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	<title>Comments on: That Was the Week That Was (#17)</title>
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		<title>By: From Satanic Panic to Sex-Traffic Panic - Hit &#38; Run : Reason.com</title>
		<link>http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-was-the-week-that-was-17/#comment-58950</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[From Satanic Panic to Sex-Traffic Panic - Hit &#38; Run : Reason.com]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] more widely, with a number of prominent &quot;trafficking&quot; hysteria profiteers such as Nicholas Kristof,  Somaly Mam and  The Grey Man caught in outrageous lies. All things being equal I&#039;d say we were on track for a [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] more widely, with a number of prominent &quot;trafficking&quot; hysteria profiteers such as Nicholas Kristof,  Somaly Mam and  The Grey Man caught in outrageous lies. All things being equal I&#039;d say we were on track for a [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-was-the-week-that-was-17/#comment-23870</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 12:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sailor B, I love your comment!  I love how you NEVER GIVE UP on doing what you can to change things.  You don&#039;t want any part of that very popular (gag) &quot;gloom and doom&quot; mentality of: well, you can&#039;t fight city hall.  You can&#039;t change anything.  They&#039;re all out to get us at all times.  No one who has any power is any good.  Cops are ###***.  Politicians are ###***.  Prosecutors are ###***.  Petitions never work.  Don&#039;t even bother trying.  There&#039;s no such thing as sisterhood.  Etc., etc.  I could go on with more examples but have already made my point (wink...I don&#039;t feel up to looking for the winking head code).  This is 1 of the many reasons I love you: you never give up and your involvement in at least trying to change things for the better is lasting which means your commitment to it is real.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Sailor B, I love your comment!  I love how you NEVER GIVE UP on doing what you can to change things.  You don&#8217;t want any part of that very popular (gag) &#8220;gloom and doom&#8221; mentality of: well, you can&#8217;t fight city hall.  You can&#8217;t change anything.  They&#8217;re all out to get us at all times.  No one who has any power is any good.  Cops are ###***.  Politicians are ###***.  Prosecutors are ###***.  Petitions never work.  Don&#8217;t even bother trying.  There&#8217;s no such thing as sisterhood.  Etc., etc.  I could go on with more examples but have already made my point (wink&#8230;I don&#8217;t feel up to looking for the winking head code).  This is 1 of the many reasons I love you: you never give up and your involvement in at least trying to change things for the better is lasting which means your commitment to it is real.</p>
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		<title>By: Sailor Barsoom</title>
		<link>http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-was-the-week-that-was-17/#comment-23716</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sailor Barsoom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I signed and included this note: &lt;blockquote&gt;It&#039;s no use renaming this thing.  It&#039;s like telling us that we can stop thinking about Freddy Kreuger, because now Jason Voorhees in here.  That... doesn&#039;t make me feel any better.  Please, let SOPA, CISPA, or whatever you&#039;re calling it this month die, die, die.  No more sequels.&lt;/blockquote&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I signed and included this note:<br />
<blockquote>It&#8217;s no use renaming this thing.  It&#8217;s like telling us that we can stop thinking about Freddy Kreuger, because now Jason Voorhees in here.  That&#8230; doesn&#8217;t make me feel any better.  Please, let SOPA, CISPA, or whatever you&#8217;re calling it this month die, die, die.  No more sequels.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-was-the-week-that-was-17/#comment-23696</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 09:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa_passes/?akid=1332.450055.qI7Tu_&amp;rd=1&amp;t=2 -latest petition to protest CISPA (for the US Senate).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa_passes/?akid=1332.450055.qI7Tu_&#038;rd=1&#038;t=2" rel="nofollow">http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa_passes/?akid=1332.450055.qI7Tu_&#038;rd=1&#038;t=2</a> -latest petition to protest CISPA (for the US Senate).</p>
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		<title>By: Sailor Barsoom</title>
		<link>http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-was-the-week-that-was-17/#comment-23640</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sailor Barsoom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve signed it.  It would be unusual for Obama to actually stand up for the 4th Amendment, but I&#039;ll send him a thank-you note if he does.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve signed it.  It would be unusual for Obama to actually stand up for the 4th Amendment, but I&#8217;ll send him a thank-you note if he does.</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-was-the-week-that-was-17/#comment-23597</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/obama_cispa/%20%20?akid=1329.450055.B1nKVc&amp;rd=1&amp;t=4 -petition to Obama to veto CISPA.  Obama deserves credit for at least making the effort to say he would veto this.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/obama_cispa/%20%20?akid=1329.450055.B1nKVc&#038;rd=1&#038;t=4" rel="nofollow">http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/obama_cispa/%20%20?akid=1329.450055.B1nKVc&#038;rd=1&#038;t=4</a> -petition to Obama to veto CISPA.  Obama deserves credit for at least making the effort to say he would veto this.</p>
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		<title>By: V. W. Singer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[V. W. Singer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s not just gay men. I used to belong to a photography club in London that specialised in nude work, and I can tell you that after a while, you don&#039;t really notice that the girls are naked.

The models didn&#039;t act naked either. During club shoots (as opposed to private sessions) when we would break for lunch, the girls didn&#039;t bother to get dressed and we&#039;d all sit and chat and eat perfectly normally.

And during a private shoot, I was always too busy keeping the model happy and in the mood, working the cameras, props, and lighting, and picking bits of lint off of the girl or background to notice her nudity. From what I saw, the other photographers were that way too.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not just gay men. I used to belong to a photography club in London that specialised in nude work, and I can tell you that after a while, you don&#8217;t really notice that the girls are naked.</p>
<p>The models didn&#8217;t act naked either. During club shoots (as opposed to private sessions) when we would break for lunch, the girls didn&#8217;t bother to get dressed and we&#8217;d all sit and chat and eat perfectly normally.</p>
<p>And during a private shoot, I was always too busy keeping the model happy and in the mood, working the cameras, props, and lighting, and picking bits of lint off of the girl or background to notice her nudity. From what I saw, the other photographers were that way too.</p>
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		<title>By: Maggie McNeill</title>
		<link>http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/that-was-the-week-that-was-17/#comment-23583</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie McNeill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s a wholly appropriate analogy.  Both are largely dominated by one sex, both involve use of natural skills, both have an element of danger, both provide a pleasant entertainment for the client, both pay better than other jobs, both tend to strongly favor younger people, and both are chosen by the participants as the best options available despite what some others might prefer.  The main difference:  sports stars are lionized while whores are stigmatized.  There&#039;s some REAL sexism for you.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a wholly appropriate analogy.  Both are largely dominated by one sex, both involve use of natural skills, both have an element of danger, both provide a pleasant entertainment for the client, both pay better than other jobs, both tend to strongly favor younger people, and both are chosen by the participants as the best options available despite what some others might prefer.  The main difference:  sports stars are lionized while whores are stigmatized.  There&#8217;s some REAL sexism for you.</p>
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		<title>By: Darren Thompson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darren Thompson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, having grown up in a rugby culture, I can tell you that the subculture surrounding it is definitely sick. My boys play soccer. If they want to play rugby when they are 18 they can make up their own minds. At least the MMA and boxing of today is largely silly grappling stuff.  I think back to being a boy and watching Ali, Foreman, Frazer et al. smashing each other into broken and bloody pulps and I shudder that a kid would even be allowed to be exposed that that stuff.. 

Dangerous analogy Maggie, some of have had friends crippled in the boxing ring or rugby field, and wouldn&#039;t be leading the protest if it were all banned. I really don&#039;t care about the people watching it and whether they are sick or paragons of mental hygeine, but anyone who tried to use money to induce my sons into getting their faces smased into bloody bits would very quickly wish that they hadn&#039;t.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, having grown up in a rugby culture, I can tell you that the subculture surrounding it is definitely sick. My boys play soccer. If they want to play rugby when they are 18 they can make up their own minds. At least the MMA and boxing of today is largely silly grappling stuff.  I think back to being a boy and watching Ali, Foreman, Frazer et al. smashing each other into broken and bloody pulps and I shudder that a kid would even be allowed to be exposed that that stuff.. </p>
<p>Dangerous analogy Maggie, some of have had friends crippled in the boxing ring or rugby field, and wouldn&#8217;t be leading the protest if it were all banned. I really don&#8217;t care about the people watching it and whether they are sick or paragons of mental hygeine, but anyone who tried to use money to induce my sons into getting their faces smased into bloody bits would very quickly wish that they hadn&#8217;t.</p>
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		<title>By: Ted</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RE: Sienna Baskin on The O&#039;Reilly Factor

   I watched the video of O&#039;Reilly &amp; Sienna and although Sienna more or less held her own again O&#039;Reilly&#039;s remarks one thing I think she could of done was to point out that many sex-workers actually choose this work over other jobs which they either already had or could of done since they saw sex work as a better option. Sienna mostly states that women do it because of financial desperation or very few other options. This show being shown nationally would have been a good spot to point out some of the benefits of sex work- i.e., pay, working hours, flexability.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RE: Sienna Baskin on The O&#8217;Reilly Factor</p>
<p>   I watched the video of O&#8217;Reilly &amp; Sienna and although Sienna more or less held her own again O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s remarks one thing I think she could of done was to point out that many sex-workers actually choose this work over other jobs which they either already had or could of done since they saw sex work as a better option. Sienna mostly states that women do it because of financial desperation or very few other options. This show being shown nationally would have been a good spot to point out some of the benefits of sex work- i.e., pay, working hours, flexability.</p>
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