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• That Was the Week That Was (#424)

  

  We never encountered any [people tortured in brothels], and we certainly looked for it…I think [sex trafficking fetishists have] been watching too many movies. Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Friday the 13th

  

  It’s time we let the prohibitionists know that if they want to pick on sex workers, we have a whole lot of brothers and sisters they’re going to have to face... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Ninon De l’Enclos

  

  Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. - Ninon de l’EnclosThe neofeminists would like people to imagine whores and intellectuals as... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Clutter

  

  I have not been in many relationships and am still a technical virgin at 25. In the past that was mostly due to a desire to wait until marriage (inspired by a... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Tour Diary: Week Two

  

  While you were reading last week’s diary entry, we were driving down from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The effects of the prolonged drought are strikingly... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Guest Columnist: Christina Parreira

  

  Christina Parreira has done several different kinds of sex work, from stripping to camming to porn; she’s also an activist and is currently working on her PhD i... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #205

  I just had a baby and it looks like the man I had the baby with. It doesn’t look like me at all and I’m scared that he was cheating on me with another lady and ... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#423)

  

  A woman has the exclusive right to decide if she wants to work in prostitution and it is forbidden for anyone to interfere…we must put an end to the... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Not What They Expected

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on May 18th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Roof Caves In

  

  Ms. Mam and her foundation banked on Western feel-good demands for intervention, culminating in abusive crackdowns on the people she claimed to save. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Short Fuse

  

  Is it just me, or are you less patient than you used to be?It all depends on what you mean. I’ve never been patient with fools, trolls, ninnies, sophists,... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Tour Diary: Week One

  

  I never sleep well when I know I have to get up early to do something important, and last Tuesday night was no exception; it took me until 2 AM to get to bed,... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• A Day for Whores

  

  First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma GandhiToday is International Whores’ Day, the 39th anniversary of a... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #204

  If Minnie could take off her head and vomit, then what would stop me from eventually going on a date with a man that preferred to be called “$bill”? Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#422)

  

  Preteens selling goodies, the police…lectured [her]…was unfair to establishments…like Starbucks. - Robert FernandesJuxtapositionPopehat suggests we compare and... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Blood on the Sand

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on May 4th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.In cinema and television, the goodies and baddies... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back Issue: May 2011

  

  Though the women of Femen defend their own right to use their bodies as swords, they wish to deny other women the right to use theirs as plowshares. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Book Questions

  

  Since I left home for my book tour today, I thought this would be a good day to answer questions about the book and the tour. Some of these are actual reader... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Continuing To Crumble

  

  A large number of organizations…[use] children to raise funds…the truth is distorted or the stories invented to attract more compassion and money. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Tour Diary

  

  I always say, keep a diary and someday it’ll keep you. - Mae WestSometime this week (we’re currently planning for Wednesday) I’ll be leaving on my tour. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY