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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Tenth Anniversary

I have no plans to stop fighting this war until there is no breath left in me.  And truth be told, I’m not even sure I could stop even if I wanted to.  –  “Ninth Anniversary”

Ten years is a long time for one human to do anything without a break, much less publish a blog post without missing a single day.  But then, I’ve never been one for taking breaks; I’ve always considered them little more than a delay in whatever it is that I’m doing.  And when that “whatever” is fighting a war for self-ownership and human rights…well, as the epigram says, I’m not sure I could stop even if I wanted to.  Certainly, I’ve slowed down; when I first started this blog a decade ago, I used to publish an all-new essay every day, and the essays were much longer on average.  But as I exorcised at least a little of the righteous fury which fuels my activism, and my other activities expanded to take up more of my time, I was forced to fill an increasing number of daily slots with shorter, easier-to-write posts.  Only two days in the average week now see original essays, and I feature a lot more of what most would consider typical blog posts than in the past.  On the other hand, I’ve written lots of non-blog articles for magazines, books, etc, and I’m about to publish my fifth book; I’ve also got a documentary called The War on Whores and I give dozens of interviews for articles, radio, video, and TV every year, plus more public appearances than I can count.  So even though my blog isn’t growing as quickly as it once did (and, thanks to Google’s censorship, is seen by fewer new readers than in times past), my public presence is still growing.  And given that all of that public presence is dedicated toward fighting for my cause, I would consider that a win.

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Back Issue #84

Many cops are simply not afraid of the consequences of their actions.  –  “LicenseTo Rape”

• Some implied I was a crank when I predicted this development years ago.
• The bizarre & stilted language used in African news articles about whores.
• In 30 years, “sex trafficking” films will be the new “reefer madness” films.
• The most vile, tone-deaf product the rescue industry has yet dreamed up.
• Another rescue industry character claiming to have been a “sex trafficker”.
• Portland’s bizarre attempt to draw “sex trafficking” attention from Seattle.
• Even the MSM begins to see the War on Whores is the new War on Drugs.
• It was only a matter of time before TSA’s surveillance role was expanded.
• Whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
• The question in the headline could be asked of any “rescue” organization.
• May has been pushing internet censorship since she was home secretary.
• NYPD’s newest sleazy tactic in its campaign to strangle whores’ business.
• Future historians will ponder the link between “sex trafficking” and pizza.
• Why are the supposed ordeals of “survivors” always decades in the past?
• I have zero faith in the magical protective powers of “restraining orders”.
• If you don’t want your business choked, you’ll have to fight for mine too.
• Exactly what prohibitionists wanted, despite their claims to the contrary.
• I wonder where she’ll get a real job once “trafficking” hysteria collapses?
• Massage parlor licensing is widely touted as a way to “fight prostitution”.
• Anybody who thinks this is “like a real human” needs a pro immediately.
• Another rape victim caged to force participation in a state morality play.
• Whores prefer not to be registered by politicians & “supervised” by pigs.
• Amateurs: a health menace who should be licensed & heavily regulated.
• Prohibitionists’ lies are never more blatant than when they misquote us.
• “Cuckoo Clock” McCain wants to vomit her poison over the entire world.
• Sex workers should avoid clients who could be called mentally disabled.
• A plan supported by useful idiots who don’t understand legal precedent.
• Who’d throw away valuable merchandise by giving it to penniless brats?
• Cops believe their tin talismans magically grant them omnicompetence.
• The sex ray intensity on these items must be well into the danger zone.
• Pig believes myths about what other pigs may do in entrapment scams.
• IWW was the 1st major union to support sexworkers; won’t be the last.
• Brave women overpower their captors to escape a brainwashing prison.
• We’re seeing ever-more columns like this from self-identified feminists.
• Has this histrionic has-been now made a moral panic her whole career?
• These same methods are used to manufacture “sex trafficking victims”.
• She has to prove she’s the polar opposite of every other cop in the US.
• More on the maltreatment of sex workers in another large police state.
• Quite possibly the most ridiculous excuse any politician has ever used.
• “Cuckoo Clock” McCain has a history of working against human rights.
• Japan’s descent into US-style anti-whore rhetoric is highly distressing.
• Another good, basic article on the success of the New Zealand model.
• Traveling without official permission is now called “human trafficking”.
• “Trafficking in Persons Report” is merely a tool for political blackmail.
• Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying us fairly that isn’t.
• Some western states tolerated prostitution long after criminalization.
• Prohibitionists harass streetwalkers so as to scare away their clients.
• The “Super Bowl sex trafficking” myth is becoming a laughing stock.
• Cops no longer pretend that this is about anything other than profit.
• The “Facebook pimps” myth is one of the silliest of the whole panic.
• Seattle politicians’ pompous posturing reveals their deep hypocrisy.
• Good advice to a heavily scarred, sexually traumatized young man.
• It’s disgusting to see so much money wasted on debunked bullshit.
• The ACLU still has a long way to go if it wants to help sex workers.
• Most jokes about sex workers told by amateurs aren’t at all funny.
• Hackney cops carry out an organized effort to harass sex workers.
• A McNeill Rule specimen who’s had a complete mental breakdown.
• More harassment from a “safer neighborhood team” (ie vice pigs).
• Every woman molested or raped by cops should file a federal suit.
• Cops harass sex workers, yet believe we’ll come to them for help.
• Climbing into bed with the police state is nothing to be proud of.
• Sex workers have no interest in having our industry “disrupted”.
• No law caging people for consensual behavior is “well intended”.
• Articles like this are much more common in the Canadian press.
• Despite this popular UK cop fantasy, none has ever been found.
• Inflicting violence consensually vs inflicting it non-consensually.
• Cops pretend they need asset seizure to “go after drug cartels”.
• Cops want to convict people for “crimes” that never happened.
• Because the US cares so very much about “trafficking victims”.
• Small rescue industry profiteers learn the value of slave labor.
• Wisconsin’s try at the most mindlessly-draconian anti-sex law.
• Persecuting the homeless using the excuse of “sex trafficking”.
• Another state requires anti-whore indoctrination for licensing.
• Not a bad article on the benefits of sex work for the disabled.
• Another story credulously touting bullshit “safe harbor” laws.
• Another of those cases whose reported details don’t add up.
• Prohibitionists contort facts so as to support their fantasies.
• Cop calls adolescent sexual development “a police matter”.
• In case you thought I was too paranoid about mentoring.
• Still more infantilization of migrant Nigerian sex workers.
• From respected news organization to propaganda organ.
• Whorearchy from an empty-headed little twit in Nevada.
• An excerpt from Brooke Magnanti’s You Don’t Know Me.
• It’s nice to see the light bulb go on in someone’s head.
• “Sex trafficking” hysteria begins to spin out of control.
• A future serial killer gets more than he bargained for.
• Another country the US should be proud to resemble.
• Can y’all please send a delegation to talk to the ABA?
• “Correctional officer” is a term straight out of Orwell.
• Could you provide me a reference for a referral site?
• So-called journalists bleat out pro-censorship idiocy.
• Is nonconsensual shackling worse for kinky women?
• A couple of short interviews with Australian escorts.
• How the state uses language to shift responsibility.
• Another try at decriminalization in South Australia.
• Fetishists now want pigs spying on women in bars.
• It’s both honorable and moral to lie to busybodies.
• Politicians are totally losing their minds over sex.
• How can I develop a sex worker support system?
• Poor Nebraska; all panicked up & no place to go.
• Will a professional care if I can’t get an erection?
• I’m surprised this has taken so long to catch on.
• Fran & Dan Keller have been exonerated at last.
• ABC’s eager parroting of anti-sex propaganda.
• Stupid people are still afraid of solar eclipses.
• A memorable duo with Lorelei & Ghost Rider.
• San Diego ramps up its anti-whore pogroms.
• An anti-whore video featuring a fake game.
• The Swedish model eliminates prostitution!
• Partisanism is like a form of self-lobotomy.
• How the IRS facilitates “sex trafficking”.
• The first “child sex trafficking” lawsuit.
• I’m glad to see this piece of shit flop.
• How do I draw attention to my blog?
• Dear useful idiots:  I did tell you so.
• The outing of a fake escort blogger.
• How to summon me to your city.
• More good news about bad laws.
• Good advice from a newsreader.
• On feminist “choice” hypocrisy.
• Cops already do this to people.
• My first column on rapist cops.
• A testimonial for Velvet Swing.
• When anti-vax meets anti-sex.
• Ten tips for dealing with cops.
• I finally get a passport again.
• It just keeps getting worse.
• The first version of FOSTA.
• Rapist cops of June, 2017.
• Amateurs are dangerous.
• A quick trip to Chicago.
• Weird search terms.
• On wife swapping.
• A visit to Chicago.
• Tit-related laws.
• Don’t panic.

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Diary #518

Last week was such a busy one, I actually need a few days in Seattle to catch up on my writing.  Most of my time was spent marking out locations for posts (for my bathhouse), drilling post holes, then leveling and squaring each post before setting it in place with concrete (remember the cement mixer?)  But in addition to that, I worked on trim; cleaned up branches pruned from the apple tree closest to the house; helped Jae clean a big rug; gave three different phone interviews; and probably a dozen other things I’m forgetting.  And that’s all despite being handicapped by no fewer than five broken nails.  That situation is being fixed today; though my regular salon called to cancel my appointment because the government’s unrealistic (her word) requirements for re-opening couldn’t be accomplished in time.  Fortunately, the county in which Sunset lies had a head start, and I was able to secure a late afternoon appointment today; it’ll be good to once again be able to touch my hair or anything made of fabric without my weak, peeling nails snagging in them.  And then I’m off to Seattle for the aforementioned writing break, before returning to Sunset on Thursday to prepare for the next stage of construction.

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Back Issue #83

When the subject is sex everyone’s brains shift into “neutral” and the most outlandish claims are accepted as reasonable.  –  “Reaction Formation”

• “I don’t want to see heroin-injection sites” is this whole thing in a nutshell.
• If Sweden gave a damn, it would’ve just pledged not to extradite Assange.
• Kaytlin’s sex work past isn’t germane to this; reporter goes there anyhow.
• Yes, “prostitution investigations” are part of a larger problem: prohibition.
• Don’t want people spreading stupid rumors? Stop spreading ’em yourself.
• People kept out of the formal economy survive via the informal economy.
• Imposing order on the chaos which dominated my life for over two years.
• The fantasy that emojis in low-rent sex ads are part of some pimp “code”.
• Cops raping whores is so common, rapists pose as cops to facilitate rape.
• Tennessee “authorities” say sex workers are “victims” even if we say not.
• Hilariously, cops are now starting to believe their own wanking fantasies.
• Why is everyone so willing to believe “fake news” about “sex trafficking”?
• Destroying men’s ability to support their families is latest anti-whore fad.
• “Rescuers” are so invested in their own fantasies they’ll believe anything.
• How many kids need to be sacrificed to this obscenity before it’s enough?
• Why are people surprised when cops push for the “right” to rape whores?
• Where “inside” means “in fantasies of busybodies peering from outside”.
• This man has repeatedly said Seattle is not interested in prosecuting us.
• Delusional “trafficking” fetishist thinks the inflated numbers are too low.
• Encouraging prosecutors to file more charges for non-criminal behavior.
• A teen girl riding in a car now constitutes “evidence” of “sex trafficking”.
• Assume any strange man who fucks you will try to remove the condom.
• UK cops have never found more than a tiny # of “sex trafficking” cases.
• Nevada is now one of the most vile fonts of anti-whore vomit in the US.
• This needs to be repeatedly hammered into the faces of prohibitionists.
• They realized they could expand the panic by adding male “sex slaves”.
• Sullying a sex worker by surrounding her words with prohibitionist lies.
• Another cowboy raid staged for the entertainment of rich US moralists.
• Two piles of filth want to cut sex workers off from the banking system.
• I told y’all that this wasn’t gonna work, but of course y’all didn’t listen.
• PA politicians define women as imbeciles whose consent is immaterial.
• Hopeless bootlickers can’t grasp what “denounce & cooperate” means.
• In the contemporary US, people can be fired from jobs for blasphemy.
• I won’t answer controversial questions about groups I don’t belong to.
• No government commission will suggest reducing government power.
• This is what robo-fetishists want you to believe will take my job soon.
• Seattle cops aren’t the only ones with a fetish for creepy surveillance.
• In which sex workers’ desire for individual rights is called “surprising”.
• I’m delighted to see “creepy clown” hysteria still has a bit of life in it.
• Why have you remained a sex worker for so much longer than most?
• Prohibitionists demonize sex workers’ partners into “loverboy pimps”.
• The egregious lie that the “sex offender” registry isn’t a punishment.
• Why yes, I do get tired of saying “I told you so.”  Thanks for asking!
• Canadian prohibitionists desperate to cash in before panic implodes.
• Minnesota “authorities” claim to bust another “sex trafficking gang”.
• Korean men are more honest about buying sex than Western men.
• Stenographer parrots clueless cop’s weird masturbatory fantasies.
• Another example of the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
• Pig tricks desperate woman so as to expose her to public ridicule.
• Every outed sex worker or client should sue the party who did it.
• If you want a professional to entertain you, you need to pay her.
• Despite all the Dutch anti-whore campaigns, it’s nice to see this.
• Too bad they still criminalize having sex for the “wrong” reason.
• The poor widdle sheriff “had no alternative” because sex is bad.
• The term for nonconsensual sex isn’t “sleeping with”, it’s “rape”.
• A Truthout article echoes what I said in the original of this title.
• The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival.
• Serial rapist tries to reframe himself as a protector of children.
• Liz Brown dives into the ugly facts about federal vice pogroms.
• A petition against politicians who want to destroy the internet.
• Kate Lister on the background history of the Harlots TV show.
• Nice lady goes to slums and is horrified by poor sex workers.
• Sending dick pics to a stranger is a bad idea, but this is epic.
• Indian court rules that acts which aren’t illegal, aren’t illegal.
• Rashida Jones & company are even worse than we thought.
• A simple primer on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
• Neurological disorders cannot be cured by happy thoughts.
• Another racist anti-whore pogrom in “progressive” Seattle.
• Because one moral panic at a time isn’t enough any more.
• More racist infantilization of Nigerian sex workers in Italy.
• The profound stupidity of lawheads is a marvel to behold.
• A week full of sexual violence committed by state agents.
• Another bullshit story touting bullshit “safe harbor” laws.
• Nearly every single sentence in this pile of shit is wrong.
• Mocking people for their tastes is stupid and puritanical.
• If this wasn’t intended as a vigilante action, then what?
• On the defense mechanism called “reaction formation”.
• Is Iceland just going to recycle this story every spring?
• How do I return to sex work after a years-long hiatus?
• An excerpt from Brooke Magnanti’s The Turning Tide.
• This is kinda like the Super Bowl of basketball, right?
• “I can’t help but think this is vindictive prosecution.”
• Not just a feminist, but an “anti-trafficking” activist.
• Another hysteria-free look at sex work in East Asia.
• The ugliest part of a peak moral panic: lynch mobs.
• Is this enough blood yet? Can we please stop now?
• Once in a very great while, the bad guys still lose.
• A high-tech version of the “barcode tattoo” myth.
• My first article on federal “sex trafficking” stings.
• Playboy needs to do a lot more articles like this.
• Authoritarians say self-employment is immoral.
• The rescue industry is nasty from every angle.
• The release of The Forms of Things Unknown.
• What a belief in sympathetic magic looks like.
• US cops discover “Swedish model” rhetoric.
• So much fantasy, so many contradictions.
• Kaytlin Bailey on coming out to a lover.
• “Evil” is not a noun; it is an adjective.
• Paperwork, coffee and Velvet Swing.
• My essays at Reason and elsewhere.
• I’d love to be wrong once in a while.
• The many rapist cops of May, 2017.
• Marines are among the best clients.
• OMG an invasion of foreign whores!
• Lorelei & I at The Secret Garden.
• Now, this is an interesting twist.
• Goodbye, Avalon; hello, Sunset.
• A short biography of Mata Hari.
• “Johns” are the new “faggots”.
• Booze, benzos and airplanes.
• A marriage made in heaven.
• Reviews of several books.
• On drama queens.
• Is this dude gay?

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Building a Bathhouse

This blog has always been unusual in a number of ways.  I publish once a day, every single day, at exactly the same time every day for the past ten years.  For the majority of that time, posts that constituted anything less than a full essay were rather rare; diary columns and Friday columns are often short, and holiday columns are now the online equivalent of a card, but other than that it’s mostly essays or news commentary.  But as I pointed out in March, the pandemic has crowded crude masturbatory fantasies out of the public consciousness, and since I don’t really do history columns any more, that actually leaves me a bit short on things to write about at this stage of the game.  That’s actually kinda convenient because I’ve been doing a lot of work out at Sunset, and therefore have less time to write.  However, the columns about that work have proven popular, so today I’m starting a new (albeit temporary) feature logging the progess on my bathhouse.  So consider this the first installment; right now it’s just a recently-delivered refurbished hot tub sitting on the slab outside my back door.  But I think you’ll find the weekly development interesting, and I’ll certainly welcome a little more time to work on it.

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Diary #517

On Saturday, as I was working on setting the piers for my new bathhouse, my manicurist called to let me know that she’s opening on June 1^st; of course I made an appointment!  It will be so good for my hands to look and feel like those of a civilized lady again.  As of right now, I’ve got four broken ones (three on the right hand and the forefinger on my left), so not only do my hands look like shit, they’re also far less functional than usual.  I’m not used to hands without nails, which means my right hand is basically useless for fine work righy now (I am typing this with my middle finger) and I keep getting hairs, threads, etc snagged on the rough edges of the broken nails (which tear as they grow even if I file them).  And I don’t even like to look at my toenails.  Since I had my Botox week before last, now all I’m waiting for is my hair salon to call, so I can make these awful roots invisible.  Fortunately, it doesn’t grow all that fast, and I’m not due for a trim for a while yet, so I will not end up like Jonathan here (whom we’re probably going to have sheared soon).  And since the gent I call Dr. Quest has informed me that he’ll probably be able to see me soon, things for me are beginning to look like they’ll soon return to more manageable conditions.  And it’s about damned time.

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Back Issue #82

Police…will continue to be [corrupt] until humanity grows up enough to stop giving power…to its least-evolved members.  –  “Election Day”

• Ghanaian sex work articles can be just as weirdly stupid as Nigerian ones.
• Prohibitionists now claim Backpage was “barred” from publishing sex ads.
• Judge lectures young sex workers about cop-created danger of sex work.
• Never mind the concentration camps Russia already had for sex workers.
• A kind of essay that’s common in the Canadian press, but rare in the US.
• Michigan cops now have to lie about raping us, as in the other 49 states.
• Prohibitionists’ attachment to this dumb canard is working against them.
• A politician is someone who believes one can never have too many laws.
• UK press, partying like it’s 1999 & nobody’s heard of escort reviews yet.
• Laura Lee on the possible wider effects of her Swedish model challenge.
• What’s more pretentious than an opera based on a current moral panic?
• This was only investigated because unsolved cases make cops look bad.
• Again, prohibitionists demonstrate their total contempt for sex workers.
• Technically competent but woefully naive kids exploited by police state.
• Another of the men who want to “protect” Seattle from consensual sex.
• Female free will is incomprehensible to “law enforcement” misogynists.
• Delicious schadenfreude: prohibitionists’ lies coming back to bite them.
• “Having sexual conduct” is an especially clumsy euphemism for “rape”.
• Defining adults as children makes it much easier to create bogus stats.
• Cops empowered to diagnose us as “victims” no matter what we think.
• It’s especially important that women make anti-prohibition arguments.
• If only amateurs realized that this is the norm, not a deviation from it.
• The UK/US competition to destroy civil liberties using “sex trafficking”.
• Hysterical phone calls don’t correlate meaningfully with actual events.
• Trying to stop an omnipresent voluntary activity older than humanity.
• Facts magically become evil when somebody says “THE CHILDREN!!!”
• Turkey continues its campaign to close brothels despite their legality.
• Pigs claim they have to stick their snouts into people’s personal lives.
• “Authorities” rape toddlers if shamans declare their parents unclean.
• Has this histrionic now made a rotting moral panic her whole career?
• Americans want anyone who ever did wrong to be punished forever.
• Puritans hate women who are comfortable paying our rent with sex.
• SCOTUS recently reaffirmed the unconstitutionality of loyalty oaths.
• NCMEC is among the most dangerous of the anti-sex organizations.
• One day I hope to see myself described as a “rebellious prostitute”.
• Our cop-worshiping culture lauds this sexual predator as a “hero”.
• “Rescuers” swoop in to “regulate” women’s jobs out of existence.
• Describing an act of barbaric violence like a visit to a thrift store.
• “Competition” from fancy fleshlights?  Really, ladies, calm down.
• If I weren’t already sterile, I’d get myself sterilized immediately.
• Defining a non-crime as a “crime” creates all kinds of problems.
• Edmonton, Alberta literally treats sex workers like wild animals.
• Others recognize the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
• When sex is involved, a poison pen letter is considered “proof”.
• Nice to see cops ruin the life of one of their own for a change.
• Even if PROUD supports this, I’m still skeptical of the subtext.
• There’re so many reasons sex worker licensing is a bad idea.
• The coven in which I feel safe and loved grows a little larger.
• The censors who want the internet destroyed are at it again.
• Do prohibitionist idiots ever bother to think before speaking?
• From the headline writer who asked, “Is the Pope Catholic?”
• Arizona wants hospitals to rat sex workers out to the pigs.
• The whorearchy here is so thick it can be cut with a knife.
• US elections are always accompanied by virtue-signaling.
• “An increase in sex trafficking in northwestern Montana“.
• How can a newlywed woman increase her sexual desire?
• Men: pay your whores!  Ladies: get the money up front!
• US courts declare taboo pictures worse than child rape.
• It’s no longer safe for men to travel with their children.
• The Libertarian Republic is Republican, not libertarian.
• Prohibitionists just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
• An interview with Laura Agustín about her new book.
• The one and only case of an actual barcode tattoo.
• More on the oppression of Ukrainian sex workers.
• Politician wants to prosecute crimes in civil court.
• Once again, actual figures disprove the hysteria.
• An excerpt from the new novel by T.J. Corcoran.
• Massage parlor pogroms are coming to Canada.
• Thaddeus Russell interviews me on his podcast.
• Sex is an exchange, whether you like it or not.
• This tells me all I need to know about Harlots.
• Even Myanmar gets it more than the US does.
• The release of The Forms of Things Unknown.
• Bollywood figures support sex worker rights.
• The larger implications of anti-sex toy laws.
• Preparing to launch my website bookstore.
• I’d really like to be wrong once in a while.
• May Aphrodite grant that I learn to relax.
• Who comes up with this infantile rubbish?
• Melissa Petro on working while pregnant.
• A snazzy T-shirt to support sex workers.
• Why April Fools’ Day isn’t fun any more.
• The real effect of “sex trafficking” laws.
• My last visit to my ranch in Oklahoma.
• George Will is apparently going senile.
• An argument I’ve often made myself.
• This would never happen in the US.
• The many kinds of Roman whores.
• Miranda Kane on annoying clients.
• Moral panic + censorship = profit.
• My first Guy Fawkes Day column.
• Sex worker rights at the UN.
• On Jezebel and other stuff.
• Rapist cops of April 2017.
• An incredibly busy week.
• My last selfie at Avalon.
• Cishet male privilege!
• An antique dildo.
• On Amsterdam.

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