Love & Sex Magazine

Links #540

By Maggiemcneill @Maggie_McNeill

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.  –  Adolf Hitler, via the Kentucky State Police

Sean Connery died on Halloween, but I wasn’t about to stack his obit on top of The Amazing Randi’s.  I’ve also grown tired of dead YouTube links, so I picked a tribute from a channel that in my experience doesn’t often get censored.  The links above it were provided by Kevin Wilson, Mike Siegel, Radley Balko, Jesse Walker, Tim Cushing, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.

  • A little slice of horror.
  • Only a few bad apples.
  • Just protecting and serving.
  • I hate it when this happens.
  • “If they don’t want to get bit, stay home.“
  • It’s like RAY-AY-AIIIIIN on your wedding day…
  • “Crime”: unleashed dog. Penalty: attempted execution.

From the Archives

  • As long as sex work is marginalized, whores will be targeted for violence.
  • A different Canadian cop campaign to harass and intimidate sex workers.
  • The coroner knows there’s only one likely cause for a broken hyoid bone.
  • It’s good to see “sex addiction” collapsing as an excuse for bad behavior.
  • Hey, female cops; is that collaboration with the police state working out?
  • Puritanical language is a vital part of stories about massage parlor raids.
  • Once in a while, there are witnesses to the way cops act toward women.
  • The more sex workers speak in public, the harder it will be to ignore us.
  • A prohibitionist has wormed her slimy way into the Danish government.
  • Studying sex work of the past often opens people’s eyes to the present.
  • Asian sex workers fighting back vs the racist “sex trafficking” narrative.
  • Universities are very slowly beginning to turn toward sex worker rights.
  • Florida steals everything a woman owns because it dislikes her clothes.
  • We did warn you dilettantes this wouldn’t stop with actual sex workers.
  • Politicians make the same evil promises & the stupid still believe them.
  • Talk about rapist cops that ignores sex workers aids and abets rapists.
  • Remember that “threat” a prohibitionist claimed she got from “pimps”?
  • A “writer” who thinks the word for sex workers’ clients is “John’s” [sic].
  • There are better ways to die than by amateur liquid silicone injections.
  • Dutch now pretend Disnification is really intended to help sex workers.
  • If these pimps weren’t cops, they’d be facing “sex trafficking” charges.
  • I’m not the only sex worker writing horror with sex worker characters.
  • There is nothing remotely “intimate” about sucking a dildo on camera.
  • Fact checkers demolish politicians’ grandiose claims about Backpage.
  • Still think I’m wrong about sex worker rights passing the watershed?
  • African campaigns vs LGBT are a lot like US campaigns vs sex work.
  • Uber is training drivers to spy on whores and rat us out to the pigs.
  • Another state forces hotel workers into being anti-whore snitches.
  • They always act as though the obvious is some kind of revelation.
  • The weird but popular belief that masturbation is harmful to men.
  • Everyone except local news recognizes what a disaster FOSTA is.
  • This isn’t the last we’ll see of the fanatical, unhinged Guinasso.
  • In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
  • Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
  • More on police abuse of Amazon’s face recognition software.
  • Are you offended when amateurs wear “hooker” costumes?
  • Any internet-connected device can be used to spy on you.
  • Cops, criminality, bricks, Sesame Street and much more.
  • But they were on the wrong side of an imaginary line!
  • Your government wants this to happen more often.
  • There’s too much surveillance to fit in just one tag.
  • My friend Sophie does outeach to street workers.
  • A sci-fi themed brothel is the right place for this.
  • My two previous columns for Guy Fawkes Day.
  • Your government calls this “border protection”.
  • And other states are trying the same scam.
  • A rare victory for sex workers over pigs.
  • Your government calls this “correction”.
  • Cops, gender, covers, and much more.
  • This is what a moral panic looks like.
  • Kate Iselin on myths about clients.
  • Birthday presents are awesome.
  • My encounter with a “Karen”.

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