Staunch Supporters

A few days ago I got a new subscriber at the top level, and it made me realize that it’s been too long since I thanked all of you for your support.  As I explained several years ago, “There’s something very comforting and flattering about getting those regular emails month after month; they say to me in no uncertain terms, this person admires you and cares about your work…I really do value those small but very regular payments, [and] not just because they help pay my bills…”  Of course, now that I’m semi-retired (and a year into the pandemic) the “paying the bills” aspect is even more important than it once was.  Of course, I value all of my subscribers, even those who can’t spare much or who find they need to cancel after a year or two.  But there’s a special place in my heart for those who subscribe at that top level, especially considering that a couple of you have been on board for seven years now!  I don’t really have any kind of premium system set up (as I’ve said before, marketing isn’t my strong suit), but I’d like to give my dollar-a-day guys an extra gift: if any of you don’t already have all of my books, please let me know and I’ll send you Kindle copies of the missing ones.  I know it isn’t much, but it’s at least one small way I can let y’all know how much your generosity and loyalty mean to me.

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Back Issue #92

Those who foolishly insist on viewing the world through the filter of dogma are blind to everything that dogma will not admit, even when the truth lies right before them.  –  “Not the Same Tree”

• Sex cannot be an addiction; those who disagree are selling something.
• Keeping your questions concise greatly increases my ability to answer.
• If sexual ignorance is grounds for forbidding it, puritans are in trouble.
• A society more concerned with appearance than substance is doomed.
• Laura Lee remembered by Brooke Magnanti and by one of her clients.
• “[Laura Lee] put herself on the line in a way few have the guts to do.”
• “Imagine…saying that domestic violence victims need to be arrested.”
• Politicians & cops snapping their fingers to keep the elephants away.
• “Sex trafficking” mythology is an inspiration to unscrupulous creeps.
• “Why do we view [men wanting sex] as being abusive or predatory?”
• Police violence against whores, and follow-ups to those examples.
• “A…war on porn would be just as winnable as the…war…on drugs.”
• How can street sex workers be controlled without criminalization?
• Claudia Christophe says we should screen allies as we do clients.
• No matter which direction the cash flows, it’s whores who suffer.
• French people discover that escort services exist, panic on cue.
• “Nothing about jackbooted cops storming in…can be pleasant.”
• Huge hordes of hookers do not follow major sporting events.
• Older men seek younger women, who capitalize on the fact.
• “I believe my goldfish is having an affair with my oven mitt.”
• A prohibitionist “survivor” attempts to infiltrate my blog.
• Josie Arlington, one of the great madams of Storyville.
• Former madam tries to cash in on prohibitionist lies.
• Streetwalker accused of “knowingly” spreading HIV.
• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
• Iceland’s extra-nasty version of the Swedish model.
• The pleasant tiredness resulting from a busy week.
• What’s the best way to perform oral sex on a man?
• Georgia declares prostitution worse than death.
• Cop hilariously compares whores to vampires.
• A priest who campaigns for sex worker rights.
• On the latest attempt to Disnify New Orleans.
• Whores are no different from everybody else.
• The court of the demimonde, February 1794.
• “Bills don’t evaporate when clubs shut down.”
• The incredible credulity of Sudhir Venkatesh.
• Walking stereotype’s lawsuit is dismissed.
• Wannabe pimp falls for Super Bowl hype.
• What testosterone doesn’t do to women.
• Why do so many more escorts kiss now?
• Introducing a new appointment type.
• Reflections on the loss of Laura Lee.
• Louisiana’s crimes against society.
• My interview with Jill Brenneman.
• My first big spate of interviews.
• How does one find an escort?
• Some weeks are just weird.
• Do as I say, not as I do.
• Deadly butt injections.
• Sex is morally neutral.
• SASS and chickens.

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Back Issue #91

Human beings are not perfectible and attempts to threaten and beat vice out of them do vastly more harm than good.  –  “Harm Reduction”

• Ignorance plus desire to avoid personal responsibility supports prohibition.
• Trying to dictate who others must have sex with is the mindset of a rapist.
• A “sex trafficking study” relying on methodology scientists call “guessing”.
• “Sexual predation by [cops] happens far more often than [cops]…admit.“
• The only realistic estimate ever done of the number of American whores.
• “[Kamala] Harris’…agenda to ‘help’ women…by…jail[ing] them…for…sex.“
• “Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy [of] justice.”
• Why would anyone want to work at a place where she was unwelcome?
• “The truth is that prostitution is more influential than you might think.“
• Government defines consenting individuals as victims, and vice versa.
• “Sex Workers Want To Stop Trafficking”, a video from SWOP Chicago.
• The rude, ignorant and childish behavior of empty-headed celebrities.
• Sweden says prostitutes can infallibly be recognized by their clothes.
• Societies, like people, sometimes suffer from autoimmune disorders.
• Dutch women have better things to do than climb corporate ladders.
• Human rights organizations are accused of “promoting prostitution”.
• The demand that sexual consent must be “enthusiastic” is infantile.
• Feeble rays of light begin to creep into a few prohibitionists’ brains.
• In which I expose the Ashley Madison scam years before the MSM.
• Meet Wanda, a call girl who specializes in very exceptional clients.
• The United States is not, and never has been, a “Christian nation”.
• “People [who] say [it’s]…easy money…have never done sex work.“
• “There is no ‘Truckers Against Trafficking Truckers’ to help me…“
• What harm reduction is about, and why sex work is a form of it.
• Another implication of Roe vs. Wade that feminists won’t admit.
• The Netherlands only started collecting sex work taxes in 2011.
• Cosmopolitan‘s juvenile, absurd and ass-backward sex advice.
• CNN’s contribution to the grand tradition of yellow journalism.
• How the government creates criminals out of ordinary people.
• US media often pretend that “Dog bites man” is newsworthy.
• “I am a mother, I am a grandmother, and I am a sex worker.“
• Why is everyone so surprised when policians hire hookers?
• Lisa France of CNN was apparently educated in a convent.
• The flu, Jesus Christ Superstar and the invisible majority.
• In which a politician blames women for being murdered.
• “Sexworkers don’t need their therapist to ‘rescue’ them.“
• Marriott announces it’s discontinuing in-room porn.
• My complicated relationship with January second.
• “All logic and reason supports…decriminalization.“
• Why doesn’t my lady like it when I delay orgasm?
• More cops raping women in order to arrest them.
• German porn star dies during her sixth boob job.
• Lorelei Rivers & I return from Puerto Vallarta.
• Back to work after my vacation in Mexico.
• Tit-for-tat non-monogamy can never work.
• Another example of Jezebel not getting it.
• How my 2012 predictions looked in 2018.
• Why don’t some women like cunnilingus?
• My Muse of Fiction shows herself again.
• It’s just so lovely having Grace nearby.
• I head for Mexico with Lorelei Rivers.
• Doublethink in Modesto, California.
• “Everyone has to have a first time.“
• The story of my operator, Gilda.
• Walking stereotype sues whore.
• The end of my annual reviews.
• On really, really cheap whores.
• A short tribute to Dolly Parton.
• Twelfth Night and King Day.
• About the “Video Vigilante”.
• Is electrolysis permanent?
• Is there a “hooker gene”?
• Welcome to our world.
• Preparing for FOSTA.
• Divorce blackmail.
• On writing drunk.
• On doublethink.

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Back Issue #90

Diversity of opinion isn’t destructive to solidarity in the movement; attempts to impose an agenda of “correct” speech and thought are.  –  “Criticism and Response”

• Why do medical professionals throw their careers away on this stupid shit?
• The time for Playboy to actively support sex worker rights is long overdue.
• Steinem’s been peddling this since 1978; I’ve been mocking it since 1984.
• Does any sane person still believe this is about anything other than profit?
• The real purpose of this scheme is to cut sex workers off from healthcare.
• Economists can’t stop making dumb statements, even in decent research.
• If you’re tempted to badge-lick, reread the original article of this heading.
• While US media self-destructively cheer censorship, Canada gives us this.
• Amateurs: a menace to public health who should be licensed & regulated.
• Even prohibitionists are growing disturbed by this megalomaniac’s antics.
• This is finally getting attention outside of libertarian & sex worker circles.
• Clear, deliberate racial profiling within government-approved guidelines.
• The evil painting must be exorcised lest its sex rays “sexualize children”!
• Think prosecution would’ve done this if the accused weren’t a politician?
• Having sex is apparently the worst thing this bird-brain can conceive of.
• Prohibitionists try to trick people into thinking Swedish model is decrim.
• Hollywood believes all whores magically lost our agency in World War I.
• Man proposes to solve problem of bad sex work laws with MOAR LAWS!
• An important article, despite the dumb & tone-deaf jab in the end note.
• This popular cop masturbatory fantasy has made it across the Channel.
• I’m honestly amazed the dumb “rape is asexual” dogma is still popular.
• I’ll bet the Swedes get all butthurt if foreign countries respond in kind.
• Would you prefer a guy who was well endowed, or smaller but skilled?
• Teen sweethearts run away; fetishists start “sex trafficking” fantasies.
• Michigan cops now they have to pretend they didn’t rape sex workers.
• Another good argument against the evil of “sex offender” registration.
• This sleazy tactic spread from Canada to Scotland, England & Ireland.
• How does one answer a young child’s question, “What’s a prostitute?”
• Prohibitionists want unproven misdemeanor charges to destroy lives.
• No other “crime” gets this treatment merely on a busybody’s say-so.
• What does it mean on an escort’s ad if it says basic plus one or two?
• “We don’t keep secrets in our family” can do more harm than good.
• Oklahoma prohibitionists claim HIV+ people emit sex rays as well.
• Hey, picket-fence gays, are you ready to support sex workers yet?
• Three years ago this was safer than consensual sex with a human.
• The many times I’ve been stalked and sexually harassed by cops.
• Some people want to reverse the burden of proof in rape cases.
• “Sex trafficking” means whatever “authorities” want it to mean.
• Despite the glaring absence of any escorts, this is good to see.
• The truth about “sex trafficking” dawns in the mind of a judge.
• It’s good to see Médecins du Monde make this position official.
• Once in a while a judge treats a sex worker as a human being.
• If you’re raped in Sweden, claim the rapist offered to pay you.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• One-person boycotts don’t really accomplish anything useful.
• How can I get women I don’t know to give me free cybersex?
• Another attempt by politicians to destroy the entire internet.
• “Sex trafficking” fetishists keep recycling their stupid stunts.
• The “end demand” strategy carried to its logical conclusion.
• Prohibitionists don’t really give a shit about Cyntoia Brown.
• While US politicians are marching along with a witch hunt.
• So if he really were a sex worker, this would’ve been OK?
• Deportation is euphemized as “sending migrants home”.
• New Orleans’ short-lived moves against prohibitionism.
• Miranda Kane on how NOT to deal with a sex worker.
• Is there a right way to do anal sex so it doesn’t hurt?
• Like all truly oppressive laws, this one is bipartisan.
• No matter what prohibitionists claim, sex is a need.
• I’m sorry, but I find this both funny and satisfying.
• The “police explorer” rape trap for underage girls.
• STOP going to see unknowns who may be cops!
• An American sex worker on working in Europe.
• The State calls this a “correctional institution”.
• A short biography of Madame de Pompadour.
• “Environmental cost” = “public health crisis”.
• This us about as “dog bites man” as it gets.
• Finishing up my annual Toys for Tots drive.
• My holiday schedule is all over the place.
• My first white Christmas in Washington.
• Are hookers typically “loose” vaginally?
• Why you should follow me on Twitter.
• This brings the toll to 28 for the year.
• The story is the same the world over.
• Please be careful out there, ladies.
• A talking toaster is still a toaster.
• Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
• Rapist cops of December 2017.
• A response to “woke” criticism.
• Rapist cops of a week in 2014.
• Rapist cops every five days.
• All prohibition is the same.
• R.I.P. Christine Keeler.
• What is a slut?

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Back Issue #89

The public considers the opinions of pop-tarts with no personal experience in [an] issue to be more important than those of activists who actually know what they’re talking about.  –  “December Updates”

From the Archives

• Woman-shaped toasters have no “moral code”; they are mindless objects.
• This wasn’t a “mistake”; it was both deliberate and government-approved.
• Brian Bates is hostile to both sex workers and “sex trafficking” mythology.
• Assume anything that connects to the internet can be used to spy on you.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
• Even when cops want to tell the truth, their bosses may force them to lie.
• Politicians can’t grasp that whores might be neither criminals nor victims.
• A cop’s masturbatory fantasy of omnipresent “pimps” with magic powers.
• Cop faces longer sentence for texting than others face for rape & murder.
• The “generous cop” scam isn’t “nice”; it’s a threatening consent violation.
• “Christian” politician has a thing for underage girls. Gee, what a surprise.
• Cops threaten & harass sex workers, then disclaim responsibility for this.
• Often, the War on Whores is the War on Drugs rather than its successor.
• Man’s garbage will have a more lasting effect on this planet than he will.
• Want to write an article supporting sex workers? Actually talk to us first.
• Bad laws disproportionately harm small businesses and poor individuals.
• He could’ve copied this from other parrots without even leaving London.
• Everett defends its sick need to control women’s clothing as “feminism”.
• It’s a shame this is what it took to bring down the “sex addiction” scam.
• It’s no surprise conservatives like sleazy entrapment schemes so much.
• “Establishing a committee to study decriminalizing sex work“; we’ll see.
• Criticize Playboy if you like, but it’s always been ahead on social issues.
• It’s good to see so many questioning the “human trafficking” narrative.
• Self-declared “expert” can’t grasp why “pimp” conviction rate is so low.
• Because giving free sex to boorish, penniless young men is “feminism”.
• Naturally, the bootlicking media doesn’t report the cost to sex workers.
• Scumbag gets comeuppance thanks to Sydney Brownstone’s diligence.
• Do idiots who use the phrase “child rape” even remember being teens?
• Declare anything a “public health crisis” and it can be harassed at will.
• My regular escort suggested dinner off-clock; should I tip her anyway?
• Cops non-consensually use sex workers as props in wanking fantasies.
• It’s disturbing to get even a whiff of the Swedish filth in Latin America.
• Defense attorneys should know it’s not cops’ job to “protect” anybody.
• Wanna ban a consensual activity? Find a problem case to shill for you.
• The more out sex workers there are, the harder it will be to ignore us.
• Sweden only cared about this rape case as a means to “get” Assange.
• There can never be too many articles on sex workers for the disabled.
• It’s good to see mainstream articles critical of the “john school” scam.
• It’s never called “trafficking” when the government or a crony does it.
• It’s satisfying watching the “sex addiction” myth implode in real time.
• Fashion designers profit from whores’ images while giving us nothing.
• None of my friends know her, but the “oral sex” thing is total bullshit.
• It’s good to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
• A disgusting hypocrite, but not a “child sex trafficker” by any stretch.
• Any call for more laws policing sexuality is authoritarian propaganda.
• Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
• Authoritarians imagine a link between sex work and barroom brawls.
• Really, guys, just hire actual pros; it’s much cheaper in the long run.
• Not for any reason whatsoever. No, your reason is not an exception.
• The “most dangerously delusional ‘sex trafficking’ propaganda” race.
• lawsuits are for the present our best weapon against prohibitionists.
• Why shouldn’t sex workers charge different prices for different acts?
• Some companies will destroy the internet for a business advantage.
• It’s sad that conformists are unable to simply respect others’ rights.
• Convicted of “sex trafficking” for running an ordinary escort service.
• Another study shows what’s already been shown over & over again.
• The “Facebook pimps” myth is one of the silliest of the whole panic.
• If sex work weren’t illegal laws like this would be easily overturned.
• What exactly is the rationale behind destroying two women’s lives?
• Another look at Nevada’s deeply-oppressive crony brothel system.
• How could even cops believe that Fresno is a “hub” for anything?
• Are there still people who believe the French are sexually liberal?
• How many fakumentaries there will be before the hysteria ends?
• Netflix produces another lurid wanking fantasy about teenagers.
• Once Patreon caved to PayPal the first time, this was inevitable.
• Ron Jeremy’s bad behavior has been an open secret for a while.
• A rare victory for sex workers against “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Could you introduce me to a sex worker I can correspond with?
• Cops, skeletons, Louisiana, amateurs, Cthulhu and much more.
• There’s so much disinformation here it’s almost mind-boggling.
• The beginning of the failed UK attempt to censor internet porn.
• The War on Whores, like the War on Drugs, is a jobs program.
• “There was no evidence…[of] threat…or any form of…coercion…”
• The quaint non-“law enforcement” term for this is “blackmail”.
• Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you.
• Why do massage parlors bring puritans out of the woodwork?
• Sex workers are and always have been the real “resistance”.
• Rapist graduates from slandering his victims to suing them.
• New York bartenders are now competing with the strippers.
• Weeping quietly over memories of beloved things now lost.
• Did he really think more than 30 bodies would stay buried?
• The crypto-moralists have been relatively quiet for a while.
• It’s a little reassuring to see somebody else recognize this.
• Another argument in favor of sex workers for the disabled.
• Ugly regurgitated sexual fantasies from a sexual predator.
• A good criticism of “slavery” talk on Laura Agustín’s blog.
• Are reporters actually paid to be clueless ignoramuses?
• Violence vs sex workers is a “hate crime” in Liverpool.
• “Strange accents” sums up what this is really about.
• Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
• The 2017 clown panic was extremely disappointing.
• “Signs of trafficking” idiocy spreads to Dutch pigs.
• An excerpt from Andrea Werhun’s Modern Whore.
• It’s good to see this getting more attention lately.
• Once again, prudishness trumps the Constitution.
• We need anarchy to protect us from government.
• Another probable casualty of the War on Whores.
• Celebrity “activists” talking over affected parties.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• It’s good to have Grace nearby for the holidays.
• The 100th anniversary of Mata Hari’s execution.
• Craigslist eliminates its “adult services” section.
• Facebook can’t even follow its own “standards”.
• Another attempt at library internet censorship.
• The fictional equivalent of a Christmas cookie.
• What should I do about intense social anxiety?
• The McNeill Rule, like its namesake, is a bitch.
• Good riddance to bad anti-whore rubbish.
• OK, so maybe she was listening after all.
• That’ll teach them dirty “sex offenders”!
• Exposing a fake-reviews-for-pay scam.
• This claim is so absurd it defies sanity.
• A raid on the Eros Guide call center.
• I called this one three years earlier.
• Nope, this isn’t sex work, no sirree.
• My first mention of “john schools”.
• A clash with a belligerent activist.
• The nanny state’s dating advice.
• Rapist cops of November, 2017.
• Thoughts on a difficult autumn.
• Prohibitionists call this “rescue”.
• Sweden, the feminist Utopia.
• Bronte sisters action figures.
• You are going to die.  Soon.
• My birthday week 2017.
• On whore goddesses.
• SCIENCE!

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Back Issue #88

Prostitution is to my knowledge the only “crime” which is entirely defined by its motive.  –  “Lack of Evidence”

• The state keeps trying to crucify a young man after the 1st attempt failed.
• Funny how clients aren’t treated as menaces to society when they’re cops.
• Moral panics only end after they start harming middle-class white women.
• Yet another pogrom in the pocket police-state that is Polk County, Florida.
• Just in case you think it’s only sex workers who will be harmed by SESTA.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
• Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
• A good little article despite a truly stupid statement in the third sentence.
• How can people read this and still think prostitution laws are a good idea?
• Negating women’s consent via psychobabble won’t stop with sex workers.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
• Weinstein made it possible to publicly attack “sex addiction” as malarkey.
• New sleazy government trick: use civil suits rather than criminal charges.
• Claiming this constitutes “slavery” is almost as stupid as calling the cops.
• I always feel dirty when prohibitionists share wanking fantasies in public.
• Anti-trans laws, religion & “feminism” are the theory; this is the practice.
• How dare they interfere with pigs’ “right” to destroy their students’ lives?
• “Authorities” claiming North Dakota is a “sex trafficking hub” is hilarious.
• “Sex trafficking” propaganda will soon be cult faves like Reefer Madness.
• When a non-sexworker uses the term “decriminalization”, read carefully.
• Collaboration between government & private industry is called “fascism”.
• At least this report doesn’t pretend these robbers were real sex workers.
• Oakland allows cops who qualify as “traffickers” by law to get away free.
• Authoritarians keep re-electing this lunatic despite the cost of his antics.
• More hysterics who can’t tell the difference between adults and children.
• Outcry against the grotesque “Operation Northern Spotlight” is growing.
• Amateurs: a health menace who should be licensed & heavily regulated.
• When a law intended as political theater is defeated, politicians still win.
• Leeds is slightly more enlightened about sex work than much of the UK.
• The Unsinkable Liz Brown looks at this year’s “Operation Cross Country”.
• Say what you like about Larry Flynt, but he’s a dedicated foe of tyranny.
• Not the same huge child porn site run by the FBI; this is a different one.
• Volunteers selflessly devote their time to watching porn so others can’t.
• How many kids must be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
• Spending as much time as possible in less-haunted parts of the house.
• “Feminist” calls other women “toilets” for ministering to disabled men.
• It’s utterly loathsome to use talk of “slavery” to oppose human rights.
• Why would anybody pay for sex instead of trying to “pick up” women?
• Pearl-clutching is both funnier and sadder when a young man does it.
• 99% of men who claim they don’t like breast implants are full of shit.
• We’re lucky to have such moral exemplars to “protect” and “lead” us.
• Evil is evil, tyranny is tyranny, and I DO NOT CONSENT, now or ever.
• Politicians everywhere are obsessed with regulating women’s bodies.
• How many need to be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
• Bad laws disproportionately harm small businesses and poor people.
• Grosso has consistently pursued this course for over two years now.
• Why is “sex trafficking” hysteria is so pervasive?  Follow the money.
• The Francophone world is in deep denial about compensated dating.
• When does a “sex trafficking victim” become an “underage hooker”?
• This was only necessary due to idiotic laws against sex businesses.
• I wonder what fraction of his rhetoric is directed toward “perverts”?
• Naturally, because it’s politicians’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
• Bigoted hotel staff in the US could have ratted her out to the pigs.
• The real purpose of this is to cut sex workers off from healthcare.
• Breaking news!  Las Vegas shooter ate food the day of his crime!
• Reporter makes poor attempt to hide envy under pearl-clutching.
• How can a client who was busted by cops help sex worker rights?
• Really not much more repressive than the so-called “free world”.
• Hey amateurs, you want to avoid being profiled as sex workers?
• Combining “sex addiction” nonsense with “sex robot” nonsense.
• Despite this popular UK cop fantasy, none has ever been found.
• Pervert cops and FBI thugs gang up to ruin the lives of women.
• Remember: these people have already served their sentences.
• Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you.
• Cops are not intended to “protect” you, and never have been.
• Indonesia is trying to criminalize all sex outside of marriage.
• Don’t feel left out, amateurs; they’ll get around to you next.
• The International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
• The BBC has discarded whatever credibility it once enjoyed.
• It looks like Scott Cunningham has finally done a good one.
• Because sex rays can piggyback on radio waves, obviously!
• Deeply stupid reporter confuses BDSM with police violence.
• Why you should be wary of talk about “going after pimps”.
• Cops call children abducted from sex workers “recovered”.
• The beginning of the end for the “sex addiction” scam.
• A grave isn’t a “final resting place”; it’s a garbage can.
• I hope none of you find this even remotely surprising.
• How “feminism”, Gay Inc & ACLU betray sex workers.
• Will Weinstein bring down the “sex addiction” scam?
• A Utah politician’s bizarre anti-porn antics continue.
• It was inevitable they’d get around to transwomen.
• The official completion of my move to Washington.
• Many sex workers really hate the word “prostitute”.
• This will continue for as long as prohibition does.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• What really goes on in Seattle’s “john school”?
• Escort advertising is already illegal in Ireland.
• Yet another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
• What is wrong with doctors who do this shit?
• Decriminalization does not create a “Mecca”.
• In which I add a bookstore to this website.
• Why hackers should support sex workers.
• Talking is now defined as “sex trafficking”.
• This isn’t “remarkable” or even “unusual”.
• “Sex trafficking” as the new “blood libel”.
• Definitely not the worst pickup line ever.
• The real result of “sex trafficking” laws.
• The dysphemisms are thick in this one.
• The truth about Swedish “feminism”.
• Another whore who thinks she isn’t.
• My creativity is a lot like my libido.
• It’s your turn to help sex workers.
• “This is not about sex trafficking“.
• HIV-positive man cured in Berlin.
• Another setback for due process.
• I really, really don’t like change.
• Rapist cops of October, 2017.
• The ten worst jobs in the US.
• On “evidence of prostitution”.
• The story of a shill for AHF.
• Hooters, Japanese style.
• From moving to fixing.
• R.I.P. Hugh Hefner.

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Back Issue #87

The fact that a cherished tenet of dogma is demonstrably false never stops True Believers from instilling it indelibly into the public consciousness by endless repetition.  –  “Ban the Super Bowl!”

• The “money is a magic mind-control spell” idiocy expanded to a new level.
• Places Americans dismiss as “3rd world” are ahead of the US in SW rights.
• A good article with a horrible headline: sex work is work, not an “offense”.
• Isn’t it obvious that when pigs are actively engaged in stings, arrests rise?
• The word “illicit” makes the user sound like a pearl-clutching schoolmarm.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
• I hope this rapist spends the rest of his life on the “sex offender” registry.
• Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
• Despite genuflecting to ugly myths, this seems a step in a good direction.
• New sleazy government trick: use civil suits rather than criminal charges.
• It’s “baffling and perplexing” that websites don’t want the web destroyed.
• Stick to ladies with established reputations & you’ll be safe from this evil.
• Despite exaggerated numbers to make it more lurid, this is a huge yawn.
• Emily Yoffe takes a deep dive down the “campus rape crisis” rabbit hole.
• When a whore dies, the media treats it as a form of lurid entertainment.
• Exactly what prohibitionists wanted, despite their claims to the contrary.
• Remember this next time you hear pigs oinking about arresting “pimps”.
• They realized they could expand the panic by adding male “sex slaves”.
• IWW was the 1st major union to support sexworkers; won’t be the last.
• US prohibitionists refer to this kind of lying as “reframing experiences”.
• Massage parlors are popular pogrom targets; they’re low-hanging fruit.
• The State calls torture “correction” and torturers “correctional officers”.
• Picture what you’d think of as “sex trafficking”, then compare it to this.
• No, I won’t “debate” you, nor will I tolerate filth in my online presence.
• “Expert sex therapists” have never labelled “sex addiction” a disorder.
• Lawheads’ capacity for denying reality is nothing short of astonishing.
• More bad laws that destroy civil rights in the name of “sex trafficking”.
• The difference between legalization and decrim cannot be overstated.
• Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
• Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
• The owner has since taken down all the pirated porn and apologized.
• Cops struggle to regain control of runaway “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• How does one who lives in a small town or rural area find an escort?
• Migrant African SWs treated as adults rather than childlike “victims”.
• Buried lede: cops sexually assaulted women in order to arrest them.
• The idea that men can’t tell a doll from a woman insults all humans.
• Prudes freak over a common arrangement as old as human culture.
• Reminder: Grady Judd is an utterly loathsome excuse for a human.
• What was the point of talking to Annie if she wasn’t going to listen?
• The word for a place people are kept against their will isn’t “home”.
• Lowering the penalty for something that shouldn’t even be a crime.
• In the modern US & countries it occupies, evil doesn’t have to lurk.
• Destroying the internet to secure a temporary business advantage.
• “Progressive” Washington state reaffirms its “liberal” views on sex.
• Another ludicrous concepts for a supposed “gypsy whore” magnet.
• It’s always a pleasure to see whore-raping scum thrown in prison.
• Congress is split on whether it’s OK for pigs to rob citizens blind.
• A fairly typical abomination, but with an extra racist component.
• I’m aghast at everyone involved in the creation of this shitshow.
• Hmmm, I wonder why they accused this particular restaurateur?
• “Erroneous” implies an honest mistake; this is willful conflation.
• A new twist in Everett, WA’s absurd “bikini barista” melodrama.
• Another sex worker turned performing artist, this one a rapper.
• Not so long ago, most US brothels were owned by sex workers.
• Irish prohibitionists try not to look like the sociopaths they are.
• Don’t “debate” prohibitionists; attack their statements instead.
• The State covering up for rapist cops isn’t confined to the US.
• Bindel is increasingly becoming a transparent laughing stock.
• Prohibitionists are desperate to make New Zealand look bad.
• We’re witnessing the end of the beginning of these evil laws.
• ACLU says too little, too late about “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Nothing makes authoritarians lose their shit faster than sex.
• Sex work is work, and there is no specific “sex worker type”.
• Brooke Magnanti reviews Julie Bindel’s latest farrago of lies.
• Go on, keep telling me how the slippery slope is a “fallacy”.
• I’m really enjoying “grocery store sex trafficking” hysteria.
• This is why sex workers shouldn’t “debate” prohibitionists.
• Why governments are more dangerous than corporations.
• IJM is one of the sleaziest of the rescue industry groups.
• Beware of hotels eager to suck the cocks of “authorities”.
• What might the internet look like if SESTA isn’t stopped?
• Melissa Petro on her post-sex work dating experiences.
• Anyone surprised by this knows nothing about women.
• The anti-porn loons are completely losing their minds.
• This year’s “creepy clown” panic is off to a good start.
• Imagine this article in an American parenting column.
• On the anti-whore hostility of Canadian “authorities”.
• The leading edge of a wedge is often extremely thin.
• Ignore step two, but the rest of this is pretty good.
• How can an anonymous blogger accept donations?
• Before reporters recognized sugaring as sex work.
• Zimbabwean sex workers demonstrate their clout.
• It’s nice to see at least a few reporters waking up.
• How can I make sex good for my virgin girlfriend?
• What a column written on diazepam looks like.
• Shawna:  A Life on the Sex Offender Registry.
• Former sex workers and NPR “sex trafficking”.
• Dayton, Ohio joins the “Dear John” letter fad.
• Anti-sex crusaders love their pseudoscience.
• An unusual portrayal of sex work in cinema.
• Censorship in the name of “THE CHILDREN!”
• Unwise monkeys censoring their own input.
• The Swedish model protects sex workers!
• As I keep saying over and over and over.
• Brooke Magnanti on sex, lies & statistics.
• Number of charges ≠ number of victims.
• From DV Bowl to “Sex Trafficking” Bowl.
• Julian Assange & the rise of censorship.
• The real result of “sex trafficking” laws.
• “Sex robot” hysteria gets ever sillier.
• A whirlwind trip to San Francisco.
• Saint Nicholas, patron of whores.
• Rapist cops of September, 2017.
• Barbie was once a sex worker.
• The last full run of my move.
• The end of the move at last.
• “Scientific” porn detection.
• Travel, travel, travel!

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Back Issue #86

Until…women present a unified front against collective ownership of our bodies, progress will be slow at best.  –  “What a Week!”

• Naturally; they can steal more money from whores & we don’t shoot back.
• When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
• People who can’t admit their kinks unknowingly display them to the world.
• Only the individual has the right to determine conditions for their consent.
• I’ve a strong feeling that this will be the nadir of the “gypsy whore” myth.
• There are now two outfits cashing in on “sex trafficking” tours in Houston.
• Just because someone opposes bad guys, doesn’t make them a good guy.
• Just in case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to prisoners.
• Scheme to cut sex workers off from healthcare system spreads to the UK.
• Europeans wank to thoughts of Nigerian women enslaved by black magic.
• Apparently Dan Rubinstein has never heard of a thing called “pregnancy”.
• Even when the reason is clear, “authorities” prefer to blame sex workers.
• Is it normal to feel like a failure when you’re behind your peers in school?
• Half the population of New York City would be contaminated by sex rays!
• What’s the proper way for a client to express dissatisfaction with service?
• As long as these laws exist, all women are vulnerable to cop persecution.
• This whole “letting go and enjoying the ride” thing is pretty novel for me.
• The media won’t recognize Julie Bindel as a broken-down one-trick pony.
• I’m glad somebody beat the pompous politicians of Seattle to the punch.
• “Studies” claiming an impossibly-tiny fraction of men pay for sex are BS.
• “Sex trafficking” panic will be over soon, but the damage has been done.
• Authoritarians would be more dangerous if they’d get their shit together.
• While these laws exist, all women are vulnerable to persecution by cops.
• ESPLERP vs. Gascon reaches a court which could possibly do something.
• The depravity of prohibitionists’ lurid fantasies about our lives and work.
• The State wants us to refer to these evil thugs as “correctional officers”.
• The long US tradition of harmful policies that fly in the face of evidence.
• Texas dreams up some of the sleaziest anti-abortion tricks of any state.
• “Repatriation” is the currently-fashionable euphemism for “deportation”.
• “Believe women!” vanishes when a woman contradicts feminist dogma.
• Woman regrets shunning her father for getting caught in a client sting.
• Australia appears much more committed to human rights than Europe.
• Lots of reporters still masturbate to this thoroughly-debunked fantasy.
• Heroic Irish “authorities” save a man from getting a kidney transplant.
• Prohibitionists think we can’t see them wanking to the “pimp” fantasy.
• More scumbags profiting from whores by promoting lies that harm us.
• “Sex trafficking” hysteria is spinning out of control of the “authorities”.
• Hiding migration control behind “sex trafficking” cant is often obvious.
• Prohibitionists try to turn the truth about “gypsy whores” on its head.
• It’s unusual to see them actually use the word “rape” in this context.
• Why must decrim supporters promote myths, lies & insulting tropes?
• It’s good to see young “feminist” writers taking interest in this issue.
• What “legalized and heavily regulated” actually looks like in practice.
• No government “commission” will ever recommend giving up power.
• Mr. Bell’s company is under increasing scrutiny for prostitution calls.
• On the strange belief that historical courtesans were not prostitutes.
• I debunked COSA in this blog five and a half years before Salon did.
• The Adam Smith Institute continues its support of decriminalization.
• How different the same story sounds when stripped of euphemisms.
• Charlie Sheen, a mega-brothel, cop violence and the Hall of Shame.
• US victims would’ve been arrested when they reported the attacks.
• Remember when commies were bad for having militarized borders?
• The Pope continues to recklessly promote “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• COSWAC mocks the absurdity of “signs of sex trafficking” in hotels.
• A very reasonable article, considering the BBC’s usual prudishness.
• Despite this UK cop wanking fantasy, not one has ever been found.
• If Backpage was so awful, why did politicians need lies to attack it?
• Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• The “official” end of Operation Choke Point, but expect it to return.
• When “diversion” programs are subject to prosecutorial discretion.
• It’s sick and sad how Gay, Inc abandoned him to the government.
• Pro-decriminalization essays in newspapers are no longer a rarity.
• Why are men pearl-clutching even more than women these days?
• Criticism of “anti-trafficking” propaganda from inside their ranks.
• Why do massage parlors bring the puritans out of the woodwork?
• British model uses “sex trafficking” hysteria for a publicity stunt.
• More interested in promoting an agenda than protecting society.
• Nick Kristof and others share their fantasies of enslaved whores.
• When political & private interests “partner”, it’s called “fascism”.
• If you think they’ll keep this limited to sex crimes, you’re a fool.
• Liz Brown on the warped mind of Seattle prosecutor Val Richey.
• A rare victory for sex workers against “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• Peak hysteria: when a moral panic features in afternoon soaps.
• Liz Brown ridicules the “solar eclipse sex trafficking” nonsense.
• Sometimes “trafficking” just means “bringing in brown people”.
• Why do so many sex workers not want to fight criminalization?
• Syphilis outbreak among filthy amateurs is blamed on whores.
• Nobody still believes cops’ pretense that this isn’t about profit.
• Seems the same as an earlier news item, but worth revisiting.
• At last, a very small measure of justice for Fran & Dan Keller.
• The censors who want the internet destroyed are at it again.
• Pakistan surpasses the US in at least one area of civil rights.
• As the hysteria collapses, this will happen much more often.
• From now on, most of my Friday columns will be low-effort.
• Looks like LA still isn’t done beating this very dead horse.
• No, there are no good reasons to root for Kamala Harris.
• Australia has far more sane feminists than does the US.
• Pigs just love to make their fantasies sound “scientific”.
• They’re literally recycling “gypsy whore” tall tales now.
• More on the censors who want to destroy the internet.
• My seasonal anxiety is usually worst in the Dog Days.
• On the actual cost of my exceptional characteristics.
• An essay by the mother of the late Grace Bellavue.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.
• Do you offer business coaching for providers?
• A fake “trafficking study” done by marketers.
• I really hate buying and selling real estate.
• Yet another example of the McNeill Rule.
• I wonder how many hand jobs this took?
• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
• Swanee Hunt’s foul reek is all over this.
• A sign of how much things are shifting.
• The first load finally arrives at Sunset.
• I hope she gets every damned penny.
• Seeing the total eclipse with Lorelei.
• What real “sex slavery” looks like.
• Problems in the move to Sunset.
• All prohibitionism is the same.
• Rapist cops of August 2017.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• A thoroughly awful madam.
• Yuletide and Toys for Tots.
• Remember “titcoin”?
• Moving troubles.

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Catching Up, Revisited

Seven years ago I published “Catching Up“, in which I gave a new reader advice of how to get started reading my blog.  At the time, I compared the strategy of starting at the beginning and trying to read every post with “hacking your way across the Amazon Basin with a machete,” and since there are now roughly 3.5 times as many posts as there were then, that is barely even hyperbole any more.  Some of the advice is still good, such as the following:

…subscribe to the blog and read the new columns as they come out; most of them contain links to older columns, which you could then read as they come up…[twice a week] I publish a news column…made up of…short subsections; each item has its own title, and the vast majority of those titles refer back to older posts (each containing a link to the referenced post).  This will lead you to a lot of older columns every week, assuming you have the time!  Also, every Sunday I publish a “Links” column, and the bottom section, “From the Archives”, contains links to the posts from that same week for the past two years; you could click on and read any that sound interesting.  You can also follow me on Twitter, where I share lots of interesting links…and also remind readers of my columns from that same day one, two and…three years in the past…

But now that I’ve been publishing for over a decade, the best way to start is to simply buy my “best of” collections, The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I and Volume II; they’re available in both paperback and Kindle editions, and each contains 52 hand-picked, revised and edited essays from the first six years of the blog.  Then watch this space for future “best of” collections, including Ask Maggie, Volume I (a collection of 80 answers to reader questions, which should be available later this week) and Volume II (same, should be available in October).  In addition to presenting what I think are my most important essays in a more accessible and easier-to-browse format, these volumes give you the chance to support my work in a tangible way, which is especially important in these difficult times; it’s a perfect example of a win-win situation!

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Back Issue #85

Making wildly exaggerated Criswell-like predictions of the number of hookers who will descend upon a major sporting event has become a popular pastime of prohibitionists.  –  “Hidden Hordes of Hookers”

• Whatever a sex worker does later, they’ll always be a whore to the media.
• Cops keep pretending they want to “help” the women they stalk & harass.
• Campaigns against sex work are part of a war against all sexual behavior.
• Despite this fantasy’s popularity with UK cops, none has ever been found.
• Adult man wearing a costume mansplains professionals’ own job to them.
• Critical thinking skills are not a prerequisite for nursing or medical school.
• Surveillance weapons are often tested on whores, but never stop with us.
• Politicians can’t grasp that whores might be neither criminals nor victims.
• Another crime victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
• Soi-disant ally thinks we’re childlike morons in need of licensed handlers.
• Massage parlor licensing is widely touted as a way to “fight prostitution”.
• My dominatrix is ignoring me for accidentally offending her. Any advice?
• And the next time they broaden the definition, it will “grow” even more!
• That vile use of “safer neighborhood team” to mean “vice squad” again.
• This woman reminds me very much of Annie Lobert of “Liars for Jesus”.
• This in a mainstream mag like Glamour is an extremely promising sign.
• We may have a winner in the “stupidest gypsy whore magnet” contest.
• Just in case you think owning a “legal” sex work business protects you.
• Even for the prohibitionist New York Times, this is pretty jaw-dropping.
• Seattle cops & prosecutors destroy more men’s lives for fun and profit.
• Another chapter in this grotesque campaign to intimidate sex workers.
• The fanatically-prohibitionist Seattle Times again revisits the TRB raid.
• Historians will view this propaganda as our era’s Malleus Maleficarum.
• Small cities’ ludicrous concepts for supposed “gypsy whore” magnets.
• Only another month or so before the “creepy clown” hysteria returns!
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control of “authorities”.
• Reporters are stupid enough to keep giving Dennis Hof free publicity.
• Because Agatha Christie novels & TV cop shows increase real crimes.
• Some cops just can’t stick with the “all whores are victims” program.
• Another amateur profiting from sex workers while giving us nothing.
• Please don’t use my escort email unless you want to book a session.
• Remember this when you hear pigs oinking about arresting “pimps”.
• A live-action version of that moronic “escape the pimp” video game.
• Another dumb, sensationalized article, now with added whorearchy.
• A watered-down disease culture, but a disease culture nonetheless.
• Another vile apology for evil policies that enable uniformed rapists.
• “Hi, I’m interested in buying sex from a potential trafficking victim.”
• Picket-fence gays have become an active threat to sexual freedom.
• Prosecutors’ magic Shazam power can turn “children” into “adults”.
• Fetishists expend so much energy on something that doesn’t exist.
• Why don’t actresses who play sex workers actually learn about us?
• Just in case you didn’t think you were spied on enough in airports.
• Your regular reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• This dude’s clutching his pearls so hard, he’s starting to turn blue.
• Is it “sexist” for a sex worker’s client to request a custom service?
• This dude must’ve pissed off somebody well above his pay grade.
• Another interview with Dr. Agustín about The Three-Headed Dog.
• “Sex trafficking” hysteria spins out of control of the “authorities”.
• Alas, “creepy clown” panic can’t derail “sex trafficking” hysteria.
• A politician describes my flexible, lucrative job as “undesirable”.
• I love seeing “authorities” caught up in their own moral panic.
• When it’s a cop, sexual coercion magically becomes “bribery”.
• Using “sex trafficking” hysteria as anti-American propaganda.
• Fanatics are recycling old “sex trafficking awareness” stunts.
• Still more victims of the Satanic panic released from prison.
• This scam has existed for as long as there have been cities.
• Do they even think about the words they’re vomiting out?
• One wonders if this loon asks her vibrator for its consent.
• And people wonder why I’m critical of “child porn” laws.
• I hope none of you find these even remotely surprising.
• Naturally, Cassandra McNeill was saying this years ago.
• Lorelei and I travel to Ireland; here are some pictures.
• Dick is not in any way an equal or fair trade for pussy.
• On the humorous, adventurous rapists of Disneyland.
• Another creepy cop entrapment & surveillance game.
• Loon claims NASA is sex trafficking children to Mars.
• Sex work criminalization under repressive regimes.
• No doubt caused by the presence of corn and I-35.
• Another episode in the demonization of Backpage.
• My very first column on the “gypsy whores” myth.
• Debunking the “average age of debut is 13” myth.
• No cops. No cages. No shaming or brainwashing.
• A promising start for decrim in South Australia.
• I gave an interview to Dr. Heather Branstetter.
• Lorelei and I prepare to depart for Ireland.
• How Taiwanese police harass sex workers.
• Another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
• Pigs claim sexting is a “gateway” to rape.
• “Crime”: stillbirth. Penalty: life in a cage.
• Another bogus “super gonorrhea” scare.
• Lorelei, Ghost Rider and I visit Ireland.
• Long-time readers already know this.
• Doesn’t monogamy get old  for you?
• Did you ever have a condom break?
• Not a good move on Deen’s part.
• How old are these idiots, eight?
• This was only a matter of time.
• The history of harm reduction.
• French colonial concubines.
• Pride and Wonder Woman.
• Rapist cops of July 2017.
• No More Sex Shame.
• Moving troubles.
• Halfway whores.

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