Maggiemcneill

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• The Day We Fight Back

  

  I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Guest Columnist: Mark Bennett

  

  Mark Bennett is a criminal defense lawyer in Houston who, as he says in the text below, is unafraid to defend sex workers. I first linked his blog just over a... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #188

  The human body is not essentially…pornographic, and I think to make it so is a mistake. - Pat RobertsonThis was one of those weeks in which I couldn’t be sure... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#406)

  

  The movement of sex workers has become successful because they have learned to recognise themselves as workers. - Samarjit JanaR.I.P. Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Not Your Rescue Project

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on January 12th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Don’t Call It Trafficking

  

  Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.-Mason CooleyThough “human trafficking” fetishists love to tout imaginary numbers of “victims”, to... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fossil

  

  I’ve been married for ten years, but have felt disconnected from my wife for about the last 8 of them. When we were dating she seemed to share my interests and... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Stupor Bowl

  

  While Scripture forbids us from spreading a false report…sometimes, because of lack of information, we unintentionally pass along false reports in the form of... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Priorities

  

  Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. - Gaius Sallustius CrispusOrganizing sex workers is like trying to... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Candlemas 2014

  

  Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; And reigns the winter’s pregnant silence still; No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, And willow... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #187

  Whether it’s Barack Obama or some subsequent pathological megalomaniac, Republican or Democrat, the increasingly ceremonial and quasi-religious aspect of the... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#405)

  

  It [is] very easy for government ministers…to talk around “we will stop trafficking”, as a code for “we will stop immigration and protect your white land”. -... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Back Issue: January 2011

  

  I refuse to replace perfectly good words with ugly, cumbersome, polysyllabic abortions which are designed to obscure the truth with a cloak of vagueness, or to... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Questing for Unicorns

  

  I am only sexually interested in women that I have some sort of emotional connection to. I am attracted to women who are intelligent and competent adults; it... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Something in the Milk

  

  Readers, I recently got this letter from a sex worker I’ve known for years. Obviously I’m not in a position to know all the ins and outs of the situation, but... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Ladies of the Night

  

  Who learns most from a good book is the author. - José BergamínY’all have been pushing me for a book for a while now, and I’ve been talking about it for even... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #186

  Heavens to Murgatroyd, the sounds, like trumpets calling the demons back to Hell…the stench, like 1000 rotten corpses vomited. - C. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#404)

  

  Trafficking has become one of the new “it” words in the bankrupt moral vernacular, craftily used by puritans, property developers and rogue feminists to combat... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Devil’s Advocate

  

  The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Marion Delorme

  

  When one enjoys full liberty, one must use it with the utmost moderation. - Victor Hugo, preface to Marion DelormeLast month, sex worker activists discussed... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY