Tracy’s community…turned away from her in an inane focus on protecting the look of the gates rather than the garden that thrives beyond them. – Maya Yonika
A disabled Australian couple gets help from a sex worker:
…a…fall had long-lasting consequences on Jenni’s health generally and on our sex lives. Her prolonged and mostly unsuccessful recovery resulted in Jen having further reduced mobility in and out of bed. It meant we had to take extreme care not to touch or bump her foot…We tried different toys and different positions without joy. Two years after the fall we were at a point where we had to make a decision to either give up on enjoying sex or to investigate the possibility of allowing a third person into our bed…we arranged for sex worker, Joanne, to begin working with us. With each visit we had to remind ourselves that she wasn’t there to make “love” to us. Rather, in the same way that our support staff ensure that we remain in good physical health – by showering, feeding, and dressing us – Joanne helps us to maintain good sexual health…we successfully approached the ACT government to extend the funding of our disability care support to cover these conjugal support services. In December 2015, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) agreed that, in our situation, a modest allowance for conjugal support service would be reasonable and necessary…
It appears to me that the cops have no actual evidence:
A North Augusta [South Carolina] woman has been arrested on multiple charges of Prostitution. Kristen Perry…was arrested [April 6th and]…is facing 21 charges of Sex/Prostitution 1st Offense. She is accused of placing ads on Backpage.com between December 2015 and February 2016 offering sex for money…The ads contained sexually suggestive photos and language…The ads were accompanied by a phone number confirmed to belong to Perry…The IP address from which the ads were posted was traced back to her residence…
A good lawyer should be able to beat this easily; if anyone knows her please ask her to call me (email me for the number). I definitely want to help her if possible. Arresting escorts based solely on ads is an extremely dangerous precedent that cannot be allowed to stand.
There weren’t any actual victims, but we just have to cage people, because SEEWEEUSS UFFENSE!
Chunjie Wang…of…Dublin…organised four brothels…for seven months..[in] 2011…Judge Melanie Greally noted the case did not involve the trafficking or exploitation of prostitutes…but…said the seriousness of the offence meant a custodial sentence was unavoidable and sentenced Wang to 18 months imprisonment…
“Adult sex trafficking victims who get caught working as prostitutes could receive immunity from prostitution under a new Nebraska law…Nebraska already provides legal immunity to juvenile sex trafficking victims…” Except that as I’ve explained many times, these laws are nothing but Potemkin villages, empty legal husks designed to please the ignorant while actually sparing virtually nobody from the injustice system:
…Wisconsin…advocacy groups…want to pass what is known as “safe harbor” legislation, which prohibits prosecuting individuals under 18 for prostitution…Republican legislators who fear it will hinder law enforcement’s ability to intervene and help trafficking victims…Minors can complete a program or other requirements in exchange for a dismissal of the charge, or they can admit to charges but assert they were being trafficked at the time…Proponents believe that by refusing to prosecute minors, law enforcement will be able to establish trust and gain access to information that will allow them to more successfully prosecute traffickers…Custody may also be necessary to ensure the child does not return to his or her trafficker…
Translation of that last part: “Authorities” want to be able to lock up minors indefinitely and subject them to coercive interrogation tactics in order to prosecute others in their place.
Ever greater numbers of tourists in Iceland…are feeding into the market for prostitution…Snorri Birgisson of the Reykjavik Metropolitan Police [pretends] “It is usually foreigners visiting Iceland for a short time”…It is [fantasized] that prostitutes who come to Iceland are “managed” by somebody and transported from country to country…
One battle in the bathroom wars has just ended. Or maybe a truce has been hammered out for the time being. The U.S. 4th Circuit Court has ruled in favor of a female-to-male trans student who was banned from using his school’s boys bathroom…the…Court, whose rulings also cover North Carolina (site of a contentious new law covering similar issues)…has ordered the lower court to hear his discrimination lawsuit…Go here to read recent Reason musings on North Carolina’s new bathroom law…I’m willing to bet the farm that even within a few years, if not sooner, we will all look back on the absolute panic evinced over the issue of unisex bathrooms and wonder just what the fuck we were all smoking…
“Roanoke [Virginia cop Francisco Alberto Duarte] is awaiting trial on a felony count of forcible sodomy“, and in Louisiana, “A Calcasieu Parish sheriff’s deputy has been fired [and criminally charged] after he was accused of inappropriately touching a woman…Cody Onxley…called the woman and went to her house under false pretenses.”
Farm machinery causes “sex trafficking”!
…[cops] have also found victims at this year’s National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville and expect to find others at the Kentucky Derby…traffickers…stay mobile, moving victims from city to city to major sporting and entertainment events…truckers are getting the word out through the national campaign Truckers Against Trafficking, with an event this weekend at the Kentucky Exposition Center…the truckers…are in a position to spot victims at convenience stores and truck stops, popular spots for traffickers…
It’s weirdly fascinating to watch small cities insist that they’re just as infested with bogeymen and imaginary victims as cities with much larger populations:
…slavery…still exists. Even in Spokane. The reasons for this, [prohibitionists pretend], include Washington having an international border and a large seaport [and] many diverse immigrant communities…Because of the I-90 corridor, Spokane gets a lot of traffic and homeless in the area…former madam Cheryl Larson [lied that]…one girl could make $10,000 in a weekend during Bloomsday…
Note the racism, interstate highway nonsense and outlandish claims about income. That article ends with an appeal for amateur surveillance, as does this one:
…[Cops] in Springfield say the western Massachusetts city is beginning to see a noticeable rise in human trafficking…Jamie Bruno spoke before the Springfield Violence Prevention Task Force…to [pretend] that human trafficking has become a problem in the city and is expanding…Bruno says it’s pivotal that parents are aware of what their children are doing with friends…
I smell a rat. What probably happened here is that some cop raped a sex worker in a particularly violent and/or loathsome way and they’re trying to paper it over with a “policy”:
…Cleveland Police have been told to temporarily stop making prostitution arrests…[because] the Department is suddenly developing a new policy. The memo says, “All prostitution (sex for money) related Vice enforcement shall cease immediately…Advise your Detectives under no circumstances shall they have a suspected prostitute get into a vehicle with them or have any physical contact with…Police…We are formulating a policy that will cover procedures for these types of details”…
Remember, the actual policies don’t make a difference because even when raping whores is expressly forbidden, cops just do it anyway and then claim they didn’t.
It’s especially good for money grabs:
Nine hundred police officers have taken part in a raid on one of Germany’s biggest brothels in Berlin, making six arrests over alleged human trafficking and tax fraud. The operation follows months of investigation into the Artemis brothel…[whose] managers are accused of evading some €17.5m (£14m; $19.7m) in social security payments since 2006. Prosecutors allege that staff at Artemis were forced to pretend to be self-employed to avoid the payments…
In case you’re bad at math, that’s 150 cops per arrest, ten times the number NOPD used to arrest me.
What a large-scale, organized forced prostitution scheme actually looks like:
In a case involving 75 female victims, Syrian women who were promised well-paid jobs in restaurants and hotels in Lebanon were locked up upon arrival in two hotels north of Beirut and forced into prostitution. Some of the women reported being forced to have sex with up to 20 clients a day, and those that refused to work as prostitutes were repeatedly raped and tortured until they submitted…On March 27, Lebanese security forces raided the hotels, detaining eight guards and setting the women free from the Chez Maurice and Silver Hotel in Maamelteine. The three-story Chez Maurice had the look of a prison, with bars on the balconies and windows, and a whip lying visible on one of the guards’ tables. The health ministry has also sealed a clinic belonging to gynecologist Riad al-Alam, who authorities say performed abortions for the trafficked women who got pregnant. The women have said they were not allowed to leave the clinic except to have an abortion…
Remember, fetishists pretend this sort of thing is common worldwide, even where there isn’t social chaos precipitated by war.
An excellent essay on the Tracy Elise case:
…Five years ago, Tracy was…the [focus] of a six-month long undercover prostitution investigation of what was then known as the Tantric Temple of Phoenix Arizona. [Cops] fully armed with riot gear and machine guns, raided the space and arrested Elise along with several other women…Tracy was thrown into jail without trial for the following two years, her bail set at a million dollars…Tracy’s case is inexorably woven into some of the most pressing and cutthroat social biases of our day when it come to sex and relationship. These biases hold us so powerfully within their grip that if one so much appears to cross the line, we’re perfectly content to quietly dismiss a woman like Tracy while she faces a potentially lifelong jail sentence…the…need to belong innately necessitates an “other”… that thing that separates “me” from “them”…as news of the Phoenix raids came to light, the bulk of western Tantrics, in order to uphold their personal ideals and image, turned away from Tracy and her case. A woman who calls herself a “Tantric master” even spoke out against Tracy on a major news channel in her effort to “protect Tantra’s name”…
If someone had told me, when my daughter was in high school, that boys, self identifying as “girls”, wanted to change in the girls locker room, I would have gone ballistic. I remember being a teen…and I remember the guys I hung out with. We were full of hormones, and back then in the 70’s, still wondering how to get in to a girl’s pants. Someone for sure would have claimed to be trans just to get an eyeful. And don’t even get me started on the open shower rooms in the locker rooms. Back then showering after gym was an option, but if you didn’t everyone thought you were a pansy or just plain nasty.
Yes, things have changed. Most teen boys now have more experience than I’ve had in my whole life! But that doesn’t change the fact that some so called “men” will use uni-bathrooms to stalk women…or women to stalk men…or the fact that teen boys will just make a game out of it.
I have no problem with sharing a bathroom with women, although the thought of whipping it out to pee in a urinal while a woman is behind me washing her hands might cause a bit of an issue at first. Oh wait…what happens when she claims I flashed her because I turned around too fast while zipping up my pants?
Come to think of it, if everyone is pushing for Unisex bathrooms, then why do trans identifying people have a problem with going to the bathroom of their birth sex?
There is a solution to this: creating closed stalls in all bathrooms including urinals, and sharing the sinks. But that’s a solution that has to happen over time. Remodel your building, then you HAVE to make the bathrooms unsex. Current bathrooms, grandfathered in. Maybe put a date on the law where it has to be done in say, 10 or 20 years.
But…no, that won’t work either. Where will women in the movies/TV go to talk about men when they’re having dinner in fancy restaurants? “Come Lydia, we must powder our noses so we can talk about our dates without them hearing!!!”
The “teen boys sneaking a peek” argument is limited to people who literally know nothing about gender transition, and think it’s something a person can just decide to do one afternoon and be respected by everyone. In reality, it’s something which develops over years and can be a source of great pain & humiliation (roughly 60% of trans teens attempt suicide at some point; many succeed), especially from people trying to cast the trans person as some kind of pervert. Public transition is much more serious than marriage or even having a baby; once undertaken it can’t easily be reversed, and once it has gone on for a while it absolutely can’t be. So the “teen boys might undergo transition to see tits” argument is incredibly ridiculous; any boy who attempted such a thing would face intense social humiliation and possibly lifelong legal and medical repercussions.
Maggie, your point is well taken. I know I have a bad habit of making light of serious issues, but believe me when I say I believe trans people are being honest in their efforts to find a bathroom they feel comfortable in.
But that doesn’t do away with the concerns of fathers for their daughters, even if those concerns may be irrational. We’re hard wired that way, I think.
And, as I said, how long before someone claims a man is flashing them when using a urinal? Many men’s rooms have the urinals out in the open directly across from the sinks. Most men zip up while still facing the urinal…but some turn and zip in one motion. Accidental flashing is bound to happen to the easily offended sooner or later.
And, if a female who identifies as a male makes another male uncomfortable, what about the second guys rights. Same for women who feel uncomfortable with a male who identifies as a women. What about HER right to feel comfortable in the restroom.
I think the solution IS easy, but costly. Like making buildings handicap friendly, we mandate stalls for everyone, ceiling to floor walls.
The “concern of fathers for their daughters” is dangerously ignorant bullshit. Transwomen take hormones, and those usually kill their sex drive; it’s a problem trans sex workers experience because in the fantasies of the men who seek them out, their penises still function, while in reality they usually don’t. Transmen, on the other hand, take male hormones, and so have the same level of sexual aggression as men who are born that way. Yet none of the “bathroom bill” idiots acknowledge that their stupid laws would put bearded, muscular, sexually-aggressive men in bathrooms with their wives and daughters.
Didn’t you know, Maggie? It isn’t rape if there isn’t a nasty penis involved! /s
Never mind “trans”-whatevers. Very few –if any–actual trans are recorded as being sex attackers etc.
If males can put on a dress, declare that they “identify” as a woman and use women’s toilets and other facilities sheer common-sense should tell people that there are plenty of crims, rapists and perverts who will do exactly that. Yeah-they could try it now if they look sufficiently ladyboy like. But a future where Desperate-Dans-in-Drag can walk into the Ladies without alarms being raised is not likely to be too safe for women.
In the Uk we have already had a case of an ordinary hetero crim with a girlfriend who–on being like to be sent down–suddenly revealed that he was a transgender Lesbian ( hence the girlfriend) and was promptly sent to a women’s prison. Where he knocked up six inmates in short order. All volunteers luckily. And not so luckily all n’er-do-wells who have left the taxpayer another six kids to pay for.
Re the Disabled Couple who get help from a sex worker. They appear in a documentary on Australian SBS Insight program Sex and Disability
Available on the SBS Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMAJHmoj9zs Rachel Wotton appears as well. A pretty interesting program