Slow News Month

As you may have noticed (and I mentioned in “Silver Lining“), it’s become difficult to fill my news columns due to the pandemic; nobody’s talking about anything else (even though there are definitely other things to talk about), so there just aren’t enough stories to feature (because I have even less interest in writing a column about stupid epidemic memes than you have in reading one).  So for the time being, I’m rationing news items to seven per news column (instead of the usual nine to thirteen) until I start noticing the number of fresh items has increased again.  This also means I have fewer things to write full columns about, so you’ve probably noticed that most of them touch on the pandemic as well.  Since I’m not going to let some stupid collection of RNA that isn’t even actually alive (and its attendant hysteria) break a decade-long perfect record, you can be sure I’ll keep posting something every day (and look for The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume II on Monday).  But until things get back to relatively normal, a lot of them may be meager pickings like this one.

Invisible Enemies

I’ve received some criticism from people who seem incensed by the fact that I’m not freaking out about the pandemic, and even criticizing the actions of politicians who are far more motivated by winning votes and casting themselves in contrast to the “Disease? What disease?” Orange-utan than by any sincere concern for human life.  Some of that is simply because I’m battle-hardened enough not to freak out even when I’m being violently assaulted, and part of it is due to decades of study of mass psychology.  See, specimens of homo sapiens are always afraid of things they can’t see (“sex trafficking is hidden in plain sight!” “Fifth column!” “They look just like us!” “Zombies!”) and it doesn’t get much more invisible than viruses.  It triggers a very deep and irrational response in the amygdala, which manifests in panic buying, overreaction, innumeracy, etc.  So while I don’t judge anyone for being scared (because it’s natural and understandable), I also discount things that are clearly panic in preparing my own mental model of what’s going on.  And I’m very frustrated with those who fly up in my face for responding calmly & pragmatically to a situation instead of blindly panicking.  It reminds me very much of my 20s, when I used to get called “cold” or even “inhuman” for not being a fucking drama queen about everything.  So please do not approach me in that manner; I didn’t tolerate it three decades ago, and I’m a lot more ornery now than I was then.

In the News (#1026)

People who haven’t had an online presence aren’t gonna make money right away.  –  Arabelle Raphael

Welcome To Our World

I hope you amateurs enjoy being hunted like animals by armed thugs:

[Cops are gleefully using violence to force peaceful] people [to] comply with the shelter in place orders across North Texas…[Pigs] have [been granted imaginary] authority to [harass] people to make sure they are…workers [the state has declared “essential”] and not [free citizens] out and about…“We did hear some complaints…of people being stopped going to work.  Let me be clear, [fuck you and we’ll keep doing it]” [oinked a pig] of the DeSoto [cop shop.  In addition, cops]…across the region are trying to…fill up the jails with people committing nonviolent or misdemeanor crimes [just as usual.  In fact, prosecutors]…will enhance crimes co[ps accuse people of] during this period [which means]…more jail time and higher fines…

But hey, I’m sure y’all won’t mind because politicians have declared that giving violent thugs permission to harass you just for existing, and robbing you of money you can’t afford to lose, is “for your own good”.

Maggie in the Media

I appeared last week on the All In A Day’s (Sex) Work podcast, speaking on (among other topics) how sex workers have often been blamed for epidemics.  Despite the grim topic, I think you’ll enjoy listening.

Property of the State 

The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it:

The Texas Attorney General’s office…ordered all clinics that provide abortion to immediately stop providing the procedure in order to comply with the state’s temporary suspension of surgeries that are not deemed “medically necessary” [by politicians]…Those in violation will face “penalties of up to $1,000 or 180 days of jail time”…

The Cult of Coupling

Too much “togetherness”, y’all?

Divorce filings are skyrocketing from quarantine-weary and financially stressed couples…matrimonial attorneys…are experiencing a 50 percent rise in inquiries from potential clients…[some] Manhattan family-law experts…[say] couples forced to spend time together while quarantined…haven’t fared well…[and] dramatic sways in the financial markets will further spur a wave of wealthy divorces, because richer spouses may decide they want out while their net worth dips…

Top Cop (#995)

This psychopath is still far too close to power for comfort:

Joe Biden is in the process of narrowing down his list of potential running mates, and his allies in the business community are weighing in with their favorite choices.  Since Biden announced earlier this month that he plans to pick a woman as his nominee for vice president, leaders of…industries have been reaching out to him and his presidential campaign about whom they think should join him on the ticket…The names being floated and pushed to Biden by this group include Sens. Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar…

Social Distancing

As always, sex workers take care of our own:

…workers…and…professionals whose livelihoods are tied to in-person meetings…are currently suffering from coronavirus-related job cuts….37 million jobs are vulnerable to layoffs due to social distancing measures…one group facing particularly acute challenges are sex workers, whose work is often illegal…or not covered by unemployment laws…many come from marginalized communities and have trouble accessing other forms of employment…the advocacy organization Bay Area Workers Support (BAWS)…launched a microgrant program that gives out payments of $50–$200 to sex workers in need…Similar efforts are taking place across the country: the Sex Worker Outreach Project…is organizing mutual aid fundraisers for sex workers in places like Los Angeles, Austin and New York, and sex workers in Las Vegas have been fundraising via crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe …Taking their work online through photos, videos, phone sex and videoconferencing is one way sex workers have [adapted]…But changing how one does business is not as easy as starting an account…

The Pro-Rape Coalition (#1023)

“Sponsored content” means content a paper was paid to publish; it’s an ad, not journalism:

Over the past few months, several articles and editorials with a distinct War On Porn propaganda slant have been appearing under the banner of The Guardian, the influential transatlantic news organization…These articles look almost exactly like the rest of The Guardian online content, with the same font, design, artwork, layout and out-links to other stories…Recent articles…[gave] a platform to…Exodus Cry founder Laila Mickelwait…the “Exploitation in Focus” series is “supported, in part, through a grant…[from] Humanity United, a U.S.-based [prohibitionist] foundation…with [a] very vague name…and mission…[which] respond[s] to a billionaire p[rohibition]ist couple…who were embroiled in a labor human trafficking scandal of their own around the time they founded Humanity United…

Diary #509

Jae finished staining my bookcases on Thursday, and said they’d be dry enough for books on Saturday.  So about 11:30 Saturday morning I started shifting my books from where they were stored in three cupboards, and by the time I stopped for dinner at 6:30 I had them all divided into 25 groups by author name (or title if there was no clear author).  The reason it took so long was that at the same time, I was also shifting Chekov’s books from the boxes in my hall into the now-vacant cupboards, where they’ll remain until we get his cottage built this summer (he ordered a kit Saturday).  Soon after dinner I started alphabetizing the shelves, and got done about 1:30 AM; then on Sunday morning I shifted them to basically even out the shelves, as you can see below (the bottom shelves, for oversize books, are not visible in this picture).  In the initial process it became pretty clear that I wouldn’t need the shorter shelves at the top of each case, so I left them empty and moved my CD collection to them on Sunday evening after spending the afternoon rearranging the utility room shelves to make better use of the space and thereby clear the rest of the boxes out the hall.  Then yesterday, we started building shelving for my TV series DVDs, and later in the week we’ll be doing another unit for movies.  That will free up the area where they now live to build a bar, which will get the liquor and glasses off of my kitchen counters.  Oh, and I’m also working on getting the clutter out of the garage.  It’s rather like one of those number puzzles where you need to slide the numbered tiles around to get them into numerical order, but I’m getting closer and closer to a solution.  I don’t particularly like everything being closed and everybody panicking, but at least I’m using the downtime constructively!

Back Issue #81

Are you blind or just stupid?  –  “Deadbeats”

• Scum brothel owners push prohibitionist lies to further their own interests.
• More women than men support the violent policing of women’s sexualities.
• Key to understanding Sweden: the government thinks it owns the citizens.
• Songs by Queen, Bob Seger, the Who, Springsteen, Cole Porter & Blondie.
• Anti-sex control freak pays someone to publish a deeply-disturbed screed.
• A thorough debunk of the annual FBI “Operation Cross-Country” pogroms.
• New York Times still can’t understand how anti-sex crusades harm people.
• Anti-whore bigotry will soon be seen as vile as anti-queer bigotry is today.
• Politicians promise the impossible, and stupid people keep believing them.
• Yet another pogrom in the pocket police-state that is Polk County, Florida.
• Men like this are the norm in prosecuting sexual offenses & always will be.
• Cops will never stop trying to gain the power to rob and rape sex workers.
• Less harmful than the usual ignorant sex work “study”, but no less stupid.
• It’s been a while since we’ve seen this touted as a “sex trafficking” Mecca.
• Say your product “fights sex trafficking” & the stupid will give you money.
• Trump’s ideas mostly involve deporting people & giving cops more power.
• “Gain access to” = “break in”.  “Seek the services of” = “attempt to rape”.
• Major ethical problem, but did letting drug warriors handle it help anyone?
• Authoritarians refuse to admit that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• An attempt to rob a business using “sex trafficking” hysteria as a weapon.
• Bruises & rope burns “signs of trafficking”? More “signs of a fun evening”.
• Lenore Skenazy’s take on yet another hysterical “sex trafficking” fantasy.
• So good to see people who had a bad time in sex work attacking Asstoon.
• Say your product “fights sex trafficking” & the stupid will give you money.
• I’d be much happier if the money went to his victims instead of the State.
• Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to sue the cops for them.
• For those still laboring under the misbelief that Nevada is whore-friendly.
• Whores have been prohibited from entering the US for almost 150 years.
• If this is a “brothel”, then a room with a foosball table in it is a “stadium”.
• Remember this when politicians tell you anti-porn laws “protect children”.
• Daily Fail pretends to care about transwomen so it can print torture porn.
• TSA & cops are allowed to sexually assault citizens without consequence.
• “Protecting women” is usually code for either spying on or controlling us.
• Got an internet-connected device? Assume it can be used to spy on you.
• Dems: Ready to disavow this lunacy you helped create & cede it to GOP?
• So why can’t drug addicts get out of 20-year sentences for “possession”?
• No information this gimmick could record could improve sex in any way.
• Please, wives, stay in denial; if you listened it might reduce our income.
• I’m amused to see Hollywood-promoted hysteria coming home to roost.
• White prohibitionists use names of dead black icons to push racist laws.
• Please, ladies, don’t give cops evidence they can & will use against you.
• Prohibitionists exhume rotting corpse of the “Scottish model” yet again.
• Five years ago, Ipswitch was claiming to have “eradicated” street work.
• Did serial rapist Matt Hickey think ignoring this would make it go away?
• Missing woman last seen with gang member; family blames bogeymen.
• Who could possibly guess septic industrial sealant isn’t for internal use?
• I’d be interested in hearing what actual sex workers think of this show.
• Nuns shocked their magical proclamation didn’t erase economic reality.
• Article quoting violent prohibitionist still sounds sympathetic to whores.
• “Pop-up brothels” are the subject of UK cops’ favorite wanking fantasy.
• Has she sadfeelz about “forced smiles” of women in other service jobs?
• I doubt legislators can make a law immune to repeal or judicial review.
• Another group throws whores under bus to curry favor with their lords.
• Should I trust an escort who doesn’t have much of an online footprint?
• No Cambodian brothel story is too shocking for Westerners to believe.
• Nicaraguan whores can be officially accredited as “judicial facilitators”.
• It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
• This is what robo-fetishists want you to believe will take my job soon.
• Presumably, those “outraged” would prefer boys be molested instead.
• 1st-amendment lawyers speak out against the Backpage persecution.
• I’m sure this “call for education” doesn’t include actual sex education.
• Harlots’ Ball, clothes sizes, dinners, cocktails & driving in Seattle rain.
• Dallas outfit cashing in on “sex trafficking” tours expands to Houston.
• In which a number of lucky folks get to sample my legendary kissing.
• Journalists love to pretend this is unusual, when in fact it’s the norm.
• These are the same cops politicians keep urging sex workers to trust.
• You mean healthy young men can’t merely be ordered to be asexual?
• What better job could there be for a queer sadist with control issues?
• A few sane people oppose the bizarre schemes of Oregon politicians.
• Sick fuck keeps laughing while facing the possibility of life in a cage.
• Great idea: make people unable to work & provide for their families!
• Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again.
• Another step toward getting completely rid of these tyrannical laws.
• Sex work is not an evil to be tolerated, but a good to be celebrated.
• This wouldn’t be OK even if the notions it’s based on weren’t idiotic.
• On the myth that porn has become mostly violent & “misogynistic”.
• Any advice for a lesbian relationship that started as escort & client?
• A list of payment processors that are openly hostile to sex workers.
• It’s illegal to pay for sex in Sweden, unless you’re the government.
• Please don’t let non-doctors inject who-knows-what into your butt.
• A short interview with a dear friend, the superlative Savannah Sly.
• Which state can produce the stupidest “sex trafficking” nonsense?
• Dysphemisms and gawking abound in UK articles about sex work.
• Politicians hire male sex workers almost as often as female ones.
• The hypocrisy of arresting underage sex workers to “help” them.
• OMG THE SEX RAYS COULD HAVE HARMED THE CHILDREN^TM!
• It’s good to see academics in the afflicted countries saying this.
• “Sex trafficking” fetishists are becoming increasingly unhinged.
• Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people“.
• Fact: Young woman leaves hotel. Conclusion: “sex trafficking”!
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• The word for government/corporate collaboration is “fascism”.
• This is a lot better than Vice‘s last article on leaving sex work.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Gee, I can’t imagine why a teenager would want a fake ID.
• Anonymity, hotels, STDs, and how many men pay for sex.
• “Rescue Two Step” by the lovely & talented Savannah Sly.
• Pigeonholes are fine for pigeons, but unsuited for people.
• Even in Ireland, the truth is dawning on many feminists.
• Is it a good idea for a newbie escort to hire a manager?
• A generous special and a tour that failed to materialize.
• The funniest unintentionally sexual album covers ever.
• Palantir helps cops spy on sex workers and minorities.
• How can I convince my wife to see an escort with me?
• Despite the pearl-clutching, I actually agree with this.
• Is anyone actually still surprised when this happens?
• Banks are looking for whores to rat out to the pigs.
• The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
• Seriously, has this girl been living under a rock?
• A rant against government-ordered clock-lying.
• How you can help support sex worker activism.
• Badass woman uses her badassery for justice.
• Where are all of these “trafficked sex slaves”?
• Only notable for the sheer density of bullshit.
• An absolutely fucking brilliant act of harlotry.
• What the hell is going on in my native state?
• More “grocery store sex trafficking” lunacy.
• More evil prohibitionist drivel from Nevada.
• An antecedent is a terrible thing to waste.
• Still another abomination from Alabama.
• The world isn’t “fair” and can never be.
• Another woman senselessly murdered.
• The story is the same the world over.
• A rare victory against prohibitionists.
• Norway, the other feminist paradise.
• Spanish city harasses streetwalkers.
• Rivers and McNeill and The Doctor.
• Two arguments about “trafficking”.
• Awesome whores being awesome.
• I don’t really care much for porn.
• More good news about bad laws.
• So much for human uniqueness.
• What could possibly go wrong?
• How can a man delay orgasm?
• A witch-hunt against comics.
• Rapist cops of March, 2017.
• Because NHI is so feminist.
• Charlie Sheen’s meltdown.
• Little by little, bit by bit.
• Only the first of many.
• A thorny BDSM case.
• R.I.P. Bob Guccione.
• On time-wasters.
• Vampire whores.
• Back so soon?
• Labioplasty.

Links #508

Somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even.  –  Kenny Rogers

Country music legend Kenny Rogers died late last week after a long, successful career which started as a doo-wop singer in the late ’50s; this was his most famous song, but he was known for many which told the stories of hard-luck characters (such as “Lucille” and “The Coward of the County”), plus his duets with Dolly Parton.  The links above were provided by Dave Krueger, Brooke Magnanti, Zuri Davis, Mistress Matisse, Phoenix Calida, and Furrygirl, in that order.

• But for video.
• R.I.P. Stuart Gordon.
• Just protecting and serving.
• Talk about being in a bubble…
• US politicians really believe they rule the world.
• Politicians won’t forgive property taxes, but want landlords to forgive rent.

From the Archives

• Cop complains that he can’t arrest those who aren’t doing anything illegal.
• The New York Times discovers what the marginalized have always known.
• It’s dangerous to be a woman who knows sexual secrets of powerful men.
• Trumpists & anti-Trumpists fight to control the “sex trafficking” narrative.
• There’s a concise word for “sexually assaulted an incapacitated woman”.
• Politicians claim magic posters “fight” a repeatedly-debunked “problem”.
• More on Seattle’s scheme to sell human lives to a sociopathic billionaire.
• From a man who imagines condoms to be weapons of mass destruction.
• How long it will be before the US abandons its “re-education” programs?
• Remember this when racists try to blame migration on African religions.
• Anti-trans bigots keep sexually assaulting trans people in public toilets.
• Massage parlors are popular pogrom targets; they’re low-hanging fruit.
• PREA is worthless while screws have absolute power over their victims.
• Regular reminder that Grady Judd is a loathsome excuse for a human.
• So many “artists” feel no compunction against exploiting sex workers.
• The hilarity of cops trying to regain control of a runaway moral panic.
• Bullshit-free headline: “How UN Staff are Helping Local Economies”.
• Fact:  3-year-old suspiciously vanishes. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
• Persecution of sex workers invariably affects other women as well.
• Captain Save-a-ho is going to “fight” our work by walking around.
• This hodgepodge tries to fit in every single “sex trafficking” trope.
• It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
• Thought blaming whores for epidemics was a thing of the past?
• The fallout will continue while this horrific law remains in force.
• Prohibitionist group laments the shutdown of a gang of rapists.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• I’m glad to see Bruckert has expanded her study into a book.
• If the people won’t support your crusade, just overrule them.
• At least Wyoming had the sense to vote this nonsense down.
• The real story here is that she was threatened with violence.
• Creepy fascist surveillance of hotel guests is growing worse.
• A retrospective of my blogging from March 2015 and 2016.
• No woman can now be safe from sexually-aggressive cops.
• Appeasing prohibitionists results in exploitation of women.
• Magical anti-pimp posters have their origins in puritanism.
• STOP CEDING GROUND TO FUCKING PROHIBITIONISTS!
• It’s been a long time since we’ve seen anything like this.
• They’re like anti-vaxxers who actively spread contagion.
• The UK’s long-deferred surveillance/censorship scheme.
• Why do men want to put stupid gadgets on their dicks?
• Are providers ever jealous or possessive of clients?
• Cops, censorship, Rube Goldberg and much more.
• How you can see The War on Whores for yourself.
• Want more proof that we’re past the watershed?
• The Canadian premiere of The War on Whores.
• Cops, cats, chickens, fascism and much more.
• Farm machinery still causes “sex trafficking”!
• Recycling the same bogeyman tale for years.
• Imagine this actually going to trial in the US.
• A fundraiser to promote The War on Whores.
• Caty Simon on overlapping prohibitions.
• Rapist cops don’t only target women.
• What “safe harbor” laws actually do.
• But they’re “rescuing sex slaves”!
• A rare victory for sex workers.
• This is called “democracy”.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• SAVE THE TOASTERS!
• A very uneven week.

In the News (#1025)

We should be very careful about granting new powers to the government.  –  Norman L. Reimer

844,739

Waffle House is so reliably open, FEMA uses them as a measure of disaster severity:

Waffle House has now closed 365 locations across the U.S. due to the coronavirus pandemic…In a Facebook post on March 15th, Waffle House said that they were attempting to keep their customers safe and keep nearly 45,000 employees employed.

Like Houses

And guess who gets to declare that an “emergency” exists?

The Trump Department of Justice has asked Congress to craft legislation allowing chief judges to indefinitely hold people without trial and suspend other constitutionally-protected rights during coronavirus and other emergencies…While the asks…will likely not come to fruition with a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives [until a future Democratic presdent asks for the same exact thing], they demonstrate how much th[e] White House has a frightening disregard for rights enumerated in the Constitution.  The DOJ [wants to]…allow any chief judge of a district court to pause court proceedings “whenever the district court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster, civil disobedience, or other emergency situation”…Norman L. Reimer…of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, [said]…“you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over.  I find it absolutely terrifying”…

The Puritan Recrudescence (#892)

Hollywood actors really need to stop pretending expertise in sexology:

British actor Orlando Bloom…recently disclosed that he practiced celibacy for six months prior to dating pop-singer Katy Perry (now his fiancee) and further disclosed [his adherence to the bizarre but increasingly-popular puritancal belief] that pornography is very “destructive”.  Bloom’s comments were praised by [pro-censorship fringe group Morality in Media]…

Torture Chamber (#1010)

“Give me your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, so I can torture them until they kill themselves”:

A 27-year-old Honduran man [killed himself in a cage after being locked in it by]…Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas…The death is the ninth in ICE custody in the 2020 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, and surpasses the number of deaths for the entire 2019 fiscal year when eight people died…The man had requested asylum [with his]…family…at a port of entry in Texas on Feb. 19…[but was denied by a pig] on Feb. 28, a decision that was later upheld by an immigration judge on March 11…

Social Distancing

How the pandemic is affecting sex workers in Germany:

At the “Lankwitzer 7” brothel…disinfectant dispensers have been installed next to the washbasins.  [Owner Aurel] Marx say he’s ordered staff to hot-wash all towels and sheets, and open the windows more often to let the warm, sticky air escape.  Still, customers just aren’t coming round anymore…since the virus arrived in Berlin…

And Bangladesh:

Sex workers from one of the world’s largest brothels appealed to the Bangladesh government…for emergency funding after a ban on customers to prevent the spread of coronavirus.  More than 1,500 sex workers are based at the Daulatdia brothel, about 100 km (60 miles) west of Dhaka, which is one of about 12 officially sanctioned brothels in the South Asian country, and receives an estimated 5,000 customers every day.  The government on [March 20^th] announced the closure of the brothel…until at least April 5 but promised to give all of the sex workers a package of 30 kgs of rice, $25, and a freeze on rent…

And Bolivia:

A nighttime curfew imposed by the Bolivian president to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus…faces opposition from sex workers, who say their already precarious livelihoods are at stake…more than 50 licensed establishments have been forced to close after the Bolivian government imposed a daily curfew from about 5 p.m. to 5 a.m…Lily Cortes, a representative of Bolivia’s sex workers union, said that if the legal establishments cannot function, “unfortunately the sex workers will go out to work the streets and the result will be worse”…

Worse Than I Thought (#1023)

Wow, two politicians with a particle of human decency!

…Odessa [Texas politician]…Dan Jones [tried to use the fantasy of “sex trafficking” to sell his proposed]…policy [to deny strippers the licenses they need to work if they got behind on their water bills while out of work during an epidemic]…but…council member Peggy Dean…ask[ed] for the…change…to be pulled from the…agenda and so did…council member Tom Sprawls.  Both previously voted against the ordinance during the March 10 council meeting…Dean said that that she disagreed with the ordinance’s utilities policy especially in the current times where many people might be unable to pay their water bill after being laid off or have had their hours cut due to the coronavirus….“I don’t really understand how the past due water bills help stop human trafficking. That makes no sense to me.”  She mentioned that if anybody had a past due water bill, then they would be 18 [even though Jones pretended his petty, punitive]…policy would help us find out who is under age.  “Well it wouldn’t, a 16-year-old wouldn’t have a water bill…[this] is very invasive and way too far reaching”…

Social Distancing (#1024)

A glimpse into the violent sociopathy that is prohibitionism:

When the news alert from the Baltimore Sun popped up saying: “Baltimore State’s Attorney Mosby to stop prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, other crimes amid coronavirus,” I had a visceral reaction that was like a punch to the gut.  I’m most concerned about the inclusion of prostitution in her list.  By [stopp]ing [cops from stalking, deceiving and raping]…sex [workers, we rob freaks like me of material for our spank banks]…I sold sex for money in my early twenties…more than a decade later, I [started swallowing prohibitionist propaganda.  Blah blah “sending a message“]…In Baltimore we have a VICE unit specifically focused on [ra]ping sex [workers]…If I reacted so viscerally to Mosby’s statement, I can only assume that [the rapist cops must have had a similar reaction to news that they would temporarily be denied opportunities to rape women and destroy peaceful men’s lives]…