Nicaraguan sex workers are official government representatives.
  • Article on “data analysis” begins with mathematically-illiterate bullshit.
  • Up by 27% from the last nonsense “estimate” less than two years ago.
  • Articles on sugar dating appear to be starting to shed the moral panic.
  • A vacation in Southeast Asia makes anyone a “sex trafficking expert”.
  • Two dimensions of sexuality isn’t much of an improvement over one.
  • This fascist group is the most terrifying of the whole rescue industry.
  • Canadian prohibitionists desperate to cash in before panic implodes.
  • Politicians say too few lives are being destroyed for consensual sex.
  • It’s difficult to believe that anyone could take this idiocy seriously.
  • Looks like Nigeria’s getting into the “asset forfeiture” racket, too.
  • It’s hard to tell the worst part of this “end demand” propaganda.
  • The US government knew Somaly Mam was a fraud years ago.
  • Glenn Kessler continues to hammer at “sex trafficking” myths.
  • Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
  • Now just imagine if this were the law, and always available.
  • Dan Savage interviews Emily Bazelon and Mistress Matisse.
  • Because “trafficking” means anything we want it to mean!
  • The people prohibitionists want in control of sex workers.
  • An anti-whore propaganda show disguised as a “debate”.
  • My two previous columns for International Whores’ Day.
  • So many articles about brothels dip into grotesquery.
  • MSP Jean Urquhart speaks up for sex workers again.
  • A weekend in Los Angeles & a visit to Disneyland.
  • So this happened to my friend Maggie McMuffin.
  • A Swedish cop’s self-congratulatory pig porn.
  • Why hike or stand when you can motorcycle?
  • Square jumps on the anti-whore bandwagon.
  • Rapist “sex trafficking” fetishist of the week.
  • How does your lesbianism affect your work?
  • Forced incest as a “cure” for homosexuality.
  • Cops, rumors, surveillance and much more.
  • Humiliation as response to unpopular facts.
  • A propaganda film called Hot Girls Wanted.
  • Because prohibition always works so well.
  • A prostitution-themed film from Morocco.
  • What makes your favorite clients special?
  • Sometimes the changes are incremental.
  • Hawaii’s anti-whore horror show.
  • So you wanna work in a brothel?
  • Legal personhood for chimps?
  • Cops operating as bandits.
  • A busy but funky week.
  • Rapist cop of the week.
  • Red Light Legal.
  • Mea Culpa.