A phantom pregnancy is actually a real pregnancy but you have a phantom inside you rather than a human baby. – Amethyst Realm
Our society is in love with unnecessary warning signs, but the ones in this video (courtesy of Lenore Skenazy) are absurd even by modern US standards. The links above it were provided by Mistress Matisse, Franklin Harris, Radley Balko, Walter Olson, Phoenix Calida, Emma Evans, and David Ley, in that order.
- Florida man.
- Paging Milli Vanilli.
- She sounds reasonable.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- What part of “not for any reason” do y’all not get?
- More connected to reality than “sex trafficking” fetishists.
- Amateurs should be licensed & regulated for their own good.
From the Archives
- We don’t want to be “legalized & regulated”; we just want to be left alone.
- Isn’t it obvious that when pigs are actively engaged in stings, arrests rise?
- Despite genuflecting to ugly myths, this seems a step in a good direction.
- “Unbelievably” is a good adverb for nearly every sentence in this fantasy.
- New sleazy government trick: use civil suits rather than criminal charges.
- Stick to ladies with established reputations & you’ll be safe from this evil.
- Despite exaggerated numbers to make it more lurid, this is a huge yawn.
- Since this fascist wankfest hasn’t sold as a TV show, they made a movie.
- Exactly what prohibitionists wanted, despite their claims to the contrary.
- Another rape victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
- Remember, cops, you’re allowed to RAPE us, but not to obtain consent.
- 1.5% is my standard estimate of coercion among Western sex workers.
- Amateurs: a public health menace who should be licensed & regulated.
- “Virginity tests” are a sign of our culture’s deeply-sick sexual attitudes.
- US prohibitionists refer to this kind of lying as “reframing experiences”.
- No, I won’t “debate” you, nor will I tolerate filth in my online presence.
- Only in Australia would a politician follow this insult with this apology.
- Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, especially not whores.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Pathetic losers wanking to their fantasies of superhuman sex robots.
- Buried lede: cops sexually assaulted women in order to arrest them.
- A coalition between fundamentalist groups is in no way “surprising”.
- Prudes freak over a common arrangement as old as human culture.
- What was the point of talking to Annie if she wasn’t going to listen?
- The word for a place people are kept against their will isn’t “home”.
- Cops, bootlickers, Seattle, “Those Were the Days” and much more.
- A reminder that in most of the US, the situation is still worsening.
- Quickly becoming one of the stupidest tropes of the whole panic.
- A fairly typical abomination, but with an extra racist component.
- I’m aghast at everyone involved in the creation of this shitshow.
- Article equates sex workers with child molesters and murderers.
- Watch for escorts to be prosecuted for “trafficking” themselves.
- Government-backed internet gentrification harms sex workers.
- The State covering up for rapist cops isn’t confined to the US.
- We’re witnessing the end of the beginning of these evil laws.
- Politician hires sex worker; meanwhile, bear shits in woods.
- Cops, fascism, clowns, rock opera, The Prisoner and more.
- Why governments are more dangerous than corporations.
- Like something Melissa Farley would make up, only true.
- Pigs steal $26,000 from citizens & spend it on strippers.
- It’s nice to know that at least a few reporters get this.
- Imagine this article in an American parenting column.
- My friend Kaytlin Bailey, on coming out to her father.
- Is it bad if I can only feel intimacy with sex workers?
- How can an anonymous blogger accept donations?
- It’s nice to see at least a few reporters waking up.
- In which I finally finish decorating my apartment.
- How you can help me wake up in the morning.
- Cop stalks sex workers via police records.
- You know you’re in a moral panic when…
- The real result of “sex trafficking” laws.
- A whirlwind trip to San Francisco.
- Nothing happened; film at 11!
- Rapist cop of the week.
