Maggiemcneill

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• Sex Worker Rights Day

  

  A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him. - Rosellen BrownAsian sex worker activists are my heroes; they are everything I wish American sex worker... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #191

  For decades I have been trying to come up with an ideal way to slice a banana. - SW3KThis was a very unbalanced week; while I had so many sex-work-related... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#409)

  

  I’ve been dismayed at the condescension toward and willful ignorance of the experiences of sex workers that is prevalent among…those…who…try to impose their... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Not Good Enough

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on January 26th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.Modern feminists expend considerable time... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Liane De Pougy

  

  Natalie wrote…that she was…madly in love with a woman…[who] outstripped all her other loves by a long way. Rather vexed, I answered: “The best in your life was... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Teamwork

  

  I like to consider myself a level-headed, rational person; someone who isn’t easily swept up into fervor or misled by the charismatic. Being on a major college... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back Issue: February 2011

  

  If ignorance about sex is grounds for a court order forbidding it, neofeminists and religious fundamentalists need to start worrying. - February Updates (Part... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Proof of the Pudding

  

  There was considerable controversy in the comment thread of “Something in the Milk” about whether emails could be tracked as my correspondent described, and... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #190

  Young people are taking Viagra because of terrorism. - Dr. Samiullah KhanAs y’all have probably noticed by now, I like unusual covers of well-known songs. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#408)

  

  If the patriarchy is about men making decisions for women…why do some feminists want to control other women’s decisions? - “Lauren”Gorged With MeaningThe... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Drawing Lines

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on January 19th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Alternative

  

  When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. - Kenneth RexrothAs I’ve written before, all prohibitionism is the same:... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Ideal

  

  What would be the ideal mate for a sex worker be like? I would think honesty and trust would be a big deal, but what else? I don’t believe in “ideals”; every... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• All Traffick, All the Time

  

  I think most of us are shocked to find out that people are actually buying…little girls. They’re…paying for these girls who are then dressed up…to sell them. Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Public Conversation

  

  That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short—not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #189

  We are now a police state. – Former NSA official Bill BinneyToday I’ll be Bob Zadek’s guest on his radio show on KKSF in San Francisco; even if you’re not in... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#407)

  

  Sex work can be dangerous; but those dangers are exacerbated, or in many cases even created, by criminalisation. - Jean UrquhartSomething Rotten in Sweden... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Valentine’s Day 2014

  

  Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! – Thomas HoodRegular readers know that I’m fond of holidays; I believe that... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: Invasion

  

  An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas. - Victor HugoGene usually got dressed quickly, gave Katherine some kind of rough estimate... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Mind Over Matter

  

  I’m a 24-year old woman who considers herself rather “sexually stunted”; though I’ve had a few partners, masturbating makes me more uncomfortable than turned... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY