Comments on: Hard Numbers http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/ Frank commentary from a retired call girl Sat, 25 May 2013 01:27:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: c andrew http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23108 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:47:27 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23108 Certainly! In fact we’ve seen evidence proffered by the prohibitionists that support that. They weren’t shaving an orangutan there in Asia, it was actually a yeti – because they are closer to humans once you lose the hair. And those alien abductions were actually instances of human trafficking – to the Altair Star System – ASS! And the black ops forces are the protection regime that the traffickers – both terrestrial and ET – use to keep their chattel in bondage!

Can you disprove anything I’ve said here?

Thanks Maria, I was just trying on my tin-foil hat for size. i think it needs a little more work on my end ;-)

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23073 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:13:24 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23073 I wouldn’t worry about it. All moral panics have a limited life, and this one is either nearing its peak or is a few weeks past it.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23072 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:12:10 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23072 You earned it! :-)

]]> By: Sailor Barsoom http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23067 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:40:10 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23067 I ask myself, “How many other countries have to get this right before we realize how to get it right.” Then I think of sex education and realize that there may not be enough countries in the world.

]]> By: Laura http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23065 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:32:31 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23065 In the US murder victims are trashed all the time along with their surviving family members and/or friends. I’ve seen it 1st hand many times with murder victims who were gang members, ex-gang members, active or recovering alcoholics, active or recovering drug addicts, homeless, etc. Some will say this stuff right to the surviving family and/or friends also. It isn’t just whores who are murdered that are unfairly attacked. This stuff has gone on for years, unfortunately. But, thanks to the efforts of groups and individuals who speak up for these people and their surviving family/friends the problem isn’t as bad as it once was. It should never exist to begin with. There’s still work to be done. I’ve found online NON-whores upset about murdered whores being attacked. This is how it should be. Like I said there’s more work to be done but reading about any case where a murder victim isn’t attacked is great and an inspiration for those of us who are working on this issue. Every little bit of progress counts.

]]> By: Darren Thompson http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23052 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:02:57 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23052 Hey, then I’m a “real man”! Nice. Thank you.

]]> By: Darren Thompson http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23051 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:59:23 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23051 Thank you, but I’m not entirely sure the rot won’t eventually seep all the way here. Certainly the USA’s strange obsession with matters of race has had it’s insidious impact here in recent decades. Perhaps the trafficking thing will get some journalists excited, and it will all be turned back again.

But….a few things make me hopeful. The first is that now decriminalization has been around for a while, we have a very vocal, open and united sex workers collective that is quick to counter any negative stereotyping and myth making. Second, we are a largely secular country, and the few church goers that do exist here tend to be of the “Christianity Lite” variety. Third, we really do have a decent and common sensical police force here who are very well respected, and have never been stuck in that riducoul entrapment of prostitutes mindset. The word “vice” here isn’t even in the common lexicon. A few years ago a woman police officer left the force after it was discovered that she was moonlighting as an escort, but most public discussion about it was a little nonplussed as to why she should have left the police at all.

]]> By: Gorbachev http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23036 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:04:21 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23036 Maggie,

For you:

http://blog.audaciaray.com/post/20228032642/why-the-sex-positive-movement-is-bad-for-sex-workers

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23030 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:15:40 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23030 Exactly right, and I believe that’s also the ultimate source of “pimps and hos” and “sex trafficking” mythology: they allow men to believe that men are really in control of prostitutes and therefore in control of sex, because the truth is too much for their fragile egos to handle. That’s why I say “Real men support sex worker rights”; strong men can handle women being in control of sex and their own bodies and don’t need childish myths to make them feel better.

]]> By: Maggie McNeill http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/hard-numbers/#comment-23029 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:11:17 +0000 http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/?p=9911#comment-23029 I did a column on exactly that subject last year.

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