Diary #419

Any week in which I see four of my favorite clients is a good one.  It was also lovely to take Jae out to Sunset for a couple of nights, and to spend the time mostly relaxing, eating, drinking, watching superhero movies, getting high and planning the next few construction projects (not in that order).  The place is starting to shape up; everything is still in considerable disarray and the list of necessary repairs and renovations is long, plus the dry season that close to the rain forest is very short.  But as long as I have enthusiastic and competent helpers and the money keeps coming in, we should eventually get around to doing everything I want done out there (which is more than I could have ever said for poor, lamented Avalon).  Now, last week wasn’t perfect; I didn’t get any work done on the new book, nor did I make much progress toward getting my overdue taxes paid; my summer anxiety is making it very hard to sleep properly or go for very long without drugs, and trying to get established with a new online pharmacy after my old one shut down has been an immense pain.  But I’ll take “didn’t get everything I wanted done” over “disaster accompanied by deep depression” any day, especially when all the nice things were so very nice.  And here’s to at least a few more months of that.

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Links #418

You’re going to jail. Have a seat in my car. We’ll make shit up as we go.  –  John Kovach Jr.

Sometimes YouTube does an OK job of “suggesting” things that are actually interesting.  Sometimes.  The links above the video were contributed by Mike Siegel, Franklin Harris, Tim Cushing, Tracy Clark-Flory, Jesse Walker, Dave Krueger, and Angela Keaton, in that order.

• As one does.
• R.I.P. Steve Ditko.
• To protect and serve.
• Nightmare of the week.
• The ultimate pop culture nexus.
• Cops lie so much, they even lie to themselves.
• Tell me again how I’m wrong about politicians.

From the Archives

• Aussie reporters lap up noxious idiocy vomited out by “rescue” fetishists.
• Cops, cuteness, thoughtcrime, Burning Man, The Bangles & much more.
• And the next time they broaden the definition, it will “grow” even more!
• “Religious” guy spends time gawking at, then defacing escort websites.
• Just in case you think owning a “legal” sex work business protects you.
• Seattle cops & prosecutors destroy more men’s lives for fun and profit.
• Reporters are stupid enough to keep giving Dennis Hof free publicity.
• Remember this when you hear pigs oinking about arresting “pimps”.
• Please don’t use my escort email unless you want to book a session.
• Clueless reporter is surprised that most whores’ clients are married.
• Ever wonder where all those supposed “sex trafficking victims” are?
• “Hi, I’m interested in buying sex from a potential trafficking victim.”
• Just in case you didn’t think you were spied on enough in airports.
• This dude must’ve pissed off somebody well above his pay grade.
• Another interview with Dr. Agustín about The Three-Headed Dog.
• Anybody we claim is a victim is one, regardless of what she says.
• Are clients of sex work as varied as those of other service work?
• A vile collection of prohibitionist lies, mostly from a prosecutor.
• I hope people don’t get the idea that this is unique to Oakland.
• Without full decriminalization, cops will always harass whores.
• I love seeing “authorities” caught up in their own moral panic.
• Using “sex trafficking” hysteria as anti-American propaganda.
• Prohibition turns every individual’s body into a “crime scene”.
• This is not “decriminalization” as some sources are reporting.
• This story has far too many lapses to be considered credible.
• Dr. Marty Klein on the recent upsurge in anti-porn hysteria.
• Do they even think about the words they’re vomiting out?
• This jewel of self-contradiction was too good to pass up.
• Another small country stands up to American bullying.
• Dick is not in any way an equal or fair trade for pussy.
• Loon claims NASA is sex trafficking children to Mars.
• Another example of what real sex slavery looks like.
• The Philippines’ weird crusade against “cybersex”.
• And her police record is important…why, exactly?
• A nice article on the Desiree Alliance conference.
• My two previous columns for Independence Day.
• My sixth and seventh anniversary columns.
• Another dumb “awareness-raising” stunt.
• Pigs claim sexting is a “gateway” to rape.
• Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
• Long-time readers already know this.
• How old are these idiots, eight?
• This was only a matter of time.
• More articles like this, please.
• Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
• Pride and Wonder Woman.
• A lovely weekend-long gig.

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Links #417

It was very heavy handed — and it was meant to send a message.  –  Michael Eymer

I like unusual song covers, but this video is just plain weird.  The links above it were provided by Clarissa, Amy Alkon, Jesse Walker, Mike Chase, Charles Hill,  Franklin Harris, and Mistress Matisse, in that order.

• R.I.P. Harlan Ellison.
• To protect and serve.
• Perfect metaphor for US fascism.
• Cops murder teen for being scared.
• Still think the US isn’t a police state yet?
• When the criticism is as stupid as the thing criticized.
• Cops just can’t stand being unable to bust people for legal acts.

From the Archives

• The ludicrosity of small-town police chiefs trying to justify sex work stings.
• Sometimes hiding border control behind “sex trafficking” is very apparent.
• The idea we might be neither is too much for the tiny minds of politicians.
• It’s really gratifying to see sex workers rebel against paternalistic bullshit.
• In 30 years, “sex trafficking” films will be the new “reefer madness” films.
• It was only a matter of time before TSA’s surveillance role was expanded.
• The question in the headline could be asked of any “rescue” organization.
• Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you. And again.
• Say you’re “fighting sex trafficking” & stupid people will give you money.
• In US media, “sex trafficking” is now just a dysphemism for “sex work”.
• Brave women overpower their captors to escape a brainwashing prison.
• Cops are “excited and jazzed up” to trick people and destroy their lives.
• Has this histrionic has-been now made a moral panic her whole career?
• These same methods are used to manufacture “sex trafficking victims”.
• Ladies, please stop putting hotel-room selfies in your ads immediately.
• She has to prove she’s the polar opposite of every other cop in the US.
• It’s so funny to watch prudes’ heads explode over something so banal.
• “Cuckoo Clock” McCain has a history of working against human rights.
• The negative reaction to this pogrom must’ve been surprising to cops.
• State allows religious fanatics to brainwash women at a remote cabin.
• Remember when busybodies actually had to spy on people in person?
• “Trafficking in Persons Report” is merely a tool for political blackmail.
• I wonder what % of those who spout this rubbish actually believe it?
• The “Super Bowl sex trafficking” myth is becoming a laughing stock.
• Cops, Robin Hardy, robots, laws, TSA, propaganda & much more.
• Climbing into bed with the police state is nothing to be proud of.
• Sex workers have no interest in having our industry “disrupted”.
• Louisiana decides to create EVEN MORE “children” to “protect”.
• Cops, nightmares, the transitory nature of joy and much more.
• Cops want to convict people for “crimes” that never happened.
• Marin County isn’t really small, but this is still patently absurd.
• Why do massage parlors bring puritans out of the woodwork?
• An article so totally ridiculous I felt compelled to vivisect it.
• Cop calls adolescent sexual development “a police matter”.
• A retrospective of my blogging from June 2013 and 2014.
• This campaign has Swanee Hunt’s foul stench all over it.
• Hey, kids! Fight “human trafficking” for fun and profit!
• There aren’t many genuine cases of coercion like this.
• $60 would’ve been a cheap price to pay for a lesson.
• Fetishists now want pigs spying on women in bars.
• It’s both honorable and moral to lie to busybodies.
• How can I get established as a booker & screener?
• Will a professional care if I can’t get an erection?
• Fran & Dan Keller have been exonerated at last.
• ABC’s eager parroting of anti-sex propaganda.
• Rapist cops of the week, 2016, and 2017.
• In which I officially become a celebrity.
• I’m glad to see this piece of shit flop.
• This is what “rescue” looks like.
• Cops already do this to people.
• A quick trip to Chicago.

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Bird of Prey

It’s been over a year since I wrote a new story, but this one has been slowly growing in my head since late autumn of 2014, and it finally came forth week before last.  I’m just going to tease you with the beginning; 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 one week ago today; if you didn’t, please let me know.

Dane retrieved his knife from the body of the dog and began to carve as many choice cuts from the carcass of the wild cow as he thought he could eat before they spoiled; it wasn’t that much, but he figured he’d be in Korneg within a few days anyhow, and then he could buy all the food he wanted with the gold & furs he’d taken from that trader he ambushed last week.  The job was easier than he had expected; he congratulated himself on having had the good sense to let the dog pack do most of the work of butchery before he started picking them off from the top of the ruined tower.  He knew they’d be back soon, once hunger overcame fear of the rifle; still, half a dozen precious rounds were a good trade for an equal number of big, thick steaks.  It had been a long time since he’d had beef, since that excellent roast in Westover; maybe he should’ve stayed there longer.  But Dane was a cautious man, and he figured it probably wasn’t wise to stay in any city after he’d killed, even though she was just a whore; sooner or later the local warlord’s peacekeepers would’ve figured out which of the transients currently in town had done it, and his career would’ve come to an abrupt halt at the end of a rope.  Or something both much worse and much slower, if the harlots’ guild had caught him first.

Still, it had been a good stay while it lasted, and a profitable one; besides the rifle and ammo belt, some fairly-new boots and a little gold, he’d managed to steal a good horse on the way out.  That put Korneg within reach; though he was a strong walker, no human could outrun a hungry wild dog pack.  And since it was high time he left the Valley, that was now a necessity rather than just a preference.  He’d heard talk of Korneg for years…of its wealth, of the succulence of its foods, of the impregnability of its walls…and of the powerful queen who ruled it.  He had always wanted to see it for himself, but though Dane was no coward, he was also no fool; he knew that no matter how soft its beds or its women, he could not stay in Korneg long before his way of life put a price on his head.  Still, it guarded the only known safe pass to the Cities of the East, and that meant he had little choice but to visit it if he wished to remain free and alive.

The next few days were unremarkable except for the rain, but even that was a blessing because it meant plenty of water for both him and the horse in a season when good water was usually a concern.  It also meant he’d be that much harder to follow, in the event some bounty hunter had picked up his trail.  So all in all, he was in an unusually good mood when on the next clear day he spotted the stone pillars marking the edge of Korneg’s territory, despite the fact that they made him vaguely uneasy.  They were unlike anything he’d ever seen in his three decades of life:  five times as tall as a man they were, carved in the likeness of two huge serpents which coiled around and around until they ended in heads whose baleful eyes stared down at him, glinting like purple gems in the early afternoon sun.  It was obvious that they were intended as a show of power, and the display was a successful one; even in the heart of Ghezhel, mightiest city of the Valley, there were no comparable monuments.  There was an engraved tablet at the foot of the one on the right, but that was of no help to Dane since he had never learned to read.  However, the road beyond was well-built and well-maintained; he knew he couldn’t be more than a few days from the city wall, and he might even reach a trading post before nightfall.  So he set aside his disquiet and rode on, steadfastly resisting the gnawing urge to look back to see if the stone guardians were watching him…

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Links #410

We will call the police and tell them he has a gun so they can come faster.  –  Shanna Swearingen

Prince was famously protective of his image, and videos of his performances never stayed online long (there are several dead video embeds on this blog because of it).  His estate has continued the tradition, if not quite as aggressively, so videos that stick tend to be things that aren’t official Prince videos.  Here’s a clever tribute to his songwriting prowess which gets around the banhammer by…well, see for yourself.  The links above it were provided by Conner Habib (“legit”), Mike Chase (“serve”), Emma Evans (“Australians”), Tushy Galore (“bigot”), and Amy Alkon (“prohibition”).

• Sounds legit.
• To protect and serve.
• Welcome to our world, Australians.
• Cops harass men because woman is a bigot.
• Cops murdering disabled schoolchildren is hilarious!
• Gun control is the same as every other form of prohibition.

From the Archives

• As our wanker switches from pimp fantasy to incest fantasy, fade to black.
• Why do “rescuers” always push whores into menial garment-related work?
• How long before judges start fining these lawyers for filing nuisance suits?
• Fact: woman with drug problem goes missing. Conclusion: sex trafficking!
• Kaytlin’s sex work past isn’t germane to this; reporter goes there anyhow.
• Brains so narrow they can only conceive of humans existing in two states.
• Don’t want people spreading stupid rumors? Stop spreading ’em yourself.
• People kept out of the formal economy survive via the informal economy.
• Brooke Magnanti schools politicians wanting to hurt adults who want sex.
• 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?
• Arresting sex workers & clients to “build a positive relationship” with us.
• This would’ve been better without her moral signalling at the beginning.
• 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.
• Sullying a sex worker by surrounding her words with prohibitionist lies.
• What does it mean if my regular escort stops using protection with me?
• Why bother looking for victims when cops can just pretend to be them?
• Another cowboy raid staged for the entertainment of rich US moralists.
• Police chief decides to destroy a few lives to give bored cops some fun.
• In the contemporary US, people can be fired from jobs for blasphemy.
• Seattle cops aren’t the only ones with a fetish for creepy surveillance.
• 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?
• South Africa is another country with awesome sex worker activists.
• This sounds good until one gets down to the “end demand” poison.
• Another woman’s child abducted by the state because of her work.
• Another example of the War on Whores as the new War on Drugs.
• The term for nonconsensual sex isn’t “sleeping with”, it’s “rape”.
• Guys, please do your research, and let the pigs hunt each other.
• Sometimes “authorities” prefer to rape vulnerable men instead.
• Cops, thoughtcrime, Jesus, jumping machines and much more.
• In the US, we’re barely even tolerated, much less listened to.
• Indian court rules that acts which aren’t illegal, aren’t illegal.
• Cops, consequences, laws, Bradbury, dogs and much more.
• A simple primer on interacting with sex workers on Twitter.
• Another racist anti-whore pogrom in “progressive” Seattle.
• Some sex workers’ mothers really do love unconditionally.
• More racist infantilization of Nigerian sex workers in Italy.
• Decriminalization in New South Wales is safe for now.
• An excerpt from Brooke Magnanti’s The Turning Tide.
• All censorship seems this futile and ridiculous to me.
• The ridiculous self-contradictions of anti-sex laws.
• Once in a very great while, the bad guys still lose.
• Politicians just can’t stop beating this dead horse.
• A prohibitionist’s notion of “helping” sex workers.
• Endza Adair on being a student & sex worker.
• The cover of the New York Times Magazine.
• Rapist cops of the week, 2016 and 2017.
• An instant ticket to my Hall of Shame.
• “Evil” is not a noun; it is an adjective.
• Lorelei & I at The Secret Garden.
• Sex worker rights in Uganda.
• Yet another Friday the 13th.
• More of this, please.

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Links #409

We don’t want…everybody [to go] back to their normal life.
–  Mike Chitwood

I really enjoyed this clever video, courtesy of Franklin Harris, in which Avengers:  Infinity War is recast with classic Hollywood stars.  I can’t recall who shared the first link above the video, but the rest were provided by Jesse Walker, Nun Ya,  Radley Balko (x2), and Scott Shackford, in that order.

• We must be gods.
• Stone-age seafaring.
• Lovecraft in porcelain.
• One of the earliest known viral media spectacles.
• NEVER CALL THE FUCKING COPS. Why is that so hard?
• Sheriff complains there are teens in his county who haven’t been arrested.

From the Archives

• Officials invite religious fanatic to speak about her dogma, feign surprise when she does.
• Sleazebag takes it upon himself to persecute strangers for consensual sex.
• Can people not see that “sex trafficking” hysteria is rooted in xenophobia?
• Another ridiculous tale of spineless women & pimps with magical powers.
• Why is everyone so willing to believe “fake news” about “sex trafficking”?
• Luckily, cops can diagnose us as “victims” no matter what we may think.
• This excellent article about anti-porn hysteria is also very droll at points.
• Encouraging prosecutors to file more charges for non-criminal behavior.
• A teen girl riding in a car now constitutes “evidence” of “sex trafficking”.
• Fanatic finds data disprove “sex trafficking”, decides we need new data.
• Assume any strange man who fucks you will try to remove the condom.
• What would they have said had she been arrested instead of murdered?
• Fetishists trot out more lurid wanking fantasies than usual for the RNC.
• They realized they could expand the panic by adding male “sex slaves”.
• Police state exploits technically skilled but naive kids to attack whores.
• Two piles of filth want to cut sex workers off from the banking system.
• PA politicians define women as imbeciles whose consent is immaterial.
• In which sex workers’ desire for individual rights is called “surprising”.
• I won’t answer controversial questions about groups I don’t belong to.
• Cops, Loki, amateurs, Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans & more.
• New surveillance weapons are usually used against sex workers first.
• A basic primer on sex worker rights, focusing on France & Belgium.
• Korean men are more honest about buying sex than Western men.
• Pig tricks desperate woman so as to expose her to public ridicule.
• Can a loving but pragmatic whore/client relationship really work?
• Despite all the Dutch anti-whore campaigns, it’s nice to see this.
• “Anti-trafficking” publicity stunts are growing ever more bizarre.
• A Truthout article echoes what I said in the original of this title.
• Serial rapist tries to reframe himself as a protector of children.
• Previous columns for May Day and May Eve (Walpurgisnacht).
• A petition against politicians who want to destroy the internet.
• Cops, idiocracy, Heracles, Ozymandias, Canada & much more.
• Rashida Jones & company are even worse than we thought.
• Neurological disorders cannot be cured by happy thoughts.
• Because one moral panic at a time isn’t enough any more.
• There can never be too many anti-Swedish model articles.
• 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.
• “…the pattern of legislating over their heads continued…“
• A high-tech version of the “barcode tattoo” myth.
• Authoritarians say self-employment is immoral.
• The rescue industry is nasty from every angle.
• Whore-murderer seeks early release in Dubai.
• The War on Whores is the new War on Drugs.
• I really love it when they feed on each other.
• Public opposition to yet another toilet bill.
• Rapist cops of the week.  Plenty of them.
• Another teen’s life destroyed for flirting.
• Another rapist preying on sex workers.
• It’s impossible to state this too often.
• “Johns” are the new “faggots”.
• Testing a new vertigo remedy.
• Booze, benzos and airplanes.
• Rapist fake-cop of the week.
• R.I.P. Charles Gatewood.
• The McNeill Rule.

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Small Words

No matter how many times I explain it, police-state defenders keep popping up in my timeline to defend prohibition, cops and state violence.  So I thought that perhaps my language was too complex for them; however, I have trouble with simple language, so I decided to enlist the help of the late, great Theodore Geisel to rephrase my feelings on the matter.

Cops are glam
I’m a fan!

Police-state fans!
Police-state fans!
I do not like police-state fans!

Don’t you like the smell of ham?
I do not like it, Fan-I-am.
I do not like those thugs of ham.

Would you like them here or there?

I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.

I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.

Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?

I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans!
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.

Would you like them in a box?
Would you like them with a fox?

Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.

Would you?  Could you?  In their car?
Lick their nice boots!  Here they are.
I would not, could not, in a car.

You may like them.  You will see.
You may like them in a tree!

I would not, could not in a tree.
Not in a car!  You let me be.

I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.

A camp-bound train!
A camp-bound train!
Could you, would you, on a train?

Not in a train!  Not in a tree!
Not in a car!  Fan!  Let me be!

I would not, could not, in a box.
I could not, would not, with a fox.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere.
I do not like police-state fans.
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.

Say!  In the dark?
In a cell so dark?
Would you, could you, in the dark?

I would not, could not, in the dark.

Would you, could you, in the rain?

I would not, could not, in the rain.
Not in the dark.  Not on a train.
Not in a car.  Not in a tree.
I do not like them, Fan, you see.
Not in a house.  Not in a box.
Not with a mouse.  Not with a fox.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!

You do not like men made of ham?
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.

Could you, would you, with a goat?

I would not, could not, with a goat!

Would you, could you, on a boat?

I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with a goat.

I do not like them in the rain.
I do not like them on a train.
Not in the dark!  Not in a tree!
Not in a car!  You let me be!
I do not like them in a box.
I do not like them with a fox.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
I do not like them here or there.
I do not like them anywhere!
I do not like police-state fans!
I do not like them, Fan-I-am.

You do not like them.  So you say.
But I will hound you anyway.
I will not respect your “nay”.

Fan!  Since you won’t let me be,
I will mute you.  You will see.

I do not like states, threats and ham!
I do not like their spineless fans!
I still avoid them in a boat.
I still avoid them with a goat…

And I still hate them in the rain.
And in the dark.  And on a train.
And in a car.  And in a tree.
They are so bad, so bad, you see!

So I will mute them in a box.
And I will mute them with a fox.
And I will mute them in a house.
And I will mute them with a mouse.
And I will mute them here and there.
Yep, I will mute them anywhere!
I always mute police-state fans!
Fuck you! Fuck you, Fan-I-am!

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