In the News (#886)

There is no “[sex trafficking] marketplace”, but rather all sorts of people selling and buying sex for their own reasons, some of them miserable.  –  Laura Agustín

License to Rape

Police states define the bodies of all citizens as “crime scenes” which can be violated by “authorities” at will:

San Diego County may not remove children from their homes and subject them to highly intrusive physical examinations without parental permission, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ruled…The case stems from an April 2010 incident involving Michael and Melissa Mann and their four young children.  The Manns had apparently spanked at least one of the kids with a wooden spoon as a form of punishment…The county [abducted] the children…and [held] them in [custody]…while the parents went to court to regain custody…a doctor performed a 22-step medical exam requiring “blood samples and a gynecological and rectal exam…[including] separat[ing] the labia and look[ing] at the hymen”…County officials did not obtain a court order authorizing these examinations, nor did the parents sign off.  Indeed, the Manns didn’t even know [that]…their kids [had been molested] until one of them said something about it later…

Real People 

Universities are very slowly beginning to turn toward sex worker rights:

…Lady Lola Lightning…a 23-year-old [NYU] sophomore and Salem, Massachusetts native started playing with Periscope just five months ago….[and has] gathered a loyal following as a webcam model…she doesn’t use toys or do too many tricks; she just strips down and has a raw chat with viewers…along with her new job as a stripper in Brooklyn, she is able to pay for her entire tuition and living expenses without support from her family…

Not To Be Taken Internally (First Updates of the Year)

Please, y’all, do NOT let non-doctors inject liquid silicone into your bodies, unless you want to die:

On October 15, 2018, a 28-year-old Australian-born Seattle resident named Jack Chapman, also known as Pup Tank, died…he…was…romantically linked to Dylan Ray Hafertepen, a well-known member of the Dom/sub pup play communities in San Francisco and, later, Seattle…Hafertepen[‘s]…Tumblr (as well as the Tumblr accounts of several of his pups) contained numerous images of their engorged scrotums, dramatically increased in size due to liquid silicone injections.  In one picture, Tank’s testicles dangle outside of his basketball shorts, his nuts roughly the size of two dodgeballs…Since World War II, cosmetic surgeons and back-alley “pumpers” have offered liquid silicone injections as a quick and dirty form of plastic surgery…But such injections aren’t approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for cosmetic procedures because of adverse reactions.  Sometimes they harden into painful masses that appear like wormy tumors under the skin.  Sometimes the surrounding tissue gets infected…Other times, stray bits can travel through the bloodstream, causing [fatal] embolisms…Numerous articles have discussed trans women who end up disfigured or dead because of silicone injections by unlicensed pumpers.  But few mention the pumpers who offer silicone injections for gay men…Tank died from “silicone embolism syndrome”…[which] led to “pneumonitis”…bleeding in the lungs…and eventually…death…

The article is very long and very detailed, and describes what looks to me like a very abusive BDSM relationship.  But it wasn’t the emotional & psychological abuse which killed Chapman/Tank; it was misuse of a substance which has caused the deaths of many seeking quick, cheap body modification without proper medical safeguards.

The Notorious Badge

Looks like I’m not the only sex worker writing horror with sex worker characters:

Award-winning screenwriter Isa Mazzei did not have a welcoming introduction to the movie industry.  “I’ve…never been more sexually harassed than trying to sell this film in Hollywood,” she [said]…Mazzei, a former cam girl, has written one of the hottest horror movies on this year’s genre festival circuit.  Cam, which will debut on Netflix later this month, drags the audience inside the paranoia and perils of being an internet star.  Her success in creating a believable yet terrifying online dystopia was bolstered by its roots in Mazzei’s real fears, including the risks of being harassed, hacked, doxxed or assaulted…Mazzei had to endure the sleaze of movie execs who believed they could harass and belittle her because of her previous  sex work.  Lots of them asked her to share details from her past life, some suggested she was only credited as the screenwriter as a gimmick to help the pitch, while one owner of a Hollywood agency went so far as to write an alternate ending to the semi-biographical movie that included himself and Mazzei inserted into the script…

No Difference

African campaigns against homosexuality are a lot like US campaigns against sex work:

The governor of…Dar es Salaam…launched an anti-gay crackdown…calling on [collaborators] to begin reporting homosexuals for round-ups to begin next week…homosexuality is illegal in Tanzania, with same-sex acts between men punishable by a maximum life sentence.  “These homosexuals boast on social networks,” said [governor Paul] Makonda, a fervent Christian and loyal ally of President John Magufuli.  “Give me their names,” he demanded. “My ad hoc team will begin to get their hands on them”…Anti-homosexual sentiment is rife in Tanzania…and…has increased since Magufuli’s 2015 election…AIDS clinics have also been shut down under Magafuli, accused of “promoting” homosexuality, while he has encouraged women to abandon birth control and have more babies…

Somewhere in the Middle (#425)

Kate Iselin on myths about clients:

…Films and television shows cast clients as either sinister perverts who slither around in the darkness…or drug-addled millionaires looking for more Barbie-lookalikes to fill their yachts with for the weekend…Sure, not every client is perfect.  Some are far from it.  I could share a horror story or two about some who…disregard [hygiene or] boundaries…But clients like these are, thankfully, rare.  The majority of people who visit sex workers — whether they visit strip clubs, brothels, see private workers, or simply download some good, old-fashioned porn — are as normal and average as you and me.  They have jobs, and hobbies, and families, and social lives, just like anyone else…I believe it’s the heavy stigma around sex work that carries over to our clients, too: it makes sense that someone who thinks sex workers are immoral and disgusting would also feel the same about the people who pay to spend time with us…the belief that our clients are bad people is damaging not only to our clients themselves, but to the sex industry as a whole…

The Clueless Leading the Hysterical (#687) 

This is what a moral panic looks like:

The Drug Enforcement Administration [worked to drum up hysteria over] candy laced with marijuana and methamphetamine this Halloween.  The DEA St. Louis Division says there has been no [actual] threat, but [authoritarians are using the existence] of drug-laced edibles [in states where cannabis is legal to frighten the ignorant]…signs of marijuana or meth-laced candy include unusual wrapping, appearance, unusual colors, odd smell…candy…that is unwrapped or unmarked…

There has literally never been a case of a kid getting drugged candy in his trick-or-treat bag. Not a single one.  Every time the claim has been made, it turns out to be either an intentional hoax or some nefarious shit by the parents.

Full of Themselves (#787)

Puritanical language is an intrinsic part of any story about cops raiding massage parlors:

Police have posted notices at 18 massage parlors in Kent [Washington] saying that they will be shut down…after a monthslong [escapade involving vice cops getting happy endings at] businesses that they say were fronts for prostitution…some of the massage-parlor owners and employees have been charged with crimes and…[prosecutors] plan…to bring charges against any customers who engaged in prostitution…many of the businesses…were not licensed by the state and failed to follow regulations to protect the health and privacy of patrons…

“Fronts”.  “Prostitution”.  “Crimes”.  “Engaged in prostitution”.  “Regulations”.  And it’s pretty hilarious to see thugs pretending to give a shit about people’s privacy while simultaneously plotting to destroy their lives.

Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#792) 

It’s good to see “sex addiction” collapsing as an excuse for bad behavior:

A former WAFB employee who secretly recorded two female station employees using the restroom in 2017 was sentenced to four months in prison…Morgan McDermitt…must also register as a sex offender for 15 years. His wife, upon hearing the sentence…ran from the courtroom sobbing…Judge Beau Higginbotham initially sentenced McDermitt…to four years in prison…but then suspended all but four months of the sentence. In July, Higginbotham refused to accept a proposed plea bargain in the case that would have only placed McDermitt on probation…The judge asked McDermitt, who sought sex addiction therapy after his arrest, why he did not seek help before he was caught…

Damned Lies (#866)

It’s good to see fact checkers demolishing politicians’ grandiose claims about Backpage:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton…[claimed to have] “shut down the world’s largest human trafficking marketplace”…The Texas attorney general’s office helped shut down the Backpage website, which is what another Paxton ad says.  However, the federal government led the shutdown and officials in other states pitched in.  Significantly too, we otherwise landed no confirmation that the Backpage site, which profited from ads about sex, also was the world’s largest trafficking marketplace–a classification that experts found dubious and unverifiable.  All told, we rate this statement Mostly False…

Suppression

This is especially important because other states are trying the same scam:

…Pennsylvania [prisons will]…allow…book orders to resume through a new centralized processing center…The [censorship plan] was…[pretended] to eliminate drug smuggling into the prisons, [when in actuality all contraband comes in via screws]…[Chief Screw] John Wetzel said the new procedure was a response to criticisms by book-donation groups…The new policy…allows family and friends to order books to be shipped directly from publishers or bookstores to a secure processing center in Bellefonte, Pa., where staff will screen books five days per week.  It also enables inmates to place orders directly from a hard-copy catalog…the book-donation groups still have concerns about how the new process will play out, including how the [prison system] will ensure the packages reach the inmates who requested them, intact with all supplemental materials…Sean Damon of Amistad Law Project, which led protests over the book prohibition…[is] not satisfied, as other new security measures — including the scanning and surveillance of incoming mail, and the photocopying of inmate legal mail — remain in place…

Traffic Jam (#877)

Remember that “threat” a Hawaiian prohibitionist claimed to have received from “pimps”?

The recent publication of a hyperbolic study that purported to show an “astronomical” level of demand for sex workers in the Hawaii was punctuated by…Police…respond[ing] to a call regarding a purported threat of physical violence against [prohibitionist politician] Khara Jabola-Carolus…police concluded that there had been no physical threat…[what actually happened was that during] a conference call…one [prohibitionist claimed to]…hav[e] received a…text message [from Dominique Roe-Sepowitz which in turn claimed] that…some person or persons were “trying to get Jabola-Carolus fired”…

Signs (#878) 

Another state mandates indoctrinating hotel workers into being anti-whore snitches:

A state mandate now aims to [harass] sex [workers] in Minnesota through the state’s hotel industry.  The law requires all hotel and motel employees to be [indoctrinated] in [anti-whore propaganda].  The training must be completed by Nov. 28.  After that date, all new employees must be [indoctrinated] within 90 days of hire…the signs to look for [include] guest[s traveling light]…or [with their children]…“There might be signs in the room – for example, that they…request extra sheets and extra towels, [and enjoy their privacy]” said Minnesota [prohibitionist]…Beatriz Menanteau…

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Diary #435

Though it took longer than usual, my brain has now downshifted into autumn mode and I’m enjoying the lovely cool, dark, rainy Seattle weather. I’ve done two duos with Lorelei in the past week and we have another set up; I published a new story, have some friends coming over for my birthday tomorrow, and in a few days Daylight Mismanagement Time will be over and I won’t have to endure the sun while I’m eating dinner.  Paul Johnson is in the final stages of editing The War on Whores, and we’ll be shooting a cover image pretty soon; I think I have the energy to finally get The Essential Maggie McNeill out; and I’ll be announcing another big project pretty soon.  The “authorities” want sex workers to shut up and play the part of damsels in distress for their melodramatic morality play, starring cops and politicians as the heroes; instead, I’m going to proclaim the truth even more loudly, and pretty soon I’ll be asking for the help of all my readers to do it.

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Wheels

This story is an exploration of some ideas that have haunted me since the year in which the story takes place, and have occupied an important place in my consciousness for most of this year.  As with “Bird of Prey”, I’m just going to tease you with a selection; if you want a copy, you can either buy it on Kindle or get a PDF copy by becoming a patron of my blog.  If you’re already a patron, you should’ve received a copy over the weekend; if you didn’t, please let me know.

The windows in the mural room faced west and south, and the reddish hue of the sunlight accentuated the predominant crimson, amber and bronze hues of the painting, making it look almost as though it were on fire.  He saw many more faces than he had on the first visit, and the feathers of the multiplicity of wings seemed to rustle and shimmer; he also saw hands where he hadn’t before, peeking out from the wings and juxtaposed with legs and horns and teeth.  In this light the eyes – hundreds of them of every shape and size, peering or glaring or watching from every part of the mural – seemed to all be looking back at him, glinting in various colors like gemstones.  But of all the odd features of the design, the most horrifying were the wheels.  Every other recognizable part of the painting was part of some living creature or another, whether bird or beast or human, but except for the eyes all around their rims, the wheels were most definitely not.  And while the way in which the various biological features related to each other made little anatomical sense, the way the wheels were depicted made no sense at all.  They were like things from an Escher woodcut, objects which could not have existed in three-dimensional reality, with spokes and rims that turned at crazy angles to one another and sometimes seemed to project outward from the wall.  Their perspective was maddening; from some angles they seemed close to the living figures, while from others they seemed far away, and when viewed obliquely they were both at the same time.  And somehow, at least in this hazy light shining through dingy windowpanes across dusty air, the ones in his peripheral vision seemed to be turning on themselves, rotating out of the plane of the design entirely.

A few minutes in that room was more than enough, and though he was a sophisticated and urbane man Bert decided to head back to the motel and to stay away from this room until he had both human company and the psychological comfort of full morning sun.  He locked the door and returned the key to its hiding place in the woodshed as the caretaker had instructed, then drove back to the motel at a rather higher rate of speed than was strictly prudent on a rutty backroad in a pine barrens.  He then proceeded to drink most of a bottle of cheap bourbon over the next few hours while not really paying attention to the television, and fell into a fitful sleep haunted by nightmares of huge wheels covered in eyes, slowly rotating toward him…

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Links #434

Do you think I want to shoot an 11-year-old?…Don’t make me.  –  “Officer” Peter Casuccio

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I find the psychedelic videos from Sesame Street quite entertaining when I’m high; here’s another one, which was clearly inspired by Yellow Submarine.  The links above it were provided by Mike Siegel,  Tim Cushing, Jesse Walker, Zuri Davis, Scott Greenfield, and Jacob Sullum, in that order.

• Justice.
• How seasonal!
• Six! Six! Six books in one!
• Just protecting and serving.
• Don’t try to be a fucking cop, either.
• STOP CALLING THE FUCKING COPS!

From the Archives

• What “law enforcement” means in claiming it wants to “help” sex workers.
• It’s illegal to pay for sex in Sweden, unless you film it for everyone to see.
• Cops, fascism, surveillance, nightmares, spooky cartoons and much more.
• 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.
• Uber now wants its drivers to spy on sex workers & rat us out to the pigs.
• 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.
• “Authorities” claiming North Dakota is a “sex trafficking hub” is hilarious.
• Self-deception, pearl-clutching & offensive ignorance, all under one roof!
• When a non-sexworker uses the term “decriminalization”, read carefully.
• This ridiculous fantasy is nauseating even by “sex trafficking” standards.
• Nothing they can do to this monster would approach what I’d do to him.
• When a law intended as political theater is defeated, politicians still win.
• Outcry against the grotesque “Operation Northern Spotlight” is growing.
• Spending as much time as possible in less-haunted parts of the house.
• “Operation Cross-Country” appears to be spreading to other countries.
• And some of you thought the clown thing was kind of off-topic for me.
• Fascist scum like this will be first against the wall after the politicians.
• Why do so many losers want porn movies to be condom commercials?
• Pearl-clutching is both funnier and sadder when a young man does it.
• “…but that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
• Politicians everywhere are obsessed with regulating women’s bodies.
• This was only necessary due to idiotic laws against sex businesses.
• “They lied, of course.  That’s what police officers are trained to do.”
• I wonder what fraction of his rhetoric is directed toward “perverts”?
• Naturally, because it’s politicians’ job to cause harm, not reduce it.
• How can a client who was busted by cops help sex worker rights?
• A sex therapist debunks prohibitionist propaganda about clients.
• Really not much more repressive than the so-called “free world”.
• Despite this popular UK cop fantasy, none has ever been found.
• “Sex addiction” is now a defense even for violent sex offenders.
• Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you.
• Will you settle a dispute between me and another sex worker?
• “Futurists” should put their “predictions” further in the future.
• Indonesia is trying to criminalize all sex outside of marriage.
• Cops, Fats Domino, language, talking fish and much more.
• Cops call children abducted from sex workers “recovered”.
• Another sleazy scam artist raping aspiring sex workers.
• The beginning of the end for the “sex addiction” scam.
• That’s how extraordinarily dumb this sounds to me.
• The shorter phrase for this is “prudish busybodies”.
• It was inevitable they’d get around to transwomen.
• “Safe house” in this context means “jail”.
• “Sex trafficking” as the new “blood libel”.
• Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
• Mississippi cops go ape shit over clowns.
• Developments in the Celeste Guap case.
• October 2013 and 2014 in retrospect.
• Liz Brown did this so I didn’t have to.
• Links for Halloween, 2016 and 2017.
• The real reason people get addicted.
• Another massive pogrom in Soho.
• In which I get a new smartphone.
• “This is not about sex trafficking“.

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A Trickle of Treats

I used to get as many Halloween-themed columns into October as possible, and though I no longer have the energy for that I’m still dedicated to the idea of this as the time of year for spooky fun.  So every year I collect all the spooky, creepy or scary links and other content from the previous year into one place just before Halloween.  If you’ve come to my blog in the past year, or don’t remember previous editions, they are “Trick or Treat”, “More Trick or Treat“, “Tricks and Treats“, “This Trick’s a Treat”, and “Tricky Treats“.  Horror or death-themed columns of the past year include “Thanatopsis“, “Whistling Past the Graveyard“, “Eternity“, and “Approaching Infinity“; there are creepy or spooky-fun videos in Links #383, #385, #387, #388, #394, #398, #402, and #404; and here’s a small collection of spooky or Halloweeny links:

• Nyarlathotep?
• Lovecraft in porcelain.
• Lovecraft’s secret archive.
• Like tribbles, except not cuddly.
• A horror movie for every day of the year.
• Talk about operating with a skeleton crew…
• Pleasant dreams, kiddies.  Love, Snake Mama.
• Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
• Nightmare of the week. And another. And another. And another.

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Links #433

Look what I got for show-and-tell today.  –  “Deputy” Ricky Paurus

Amy Winfrey of Making Fiends is back with a new series, and here’s the first episode!  The links above it were provided by Wendy Lyon, Popehat, Thaddeus Russell, Tim Cushing, Phoenix Calida, and Radley Balko, in that order.

• The Florida of Europe.
• Babysitting while black.
• Just protecting and serving.
• STOP CALLING THE FUCKING COPS!
• Rules are for the ruled, not the rulers.
• Yelling “stop faking!” for 3 months is “inadequate”.

From the Archives

• Cops & politicians enjoy vast circle-jerk to fantasies of enslaved teen girls.
• This is pretty sleazy even for an anti-whore sleazefest like Law and Order.
• Americans keep pretending to be shocked, then keep caging more people.
• 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.
• Your periodic reminder that Dennis Hof is a revolting excuse for a human.
• This man portrays men we choose to have sex with as “sexual predators”.
• 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.
• May Rolling Stone‘s fortunes follow its credibility down the anti-sex toilet.
• Clown hysteria gives rise to organized violence & naked authoritarianism.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
• Weinstein made it possible to publicly attack “sex addiction” as malarkey.
• Cops, Lovecraft, The Beatles, horror movies, Betty Boop and much more.
• Oakland allows cops who qualify as “traffickers” by law to get away free.
• Just a reminder that prohibitionism still exists in decriminalized regimes.
• 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.
• Picket-fence gay men are such wonderful, dependable sex worker allies.
• Not the same huge child porn site run by the FBI; this is a different one.
• Institutional responses to clown hysteria grow increasingly more stupid.
• Po-faced twits with taped mouths carry pre-printed propaganda cards.
• “Feminist” calls other women “toilets” for ministering to disabled men.
• A  program so unpopular cops need to force or frighten women into it.
• 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?
• Will Asstoon ever get professional help for his delusions of grandeur?
• When does a “sex trafficking victim” become an “underage hooker”?
• Control freak lobbies for law defining adult sex workers as children.
• The real purpose of this is to cut sex workers off from healthcare.
• Half of all Americans are now in a pig facial recognition database.
• Combining “sex addiction” nonsense with “sex robot” nonsense.
• Cops are not intended to “protect” you, and never have been.
• Yet another study confirms what we’ve been saying all along.
• Don’t feel left out, amateurs; they’ll get around to you next.
• The BBC has discarded whatever credibility it once enjoyed.
• It looks like Scott Cunningham has finally done a good one.
• Canadian cops are trying to intimidate sex workers again.
• Cops, horror, stardust, The It in the Hat and much more.
• Dinner with Christina Slater and Desmond Ravenstone.
• I hope none of you find this even remotely surprising.
• A disproportionate number of actual pimps are cops.
• The ACLU files an amicus brief in the ESPLERP case.
• Will Weinstein bring down the “sex addiction” scam?
• A Utah politician’s bizarre anti-porn antics continue.
• On the Trump “grab her by the pussy” brouhaha.
• People sometimes ask why I’m not on Facebook.
• What should I do if I fall in love with an escort?
• Yet another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
• In which I add a bookstore to this website.
• “Youth pastors” are nearly as bad as cops.
• Why hackers should support sex workers.
• Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
• The dysphemisms are thick in this one.
• A setback for women’s rights in India.
• I really, really don’t like change.

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Links #430

Think about it like a horror movie…when [the villain] stops and he turns and makes eye contact with the victim, then that’s when the music starts playing.  –  Daniel Herbert

Though this video (via David Ley) is a parody, it’s not that much more ridiculous than actual government anti-sex propaganda.  The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker (“Frisby” and “happens”), Franklin Harris (“unexpected”), Amy Alkon (“clients”), Popehat (“guessed”), and Scott Greenfield (“video”).

• Paging Mrs. Frisby.
• Well, that was unexpected.
• I hate it when this happens.
• A lesson for careless clients.
• Who could ever have guessed?
• Who do you believe, a cop’s hero fantasy or a lying video?

From the Archives

• Judge thinks it’s her job to convince young sex worker that she’s a victim.
• The word “illicit” makes the user sound like a pearl-clutching schoolmarm.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control is deeply gratifying.
• Whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
• California gives cops power to indefinitely detain underage sex workers.
• “Children” are inanimate objects who can’t move without being carried.
• Another way to destroy lives, funded by the sociopathic Swanee Hunt.
• Is it a good idea to reject mentally disabled clients or those under 18?
• The owner has since taken down all the pirated porn and apologized.
• Are headline writers the most clueless people in news organizations?
• The idea that men can’t tell a doll from a woman insults all humans.
• Lowering the penalty for something that shouldn’t even be a crime.
• Destroying the internet to secure a temporary business advantage.
• “Contracts” like this offer no protection & can be damning in court.
• This man has helped destroy hundreds of lives for consensual sex.
• Another state plans to “fight sex trafficking” with magical posters.
• Ricochet‘s series on the effects of Canada’s new anti-whore laws.
• Hmmm, I wonder why they accused this particular restaurateur?
• Cops, cannibals, prophecy, the Addams Family and much more.
• 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.
• A retrospective of my columns for September 2013 and 2014.
• I’m not going to try to quote any of this massive garbage fire.
• Prohibitionists are desperate to make New Zealand look bad.
• “Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose.”
• Nothing makes authoritarians lose their shit faster than sex.
• Cops, kidney stones, love, Homer Simpson and much more.
• Go on, keep telling me how the slippery slope is a “fallacy”.
• Another example of “grocery store sex trafficking” lunacy.
• Seattle cops have a positive fetish for illegal surveillance.
• IJM is one of the sleaziest of the rescue industry groups.
• No, it won’t, but it’ll make these opportunists wealthier.
• Did this lawsuit really need ugly whorearchical bullshit?
• Anyone surprised by this knows nothing about women.
• I am proud to call this incredible woman my friend.
• Ignore step two, but the rest of this is pretty good.
• Zimbabwean sex workers demonstrate their clout.
• How can I make sex good for my virgin girlfriend?
• Becoming less tense with the arrival of autumn.
• WARNING:  Lelo Hex condoms are NOT safe!
• Anti-sex crusaders love their pseudoscience.
• Unwise monkeys censoring their own input.
• They’re only saying this because it’s true.
• Number of charges ≠ number of victims.
• As I keep saying over and over and over…
• Sometimes the two “wars” blur into one.
• A new low in prohibitionist vileness.
• The end of the move at last.
• “Threatening the peace.”

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