Memory Hole

I think regular readers already understand my views on government, and I don’t believe anyone who has read more than a few scattered columns would be so foolish as to attempt to get me to do something by vomiting “It’s the law!” all over my mailbox.  Alas, not everyone is a regular reader of this blog, and many who aren’t are such hopeless moral imbeciles that they truly believe some agreement made between fascists whom I neither know nor respect establishes some kind of “legitimate” authority over me that I’m bound to obey, even if it runs contrary to my own moral precepts.  And so three times already this year I’ve been emailed by people requesting, arguing for or even demanding the censorship of their names from some news item on this blog, due to the European Union’s imaginary “right to be forgotten“.  One of these individuals was such a complete arsehole, removing his name would’ve constituted collaboration with evil; one I had no opinion about, and the most recent I was actually sympathetic to.  But when I cover a news story, I already make a decision whether the names should be shared or not, and “it’s the law” is, if anything, an argument against complying with a demand for censorship.  But it’s more than just that; years ago in “A Look at the Works” I wrote…

…I take an extremely dim view of websites who shove posts down the memory hole just because some readers didn’t like them; I have the philosophy that “you can’t unring a bell”, so once a post is up I will not remove it no matter who finds it offensive.  Besides the ethical problem that would create, removing the index entries and hyperlinks would be like pulling one gear out of a clock…and if you think I’m going to leave an ugly and conspicuous hole in a four-year-long perfect record just because it hurt your feelings, I respectfully suggest you reconsider your place in the universe…

Since then I’ve made exactly one exception to that rule (about which the less said, the better) at the request of a person I love very much, because for me loyalty trumps everything else.  But if you aren’t such a person I suggest you reread the above block quote while remembering that “four-year-long perfect record” has since grown to ten, then ask yourself whether you really think I’ll make an exception for you because some especially-pompous politicians a third of the way around the planet ordered me to.

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Back Issue #75

When the external sky and landscape match the gloomy October Country inside my skull and my soul, I feel at home and at peace.  –  “Diary #326”

• When migration control disguised as “sex trafficking” law is very apparent.
• Even credulous reporters now feel compelled to at least mention Amnesty.
• We don’t want to be “legalized & regulated”; we just want to be left alone.
• Yellow journalism about young women from PBS and the New York Times.
• Why does Gay, Inc never speak up for sex worker rights until it’s too late?
• Judge thinks it’s her job to convince young sex worker that she’s a victim.
• The prosecutor couldn’t exercise his discretion & decline to press charges.
• “Unbelievably” is a good adverb for nearly every sentence in this fantasy.
• Whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
• A rather lackluster study of underage sex workers; not bad, but slipshod.
• Since this fascist wankfest hasn’t sold as a TV show, they made a movie.
• Maybe if we keep repeating this, it’ll eventually sink into the public skull.
• Another rape victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
• Prosecutors have the magical ability to transform a “child” into an adult.
• California gives cops power to indefinitely detain underage sex workers.
• “Children” are inanimate objects who can’t move without being carried.
• Remember, cops, you’re allowed to RAPE us, but not to obtain consent.
• 1.5% is my standard estimate of coercion among Western sex workers.
• Extra nasty:  reporters gloating over popular stars’ sex worker siblings.
• Amateurs: a public health menace who should be licensed & regulated.
• Now the precedent’s established, expect more laws that presume guilt.
• “Virginity tests” are a sign of our culture’s deeply-sick sexual attitudes.
• Another way to destroy lives, funded by the sociopathic Swanee Hunt.
• Only in Australia would a politician follow this insult with this apology.
• Is it a good idea to reject mentally disabled clients or those under 18?
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever, especially not whores.
• I can’t think of a venue less conducive to selling sex than a state fair.
• A better monument: abolish the bad laws that enabled their murders.
• Pathetic losers wanking to their fantasies of superhuman sex robots.
• Dysphemisms are used to conjure a story out of nothing but rumors.
• Are headline writers the most clueless people in news organizations?
• I’m an adult virgin with a new girlfriend; should I see an escort first?
• Interesting that this article doesn’t mention the anti-Backpage mob.
• Please use public computers to report every police car you can find.
• A coalition between fundamentalist groups is in no way “surprising”.
• Is it wrong to be bothered by professionals trading services for sex?
• For a change, it only took the MSM two years to catch up with me.
• “Contracts” like this offer no protection & can be damning in court.
• The defense of choice for non-violent sex offenders, plus “autism”.
• Mistress Matisse chats with Dan Savage about SWOP Behind Bars.
• This man has helped destroy hundreds of lives for consensual sex.
• Just another example of “authorities” paying men to rape whores.
• Another state plans to “fight sex trafficking” with magical posters.
• A reminder that in most of the US, the situation is still worsening.
• I truly hope many more clients are inspired to speak out like this.
• In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting her.
• Ricochet‘s series on the effects of Canada’s new anti-whore laws.
• Let’s hope other ACLU chapters start following New Jersey’s lead.
• Quickly becoming one of the stupidest tropes of the whole panic.
• Why people view sex work as an “unacceptable” risk for women.
• Article equates sex workers with child molesters and murderers.
• More anti-sex violence funded by the sociopathic Swanee Hunt.
• Remember the creepy Swedish cop who collects used tampons?
• Serious question: How do we nominate Liz Brown for a Pulitzer?
• Watch for escorts to be prosecuted for “trafficking” themselves.
• Thugs brutalize two old women, rob over $500,000 from them.
• Government-backed internet gentrification harms sex workers.
• Sheltered reporter thinks a cop groping a woman is “shocking”.
• Pimp-like con artist fights to keep her “rescue” scam going on.
• Can activist mean someone who literally does & says nothing?
• I’m not going to try to quote any of this massive garbage fire.
• Expect a lot more cases like this before potty hysteria is over.
• “Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose.”
• Assume your internet-connected devices are spying on you.
• Politician hires sex worker; meanwhile, bear shits in woods.
• Criminalization always makes sex work conditions shittier.
• Another example of “grocery store sex trafficking” lunacy.
• Seattle cops have a positive fetish for illegal surveillance.
• Like something Melissa Farley would make up, only true.
• Kudos to the IWW for supporting sex workers in Iceland.
• Pigs steal $26,000 from citizens & spend it on strippers.
• No, it won’t, but it’ll make these opportunists wealthier.
• 10 reasons decriminalizing sex work is a feminist issue.
• Did this lawsuit really need ugly whorearchical bullshit?
• What a witch hunt looks like through an anti-sex filter.
• Make sure you swallow your drink before reading this.
• It’s nice to know that at least a few reporters get this.
• What exactly is the rationale behind this prosecution?
• I guess that “outside agency” never heard of Snopes.
• My friend Kaytlin Bailey, on coming out to her father.
• Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
• Is it bad if I can only feel intimacy with sex workers?
• Why Brazil turned down $40 million in US handouts.
• People who love me are a medicine for melancholy.
• I am proud to call this incredible woman my friend.
• In which I finally finish decorating my apartment.
• Becoming less tense with the arrival of autumn.
• This excuse is pathetic, even by cop standards.
• How you can help me wake up in the morning.
• Canada really is trying to be more like the US.
• Another victory against a political witch hunt.
• WARNING:  Lelo Hex condoms are NOT safe!
• Debunking of prohibitionist lies is spreading.
• I really hate being right all the fucking time.
• Mostly just a lot of prohibitionist posturing.
• Cop stalks sex workers via police records.
• They’re only saying this because it’s true.
• Another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
• Clients of Sex Workers Allied for Change.
• Another sex worker on a TV reality show.
• You can’t keep a bad organization down.
• Sometimes the two “wars” blur into one.
• You know you’re in a moral panic when…
• Chester Brown discusses his new book.
• It’s almost like he wants to get caught.
• I hope she gets every damned penny.
• A step in the right direction, at least.
• A new low in prohibitionist vileness.
• I really admire this lady’s chutzpah.
• Child-raping politician of the week.
• A special rate just for my readers.
• The body count continues to rise.
• Alas, the victory was short-lived.
• Rapist cops of September, 2016.
• A strange, unwholesome week.
• A story I wrote when I was 18.
• Nothing happened; film at 11!
• Of course it’s a fucking setup.
• A little about my bisexuality.
• “Threatening the peace.”
• Five million pageviews.
• The stupidity defense.
• “Whoredar”.

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Diary #479

Grace wasn’t quite finished with redoing the plumbing yet (largely because whoever installed it the first time made some mighty strange decisions), but these days I find myself much less anxious than I’d usually be at this time of year, probably because I’ve just increased my cannabis intake to bring my anxiety levels down to more autumnal levels.  Because Sunset is near the edge of a rain forest it rarely gets more than warm out there, and generally it’s chilly enough to need another layer even in summer, as in this picture (with a small visitor who came to see what Snake Mama was up to).  But it won’t be much longer before we’re finally done with floor-leveling and can move on to bookcases, and by spring we should be ready to start on the bathhouse.  There are some other improvements Grace and Chekhov want to do, and naturally other things will pop up and will need to be maintained.  But all in all, I’m really looking forward to having a place that’s basically the way I want it, rather than a work in progress as I have for the past 17 years.  And that’s a big improvement.

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Back Issue #74

Most people are willing to crawl to the politician, licking his boots in order to gain a few scraps from his table, but the whore merely laughs at him and reverses the relationship while providing living proof of the inability of his profession to eradicate or control ours.  –  “The Biggest Whores”

• Be skeptical of claims about the sexual habits of the “younger generation”.
• Economists don’t have a monopoly on stupid assumptions about sex work.
• Amazon’s not a library, but given prominence this is a censorship attempt.
• I’m sure you feel safer now that police “investigated” this “sexual assault”.
• Christina Slater on Seattle’s persecution of men who seek consensual sex.
• “Pedophiles” can shoot dangerous “male gaze” radiation through internet.
• Trying to turn Lawrence into a “monogamous vanilla amateurs only” club.
• Houston judge orders hotel to pay off cops & discriminate vs sex workers.
• Minnesota tries to cash in on “sex trafficking” hysteria before it vanishes.
• This woman is so puffed up, I think she’d pop if one stuck her with a pin.
• If there are so many “sex trafficking victims”, why keep making up tales?
• “New Orleans Ladies”, “Roxanne”, “867-5309”, “The Taxicab” and “Next”.
• Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking” & stupid people will give you money.
• Seattle “officials” think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use.
• Sometimes land grabs are more subtle, even if reporters’ language isn’t.
• Are politicians really stupider than other people, or does it just seem so?
• “Sex addiction” is now being used as a defense for violent sex offenders.
• Latest battle in France’s ongoing war on Muslimahs’ personal autonomy.
• Pompous ass seems committed to braying out of both sides of her maw.
• Prosecutors claim sex workers are victims and criminals simultaneously.
• Sweden emasculates its men, wonders why Swedes are having less sex.
• The myth of “sex addiction” sprang from “social construction of gender”.
• Being a “legal” sex worker doesn’t protect you, so stop your bootlicking.
• Cop thinks she can “build communication with sex workers” by robbery.
• I’m glad to see well-spoken & “out” sex workers appearing on podcasts.
• What happens when cops “enforce” laws against acts that hurt nobody.
• Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking”; stupid people will give you money.
• Most politicians are more careful when indulging in drugs with hookers.
• US “authorities” turn driving a friend to work into “child sex trafficking”.
• Once again, Liz Brown exposes the tyranny of “fighting sex trafficking”.
• Reporters should be ashamed of their attempts to shame sex workers.
• Gary Johnson’s position on sex work wasn’t quite so muddled in 1991.
• Philippine president carrying “War on Drugs” to its logical conclusion.
• Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
• Imagine if $100,000 was spent on services instead of spreading lies.
• A client who isn’t afraid of the cops and their stupid shaming tactics.
• On the fantasy that “predators” use video games to abduct children.
• Not rape, but he sure seems to think it was his privilege to fuck her.
• More groups are speaking up in favor of sex work decriminalization.
• Louisiana politicians destroy scores of jobs with the stroke of a pen.
• Nearly all “sex offender” laws are this unconstitutionally overbroad.
• How does this dude think he’ll get around UK brothel & avails laws?
• Why do economists make such dumb assumptions about sex work?
• Another violent cop, another black woman profiled as a sex worker.
• Ally uses the Desiree Alliance conference to introduce larger issues.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.
• “Punitive and stupid” describes all “sex offender” registration laws.
• Cops frame young men for supposedly “seeking sex with children”.
• Rent in exchange for sex isn’t “free”; it has been paid for with sex.
• You’re supposed to be a libertarian, Gary; this ain’t rocket science.
• Despite its appearance in Rolling Stone, this is an excellent article.
• They’re not going to like legalization & protectionism if they get it.
• Exactly like the World Cup two years ago. Why can’t people learn?
• Over 90% of violence against sex workers comes from the police.
• Ian O’Doherty with another denunciation of prohibition in Ireland.
• One of the rare times you’ll ever see me actually assist the cops.
• Putting extraordinary restrictions on cops is not remotely unfair.
• Why won’t those who know anti-sex dogma is bullshit speak up?
• Melissa Petro on the stigma faced by sex workers with children.
• These “experts” don’t criticize “john shaming” when cops do it.
• There’s no “if” about it; Melania Trump is or was a sex worker.
• Canada’s new law “protects” sex workers from lonely old men.
• Transmen are also the subjects of violence and discrimination.
• Mexican police do little to protect the transgender community.
• It’s always so sweet when a rescue industry scam is exposed.
• The problem is not with the act, but with the laws against it.
• Pig invents new excuse for criminalization of sex with goats.
• Another of those cases whose reported details don’t add up.
• The government stole all of Rentboy’s legal defense money.
• Yet “leftists” are still surprised that “feminists” are anti-sex.
• “Temporary protective custody” = indefinite imprisonment.
• To what extent is sex work criminalization tied into racism?
• This unsupported and hysterical assertion reeks of racism.
• “Sex trafficking” may be the first truly global moral panic.
• How can a young guy get an escort to take him seriously?
• Two men convicted for non-crimes against a non-person.
• Mounting opposition to “abstinence only” sex education.
• Because female sexual “purity” trumps individual rights.
• Just another reminder of what “rescue” actually means.
• Another health organization issues a pro-decrim report.
• On the slow decline of the devadasis in Indian society.
• Sydney Brownstone with an update on a sleazy rapist.
• In which I announce the return of my ability to travel.
• Amateurs, does this kind of stuff actually shock y’all?
• Not a bad introduction to the concept of whorearchy.
• August is also before the heat death of the universe.
• The result of stigma, encouraged by criminalization.
• “Dear Prudence” calls a reader on her whorephobia.
• Remember, this is pretended to be about sex work.
• Too much for the tiny, narrow minds of politicians.
• Irish cops start implementing the Swedish model.
• Most whores love Dolly as much as she loves us.
• How prohibitionists want to “help” sex workers.
• Wow, that’s some MIGHTY “suppression” there!
• Just a typical case in a typical American prison.
• A policewoman decides to turn to honest work.
• Slowly but surely, we’re forcing them to listen.
• Hmm, where have I heard this pattern before?
• OMG, WHORES KNOW HOW TO USE PHONES!
• The government is culpable in these assaults.
• In other news, Pope announces he’s Catholic.
• Another murdered transwoman, and another.
• Actually, this isn’t the “Nordic model” at all.
• How can my wife improve her sexual skills?
• This is, as we’ve seen before, pure bullshit.
• This situation is not even close to “unique”.
• A memorable cam duo with Lorelei Rivers.
• So much for “negative secondary effects”.
• On the lie of “negative secondary effects”.
• The boot has to be on somebody’s neck.
• Why do sex workers prefer older clients?
• Sweden’s “liberal reputation” is bullshit.
• Things I’m not going to tell you about.
• Sex drives technological development.
• The end of regular fictional interludes.
• Genitals come in all shapes and sizes.
• Why do politicians persecute whores?
• When a sick infatuation is frustrated.
• Kaytlin Bailey at the Fringe Festival.
• Undermining statutes of limitations.
• Canada wants a “pimp town” too.
• Getting my vacuum cleaner back.
• On caring for husbands sexually.
• Yet this isn’t called “trafficking”.
• Sweden, the feminist paradise.
• Rapist cops of August 2016.
• William Blake on politicians.
• Baltimore police are typical.
• The past exonerative tense.
• A week of highs and lows.
• The Yellow Rose of Texas.
• Rapist DA of the week.
• Holy idosing, Batman!
• A really intense week.
• A sex work glossary.
• A few book reviews.
• Fascism in action.
• Zero equals zero.

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First Impression

I use Twitter for two main purposes:  promoting my writing and collecting news stories for my writing.  Because I’ve discovered that the latter task is made far more difficult if there’s too much traffic in my timeline, I never follow more than 200 people at a time and I don’t do “courtesy following”, and I often mute retweets from people I follow if they retweet a lot of stuff I’m not interested in (including porn).  Furthermore, my Direct Messages are not open to people I don’t follow; far too many time-wasters think its OK to flood a sex worker’s DMs with “hi”, “avail?”, dick pics and all the other idiotic garbage they try in text messaging.  That means if a person finds me on Twitter and wants to interact with me, the only way to do so is by replying to one of my tweets or starting a new one with my handle in it so it will show in my notifications.  Since I like being accessible to my fans, I watch my notifications pretty carefully, but of course any fool, sophist or troll can address me that way just as easily as my fans can; what this means is that if some prohibitionist, cop or other moron with a big following decides to attack me, his or her mindless minions will follow and clog up my notifications.  This jams up my Twitter and makes it difficult to see worthwhile responses, just as a wanted letter can get lost in a mailbox crammed with junk mail; furthermore, my time is valuable and I have exactly zero patience for ninnies and cretins trying to lay claim on it without paying me.  And that, my friends, is the reason for my legendary hair-trigger muting:  decent, sensible people can interact with me for years without once tempting me to mute them, but prohibitionists, sophists, trolls, partisans and bootlickers can’t usually tweet me twice without being banished to the outer darkness where they can shout into their own arseholes all day long without the slightest chance of annoying me.

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Twit Bits

If you don’t follow me on Twitter, here’s a sample of recent tweets you missed out on:

I don't like the odor of that line, "Workers whose jobs are legal." It smells like an oncoming bus. https://t.co/HMTR1TqEJu

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) June 25, 2019

"Problematic" is a projection of an individual's distaste onto the object of that distaste. It's like a person who has a cat allergy blaming that on the cat ("You are allergenic") rather than herself ("I have a cat allergy").

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 20, 2019

So, what hacker wants to start an overseas-hosted website dedicated to outing vice pigs? These are men who are allowed to rape sex workers in order to destroy their lives, yet the press conspires with the cops to hide these rapists' identities. They need to ALL be outed.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 20, 2019

Remember "your mama" insults? Now whores are delivering "your dad" insults on Twitter and it's hilarious.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 19, 2019

Amateurs are so weird I have given up trying to understand them at all. It's clearly some kind of cognitive disorder.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 23, 2019

These people really do believe dollars have a set value and that banks have giant vaults like Scrooge McDuck, don't they?

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 23, 2019

Guys: my availability to you is subsidiary to your acceptability to me. The former isn't important until we determine the latter, so asking when I'm available is pointless until screening is complete.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 23, 2019

Pelosi has exactly one redeeming feature: she isn't running for president.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 25, 2019

Bindel is a drunk and a charlatan who is paid to spout out quack nonsense. She is fond of quoting thoroughly-debunked "studies" and making moronic, misogynistic statements about consent that make no sense to anyone with a functional moral compass. https://t.co/2gyScuMwfE

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 25, 2019

The wages of sin have kept my bank account in the black for over two decades.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 24, 2019

Please don't use ugly euphemisms in my timeline. If you mean "cop", say so; "pig" and "thug" are also acceptable.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 26, 2019

They're not leaders, they're politicians. And the sooner people learn that, the better.

— Maggie McNeill (@Maggie_McNeill) July 26, 2019

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Diary #474

Any week which includes a Who night with Lorelei is a good week, but last week was good in other ways as well.  It started early Monday morning with a lecture (via video link) to an anthropology class at the University of Michigan, then continued Tuesday with one of my regular beauty treatments and a lovely evening with Lorelei (which beside Doctor Who also included the last two episodes of Good Omens).  I had a productive week of both remunerative work and writing (after editing my video lecture for Renegade University last week), and I even got two lovely presents:  the seventh season of Bewitched from Chekhov, and a Stornoway black pudding all the way from Scotland via Brooke Magnanti!  I like regular black pudding, but the Stornoway variety is without peer and at the time of this writing I’m still savoring the memory of the flavor from dinner a few hours ago; I’m going to take what’s left of this one out to Sunset on Thursday to share with Grace for Lammas.  Anyhow, that’s all I have to say for now; the selfie is simply one I took last Thursday and thought my hair looked extra-nice.

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