Links #391

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

I will eat Mum on Christmas Day.  –  Debra Parsons

Add to your list of Maggie’s weird little personality quirks: I love Rube Goldberg machines.  Always have, ever since childhood; I was very fond of the game “Mousetrap”, and loved such gimmicks in cartoons.  So naturally I’m kind of a sucker for elaborate domino layouts like this one (and it’s seasonal)!  The links above it were provided by Tim Cushing (“oops”), Eddie J Cunningham (“does”),  Maura Alwyen (“again”), Elizabeth N. Brown (“whatsoever” and “court”), Adjective Girl (“ago”), and Ed Krayewski (“bystander”).

From the Archives

  • Positive portrayals of whores are becoming more common in video games.
  • Everyone wants to cash in on “sex trafficking” hysteria before it collapses.
  • Is there anything narrower and meaner than the mind of a prison official?
  • Believing government “sex trafficking” propaganda makes you its stooge.
  • In Mozambique, sex workers have been trained as peer health educators.
  • Local “authorities” only wanted to charge rapists with “accepting bribes”.
  • Sacramento classifies women as passive objects, but pretends it doesn’t.
  • Ethics, cops, obsolete industries, George Clayton Johnson & much more.
  • Cops don’t like non-cops poaching on what they consider their territory.
  • Nobody would believe North Dakota was a “hub”, so now it’s a “funnel”.
  • As I predicted in 2012, “sex trafficking” hysteria is starting to collapse.
  • Another pogrom in the pocket police-state that is Polk County, Florida.
  • The Open Society Foundation backs an anti-criminalization campaign.
  • Of all the semi-whores, none are as pompous as licensed masseuses.
  • New payment processor, new rhetoric, same old anti-whore bullshit.
  • Remember, kids, the Swedish model eliminates “human trafficking”!
  • Do they really think a basket of ham & bog rolls will replace a job?
  • We can’t find any “victims”, yet the “problem” is “overwhelming”.
  • Pro-decriminalization articles are becoming much more common.
  • Cops aren’t charging these kids only because there are so many.
  • It’s always great to see good December 17th essays from allies.
  • A retrospective of my columns from December 2012 and 2013.
  • Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you.
  • Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
  • Maybe someone should tell them the AJWS supports decrim?
  • Anti-trans people just can’t get their minds out of the toilet.
  • What’s that, Asstoon? “Real men don’t buy girls”, you say?
  • Reporter talks to escorts who use the German hooker app.
  • Previous columns for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
  • Cops, three dead celebrities, Monty Python & much more.
  • The first in-blog hinting about my upcoming move.
  • These articles are even more common in Canada.
  • For those of you who still insist I’m an alarmist.
  • America’s fascist statism is indeed a religion.
  • Rapist cops of the week, 2015 and 2016.
  • The murder of sex worker Daria Pionko.
  • This is what a moral panic looks like.
  • Called it.  Five and a half years ago.
  • The rescue industry is big business.
  • Me, on the Politics of Sex Work.
  • Video game “addiction”.
  • Recognize the rhetoric?
  • R.I.P. Madame Claude.
  • Legal is as legal does.