We will call the police and tell them he has a gun so they can come faster. – Shanna Swearingen
Prince was famously protective of his image, and videos of his performances never stayed online long (there are several dead video embeds on this blog because of it). His estate has continued the tradition, if not quite as aggressively, so videos that stick tend to be things that aren’t official Prince videos. Here’s a clever tribute to his songwriting prowess which gets around the banhammer by…well, see for yourself. The links above it were provided by Conner Habib (“legit”), Mike Chase (“serve”), Emma Evans (“Australians”), Tushy Galore (“bigot”), and Amy Alkon (“prohibition”).
- Sounds legit.
- To protect and serve.
- Welcome to our world, Australians.
- Cops harass men because woman is a bigot.
- Cops murdering disabled schoolchildren is hilarious!
- Gun control is the same as every other form of prohibition.
From the Archives
- As our wanker switches from pimp fantasy to incest fantasy, fade to black.
- Why do “rescuers” always push whores into menial garment-related work?
- How long before judges start fining these lawyers for filing nuisance suits?
- Fact: woman with drug problem goes missing. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
- Kaytlin’s sex work past isn’t germane to this; reporter goes there anyhow.
- Brains so narrow they can only conceive of humans existing in two states.
- Don’t want people spreading stupid rumors? Stop spreading ’em yourself.
- People kept out of the formal economy survive via the informal economy.
- Brooke Magnanti schools politicians wanting to hurt adults who want sex.
- Destroying men’s ability to support their families is latest anti-whore fad.
- “Rescuers” are so invested in their own fantasies they’ll believe anything.
- How many kids need to be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
- Why are people surprised when cops push for the “right” to rape whores?
- Arresting sex workers & clients to “build a positive relationship” with us.
- This would’ve been better without her moral signalling at the beginning.
- UK cops have never found more than a tiny # of “sex trafficking” cases.
- Nevada is now one of the most vile fonts of anti-whore vomit in the US.
- Sullying a sex worker by surrounding her words with prohibitionist lies.
- What does it mean if my regular escort stops using protection with me?
- Why bother looking for victims when cops can just pretend to be them?
- Another cowboy raid staged for the entertainment of rich US moralists.
- Police chief decides to destroy a few lives to give bored cops some fun.
- In the contemporary US, people can be fired from jobs for blasphemy.
- Seattle cops aren’t the only ones with a fetish for creepy surveillance.
- I’m delighted to see “creepy clown” hysteria still has a bit of life in it.
- Why have you remained a sex worker for so much longer than most?
- South Africa is another country with awesome sex worker activists.
- This sounds good until one gets down to the “end demand” poison.
- Another woman’s child abducted by the state because of her work.
- Another example of the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
- The term for nonconsensual sex isn’t “sleeping with”, it’s “rape”.
- Guys, please do your research, and let the pigs hunt each other.
- Sometimes “authorities” prefer to rape vulnerable men instead.
- Cops, thoughtcrime, Jesus, jumping machines and much more.
- In the US, we’re barely even tolerated, much less listened to.
- Indian court rules that acts which aren’t illegal, aren’t illegal.
- Cops, consequences, laws, Bradbury, dogs and much more.
- A simple primer on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
- Another racist anti-whore pogrom in “progressive” Seattle.
- Some sex workers’ mothers really do love unconditionally.
- More racist infantilization of Nigerian sex workers in Italy.
- Decriminalization in New South Wales is safe for now.
- An excerpt from Brooke Magnanti’s The Turning Tide.
- All censorship seems this futile and ridiculous to me.
- The ridiculous self-contradictions of anti-sex laws.
- Once in a very great while, the bad guys still lose.
- Politicians just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
- A prohibitionist’s notion of “helping” sex workers.
- Endza Adair on being a student & sex worker.
- The cover of the New York Times Magazine.
- Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
- An instant ticket to my Hall of Shame.
- “Evil” is not a noun; it is an adjective.
- Lorelei & I at The Secret Garden.
- Sex worker rights in Uganda.
- Yet another Friday the 13th.
- More of this, please.
