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A few days ago I got a new subscriber at the top level, and it made me realize that it's been too long since I thanked all of you for your support. As I explained several years ago, "There’s something very comforting and flattering about getting those regular emails month after month; they say to 08 | APRIL | 2020 | THE HONEST COURTESAN 1 post published by Maggie McNeill on April 8, 2020 LINKS #534 | THE HONEST COURTESAN If a prisoner of war were treated this way, it would be a war crime. - Erik Heipt I don't recall being terribly impressed with this song when it was first out, but I recently stumbled across the video and now I keep thinking about it; maybe it's the sort of thing one needs toTHE CARIBBEAN
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It makes no difference whether youth is corrupted by a philosopher or a courtesan. – Glycera (a hetaera of the late 4 th century BCE). In my column of September 21 st I mentioned that many call girls are now choosing to label themselves as “courtesans” whether they fit the definition or not, but in recent weeks I’ve encountered the exact opposite phenomenon: People (mostly men) trying LINKS #374 | THE HONEST COURTESAN I didn’t know that the government did thingsthat extreme. Dan Sullivan I'm fascinated by early animation; here's a short film from 1910, shared by Jesse Walker, with some REALLY weird imagery (it's supposed to be an absinthe dream). The links above were provided by Nun Ya ("koinkdink"), Clarissa ("busybodies"), Elizabeth N. Brown ("nutritionists"), Tushy Galore ("murder"), and FranklinIN THE NEWS (#770)
Buttons, Bags & Banknotes (#767) Bindel is increasingly becoming a transparent laughing stock: In framing prostitution as modern slavery, something that holds women captive, Bindel plays on the classic and sexist damsel-in-distress motif. Yes, in other countries women do not enjoy the same rights as we do in the UK. COMMENTS ON: MY NEXT TOUR Outrigiht has nothing about it on their website. This seems to be a GLBT group for the AZ. The Freedom Rising event is part of the annual state convention of the Arizona Libertarian Party at COMMENTS ON: LINKS #461 In the last link, actually the cops shot the truck the toddlers (and one very stupid adult) were riding in because they were afraid of themoving truck.
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The Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the country’s antiprostitution law Thursday, dismissing “voluntary sex trade” unconstitutional. In a 6-to-3 ruling, the court confirmed the legality of the antisex trade act punishing both those who voluntarily sell andbuy sex, citing the
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Business As Usual. This essay first appeared in Cliterati on July 13th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog. After generations of ignoring the violence against sex workers which is directly or indirectly caused by either full (as in the US) or partial (as in the UK) criminalization, the public is slowly beginningto wake
COURTESAN DENIAL
It makes no difference whether youth is corrupted by a philosopher or a courtesan. – Glycera (a hetaera of the late 4 th century BCE). In my column of September 21 st I mentioned that many call girls are now choosing to label themselves as “courtesans” whether they fit the definition or not, but in recent weeks I’ve encountered the exact opposite phenomenon: People (mostly men) trying LINKS #374 | THE HONEST COURTESAN I didn’t know that the government did thingsthat extreme. Dan Sullivan I'm fascinated by early animation; here's a short film from 1910, shared by Jesse Walker, with some REALLY weird imagery (it's supposed to be an absinthe dream). The links above were provided by Nun Ya ("koinkdink"), Clarissa ("busybodies"), Elizabeth N. Brown ("nutritionists"), Tushy Galore ("murder"), and FranklinIN THE NEWS (#770)
Buttons, Bags & Banknotes (#767) Bindel is increasingly becoming a transparent laughing stock: In framing prostitution as modern slavery, something that holds women captive, Bindel plays on the classic and sexist damsel-in-distress motif. Yes, in other countries women do not enjoy the same rights as we do in the UK. COMMENTS ON: MY NEXT TOUR Outrigiht has nothing about it on their website. This seems to be a GLBT group for the AZ. The Freedom Rising event is part of the annual state convention of the Arizona Libertarian Party at COMMENTS ON: LINKS #461 In the last link, actually the cops shot the truck the toddlers (and one very stupid adult) were riding in because they were afraid of themoving truck.
TAKING SHAPE
As regular readers know, I’m planning to semi-retire at the end of this year; I stopped creating traditional ads over a year ago, and as of January 1 st I will no longer take new clients unless they come recommended by someone I know personally. The pandemic and civil unrest of this year have given me a glimpse of what that’s going to look like: for the past six months I’ve been living 08 | APRIL | 2020 | THE HONEST COURTESAN 1 post published by Maggie McNeill on April 8, 2020 NEW YEAR’S DAY 2018 If you'd like to ask me a question, click here. If you made a comment and it doesn't appear within a few hours, click on this one. If you'd like to alert me to an interesting item, use this one. And if you have a request, bouquet or brickbat or just want to introduce yourself, this is the one for you. DIARY #381 | THE HONEST COURTESAN Last week was one for cleaning up, fixing up and setting straight. Grace spent it totally revamping the wellhouse (tank, plumbing and electrical) and repairing a water-pipe leak that had caused considerable damage to the bathroom subfloor; I made some long-delayed updates to my professional website and, as you saw yesterday, finallygot around to
15 | APRIL | 2020 | THE HONEST COURTESAN A Moral Cancer (#404) Pat Robertson is back to bat-shit crazy again: Many Evangelical preachers have been looking for a scapegoat for COVID-19. They’ve already blamed it on gays and claimed it was a sign of the end of the world. Some Evangelicals don’t even believe the disease is realBut now fundie fossil Pat Robertson has weighed in NOVEMBER | 2020 | THE HONEST COURTESAN Criminalizing fiction is thoughtcrime. – Prostasia. Thought Control . Imagine your home being fired upon and a heavily armed SWAT team busting through your front door, all so that the government can stop people from reading fiction.. It sounds like a scenario from a dystopian novel, but this really happened on November 7, 2019, when FBI agents raided the home of Thomas Arthur, the DIARY #476 | THE HONEST COURTESAN For the past two weeks, I have only seen my regular gentlemen and a single new client with excellent references (who found me via Twitter), and it has been wonderful. As I've mentioned several times in the past year, I'm really tired of dealing with traditional escort advertising sites, especially since FOSTA demolished the old 22 | NOVEMBER | 2019 | THE HONEST COURTESAN 1 post published by Maggie McNeill on November 22, 2019 LINKS #519 | THE HONEST COURTESAN I can’t breathe. - Manuel Ellis YouTube pushes videos based on some kind of algorithm involving what you've watched before, so I reckon it isn't surprising I was dealt this one. Like all of these pop-culture docuvideos it's at least twice as long as it should be, but it's still interesting. The links above itSTAUNCH SUPPORTERS
A few days ago I got a new subscriber at the top level, and it made me realize that it's been too long since I thanked all of you for your support. As I explained several years ago, "There’s something very comforting and flattering about getting those regular emails month after month; they say to 08 | APRIL | 2020 | THE HONEST COURTESAN 1 post published by Maggie McNeill on April 8, 2020THE CARIBBEAN
Bad Girls (#625) about 20 sex workers andallies took to Daley Plaza to show solidarity with Alisha Walker, a 23-year-old woman sentenced to 15 years in prison after fatally stabbing a client”We could all be Alisha,” Cathryn Berarovich”Because our work is criminalized, there is no recourse for when bad things happen to us.BUSINESS AS USUAL
This essay first appeared in Cliterati on July 13th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog. After generations of ignoring the violence against sex workers which is directly or indirectly caused by either full (as in the US) or partial (as in the UK) criminalization, the public is slowly beginning to wake up to theIN THE NEWS (#948)
Just to clarify: I only translated the piece. It was authored by Voice4Sexworkers. And: Sex worker counselling center Doña Carmen e.V. had launched a challenge before Germany’s Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, but the court decided not to hear thecase.
DIARY #427 | THE HONEST COURTESAN A busy work week coupled with much cooler weather was a perfect remedy for anxiety, and taking a dear friend to dinner for her birthday made it even better. Then on Saturday I went out to Sunset for the weekend (not just to see the pony, though that was a nice highlight), and whenI
LINKS #374 | THE HONEST COURTESAN I didn’t know that the government did thingsthat extreme. Dan Sullivan I'm fascinated by early animation; here's a short film from 1910, shared by Jesse Walker, with some REALLY weird imagery (it's supposed to be an absinthe dream). The links above were provided by Nun Ya ("koinkdink"), Clarissa ("busybodies"), Elizabeth N. Brown ("nutritionists"), Tushy Galore ("murder"), and FranklinIN THE NEWS (#770)
Officialdom should never have the right to tell grown adults when, how, with whom and for what reason they can have sex. - Ella Whelan Feminine Pragmatism The capacity of lawheads for denying reality is nothing short of astonishing: The Ministry of Health has made it a priority to educate and counsel “commercial sexAGE BEFORE BEAUTY
I'm thinking about calling an escort for the first time; do they take young guys seriously? Or would I be treated differently from older men? Some ladies have a lower age limit of 30 or even 35, but if one does it’ll be marked clearly on her website. If a young man wants to see an escort, there are LINKS #519 | THE HONEST COURTESAN I can’t breathe. - Manuel Ellis YouTube pushes videos based on some kind of algorithm involving what you've watched before, so I reckon it isn't surprising I was dealt this one. Like all of these pop-culture docuvideos it's at least twice as long as it should be, but it's still interesting. The links above itSTAUNCH SUPPORTERS
A few days ago I got a new subscriber at the top level, and it made me realize that it's been too long since I thanked all of you for your support. As I explained several years ago, "There’s something very comforting and flattering about getting those regular emails month after month; they say to 08 | APRIL | 2020 | THE HONEST COURTESAN 1 post published by Maggie McNeill on April 8, 2020THE CARIBBEAN
Bad Girls (#625) about 20 sex workers andallies took to Daley Plaza to show solidarity with Alisha Walker, a 23-year-old woman sentenced to 15 years in prison after fatally stabbing a client”We could all be Alisha,” Cathryn Berarovich”Because our work is criminalized, there is no recourse for when bad things happen to us.BUSINESS AS USUAL
This essay first appeared in Cliterati on July 13th; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog. After generations of ignoring the violence against sex workers which is directly or indirectly caused by either full (as in the US) or partial (as in the UK) criminalization, the public is slowly beginning to wake up to theIN THE NEWS (#948)
Just to clarify: I only translated the piece. It was authored by Voice4Sexworkers. And: Sex worker counselling center Doña Carmen e.V. had launched a challenge before Germany’s Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country, but the court decided not to hear thecase.
DIARY #427 | THE HONEST COURTESAN A busy work week coupled with much cooler weather was a perfect remedy for anxiety, and taking a dear friend to dinner for her birthday made it even better. Then on Saturday I went out to Sunset for the weekend (not just to see the pony, though that was a nice highlight), and whenI
LINKS #374 | THE HONEST COURTESAN I didn’t know that the government did thingsthat extreme. Dan Sullivan I'm fascinated by early animation; here's a short film from 1910, shared by Jesse Walker, with some REALLY weird imagery (it's supposed to be an absinthe dream). The links above were provided by Nun Ya ("koinkdink"), Clarissa ("busybodies"), Elizabeth N. Brown ("nutritionists"), Tushy Galore ("murder"), and FranklinIN THE NEWS (#770)
Officialdom should never have the right to tell grown adults when, how, with whom and for what reason they can have sex. - Ella Whelan Feminine Pragmatism The capacity of lawheads for denying reality is nothing short of astonishing: The Ministry of Health has made it a priority to educate and counsel “commercial sexAGE BEFORE BEAUTY
I'm thinking about calling an escort for the first time; do they take young guys seriously? Or would I be treated differently from older men? Some ladies have a lower age limit of 30 or even 35, but if one does it’ll be marked clearly on her website. If a young man wants to see an escort, there areTAKING SHAPE
As regular readers know, I’m planning to semi-retire at the end of this year; I stopped creating traditional ads over a year ago, and as of January 1 st I will no longer take new clients unless they come recommended by someone I know personally. The pandemic and civil unrest of this year have given me a glimpse of what that’s going to look like: for the past six months I’ve been living 15 | APRIL | 2020 | THE HONEST COURTESAN 1 post published by Maggie McNeill on April 15, 2020. You would think that an organizationthat spent weeksagonizing over a decision to block literal Nazis from its platformwould be more considerate when getting into the censorship game. DIARY #514 | THE HONEST COURTESAN On December 2nd, 1996, I got my nails done professionally for the first time; since then I've had them done every three weeks, four at the outside during disasters like Hurricane Katrina. It has always been something I've done religiously, as the visible sign of a LINKS #534 | THE HONEST COURTESAN If a prisoner of war were treated this way, it would be a war crime. - Erik Heipt I don't recall being terribly impressed with this song when it was first out, but I recently stumbled across the video and now I keep thinking about it; maybe it's the sort of thing one needs to 22 | NOVEMBER | 2019 | THE HONEST COURTESAN 1 post published by Maggie McNeill on November 22, 2019 THAT’S THE TICKET! I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield In the 1980s, American comedianCOURTESAN DENIAL
It makes no difference whether youth is corrupted by a philosopher or a courtesan. – Glycera (a hetaera of the late 4 th century BCE). In my column of September 21 st I mentioned that many call girls are now choosing to label themselves as “courtesans” whether they fit the definition or not, but in recent weeks I’ve encountered the exact opposite phenomenon: People (mostly men) trying DIARY #381 | THE HONEST COURTESAN Last week was one for cleaning up, fixing up and setting straight. Grace spent it totally revamping the wellhouse (tank, plumbing and electrical) and repairing a water-pipe leak that had caused considerable damage to the bathroom subfloor; I made some long-delayed updates to my professional website and, as you saw yesterday, finallygot around to
DIARY #476 | THE HONEST COURTESAN For the past two weeks, I have only seen my regular gentlemen and a single new client with excellent references (who found me via Twitter), and it has been wonderful. As I've mentioned several times in the past year, I'm really tired of dealing with traditional escort advertising sites, especially since FOSTA demolished the old NEW YEAR’S DAY 2018 If you'd like to ask me a question, click here. If you made a comment and it doesn't appear within a few hours, click on this one. If you'd like to alert me to an interesting item, use this one. And if you have a request, bouquet or brickbat or just want to introduce yourself, this is the one for you.* Home
* Introduction
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* Subject Index (A and B) * Subject Index (C and D) * Subject Index (E and F) * Subject Index (G and H) * Subject Index (I and J) * Subject Index (K and L) * Subject Index (M and N) * Subject Index (O and P) * Subject Index (Q and R) * Subject Index (S and T) * Subject Index (U and V) * Subject Index (W – Z)* Resources
* Bibliography
* Filmography
* Musicography
* Questions
* Quotes
* La Libertine’s Salon* Offsite
* Permanent Links
* Criticisms, Witticisms & Praise*
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THE ELEPHANT AND THE MOUSE January 7, 2020 by Maggie McNeill IF YOU ARE NEUTRAL IN SITUATIONS OF INJUSTICE, YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR. IF AN ELEPHANT HAS ITS FOOT ON THE TAIL OF A MOUSE, AND YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE NEUTRAL, THE MOUSE WILL NOT APPRECIATE YOUR NEUTRALITY. – Desmond Tutu2019
will be remembered as the year it became fashionable for opportunistic prohibitionists to pretend to be concerned about the harm done to sex workers by the policies of criminalization they have supported for the past two decades. While the deranged puritans who deny our agency, share their disgusting sexual fantasies about usin
public and intentionally send thugs to deceive, rape and cage us (while pretending they want to “rescue” us from the bogeymen who reside only in their fevered imaginations) are just as awful as ever and will probably remain so for the foreseeable future, those who merely jumped on the “sex trafficking” bandwagon to sell something or gain power are now pretending to have been “neutral” before, but sympathetic now because they finally bothered to look at the mountains of data we’ve been showing them since the turn of the century, or something. But because these sociopaths wouldn’t know a moral compass if one were driven into their faces with an impact wrench, their attempts to sound sympathetic are pathetic at best and deeply insulting at worst. Power-mad shitbag Elizabeth Warren, for example, has signed on to support a “study of the impact of FOSTA”
while simultaneously scheming (again) to steal sex workers’ money and shut us out of the banking system. But while
her duplicity is disguised well enough to fool the insufficiently-cynical, this recent effort by the staunchly-prohibitionist _New York Times_ is embarrassingly transparent . The newspaper which launched “sex trafficking” hysteria 16 years ago this month with a fantasy called “The Girls Next Door”,
and which has since then functioned as one of the primary organs spreading “sex trafficking” hysteria with lies, masturbatory fantasies from Nick Kristof, and copsucking propaganda, now wants us to believe that it gives a shit about us. And yet, it isn’t even trying to remove prohibitionist fecal matter from its lips before speaking up. It starts in the lede by referring to censorship as “holding tech platforms accountable”
and then refers to sex workers’ ads & online activism as “sex-trafficking schemes” and “the ills of the internet”. It then goes on to argue that censorship is mostly a good thing as long as the government precedes that censorship with years of propaganda demonizing & dehumanizing its intended targets, and describes FOSTA-enabled censorship as “mostly positive” (“the results are not all positive” is semantically equivalent to “the results are mostly positive”). And that’s just in the first two paragraphs; a little further along sex work is dysphemized as “the bartering of children and adults” and a law specifically designed to censor the internet and opposed by every human rights and speech group in the country is said to have been “hailed as a way to catch upto…reality”.
The most astonishing part of all this? The _Times’_ writers are so clueless they really think this milquetoast admission of the harms of FOSTA is enough to erase a generation of cheerleading for tyranny. It will be interesting to see how they, and myriad others of their ilk, try to avoid being “held accountable” for their incredibly irresponsible actions as sex worker rights follows the footsteps of LGBT rights into the mainstream of US political discussion. Posted in Current Events,
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LITTLE CHRISTMAS 2020 January 6, 2020 by Maggie McNeill If you don’t understand why I post a picture of a sexy witch on this occasion, I suggest you consult my column from five years ago today,
which also (not by coincidence) contains links to the columns for the previous four years. That should give you all the information you need to understand why I’m wishing some of my readers a Merry Christmas, some a Good Epiphany and others a Happy King Day, and welcoming all of you to the Carnival season!Posted in Holidays
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January 5, 2020 by Maggie McNeill I WILL FUCKING SHOOT YOU! – “Officer” Keith Sweeney You don’t need to understand Farsi to appreciate this very short film by a very young filmmaker (20) which won an award at the Luxor Film Festival. It was contributed by Mama Tush , and the links above it are from Scott Greenfield , Cop Crisis(x3), Melanie Moore
, Radley Balko
, and Lenore Skenazy(in that order).
* _Much_ more of this, please . * Not for any reason whatsoever.
* Gang of thugs invades hospital, beats doctors.
* Cop enacts his sick sexual fantasy on homeless man.
* Crime: unpaid toll. Penalty: intentional fracture of an arm.
* Stupidity, lies, victim-blaming…all in a day’s work for cops.
* Europeans want to eschew physical form & exist in an immaterialworld
.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
* If there’s a Hell, those who pimp whores’ corpses are going tothe bottom
.
* If amateurs weren’t trying to ruin our lives, they could learn alot from us
.
* The government’s excuse for flushing the remains of the 4thAmendment
.
* How many kids need to be sacrificed to this obscenity beforeit’s enough
?
* Pathetic “sex trafficking” fetishists recycle a failedpropaganda campaign
.
* We’re not hearing quite as much of this “highway” bullshitas we used to
.
* As long as sex work is marginalized, whores will be targeted forviolence
.
* 300 texts does _not_ equate to 300 men, since many guys send abarrage
.
* Scumbags profiting from sex workers by promoting harmful lies inIndia
.
* It’s hilarious watching cops try to regain control of runawaymoral panic
.
* This article by 3 academic allies covers a lot of ground, butstarts here
.
* Do they think everyone in the shelter will be contaminated by sexrays
?
* It’s both fascinating and horrifying to watch a culturelobotomize itself
.
* Whores in the Global South are much better at activism than USones
.
* Liz Brown presents her picks for the best sex work writing of theyear
.
* New items of this type appear under the heading “PermanentRecord”
.
* “Abatement”. A term used for inhuman things, especiallynuisances
.
* If sex work weren’t illegal, laws like this would be easilyoverturned
.
* A sow spins tragedy-porn for her audience’s masturbatorypleasure
.
* It’s the same everywhere our work is even partially criminalized.
* I’ll be rather pleased if Philadelphia beats Seattle to thepunch
.
* Cops, copyright, psychopathology, dominoes and much more.
* Minnesota imprisons a bunch of migrants as “sex traffickers”.
* Indian sex workers fight a terrible new “anti-trafficking”bill
.
* More evidence that “free” pussy is the most expensive kind.
* Think being a “legal” sex worker protects you from cop lies?
* Just in case you though FOSTA was as bad as it would get.
* Cops are being forced to deny “sex trafficking” scary tales.
* Previous columns
for New
Year’s Eve
and New
Year’s
Day
.
* It’s good to see a few realistic movies about sex workers.
* Better headline: “Most moronic & childish sentence ever”.
* Cops, government, racism, rock & roll and much more.
* Another exercise in cop-fellation & myth-regurgitation.
* How my 2012 predictions looked in 2018and 2019
.
* Predictable in the current Neo-Victorian climate.
* Our government refers to this as “correction”.
* Dr. David Ley on sex workers and therapy.
* Why doesn’t this say what _kind_ of animal?
* I figured they could at _least_ count to ten.
* It’s just so lovely having Grace nearby.
* Two similar cases in just a few weeks.
* Enjoying some seasonal relaxation.
* Rapist cops
of the week
.
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video | 4 Comments » IN THE NEWS (#1001) January 4, 2020 by Maggie McNeill THE ETERNAL FLAME THAT IS RING’S DUMPSTER FIRE OF AN EXISTENCE CONTINUES TO BURN. – Tim CushingROUGH TRADE
Cops wait a year to arrest a dangerous, violent serial rapist.
Guess why?
> Stephen Bradley Ewing was charged on Dec. 17 with two counts of > sexual assault and one count of …from …on June 15 and Aug. 1 of this year…The > August offence occurred the same day Ewing was arrested by Nanaimo> RCMP
> …and
> charged with three counts of …between March > and October of 2018…FOLLOW YOUR BLISS
A “national leader in the field of sex offender management”:
> A…forensic psychologist and national leader in the field of sex > offender management has surrendered to St. Louis on warrants > for child sex crimes> in
> two Missouri counties…Kurt M. Bumby…is accused of molesting two > children in incidents in counties, the > oldest of those charges stretching back to 1988…BUSINESS AS USUAL
More cops raping sex workers (excuse me, “rescuing traffickingvictims”) :
> …a two-year federal sex-trafficking started to > unravel last week… at > massage parlors in Lake Havasu City and Bullhead City …an alleged sex trafficking network…The > at each location…but never to completion…the led to the > arrests of seven people… charges against two of the were > dismissed because th to testify …one of the women > arrested…is seeking disclosure of the full names of the > and all reports they prepared…more felony cases against …could be dismissed soon… “It’s not rape because I didn’t jizz” is certainly a noveldefense.
BROKEN RECORD (#748) As the hysteria collapses, some “sex trafficking” opportunists will turn to producing “studies” to “find” what is alreadyknown :
> As the Formula 1…Grand Prix Race approaches each year in > Austin…newly published research suggests that…there is > not…an…uptick in crimes — sex trafficking or otherwise…in > weeks before and after the race….property crimes, violent crimes, > and sex-related offenses… increase…Earlier this year, > COTA and the track owners lost at least $20 million in state > reimbursement funds for missing the deadline to submit a…plan … TORTURE CHAMBER (#898) Imprisonment doesn’t magically become “care” when the prisoneris under 18 :
> The White House sought…to embed immigration enforcement agents > within the U.S. refugee agency that cares for…migrant …to…target the > for deportation…officials…rejected the attempt… agreed to > allow …to collect fingerprints and other biometric > information from adults seeking to claim migrant at > government shelters. If those adults are deemed ineligible to take > custody of children, ICE could then use their information to target > them for arrest and deportation…Congress…made clear that it does not want those who come forward as potential > sponsors of minors…to be frightened away by possible > deportation… acknowledge the arrangement will > instill fear among migrant parents, but they say it will deter > families from having their children cross into the United States> illegally…
There is nothing sociopathic politicians (pardon the redundancy) love more than “sending messages” with other people’s lives.I SPY (#904)
When it comes to mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
> Your smartphone can broadcast your exact location thousands of times > per day, through hundreds of apps, instantaneously to dozens of > different companies. Each of those companies has the power to > follow individual mobile phones wherever they go, in near-real > time. That’s not a glitch in the system. It is the system. > If the government ordered Americans to continuously provide such > precise, real-time information about themselves, there would be a > revolt…Yet…we’ve reached a tacit consensus to hand this data > over voluntarily, even though we don’t really know who’s getting > it or what they’re doing with it… BACKWARDS INTO THE FUTURE (#923) I wonder how long it will be before the US abandons “re-education” for sex workers and clients?
> China’s extrajudicial detention of sex workers or their customers, > known as “custody and education”, is set to be abolished, in > what experts called a long-overdue move. The detention system has > been used to …since the 1980s. Sex > workers and their clients could be detained for up to two years > without trial in centres overseen by the police. More than > 300,000 people were detained in custody and education (C&E) between > 1987 and 2000…mainland media have reported a steady decrease in > detentions in recent years, resulting in the closures of some > detention facilities… If you’re wondering whether to believe that China really intends to give up “re-education” schemes, see “Quiet Genocide”
below.
TRAIN WRECK (#935)
The “Abuja Environmental Protection Board” is a Nigerian vice gang long empowered to do basically anything it likes to terrorize sexworkers
:
> A…high court in Abuja has condemned the arrest of women…by …She also ruled that sex work is not a > crime…The…police, the army, ministry of the federal capital > territory (FCT), and the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) > were…ordered…to pay N1.6 million …to the affected > women. …arrested over > 100 women at…a night club in Abuja… sexually > assaulting them… bribe their > way to freedom… SAFE POSITION (#966) Just another lying politician who wants to police others’ privatelives
:
> …presidential hopeful Andrew Yang said…”we should consider > decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller,” as this would > be “helpful in combating human trafficking.” Yang is talking about…is…the… lately, a coalition of old-school moral > crusaders…has taken to co-opting the language of the sex worker> rights
>
> movement to push their anti-sex work agenda. This means many of > them _say_ they are for prostitution “decriminalization” while > still pushing to keep prostitution between consenting adults as a > crime. They get away with this linguistic malpractice by saying > that they would decriminalize the act of offering paid sex as long > as it is still illegal to purchase such services. Obviously, this > is not decriminalization within any normal meaning of the > word. Yang’s preferred model would still mean devoting law > enforcement resources to catching people attempting to pay for > sex—and that would mean monitoring and conducting stings on sex> workers…
QUIET GENOCIDE
PYRRHIC VICTORY (#979) So progress! Much Seattle!
> At the direction of Mayor Jenny Durkan, ’s Human Services > Department is studying the possibility of mandatory biometric > screening of homeless shelter and service clients, using > fingerprints or other biometric markers to track the city’s > homeless population…Durkan Kamaria Hightower > that…a “digital ID” would create > “efficiencies” that improve on the scan cards currently used > homeless…people…often lose their IDs and other > documents when the city sweeps their encampment and or > throws away their stuff, a policy that has accelerated under> Durkan…
TORTURE CHAMBER (#997) Just in case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to theprisoners :
> Four women at > told…they had to consent to a strip search immediately after> dogs
> …or
> they would lose all visitation rights…the women…were on or near > their period at the time and believe the dogs may have confused that > with the smell of drugs. A …“It is > not…policy to permanently ban anyone solely based on their > compliance or non-compliance with a strip search”…Each of the > women sign a consent form believing that to > refuse the strip search would mean a permanent ban from the > prison. All were taken to a bathroom and …Most…also had their cars searched…PANOPTICON (#999)
The “security” system that isn’t:
> _The log-in credentials for 3,672 Ring camera owners were > compromised…exposing log-in emails, passwords, time zones, and the > names people give to specific Ring cameras…such as “bedroom” > or “front door”…_Ring says this leak of personal data isn’t > its fault. The company claims there’s been no breach…it’s > kind of hard to take Ring’s word for it. The company has been > doing nothing but putting out PR fires ever since its law > enforcement partnerships came to light…Ring took no interest in > this…until _after_ the security researcher who discovered the > compromised credentials discussed his findings on Reddit…Ring > …quick to blame users for the commandeering of their cameras > by a forum full of shitbirds, but the company does almost nothing to > ensure users are protected from malicious activity… Posted in Current Events,
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DIARY #496
January 3, 2020 by Maggie McNeillDuring
the holidays I was seized with a powerful urge to nest, which took the form of redoing the kitchen cupboards (they’ve never been properly done, in other words done by me, since we moved in) and then launching into the bookcase project. By Wednesday we had all this done; there are three full units on the right and space for two more on the other wall (you can see the backboard already on the wall). I did most of the physical labor because Grace is in poor health and is easily exhausted these days, but she did the brain work like design and engineering. When Chekhov comes back next week he and Grace can finish the two remaining, then there’s the top facade and some nice trim, then staining, and the next time I come out I may be able to act out my nesting impulses on getting my library into proper order for the first time in 17 years.Posted in Diary
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TWENTY YEARS
January 2, 2020 by Maggie McNeillReaders
with long memories may recall that January second has often been a day on which big things happenin my
life. It was the day my first husband Jack left me,
and it wasn’t long after this day in 1985 that I got paid for sex for the very first time. But
twenty years ago today, January 2nd, 2000, was the date I began my full-time professional escorting career, after
years of being in that neighborhood via sugaring, stripping, and what the literature calls “casual prostitution”. And it didn’t take long before I realized that my life would never be the same again. For the first time I could make all the money I needed and then some, with no looming debts hanging over my head, no romantic partner to accomodate, and no boss to answer to. It’s true that I quickly discovered escort service owners can be even more awful than clubowners , but it
takes a _lot_ less money and connections to start an escort service than to open a strip club, so that’s what I did. And as the internet and the advertising options it offered grew, I was eventually able to dump that encumbrance as well. I’ve now been monetizing my sexuality for almost 70% of my life (which is to say, basically my _entire_ adult life), and it’s hard for me now to imagine doing things any other way; that’s _especially_ true when I see news stories or conversations about the oppressive, exploitative conditions in most modern employment, not to mention square jobs’ lack of security and the growing tendency for employers to exert control over their employees’ private lives (firing them because of things they said on social media or because the boss got ahold of one of their nude photos, etc). With the sole exception of librarianship (about 4.5 years), none of the square jobs I ever had lasted over 9 months; most were even shorter than that. But once I found a profession in which I could be myself, do things my own way, control my own schedule and answer to absolutely nobody, yet be handsomely rewarded for my time and effort, there was absolutely no way I’d ever be able to see the world as an amateur ever again. And though the past twenty years haven’t always been easy, my work was never a contributing factor to that; on the contrary, it has given me the resources and flexibility to do what I needed to manage the rest.Posted in Biography
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NEW YEAR’S DAY 2020 January 1, 2020 by Maggie McNeill Happy New Year, dear readers!Posted in Holidays
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