Talk to your neighbors, not the police.
There are certain genres of fiction which I love in principle while hating most examples of; short horror films are one of them, largely because they’re usually predictable and not at all scary. This one is an exception; while I knew what was coming from the first weird happening, the ending was a mystery rather than the usual dumb “bogeyman jumps out” nonsense. The links above it were provided by Brooke Magnanti, Kevin Wilson, Amy Alkon, Radley Balko, Emma Evans, Scott Greenfield, and Popehat, in that order.
- As one does.
- R.I.P. Stephen Hawking.
- But if it saves ONE CHILD…
- I was wondering where that had got to.
- Let’s hope this is the start of a nationwide trend.
- Real librarians don’t make excuses for censorship.
- Utah Bar Association starts program to reduce lawyers’ stress.
From the Archives
- A thorough debunk of the annual FBI “Operation Cross-Country” pogroms.
- New York Times still can’t understand how anti-sex crusades harm people.
- Major ethical problem, but did letting drug warriors handle it help anyone?
- Bootlicker calls me heartless liar for attacking her masturbatory fantasies.
- Would this language have been used for this same situation 20 years ago?
- Anti-whore bigotry will soon be seen as vile as anti-queer bigotry is today.
- An attempt to rob a business using “sex trafficking” hysteria as a weapon.
- So good to see people who had a bad time in sex work attacking Asstoon.
- Nobody looks too hard at those financing efforts for more criminalization.
- Think a non-cop would merely have lost his job with no criminal charges?
- It’s not just many pros who dislike oral sex; some amateurs don’t either.
- “Protecting women” is usually code for either spying on or controlling us.
- South Korea’s court battle over US-encouraged sex work criminalization.
- A good article on the use of shaming tactics against sex workers’ clients.
- Got an internet-connected device? Assume it can be used to spy on you.
- I’m skeptical about anything Seattle PD says on victimized sex workers.
- As usual, the buffoonish Nick Kristof’s not too concerned with the truth.
- “Artists” claim that phone numbers have sympathetic magic properties.
- Soon there’ll be too few free people to buy all the “modern-day slaves”!
- “Pop-up brothels” are the subject of UK cops’ favorite wanking fantasy.
- Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
- In which a dumb kid tries to trick me into doing his homework for him.
- No Cambodian brothel story is too shocking for Westerners to believe.
- So very much stupidity here, but I guess the main thing is the “signs”.
- Nicaraguan whores can be officially accredited as “judicial facilitators”.
- So many people completely bereft of the capacity for rational thought.
- Harlots’ Ball, clothes sizes, dinners, cocktails & driving in Seattle rain.
- Presumably, those “outraged” would prefer boys be molested instead.
- All this requires is the “testimony” of a lying cop out to score arrests.
- You mean healthy young men can’t merely be ordered to be asexual?
- The monolith is crumbling; this was in International Business Times.
- Sex work is not an evil to be tolerated, but a good to be celebrated.
- On the myth that porn has become mostly violent & “misogynistic”.
- Can you hear the sound of fapping while you read this guy’s words?
- It’s so good to see debunking spreading to the mainstream press.
- A young man gets more than he bargained for in a strange drug.
- Is the ACLU finally beginning to do the right thing, at long last?
- Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people“.
- Crappy poll claims the number of whores & clients is the same.
- Mark Draughn on the claim that sex work hurts the economy.
- The United States, a shining example of liberty to the world.
- Pigeonholes are fine for pigeons, but unsuited for people.
- Cops, anarchy, skulls, the Pink Panther and much more.
- Despite the pearl-clutching, I actually agree with this.
- Obviously, these “facts” don’t include any math.
- A rant against government-ordered clock-lying.
- Badass woman uses her badassery for justice.
- Cops, rhetoric, propaganda and much more.
- More “questionable” than being a vice cop?
- Jillian Keenan schools ignoramus judges.
- A rare victory against prohibitionists.
- Norway, the other feminist paradise.
- Higher education in the US is dead.
- How can a man delay orgasm?
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Catching up from SASS.
- Back so soon?
