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”. – Belinda Brooks-Gordon
Men: Pay your hookers! Ladies: Get the damned money up front!
A prostitute and heroin addict desperate for money has been jailed for…stealing from her clients. Emily Ruth Tequilla Wyatt…conned one…into leaving his flat…so she could break in and steal a…television…Just days before, she had stole [sic] £40 and a CD off another customer who had refused to pay her…
But Emily’s amateurish efforts aren’t remotely in the same class as these:
…Subhanna Beyah, AKA Crystal…was arrested and charged with ripping off 13 men and making off with $1,281,769 in jewelry, guns, cash, and property including a Cadillac Escalade. Two other women — 25-year-old Johninna Miller and 27-year-old Keshia Clark — were arrested…and have subsequently bonded out. Ryan Elkins, the daughter of a police chief…is on the lam…
A man on trial in…Sweden for allegedly raping a woman…has been freed because he “wasn’t aware” she was drunk…The…woman [said] the last thing she remembers…is falling asleep in the man’s apartment with her clothes on before waking up the following afternoon…locked in a room…Tests later revealed the woman’s blood alcohol-level was…more than ten times the legal limit in Sweden…Prosecutor Stefan Lind plans to appeal the verdict…
Young boys were locked in a cage for days on end…at [Australian] Salvation Army homes in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s…and the…leadership…failed to discipline or remove the perpetrators…a Royal Commission…will focus on the alleged abuse inflicted by…Lawrence Wilson, Russell Walker, Victor Bennett, John McIver and Donald Schultz on boys aged from about six to about 17…”The boys were frequently punched…thrown on the ground with force, hit with straps until they developed welts or bled,” [Commission member Simeon] Beckett said. They were repeatedly anally raped and forced to undertake oral sex on their house parents. They were also abused by other boys…[those] who complained were often disbelieved and severely punished…
See also “Dirty Laundry” below.
Tits and Sass discusses a Vice documentary on “butt shots” from non-doctors, and interviews two medical professionals about them. There’s a link to the 17-minute documentary there if you’re interested.
An interview with Dr. Jay Levy on his research demonstrating the violence caused by the Swedish model:
This week’s first rapist cop hails from Dallas: “…La’Cori Johnson was on duty when he stopped a woman and…told [her] she had a warrant out for her arrest…he…then drove his patrol car to a dead end…[forced] the woman…to perform oral sex on him [then raped] her…the woman said she [complied]…because she was afraid of going to jail….” And the second from the Orlando, Florida area:
A Florida sheriff’s deputy has been arrested after a woman alleged that he groped her…[her] boyfriend flagged the deputy, Matthew Donnelly, down when he noticed that [she] had passed out [from drinking]…Donnelly placed the boyfriend into the back of his squad car and then went to [assault] the victim…[saying he] would let the…boyfriend go so long as she didn’t tell anyone about the groping…The victim’s DNA was found [in the car]…even though there is no evidence that [she] was ever in [it]…Donnelly’s dashboard camera was turned off for 22 minutes during the encounter…
In my mind, the “King of the Hill” rhetoric here is secondary to the hilarious image of truckers moving pallets full of passive, immobile “women and children” (confined in dog crates, perhaps?) via forklift in busy, crowded truck stops without anyone noticing. Anyone who’s ever placed an ad on Eros will also find this description of it extremely funny:
…Law enforcement across the country have pinpointed the internet as the number one ruler for the buying and selling of children and women…Sex trafficking is…thriving on websites such as backpage.com, eros.com and myred.com [sic], where they hide under disguises such as massage…anyone can post an advertisement, making it extremely easy to sell underage girls…Central Missouri is a major hub for truck stops, which makes it easy for sex traffickers to buy and sell women and children. Truck stops are close to main interstates, making it a dream scenario…traffickers can load their trucks with women and children without their feet ever touching the ground…The Department of Justice has identified St. Louis as one of the top 20 human trafficking jurisdictions in the country…
Tulsa, OK cops just love “sex trafficking” rhetoric, because it allows them to pretend to be heroes while destroying real people’s lives:
…an increasing number of suspected sex traffickers have found themselves…hauled into Tulsa federal court. Prosecuting such crimes “is a big priority in our district,” said Danny Williams Sr., U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. “We’re really being aggressive about it”…
Blah blah pimps, blah blah Super Bowl, blah blah “drugs can only be sold once”.
Nuns’ treatment of children at a residential care home was “bordering on the psychotic”, Northern Ireland’s Historical Abuse Inquiry has been told. Sisters of Nazareth nuns thumped and kicked children…[a] former resident described the home as a “hell-hole” and likened it to a concentration camp…[another] told the inquiry that…children who wet the bed were forced to…have a bath in Jeyes Fluid…
Other forms of abuse included “Separation of brothers and sisters, not even telling them if they were in the same home…Locking in cupboards…Humiliating children for bed wetting, forcing them to stand with the sheets on their heads…Forced farm labouring or working in the laundry instead of going to school…Removal of Christmas presents and other personal items…Calling children by numbers rather than names…[forcing sick children] to eat their own vomit…and lack of medical attention…”
Another article about the institutionalized insanity of encouraging cops to use condoms as “evidence of prostitution”; unfortunately, it’s liberally sprinkled with prohibitionist vomit like this: “The New York City sex industry isn’t glamorous. It’s dark, seedy, lurid, and the sex work that the women and, to a lesser degree, men engage in carries the risk of danger, disease, sexual violence, and abduction…the average age of a prostitute in the United States [is] between the ages of 12-14 years old…” Not the average debut; the average age at present.
Japanese Prostitution (TW3 #131)
The new chairman of Japan’s national broadcaster is facing calls for his resignation after defending Japan’s use of wartime sex slaves…Katsuto Momii…said brothels were “common” in all countries involved in the war, and described as “puzzling” criticism of Japan’s enslavement of up to 200,000 mainly Korean, Chinese and Filipino women…”Can we say there were none in Germany or France? It was everywhere in Europe…it was a reality of those times…”
Sure, we’ve all heard of those French brothels with thousands of Belgian slaves, and British brothels with Irish slaves. It was everywhere!
Tyranny By Consensus (TW3 #138)
A judge has struck down a ballot measure that would [have forced] the city of Los Angeles to launch its own health department separate from the county’s…[ruling] that the measure…would conflict with state law…and would “impermissibly interfere with essential government functions.” The measure was spearheaded by the…AIDS Healthcare Foundation…
Another pompous ignoramus uses a thoroughly-debunked study to pretend that sex work magically ignores all economic laws:
…experts with knowledge of prostitution…say a loosening of legislation could have the effect of enabling sex traffickers, while also increasing demand for paid sex…criminologist Michael Down…pointed to…[the Neumayer, Cho & Dreher study]…Down…said…relaxation of prostitution laws could [give]…criminal elements…a “very strong incentive” to increase recruitment and coercion of young women…
Try this instead: “Down said repeal of Prohibition could give criminal elements a ‘very strong incentive’ to increase bootlegging and rum-running…”
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (TW3 #312)
Imagine an American politician saying this:
Prostitutes are heroines to their families because they can feed their families on their own; therefore, it would be inhumane to close down brothels…Widya Kandi Susanti, the regent of Kendal, Central Java, said…Widya said that prostitutes in Kendal were regularly offered sewing courses…but after a few months they decided to return to the business of selling sex…
A sex-worker rights group…is teaming up with a high-profile First Amendment lawyer…to launch a legal strategy aimed at overthrowing the laws against prostitution. It’s a bold and unprecedented effort to get the federal courts to agree that sex work is protected by the Constitutional right to privacy – but…H. Louis Sirkin…who helped overturn a Texas law banning the sale of sex toys and defended the rights of a Cincinnati museum to display the works of Robert Mapplethorpe, [said] both society and the courts are moving in the direction of protecting sexual privacy – and that consensual, commercial sex between adults falls into that…
I predict many dudes who use this will later find their glasses mysteriously broken or lost:
It was only a matter of time before the voyeuristic world of Google Glass collided with sex. “Sex with Google Glass”…lets you watch — and record — yourself having sex from all angles and even “see what your partner can see”…it…can be synced up to a…device…to control lighting, music and even lessons from the Kama Sutra…In case you are particularly proud of your performance, the app can also record a video…
O, Canada! (Hysteria On Parade)
Police say they’re posing as johns and visiting sex workers in a bid to find the hidden victims of human trafficking — especially underage girls. But one Ottawa escort and a local advocate for sex-trade workers say they’re making the women suspicious and scared not safer…when the woman opens the door to [the lying cop], she finds several more…on her doorstep…they are also visiting spas and massage parlours…[outing the workers] to bystanders and…[asking] for personal information…Inspector Paul Johnston said that…police…just want to ask if they’re OK and let them know help is available…
No, they “just” want to send the message to sex workers, “We know who and where you are and we can bust you for brothelkeeping any time we like.”
Welcome To Our World (TW3 #345)
If this woman has any decency, she’ll mail every check back to him and inform the prosecutor of that fact via email each time: “…A judge ruled that [sperm donor] William Marotta must pay child support, even though he…signed documents waiving his parental rights…[because] Kansas law [demands]…a licensed physician must be involved in an artificial insemination process…Marotta…[plans] to appeal…”
Germany’s ladies of the night are refusing to be pushed into the shadows in the national sex debate…One of the ruling parties is now trying to pour cold water on the trade…And the prostitutes…are not happy…they…are determined to be a part of the national conversation, instead of watching others have the debate for them…The message coming out of [their] new union…is that preconceived notions and stereotypes that make up the public discourse on prostitution are wrong…
The Course of a Disease (TW3 #404)
“ICRSE condemns…the European Parliament Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee on their decision to support the criminalisation of clients”; the letter is available for download as a template. Meanwhile…
An expert on prostitution laws…has said the “Nordic Model”…is “extremely dangerous”. Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon…said…”There is no reason to criminalise prostitution clients when you cannot show demonstrable harm. In fact all the evidence is in the other direction”…She said criminalising the purchase of sex…makes both clients and sex workers less likely to report violence and that it leads to other levels of underground criminality…there is no evidence supporting the Swedish model and…”Norway only introduced it because they were terrified people would come over the border…So they did it as a prophylactic measure…and then actually found it to be unworkable and a nightmare”…In New Zealand, research showed that decriminalisation (not legalisation), which allowed women to work together in small groups, helped improve trust in police and decrease violence…
I don’t know why any Japanese official or media rep spends five seconds on the Comfort Women. It’s a losing issue – their position should be … “That was a different time – and a different Japan”. Period – end of story.
If there’s any “after action” that needs to be performed on the Japanese war crimes – let such action be assigned to Hideki Tōjō or any of the other Japanese war criminals we EXECUTED at the end of that war.
PS – why is the South Korean government completely AWOL when it comes to the sexual slavery that is NOW being committed in North Korea?
Because they don’t want to stir up the completely crazy man to the North. Maybe not the best policy, but understandable.
That’s exactly right – so the current, benevolent government of Japan gets raked through the coals over half-century old war crimes committed by a completely differnt generation and government …
While the guy who’s tormenting women NOW in the North gets a pass because he’s a bad boy.
PSII – A lot of people forget that Korea was a part of the Japanese Empire and Korean soldiers fought on the side of the Japanese (examples – Crown Prince Yi Un and the third president of South Korea, Park Chug Hee).
From Wiki …
The N Ireland ‘laundry’ Inquiry will take oral evidence for another 18 months, and report in early 2016. Meanwhile, we have an almost daily update of what happened.
Laura Lee: I did see her appear before the Justice Committee, but I cannot find a video or an audio of this anywhere. The Committee’s minutes are no longer on-line. Here’s Dr B Magnanti’s take on what happened:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5787130.Brooke_Magnanti/blog
She says it much more eloquently than I could.
Meanwhile, another row is brewing:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-25976703
The DUP [Democratic Unionist Party] is the ‘political wing’ of the Free Presbyterian Church. Its members hold fundamental, biblical views.
There’s a video of the hearing in TW3 #403.
Doh! I should have known…Thanks!
There’s an interview with Laura Lee here:
http://harlotsparlour.com/2014/01/31/justice-chair-to-prostitute-would-you-not-rather-do-it-for-free/
“Tests later revealed the woman’s blood alcohol-level was…more than ten times the legal limit in Sweden”
So, in Sweden they have a law against being drunk by more than a certain amount?
Of course not! (I hope so, anyway). They have a law against *driving* while intoxicated. And rightly so – it slows your reflexes, make you a menace on the road. What does this have to do with people in interpersonal situations? Pretty much nothing.
That’s not to say that having sex with a passed-out drunk woman isn’t wrong. It’s just that the quantitative “ten times!” is meaningless.
Legality has nothing to do with it; I think the point the author was making is that she was unconscious-drunk, not a little tipsy so that a reasonable person might not realize she was incapacitated.
Sure. I had another of (I think?) your posts in mind when I wrote that, concerning our fascination with numbers. If you say “drunk and incapable”, people will argue. If you say “ten times the limit”, people will go – “oh, okay”, regardless of the relevance of the figure.
Here in Oz, the BAC limit used to be .08, .02 for P-platers. They changed to to .05 and zero, respectively. Which one is the right one, the correct one?
In most of the USA, the legal limit for driving is .08 – which is absolutely the lowest level that has any rational justification. It’s less incapacitating than many legal actions such as carrying on a conversation while driving, or driving with a mild case of the flu, or driving home after a 12 hour work shift. A .05 limit is ridiculous, advocated only by totalitarians that are distressed by not being able to ban alcohol entirely, so they’ll creep up on a ban one bit at a time, and by the useful idiots who jump on the bandwagon without learning the facts. (How about we abbreviate that last phrase as “Jenny McCarthys”?)
I don’t know the Swedish limits, and I don’t know if “ten times” was hyperbole or literal. If the limit is .08, and they literally meant ten times that (.80), and the woman wasn’t a confirmed alcoholic, the charge would have been “molesting a corpse”, not rape. At .50, the chances of someone who is not habituated to alcohol surviving are about even – every fall some idiots at college fraternities will push enough liquor at their initiates that those who don’t vomit it up may near that level; some die, and some are hospitalized. Most people will pass out at a considerably lower level. But an alcoholic can be so habituated to alcohol as to be conscious and able to walk and talk and appear functional (if only for a few minutes) at .50.
According to wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_driving_law_by_country
in Sweden it’s .02% .
Hands up, anyone who is surprised. No one? Me neither.
I took it to mean that the woman was “drunk and incapable”; and therefore not able to give consent.
“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”. – Belinda Brooks-Gordon”
I gather that Dr. Gordon is referring to the U.K. immigration battle, not the one in the U.S.. I must say that my impression is that the debate in the U.K. is complicated by political correctness ruling out any discussion of the treatment of women by certain elements of the Islamic immigrant population. So Dr. Gordon’s statement could be interpreted as code for “You aren’t allowed to notice that some immigrants are violent towards women.”
Battle of the Code Warriors.
No, Sweden. She makes it pretty clear in the text.
The immigration situation in Sweden has more similarities with that in Britain than with ours (more Islamics, fewer Hispanics), so my analysis might still apply.
Totally agree. I do not see any link whatsoever between the trafficking hysteria and illegal immigration. I think some (on our side) simply link them in order to fabricate a “racist” motivation to demonize their opposition. Though the trafficking hysterics have it wrong – I don’t believe most of them are racists. Using racism as an argument in debate is “old-saw”.
Japanese Prostitution – This man was obviously out of line with his comments, but there is a point here that the German regime did, in fact, kidnap women (mostly Poles and Russians) and force them into sex slavery. Then they were either sent to the military or to the brothels in the concentration camps.
Only Rights Can Stop The Wrongs – It is greatly encouraging that a Muslim lady in a conservative country like Indonesia can recognise the great contributions sex workers make to society.
Uncommon Sense – The only way the litany of lies of the prohibitionists can truly be overcome is by more and more sex workers becoming part of the debate. The opposition will attempt to portray them as crazy, as liars, as unrepresentative, but the numbers will ultimately be too large to deny.
I’m not sure the result in the artificial insemination case is wrong. The woman applied for public assistance for her kid. The state has an interest in recovering the money from the father. He says he was just a sperm donor, but because there was no doctor involved there isn’t any proof that he didn’t do it the old fashioned way.
I suspect the law was written like this on purpose, to avoid fathers being able to avoid parental responsibility by claiming they were just a donor.
The idea that DNA = fatherhood is an abomination that needs to be shredded and then burned with fire.
I was using “father” in a very narrow sense, obviously the guy isn’t the child’s father in any meaningful way.
To your larger point, yes, there is a lot that is simply crazy about family law. However when a child gets thrust on the state for support, I don’t have a problem with the state seeking reimbursement from the two people that are responsible for the child being there.
I would exempt sperm donors from this on policy grounds but, as I noted earlier, there isn’t good evidence he was really just a sperm donor.
Just to confuse things more: there’s a story going round about a woman in the US; the court threatened to take her children away because they weren’t hers. Even, when DNA tested, her children weren’t hers. It seems she is a chimera, that is she has cells from a ‘twin’ in her ovaries, and the children were from the ‘twin’s’ eggs and not hers. And if mitochondrial replacement becomes anyway frequent, just whose children will some mothers have?
See today’s column, “I hate it when this happens”. 😉
My short term memory has gone….I’m going totally gaga 🙁
Challenge: What’s the sex worker rights group, and how can I contribute to this effort?
Just follow the link in the subtitle “Challenge” to the original post on the subject. 🙂
Thanks, Maggie.