Summer Solstice 2017

The apparent path of the sun reached its northernmost point at 04:24 UTC today, marking the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the shortest day of the year & first day of winter in the Southern.  May all of your plans come to fruition in the fullness of time, and Blessed Be!

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May Day 2017

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May Eve 2017

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Vernal Equinox 2017

The apparent path of the sun crossed the equator moving northward at the moment this column posted, 10:29 UTC, signaling the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern.  Enjoy the milder weather to come, and Blessed Be!

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Imbolc 2017

May the reawakening of the world bring with it the reawakening of good things you thought gone forever.  Blessed Be!

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Links #340

Says he’s got a thing about burnin’ witches
Ooh, some of these were mighty fine bitches. – Carl Douglas

Some of you may remember the catchy 1974 hit “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas, who was apparently a movie fan because he also wrote & recorded “Witchfinder General”, inspired by the Vincent Price film about Matthew Hopkins.  The video was called to my attention by Jesse Walker, who also provided “cities”; the other links above the video are from Scott Greenfield, Tim Cushing (x2),  Clarissa, Skye, and Dave Krueger, in that order.

• To protect and serve.
• Police professionalism.
• Darwin Award nominee.
• Life in a decaying empire.
• The Twin Peaks tarot deck.
• Universal criminality in action.
• There’s something compelling about lost cities.

From the Archives

• Why do “rescue homes” deny women’s agency & reduce them to passive, doll-like creatures?
• Anyone who’d be “alarmed” at sight of a nipple needs to stay home with a coloring book.
• Sometimes the connection between “sex trafficking” hysteria & Satanic panic is subtle…
• Prohibition turns every body into a “crime scene” which can be violated by cops at will.
• It’s unusual to see an evangelical break with the party line on “trafficking”.
• Pretend your unsold product “fights sex trafficking” & watch profits roll in!
• “Cyber Civil Rights Initiative” is a front organization for Mary Anne Franks.
• Cops pimp dead whore’s corpse by declaring her a “sex trafficking victim”.
• “Gypsy whores” myth is so discredited, politicians need to spread it alone.
• Seattle cops destroy the Review Board where I & many others advertised.
• Plus the fact that so-called “virtually reality” doesn’t involve actual touch.
• Myths and agency denial narrow the bottleneck for legal Swiss sex work.
• Will gullible reporters ever stop publishing Ashley Madison ads for free?
• Self-proclaimed “authority” explains that porn causes “sex trafficking”.
• Even when they question a few elements, they can’t let go of the rest.
• “Sex Trafficking Hysteria” as a heading in a national magazine article.
• Jin Ohashi is being questioned for his unethical way of taking photos.
• Cops use mere existence of whore’s child to felonize consensual sex.
• This is what prohibition looks like when given perspective by time.
• Cops, masturbation, Donna Douglas, surveillance and much more.
• The vile and self-contradictory sexual fantasies of prohibitionists.
• “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
• Cops, proofreading, commercials, action figures & much more.
• My two previous columns for Epiphany (AKA Little Christmas).
• An orang-utan is legally recognized as a person in Argentina.
• “She was so desperate to raise money she got a better job!”
• According to Hong Kong “authorities”, I operate a “brothel”.
• As I predicted, this trope is becoming much more common.
• An 18-year-old “man” and a 17-year-old “girl”.  SHAZAM!
• A ridiculous and insulting new law takes effect in Florida.
• West African “penis stealing” hysteria, now with whores!
• In the US, this business would be violently suppressed.
• A decent review of 2015’s top sex work stories, except…
• Laura Lee published an open letter to prohibitionists.
• Can you give me advice on blogging anonymously?
• Another vomiting out of evil, hysterical nonsense.
• Despite the ICE, the odor of this is unmistakable.
• The year sex workers exploded into the media.
• In case you think Denmark’s “sexually liberal”.
• Finally, a compromise on the comfort women.
• Why “sex trafficking” tall tales read like porn.
• The worst trauma of my “Year of Disaster”.
• Cops, Carmilla, KKK, Dick and much more.
• On the intensity of my feelings for friends.
• Nursing fetishists persecuted in China.
• Human trafficking is EVERYWHERE!!!
• “Forced prostitution”, because I-95.
• I’ve been saying this for 30 years.
• Best sex work books of 2015.
• I’ll just leave this right here.
• Predictable as sunrise.
• Well, this is different.

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Yule 2016

The apparent path of the sun reached its southernmost point at the moment this column posted, 10:44 UTC, which is why it’s a little late; I can never resist posting at the moment when it’s this close to normal posting time.  This is a time for remembrance, renewal and rebirth; I wish for all my readers the blessings of the season, and pray that all of you get all you hope for in the new year.  Blessed Be!

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