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Posts Tagged 'South Dakota'
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The "first oral sex robot"…[looks less like a] sexy silicone face…and…more like a Wi-Fi router with benefits. – Elizabeth N. Brown
Feminine Pragmatism
One day, reporters will get that "People Work To Make Money" is not news:
The [UK] Universal Credit benefits system is forcing some women to turn to sex work, [opponents of the scheme] say…"Julie", from Merseyside, never thought she would have to turn to sex work. But an eight-week wait for the single mum's first payment after transferring from her previous benefits left her "desperate", so when she was offered £30 for sex she took it…
Counterfeit Comfort
Arizona says anyone even accused of a sex crime is subhuman:
…the Supreme Court in Smith v. Doe held that sex offender registration was not punitive, but civil, and therefore beyond the reach of the Ex Post Facto Clause…this categorical group known as "sex offenders" was so deserving of a life of misery, prohibition and shunning for the putative safety of the community that there was a rational basis for civil rules to make them societal outcasts. Where they can live, work, exist for decades, if not the rest of their lives, was constrained to the point of impossibility. And should they mess up compliance with any detail, back they go to prison. But it's not criminal. It's civil. For no better reason than legislatures say it's not punitive, but for the safety of the children, Even though it's punitive. Extremely punitive. Arizona wants to take this further…[by] "rendering a defendant [accused of a sex crime] categorically ineligible for bail"…it categorically prohibits bail without regard for individual circumstances…In order to obtain release, the accused would apparently be compelled to disprove the accusations. Not at trial, but just to be considered for bail. It's not merely a presumption of guilt, with the burden shifted onto the defendant to disprove his guilt, but one that imposes the burden on a singular group, sex offenders, because they are now the most dreaded and hated in society…
Scapegoats
Safety first:
A [Florida] man has been arrested after several people told deputies they spotted him having sex with a miniature horse…Nicholas Anthony Sardo, 21, admitted to having sex with a miniature male pony named Jackie G…four times during the course of a week. Sardo told deputies he used a condom each time because he didn't want to get a disease from the horse…
Torture Chamber
"Correcting" people to death:
The death of an inmate following an "altercation with correctional staff" at Western Illinois Correctional Center in May has been ruled a homicide…Larry Earvin died from blunt trauma [intentionally inflicted] to the chest and abdomen [by four screws]…The 65-year-old Earvin sustained 15 rib fractures…two dozen or more abrasions, hemorrhages and lacerations…[and a ruptured colon]…four [screws] were [rewarded for the murder with paid vacations]…Willie Hedden…Benjamin Burnett…Blake Haubrich…and…Alex Banta…
"An altercation with correctional staff" means "screws beat him to death".
Sometimes they even rape their own:
A [cop] who became a pariah among Nashville police has sued the force and her commander for…retaliating against her after she [reported] a rape by a colleague, as well as racial and gender-based discrimination. Monica Blake['s]…lawsuit includes a long list of grievances, from being treated differently than male colleagues to free speech suppression and retaliation for reporting [her] rape in 2016…[the rapist] made a plea deal…and had his rape charges reduced to aggravated assault [and the department is hiding his identity so he can be free to rape other women]…she was once suspended for three days for simply playing a game of cards, while white male officers escaped almost all culpability for much harsher violations – like [framing innocent people]…It got worse when she publicly supported an initiative to create a Community Oversight Board…
Lack of Evidence (#821)
Why do sex workers and others believe in these garbage "immunity" policies?
Sex workers would be [statutorily] immune from criminal prosecution when they report rapes, assaults, robberies and other crimes, under a bill approved by a [Utah] legislative committee…[bill sponsor] Paul Ray…said…"If we put it in statute, [gullible whores]…will [believe they'll actually] receive immunity and be treated as a victim or witness"…He said serial offenders prey upon sex workers because "they know they can"…
Remember, cops and politicians claim that indefinite detention without charge is a form of "protection", and courts have on many occasions caged rape or domestic violence victims to compel their testimony. Laws that claim to grant members of a criminalized group "immunity" for high-sounding reasons are bullshit as long as the group is still criminalized; even if the mark isn't immediately caged she will be placed on a list, spied on and generally persecuted.
The Notorious Badge (#822)
An interesting history of Annie Sprinkle's salon in 1980s New York:
…From 1980-94, the Sprinkle Salon was a spiritual and physical extension of Sprinkle's identity. Her radicalism was translated into fetish, tattoo, and body modification parties, while her pledge to sexual positivity emulated in female empowerment sex classes like Sluts and Goddesses…and her role as a leader in the sex industry was equally translated into sex worker rights groups like PONY (Prostitutes Of New York) and porn support groups like Club 90. Above all, the Sprinkle Salon was a central point for New York's underground sexual rebellion and a place to push the revolution into the rights of fetishists, porn stars, and sex workers…
The Pygmalion Fallacy (#848)
Liz Brown on the "sex robot" fantasy:
…The idea of sex machines as technological comeuppance for women who dared declare their liberation has grown alongside the boom in misogynist online media…But here's the bad news for the men dreaming of a sexbot…"Harmony"…is as close as we've come so far to a consumer sexbot. And she's more Tamagotchi than Westworld…there is little to suggest that sexbots will be more than a fascinating "niche"…There will certainly be some of your "Men Going Their Own Way" (MGTOW) types, those who see sex robots as a way around the problem of women's inconvenient humanity. And there will be fetishists — those for whom the synthetic and robotic elements are the appeal…There are also likely to be novelty users…None of this seems terribly scary, and certainly not the catastrophe some fear…because most people are looking for something much more complicated than a well-engineered masturbatory machine…
Traffic Circle (#880)
A pearl-clutching hack incompetently tries to present the shitty management of a part-time strip club as "evidence" of "sex trafficking" in a rural area during hunting season:
…from September to November…Frank Day's [bar] opens a short-term strip club, specifically catering to a rush of pheasant hunters who travel [to South Dakota]here from all over the country toting shotguns and cash to burn. Pheasant hunting season…comes with a dark side: sex trafficking…Pop-up strip clubs…can trap freelance dancers in a web of exorbitant fees…making them vulnerable to being illegally exploited by traffickers…South Dakota is dawning to the realization that human trafficking isn't just a big-city problem. It's…modern slavery…as…men [magically] control…women and sell their [soulless] bodies for sex…"People of South Dakota don't think it's happening in their backyard, but it is," [panted prohibitionist] Lisa Heth…
Epilogue: The idiot who wrote this dreck actually tried to mansplain the stripping business to a well-known stripper who writes about stripping when she called him on his BS on Twitter.
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With all the legitimately pressing problems facing America today, it's astonishing that anyone could earnestly advocate for more obscenity prosecutions. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
We're so lucky to have these brave heroes to protect us from refugees:
Police in Alpine, Texas, have charged a National Guardsman stationed near the Mexico border with sexual assault after…he drunkenly tried to rape a woman in a hotel. Luis Ontiveros…is accused of assaulting…[another] member of the National Guard…[who] had…thrown up from drinking too much…He took her clothes off before she was able to get out of the hotel room…and knocked on the hotel room door next to hers, telling the man who answered that Ontiveros had tried to rape her…
A Mound of Filth (#506)
More "sex slave" fantasies from Dominique "Body Fluids" Roe-Sepowitz:
The latest numbers from the FBI show in 2017 Arizona was third in the nation for human trafficking offenses…[Ignorant prohibitionists fantasize] it is impacting people from all walks of life. "It is anybody. Businessmen, junkies from the street, anybody looking for sex," said an [anonymous prohibitionist]…Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is an associate professor [who makes a living stoking "sex trafficking" hysteria by making up fake statistics.]…"In Arizona, we [claim] we have about 250 kids a year and about 800 adults a year [involved in sex trafficking]," [she] said…She [moaned and put her hand down her pants while fantasizing that]…traffickers are creative and calculating when targeting their victims…It happens through social media, in public buildings and parks and even in front of schools. "They're going to find that child wherever they are"…
Forward and Backward (#604)
UK politicians don't like policies that oppose their harm magnification agenda:
…Leeds Council [is considering]…closure of the Leeds 'managed zone', in which sex workers are able to solicit for business in a designated area without fear of arrest…Regulation via zoning is not ideal but any solution which increases safety for sex workers, allows them to report crimes and brings down the number of arrests is important. Working without fear of arrest means sex workers aren't running from the police are more able to use basic safety measures like working in close proximity to each other and sharing information about clients…outreach charity Basis Yorkshire [says]…97% of sex workers are now willing to report crimes to the police, compared with just 7% before the scheme launched. There has been a dramatic uptake in engagement with health and support services…
For over a year now, the Leeds red light district has been the subject of a smear campaign by prohibitionists, with the help of the BBC.
Welcome to the Future (#607)
"Immigrant Council of Ireland" is the deceptive name of one of the most vile prohibitionist organizations in Europe:
Police across Europe should be given the resources to spy on…sex workers' homes to prevent prostitution, a report has said. The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) was one of six organisations to examine laws on sex work and trafficking across Europe. The group's Disrupt Demand report called for more [police violence vs. sex workers and clients]…and [more] "surveillance operations on indoor locations"…
Most news coverage of this "report" tries to make it sound like a study, when in fact it's just a collection of prohibitionist fantasies and demands with no new material of any kind.
The Puritan Recrudescence
The natural result of widespread kowtowing to the heckler's veto:
…Nina Hartley went to University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to give an optional lecture to students…about STI testing, the importance of consent, and the potential pitfalls of learning about sex from porn. The talk was soberly titled, "Fantasy vs. Reality: A critical view of adult media." There were no explicit images or videos, just an informational Powerpoint slide. And yet, of course, conservative media outlets are losing their shit over it, because a porn star (who is also a sex educator and activist) spoke with our kids (who are actually legal adults) about fucking (but really much more). Hartley was invited to speak by Joe Gow, the chancellor of the university…with…$5,000 from Gow's office fund, as opposed to with state tax dollars…sensationalistic headlines…desperately attempted to turn it into a tawdry sex scandal…Then Fox News jumped into the fray. The outcry was such that Gow felt the need to pen an op-ed in the La Crosse Tribune…in [which]…he…agreed to personally compensate the university for Hartley's $5,000 appearance fee…[and] book…a speaker from Fight the New Drug, a [Mormon-backed prohibitionist organization]…infamous for using bad science, shoddy data, and alarmist first-person stories to demonize pornography…
Count the Idiocies
Since this is suburban Seattle, I could've done this one stoned:
Sex trafficking is happening in plain sight in Snohomish County1, according to nurse practitioner Paula Newman-Skomski2. "It's most visible is along Highway 99," she said.3 This past weekend [Operation Cross-Country] found 13 female victims of sex trafficking – two of the victims are juveniles4. No arrests were made. The FBI said the victims were offered referrals to a variety of resources.5…"Every year we identify 40 to 45 juveniles involved in the trafficking trade here in Snohomish County," said Newman-Skomski.6…"…easily transported up and down the I-5 corridor."7 It is the kind of illegal activity the FBI focused on when it shut down Backpage.com8…Peoria Home in Everett…is a two-year, residential recovery program for women 18 and over who have been exploited through sex trafficking and prostitution. It opened in April9…
1 No, it isn't. If it were cops would be crowing about it.
2 Whom nobody around here has ever heard of before.
3 No, Those are street workers.
4 No, they got 13 bites in a sting; the fact that they didn't arrest them could mean several different things.
5 Such as finger-painting classes and the number of the welfare office.
6 No, they don't; that would represent some 20% of all sex workers in Greater Seattle. Underage sex workers represent only about 3-4% of all sex workers.
7 Interstates cause sex trafficking!
8 No, it isn't.
9 "Rescue" profiteers are utterly shameless.
Why I Wait (#812)
Most of this article is the usual garbage: equating dating with sex, pointedly ignoring commercial sex, pretending that people answer surveys on stigmatized subjects honestly, etc. But there was one paragraph which contained some possible clues to the reasons any actual decrease (however small) might exist:
…it might be a consequence of…surging anxiety rates, of psychological frailty, of widespread antidepressant use…of environmental estrogens leaked by plastics [and soy products], of dropping testosterone levels…of helicopter parents…of sleep deprivation, of obesity…
In my estimation, the most likely candidate for this supposed decline is the ongoing culture war on sex, which discourages people from being honest about their sexuality (especially activity involving sex workers). In other words they aren't really having less sex; they're just admitting it less.
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#815)
Regular readers will recognize Alberta's article as completely unmoored from reality:
There's been a "total abandonment of pornography as a battleground in America's culture war," writes Politico reporter Tim Alberta in "How the GOP Gave Up on Porn". He couldn't be more wrong. The flashpoints have shifted certainly since the 1970s and '80s, when Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority teamed with second-wave feminists to take on Playboy and Hustler. And social conservatives' embrace of President Donald Trump does present a stark contrast to earlier eras…But such hypocrisy should not be mistaken for a radical repositioning of Republican dogma on "obscenity"…it was just two years ago that Republicans added language to their official party platform that declared porn "has become a public health crisis that is destroying the lives of millions"…Last year, Republicans in at least a dozen state legislatures introduced measures to ban porn access for anyone who wouldn't pay a $20 fine…But never mind reality. Fresh from declaring that there's been no recent Republican action against porn because he doesn't personally remember it, Alberta gets right to theorizing about why…
See No Evil (#854)
Prosecutors want to cage a man for twenty years for drawings of fictional characters:
…a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with…Possession of Obscene Visual Representations of the Sexual Abuse of Children…Andrew Hallock…pleaded not guilty to the charges…[which carry] a mandatory minimum of 5 years up to 20 years in federal prison and/or a $250,000 fine…The charges [derive from] Hallock…possessing…sexually explicit drawings and cartoons of minors…The investigation is being conducted by the I[maginary] Crimes Against [Imaginary] Children Taskforce…
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (#885)
Politicians send thugs to violently assault women to advance vain Disnification campaign:
Police and military personnel [brutalized] and detained 53 Laotians–50 women and three girls who were allegedly employed as sex workers–during raids on karaoke bars in southern Thailand's Narathiwat province…Authorities could not find and arrest the bar owners during the raids, but they were…[threatening] the…sex workers…[with] prosecut[ion] for prostitution [to intimidate as many of them as possible into claiming to be "trafficking victims"]…
No Difference (#886)
Tanzania ramps up its pogroms against gay men:
International human rights organisations have condemned…the harassment and arrest of gay men in Tanzania, following comments from a government official on plans to establish a task force to identify, track down and arrest people suspected of being gay…ten men were arrested on suspicion of being gay on…Zanzibar after members of the public [ratted] them [out] to police. They are being held…with[out] charge…for allegedly conducting a same-sex marriage ceremony, and the police reported they found the men sitting in pairs "two by two"…
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Sex workers…are human beings who[se]…rights to health, safety, self-determination, and bodily autonomy should not be subject to debate or sacrifice to abstract principles. – Green Party proposal
If It Were Legal
I'm willing to bet this was either a findom arrangement or a blackmail fantasy:
The second in command of the Harris County [Texas] Treasurer's Office is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a county credit union to pay a dominatrix who was blackmailing him. Gregory Lueb was arrested…and charged with felony theft of up to $30,000…Lueb told investigators…the woman eventually demanded money and threatened to tell his wife…
If he's telling the truth, and if sex work weren't illegal and stigmatized, he could've gone to an established professional instead of some sleazy amateur.
The Punitive Mindset
The need to censor is one of the most twisted of perversions:
A federal judge is considering whether South Dakota's statewide ban on porn in prisons is constitutional. The case arose from an inmate, Charles Sisney, who says all sorts of non-pornographic content got caught up in porn prohibition, including a yoga magazine, images of Michaelangelo's work, and Japanese comics. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of South Dakota and the National Coalition have filed briefs in support of Sisney's case…the parameters of the ban go way beyond adult films, nude images, or other things that most people would consider to be porn. Prisoners are banned from writing sexually explicit letters or receiving them, and from receiving any visual or written material that's deemed sexually explicit…
Three Steps Back
In December 2010, New Orleans decided to de facto decriminalize marijuana and prostitution, then it changed its collective mind and recriminalized them. We're all familiar with what happened afterward with sex work, but two years ago the city actually went ahead and truly decriminalized weed, with the following results:
…newly released city statistics show that New Orleans police have taken the city's cannabis decriminalization efforts seriously, and now make arrests in only 1% of minor cannabis incidents. The New Orleans City Council passed an ordinance two years ago decriminalizing minor cannabis possession, giving [cops] the discretion to ticket rather than arrest suspects found with small amounts of pot…NOPD has all but eliminated marijuana charges from their protocol, reducing the rate of possession-related arrests from 72% of all police and pot interactions in 2011-2014, to the newly released number of only 1% in the last half of 2016 and first half of 2017…last year saw 5,000 fewer cannabis-related arrests in New Orleans than took place half a decade ago…
And yet they can't seem to grasp that decriminalizing sex work would have similar benefits.
Stand-Up Guys
Shift in the Wind
It looks like the Greens are poised to become the second US political party (the Libertarians have held the position for decades) to adopt decriminalization as an official position. The new position has apparently been approved by Alabama, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Utah, and by the party's Black Caucus, Lavender Greens and Young Greens. The explanation of the reasons for the change starts like this:
It is the opinion of the authors of this document that the party's current stance on sex work…is morally indefensible, ideologically incoherent, and politically damaging. The submitted revisions represent an effort to eliminate derogatory language, move the Green Party's stated policy prescriptions away from carceral state solutions and more in line with the current thought of human rights groups such as Amnesty International, and…condemn…violence against women without condemning or negating the existence of individual sex workers…
Worse Than I Thought
Anti-whore assholes just keep getting bolder:
California Senate Bill 1204…sponsored by…Patricia Bates…is aimed at broadening the definition of "pandering" within the State of California…to [include anyone] "who arranges, causes, encourages, induces, persuades, or procures another person to be a prostitute"…What does "encourages" mean? If I say to my friend "hey you would make a great prostitute!" – have I just encouraged that person to be a prostitute and therefore I am guilty of the crime of pandering? What about my free speech rights? What if my friend who is a prostitute says, "gee I wish I could see a client today because I really need to feed my child/pay my rent but I cannot afford condoms" and I give that person condoms, have I encouraged the act of prostitution? What if I as a lawyer – give advice to a prostitute…have I just committed pandering?…I would encourage you to contact Senator Patricia Bates office and encourage her to kill her own bill…
The Punitive Mindset (#688)
Long-time readers know that I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons since 1981, and that it's my all-time favorite game. I've alluded to it many times and even written a few columns touching on it, and though I haven't played in about 8 years now I've recently started thinking about starting up a new game for some friends. So I quite enjoyed this long-form article about the game, its history and its long record of being attacked by authoritarians for promoting imagination and free thought. I decided to list it under this category because the article includes a section on prison officials banning the game (because of course they would), which I reported on in the above-linked column. But really, I just couldn't pass up calling it to your attention at a time when most of the contents of this blog are darker than any imaginary dungeon, and the real world is dominated by far scarier monsters than any I ever made up for the heroes to defeat.
Yes, this is a supposedly sane adult arguing that toasters have "feelings" and can "suffer", while classifying sex workers as subhuman:
Late in 2017 at a tech fair in Austria, a sex robot was "molested" repeatedly and left in a "filthy" state. The robot, named Samantha, received a barrage of male attention, which resulted in her sustaining two broken fingers. This incident confirms worries that the possibility of fully functioning sex robots raises both tantalising possibilities for human desire (by mirroring human/sex-worker relationships), as well as serious ethical questions …there are certain elements of relationships between humans and sex workers that we may not wish to repeat. But to me, it is the ethical aspects of the way we think about human-robot desire that are particularly key…
Yes, moral retard Victoria Brooks there describes vandalism of a machine as "molestation" and waxes poetic about this object's "suffering", while twice in a short section referring to sex workers as things apart from humans.
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic (#792)
Possibly the most pathetic of all things: a gay male prude:
…how Grindr is affecting gay men….doesn't look good. The most common reason users gave for going on the app is that sex feels great and Grindr makes it accessible, right at your fingertips…Neuroscientists have shown that orgasm causes activation of pleasure areas of the brain like the ventral tegmental area while deactivating areas involved with self-control. And these patterns of activation in men are strikingly similar to what researchers see in the brain of individuals using heroin or cocaine. So when a neutral action (clicking on Grindr) is paired with a pleasurable response in the brain (orgasm), humans learn to do that action over and over again. This can be…a setup for addiction…
It usually starts with us, but it never, ever stops with us:
…Sex workers are the canaries in the digital coal mine, and SESTA, if it isn't fought and reversed, is a disaster for all kinds of online speech…It's no surprise that a bill like this has manifested alongside the #MeToo movement — it challenges what it means to for sex workers to consent, and takes aim at the online speech that acts as evidence that we have…The ambiguously written bill creates what is in effect a special loophole to target the speech of sex workers within the sweeping legal protections given to online speech. And because marginalized groups often act as Patient Zero for regressive new laws, it will be no surprise when this new approach to censorship eventually spreads across the internet…The difference between what sex workers and their advocates say — that trafficking is a relatively minor issue in their industry — and what anti-sex trafficking legislators believe reflects the country's long held reluctance to believe women when they tell the truth, especially when it involves sex. One place where that truth is told daily is the internet communities where sex workers reside in safety and solidarity, and SESTA is designed to break up these communities…
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If living my life on my own terms is being a feminist…then I am a feminist. – Vidya Balan
Men: pay your whores! Ladies: get the money up front!
…a 64-year-old man surnamed Lau hired a prostitute surnamed Kong in [Hong Kong]…after having sex…Lau…refused to settle up and, upon hearing Kong threaten to call the police, took her phone and ran out of the room. Kong chased him, yelling for help along the way, and eventually caught the [rapist]…with the help of passersby…Kong reportedly took off one of her high-heeled shoes and hit the man with it until pulled off him by witnesses. [Cops] arrived…to arrest the pair for fighting in a public place…
License to Rape
"Authorities" now claim the right to rape toddlers if shamans declare their parents ritually unclean:
Imagine the Department of Social Services threatens to [abduct] your child from your custody unless you agree to have his urine collected. Under duress, you consent— only to watch hospital staff pin your three-year-old down and forcibly catheterize him as he screams in pain. Two days later, he is still in pain. You take him back to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with a staph infection in his penis…police in Pierre, South Dakota, [raided] a home to arrest a man…because he tested positive for drugs…his girlfriend was told her children would be [abducted by the state] if she did not consent to having their urine tested. Because of that threat, she agreed to the test, but since her youngest child is not toilet-trained, they forced him to undergo the catheterization…
Once again, a person whose computer contained taboo pictures is condemned to a far worse sentence than if he had actually raped a child:
A 36-year-old [Florida] man…[was sentenced by] Judge Howard Maltz…to 100 years in prison…after a jury found Jesse Graham Berben guilty on 20 counts of possession of child pornography…Berben…denied knowing anything about the files…While he admitted to having a peer-to-peer file-sharing program that he used to download music, he denied using his computer to keep or download child porn…Berben had been offered a plea agreement…that would have netted him a prison sentence of about 5 years, "but he refused…because he said…he wasn't going to plead guilty to something he didn't do and become a registered sex offender"…The sentence…was more than four times the "lowest permissible" sentence Maltz could have handed down…
Girls, Girls, Girls!
"Rescuers" swoop in to "regulate" women's jobs out of existence:
Minneapolis [politicians] are taking steps to crack down on downtown strip clubs after two recent [fishing expeditions manufactured] health and safety risks at…11 venues. Shortly afterward, a report from the University of Minnesota's Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC), commissioned and co-funded by the health department, showed that strip club employees face on-the-job health and safety hazards but have few protections. Both investigations zeroed in on VIP rooms…the venues where bodily fluids were identified were declared a public health nuisance under state law…
It looks like articles about sex workers in Ghana can be just as weirdly stupid as Nigerian ones:
Commercial Sex workers at the Uhuru Electoral Area have added robbery to their trade, Ebenezer Cudjoe, [a prohibitionist politician, claimed]…The sex workers, commonly called "Ashawo"…suggest a pub…"While she leads her clients to the suggested pub, the ashawo alerts her male guards, who, then, pounce on the male sex client and rob him of any valuables," Ebenezer Cudjoe [fantasized]…that a lot of residents feared coming out of their homes in the night. "A few years ago, I personally reported these ungodly activities of the commercial sex workers to the police, however, the police told me that they could not effect any arrest, unless they caught the ladies in the act," he said…about three years ago, he tried to woo some of the sex workers to start some vocational training to [do menial jobs at which they couldn't possibly] earn a decent living [but unsurprisingly, they refused and now he's making up stories to make life difficult for them]…
Capricious Lusts (#52)
While Hollywood figures are lining up to climb on the "sex trafficking" bandwagon, Bollywood figures support sex worker rights:
…there have been some realistic representations of bar dancers and courtesans, prostitutes…Women are a marginalised section of society even though we are 50% of the society. Within that, prostitutes are what, a trickle? But, they are the ones who are standing up on their feet, putting up a fight and saying this is not acceptable to us. They are staking their claims to their share of the sky, which is incredible. That's what I found most powerful, because you don't expect the so-called weaker sections of society to stand up…
I'd really like to be wrong once in a while:
A State panel of scientists is considering a controversial DNA testing policy that would allow police to [harass] the relatives of New Yorkers whose DNA closely matches DNA recovered from a crime scene…police would be able to pull close DNA matches in certain criminal investigations, generating a list of people with prior convictions, including low-level broken windows convictions like [turnstile jumping or loitering]…police would then have leeway to [harass] close relatives of those near matches (son, father, etc.), in hopes of turning up the exact match…In other words, the New York Civil Liberties Union has testified, "criminal suspicion will attach to innocent persons merely because of their biological relation to a person whose DNA is in the state's databank"…
Reporters, please stop perpetuating cops' dehumanizing habit of referring to women as "females":
…Kenneth Bolton Jr. sexually assaulted two females with a sex toy during an illegal traffic stop in February. The East Cleveland [cop] was fired by the department last month after he…pulled over the two women, both in their early 20s, about 30 minutes after he heard that they'd been pulled over and cited by another officer. During the illegal stop, Bolton allegedly found a sex toy in the car and used it to sexually assault both women. A Cuyahoga County grand jury brought charges of gross sexual imposition, abduction, and civil rights charges…
"He heard they'd been pulled over and cited" means the first pig called him and described their looks to him. "Found a sex toy" means he rooted through other people's private possessions like the filthy swine he is.
Imaginary Evils (#699)
The UK Home Office is really dedicated to competing with the US in using "sex trafficking" as an excuse to destroy civil liberties:
The Home Secretary has announced…a multi-agency team of analytical experts who will be embedded in the National Crime Agency to help tackle cross-border and domestic slavery…The Home Secretary said "It is exactly this kind of co-operation between the police, Border Force, the National Crime Agency and others that will be our way of getting at the people traffickers. The Centre will enable us to have a co-ordinated push against the organised crime groups that are at the heart of the trade in human beings and human misery. Our message to the perpetrators is clear; we are coming after you, and there is nowhere to hide"…
The War Goes On (#711)
Notice how the narrative is changing; prohibitionists now claim Backpage was "barred" from publishing sex work ads, when in fact it chose to do so to end its persecution by "authorities":
A…prostitution sting in Delaware County resulted in the arrests of five women in one night. Deputies found them on a website that's supposed to be barred from posting sex ads…prostitutes and pimps are finding ways around the rules and posting ads on other parts of the site, through tabs like…"women seeking men"…[pigs oinked that] prostitutes…will travel from anywhere in central Indiana to Muncie to make some money and often times, buy drugs. "You don't just get the prostitutes that show up. You might get pimps. There might be robberies…" the [pig drooled while masturbating]…
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The only thing [cops]…do is…sweep everyone up in antiprostitution policing, and then somehow assert that this is being done in the name of combating human trafficking. – Kate Mogulescu
Neither Addiction Nor Epidemic
How long can this scam go on?
A married doctor who romped with an escort in hospital can treat patients again – after claiming cycling has helped him quit his sex addiction. Father-of-two Dr Rupert Pemsel…had sex with the prostitute…But when she blackmailed him for £10,000 he came clean to the General Medical Council (GMC) and last March was suspended for "deplorable and morally reprehensible" misconduct. Now he has been given the green light by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service to retrain as a family GP after claiming he has turned his life around…
The UK media has a bizarre fondness for kindergarten words like "romp" and for obsessing about whether someone in a news story has spawned or not. But the idea that doctors fucking whores is even remotely out of the ordinary is hilarious; when I was working in New Orleans, probably 20% of my income came from MDs. Still, the main story here is the way privileged men use "sex addiction" as an excuse when they get caught, a fact not lost on the Ozzman:
Ozzy Osbourne has backtracked on claims he was suffering from sex addiction, which he made in the aftermath of an affair last year…"I'm in a fucking rock band, aren't I?…There have always been groupies. I just got caught, didn't I?…I don't think I'm a fucking sex addict"…
You're absolutely right, Ozzy, because there is no such fucking thing as a sex addict. As my friend Brooke Magnanti once put it, he might as well have claimed he was Father Christmas.
Australian police practice "NHI" as well:
…During the 1980s and 1990s, the Australian authorities now say, gangs of teenagers in Sydney hunted gay men for sport, sometimes forcing them off the cliffs to their deaths. But the police, many of whom had a reputation for hostility toward gay men, often carried out perfunctory investigations that overlooked the possibility of homicide…Now the police in New South Wales…are reviewing the deaths of 88 men between 1976 and 2000 to determine whether they should be classified as anti-gay hate crimes…
Imagine the Sky
Here's an interesting article on regulated brothels in 19th-century St. Petersburg. As in France and Italy, sex workers were confined to specific brothels in an attempt to control them, and as in the US the writer clings doggedly to the myth that laws and cops were in place to "help" us, and just can't imagine why so many women refused to submit to this "protection".
Stupor Bowl
Have you noticed we've heard almost nothing about "Super Bowl sex trafficking" this year? Even Sports Illustrated, not exactly known for hard-hitting investigatie journalism, is calling it a debunked myth and quoting those who oppose it (though, alas, no sex workers):
…The Global Alliance Against Traffic In Women makes the case that by focusing on the sex trade, authorities are taking resources that could be used to investigate [actual crimes]…there are signs that the Super Bowl Sex-Trafficking Myth might be splintering. Minal Davis, the special adviser to the [Houston] mayor on human trafficking, believes that the "sensationalistic" approach at previous Super Bowls "hurts the messaging" and minimizes the severity…
Worse Than I Thought (#433)
I'm honestly surprised the "forced sex trafficking abortions" trope didn't catch on:
Any woman seeking an abortion in South Dakota would have to be given the name and telephone number of an [anti-sex worker] organization…under a measure introduced…[by] Dan Kaiser…[who pretends] the idea is…an educational measure that might help get women out of dangerous and violent situations…
Quite Possibly the Most Uptight Nerd Ever (#563)
The biggest problem with these stupid "like Uber for sex workers" apps is that their developers don't bother to consult any actual sex workers while developing them:
A new app…aims to make it easier and safer for sex workers to meet their clients…While sex work is legal in some Australian states, there are a number of risks for both parties. Rendevu hopes to solve that problem. Developer Reuben Coppa said sex workers could list themselves on the application list, show when they were working, what type of appointments they were taking and their price points…Both clients and escorts can write and read reviews about their experience. The app also tracks location and requires credit card details…[to] guarantee the amount of the booking…So far, traffic on the app has been high but the number of bookings has been fewer than expected — there have been about 100 since the launch…
O, Canada! (#617)
Canadian prohibitionists are trying desperately to whip up "sex trafficking" hysteria there to US levels:
…in the densely populated Greater Toronto Area…girls are recruited at school by young males and taken to local motels or condominiums, where they engage in sex work. Most continue to live at home…[prohibitionist] Katarina MacLeod [parrots,] "You have these guys making regular girls feel special, buying them things and taking them shopping…[The men] know exactly how to build dependence…Girls as young as 13 are getting recruited in"…
The More the Better (#667)
The law is an ass, and so is this judge:
Claims that First Lady Melania Trump worked as a high-end…escort before she married businessman, billionaire and now President Donald Trump will be argued over in a Maryland court…[after] a Montgomery County judge ruled that Melania Trump's $150 million defamation lawsuit against a Clarksburg blogger will continue to trial, saying the blog posts implied she acted as a prostitute…"The court believes most people, when they hear the words 'high-end escort' that describes a prostitute. There could be no more defamatory statement than to call a woman a prostitute"…
Fuck you. Judge Sharon Burrell; there are far worse things a woman can be than a prostitute, such as a hypocritical and prudish politician.
The Crumbling Dam (#668)
Alas, Seattle "officials" think harm reduction principles only apply to drug use:
Officials in Seattle…approved the nation's first "safe-injection" sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but necessary response to an epidemic of addiction that is claiming tens of thousands of lives each year. The sites — which offer addicts clean needles, medical supervision and quick access to drugs that reverse the effects of an overdose — have long been popular in Europe. Now, with the U.S. death toll rising, the idea is gaining traction in a number of American cities, including Boston, New York City and Ithaca, N.Y. While [prohibitionists] say the sites promote illegal drug use, supporters say they can keep people alive and steer them toward treatment…
The War Goes On
Here's a constantly-updated spreadsheet of sex worker advertising sites; I can't speak for its contents, but the more resources for sex workers impacted by the censorship of Backpage, the better.
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It's largely assumed that human trafficking is both widespread and underreported…these assumptions are unsubstantiated by research. – Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Check Your Premises
Very often, "child sex trafficking" is copese for "a young sex worker gave her slightly-younger friend a ride":
A 22-year-old former [Wisconsin]…woman previously accused of child sex-trafficking has been convicted on a lesser charge. Jalessa K. Hill…was sentenced…to 30 days in jail with work release and three years probation for soliciting prostitutes. A charge of marijuana possession was dismissed…Judge Karen Seifert also ordered Hill to not have or use alcohol, drugs or paraphernalia, to pay $518 and to [endure] any [brainwashing] deemed necessary…Hill and Lana L. Morgan, who was 17 at the time, went…to meet with a [lying pig pretending to be a client]…
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical
Neither intelligence nor logic nor the ability to do basic research are prerequisites for either public office or local news media:
On [Halloween] the Bureau County, Illinois, sheriff's office issued a press release describing "an incident following Trick or Treat" in which "parents came forward with suspicious looking candy marked as Crunch Choco Bar," the wrapper of which "has small pictures of cannabis leaves on it." According to Bureau County Sheriff James Reed, "the substance was field tested and was positive for containing cannabis"…the picture accompanying Reed's press release shows Japanese candy bars sold under the brand name Iroha Kaede, which is a kind of maple tree…Those…are actually small pictures of maple leaves. If the candy bar really did come up "positive for containing cannabis" in a field test, that just shows how unreliable such tests are…
Besides the fact, obvious to anyone who's ever seen a maple tree (or the Canadian flag), that those designs are indeed maple leaves and not cannabis leaves (which don't look much like maple leaves except to the extremely stupid or the nearly-blind), I can assure you as a regular consumer of cannabis candy that absolutely nobody who isn't absolutely howling mad would give it to kids; that shit is incredibly expensive, like $3.50 to $5 apiece for candies of the size these would appear to be. Another tip for those who've never had the legal stuff in their hands: the dosage of THC is helpfully marked right there on the package, with no "field test" necessary.
Sparsely-populated states come up with the most ludicrous concepts for supposed "gypsy whore" magnets:
One of South Dakota's largest economic drivers also serves as one of the most vulnerable seasons for victims of sex trafficking. Hunting season…is one of two major tourist attractions in South Dakota, the other being the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, said Leasa MacFarling, a volunteer with the South Dakota West River Human Trafficking Task Force. These events also serve as attractions for traffickers…MacFarling has been traveling around Pierre distributing fliers and lip balms with the warning signs of a traffic victim and the number to the National Human Trafficking Hotline…
As idiotic as this is, it's not a new fantasy; I first reported it from Minnesota three years ago tomorrow in "Traffic Circle".
The End of the Beginning (#325)
Yes, these people are actually arguing for indefinite imprisonment without trial or sentence:
Growing numbers of sex offenders are still being confined in Minnesota's controversial treatment program even after courts approved their release…Across the state, anxious communities are rushing to pass extraordinary rules aimed at banning sex offenders from moving in, with far-reaching ordinances that would effectively bar them from any residential neighborhood. More than 40 localities have adopted such bans…the city of Dayton…passed one of the most restrictive measures yet, barring offenders from living near churches, pumpkin patches and apple orchards…The backlash is confounding state officials, who are running out of places to house sex offenders even as they face mounting court pressure to release more of them…Some measures are so sweeping that the towns have become effectively off-limits to offenders…The rush to craft such ordinances intensified late last year, after U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank issued a ruling, now under appeal, that the state can no longer confine offenders indefinitely without a clear path toward release…
San Diego has become one of the most corrupt pocket police states in the US:
James Slatic, a California medical marijuana business owner, found out…one day in January…the San Diego police had frozen all of their bank accounts: $55,258 from Slatic's personal checking and savings account; $34,175 from his wife Annette's account; and a combined $11,260 from the savings accounts of their two teenage daughters, Penny and Lily…the San Diego District Attorney's Office hasn't charged them with any [crimes]…the Institute for Justice…filed a motion in California district court seeking the [money's] return…five days before his family's accounts were frozen…around 30 San Diego [cops] and DEA agents raided Slatic's medical marijuana business, Med-West Distribution, and seized nearly $325,000 in cash from a safe…his 35 employees…lost their jobs and benefits without notice…there was no probable cause to raid Med-West…[but] San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and the city have been particularly aggressive in policing medical marijuana businesses…
When a program on staunchly-prohibitionist NPR, in Georgia of all places, begins to question the "sex trafficking" narrative, it's clear that its days are numbered:
…Georgia voters are facing a question about how to address what some believe is a serious and growing problem in the state and beyond: child sex trafficking. If approved, Georgia will establish a permanent fund…based on research and statistics…distorted by extreme emotions this issue raises for many people…An early step in the plan was to…levy a $5000 or greater…fee…on strip clubs, based on a disputed link between adult entertainment venues and trafficking crimes…The Safe Harbor Amendment, on the ballot now, will create a permanent fund from this fee…state Sen. Renee Unterman…[pretends that] the number of child exploitation investigations opened by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation last year [is]…4,000…However, the GBI [said]…those…cases aren't all proven instances of trafficking…it found evidence of human trafficking was primarily anecdotal…Lawyers for Atlanta's strip clubs argue they don't contribute to the trafficking of children and shouldn't have to pay for it…they're waiting to see if the amendment passes before making a decision on not to sue…social scientists also argue that the real origins of this problem are social factors like poverty, difficult home lives and a lack of safe housing…the narrow focus on fighting child sex trafficking [pulls] resources from a social safety net that might otherwise protect children and families…
Rescued To Death
The extent to which every "authority" in this story repeatedly denies the agency and competence of adult women is quite extraordinary; it's like reading something from the 17th century:
Gardai [fantasize] four young…Romanian women who were arrested in Galway over the weekend, were trafficked into Ireland by a criminal gang…The four…women, aged 21, 22, 23 and 30…[explained that] they were acting alone to raise money for their impoverished families in Romania…they accepted full responsibility for operating a brothel…Det. [Willie] Byrne…[refused to believe that women are intellectually capable of setting up an escort business themselves. He called his victims, from whom he and the other pigs stole €5,000] "little girls" and…[told the court about his masturbatory fantasy that] "they are under the control of Dublin or Belfast-based pimps…They wouldn't have the 'wherewithal' to organise that themselves"…[the judge accepted this fantasy and pretended] the girls were being used by others not before the court…[yet still] convicted and fined each of them €200 [in addition to the money already stolen by the pigs, yet still pretended he wanted to]…help them…
If Men Were Angels
"Youth pastors" are nearly as bad as cops:
A Minnesota pastor admitted to taking…photos of children that he then turned into sexually explicit images…William Helker…served as a youth pastor at All Saints Lutheran Church…took photos of children at his church and then edited them in Photoshop, including placing their heads into adult pornography, to create hundreds of new images…
Self-important English "authorities" prefer to believe that a drop in the number of streetwalkers is due to their magical "diversion" program, instead of recognizing that the women are simply working from online ads:
Police are using powers of discretion in Bristol to introduce a partial decriminalisation of prostitution and kerb crawling…Street sex workers and kerb crawlers are being handed conditional discharges which encourage them to go on a course or seek help rather than face immediate arrest. The "tiered system" has seen arrests for kerb crawling drop from 322 in 2011 to 10 in 2015, and has helped reduce the number of street sex workers to 150 – the lowest since 1995…
Meanwhile, in the real world, "john schools" have never been shown to have any effect at all, and "exit programs" are generally nothing but lists of phone numbers for social programs.
Welcome To Our World (#512)
Sweden is so liberal, so pro-social, so just and kind!
Fifty-five percent of Stockholmers want to ban begging…It is a marked change since last year's Stockholm survey…when 32 percent said they supported a begging ban…more and more calls for a ban are heard at a top-tier political level, despite the ruling Social Democrat-Green government…ruling out a general national ban…Another poll carried out nationally…in May indicated that 50 percent of [all] Swedes believe begging should be outlawed…
Not Good Enough (#565)
I'm glad to see this dangerous placebo is flopping on the market:
…the US Food and Drug Administration finally issued new guidance for companies that want to develop drugs to bolster female libidos. But the details suggest the agency has belatedly learned some hard-fought lessons following complaints that the controversial Addyi pill did not warrant approval last year. The…draft guidance…points to certain steps that Sprout Pharmaceuticals did not follow as part of its…marketing application to the FDA. The drug…was approved despite debate over its safety and effectiveness…Sprout won approval for Addyi, which has been a poor seller, after an unusual campaign that accused the FDA of bias…
Rapist cops don't only attack women:
A…New Orleans [cop] was arrested…[on] Sept. 23…[after] he raped a teenage male relative…earlier this year…Marcellus White…[lured] the boy into his bedroom, [pushed] him onto a bed and [performed] oral sex…against the boy's wishes…the 15-year-old boy and his mother have moved to Mississippi, unable to bear living in New Orleans in the wake of the sexual assault…in March or early April of this year when the boy was 14…police investigators obtained from the boy's mother a June 20 email exchange with White, in which the [rapist cop] pleads for forgiveness while also asking that the mother drop her demand that White "step down from all positions" that give him access to minor children…
Moralistic control freaks clutch their pearls about something that doesn't exist and never actually will as they envision it, because it was on a crappy sci-fi TV show:
…Westworld's human guests aren't obligated to uphold any sense of morality. The upsell for the park involves reversion to primal urges. In Crichton's pessimistic view, the breakdown of normal society leads immediately to sex and violence…robots…[can be] raped…because consent, as a concept, doesn't apply…But…research suggests that the real victims of Westworld's barbaric sexual culture would be human…Kate Darling, Ph.D…at MIT Media Lab…says…either sex robots would continue to serve as a healthy outlet for our unhealthy urges or they would whet peoples' appetites for unsavory sexual fare. Both options have their own troubling implications, but the latter is more immediately problematic. Patrick Lin, Ph.D…at California Polytechnic University, fears that sexbots might make us less human…A Westworld-like scenario presents a slippery slope similar to the one posed by or violent films or video games, perhaps even more troubling because sex robots are so "visceral" and "immersive" that they blur the line between virtual and physical reality…Sex robots — at least the sophisticated, highly anthropomorphic kind — haven't been around long enough for us to tell if they'll affect our sexual interactions with each other…
They "haven't been around long enough"? WTF? They don't even exist! Methinks writer Yasmin Tayag has been watching too much television if she thinks otherwise. And both of these "scientists" are nothing but puritans in disguise if they believe that sex drives are "created" by machines. This is the kind of crypto-moralism used to justify censorship and criminalize consensual behaviors of all kinds.
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The criminalisation of sex workers should…end. – MP Keith Vaz
Japanese Prostitution
I'd be a lot more inclined to believe this as reported if A) it were in a more credible publication than the LA Times; and B) it didn't quote a "sex trafficking" NGO:
Japan's pornography industry has come under greater scrutiny after Tokyo Metro Police arrested executives of a well-known talent agency on suspicion of coercing an actress to engage in sex on camera. Human rights groups had been calling for action for months. Police announced…they had arrested the president of Marks Japan and two others on suspicion that they forced a woman into appearing in adult films by threatening to punish her financially…the Tokyo-based advocacy group Human Rights Now issued a report…charging that Japan's pornography industry…violated the human rights of women and girls by blackmailing them…into work they didn't want to do. Shihoko Fujiwara…of…Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims, said…her group had received more than 100 complaints regarding forced participation in porn — and that the industry uses tactics similar to human traffickers…
Reaction Formation
This guy claims to be "religious", so he's spending a lot of time gawking at escort websites & then defacing them:
A religiously-motivated hacker using the title "ElSurveillance" has defaced nearly 40 websites that offer escort services and claims to be on the verge of leaking data on 100,000 registered users…ElSurveillance, who claims on social media to be from Morocco…asserted…"I strongly believe that our bodies are gifted from Allah (God) to us to look after and not to destroy. I always hated the idea of people selling their bodies for money which it gives a chance for the escort agencies to take advantage of these people who are in need"…
Prohibition turns the body of every citizen into a "crime scene", which can be violated by cops at will:
…police in South Dakota have resorted to using catheters to extract urine samples from uncooperative [DUI] suspects. This procedure, while endorsed by the state's top prosecutor, has been decried by critics as a potential violation of suspects' constitutional rights…police performing the procedure don't even anesthetize them beforehand…Courtney Bowie, legal director for ACLU South Dakota[said]…"It would be completely improper for people to place a catheter on an individual of the opposite gender…That would border on an unlawful assault, battery or rape."
The cops are practicing medicine without a license, literally shoving tubes up people's genitals, and the most the ACLU will say is that it's a "potential" violation that "borders" on assault or rape, but only if the attacker were of the opposite sex. Because obviously, rapists never rape victims of their own sex, and even if they did it would be "proper".
The Proper Study
This actually looks like a fairly decent study, but I can't help being amused by the reporter's apparent belief that many clients being married is some kind of surprise:
Almost half of men who paid for sex are in a relationship, including marriage…a quarter earned more than €60,000 a year…The findings are based on an online survey of 446 men as well as a smaller number of face-to-face interviews…the vast majority of respondents used the services of internet-advertised "escorts"…46.1% said they had bought sex a few times a year while almost 31% said they paid for sex once or twice a month. Just under 3% said they paid for sex every week. While some men reported paying for sex due to lack of self-confidence and shyness around women, others said…"they were living in 'sexless' or 'loveless' marriages with no physical contact, or because their relationship with their partners had broken down…Some respondents stated that sex with a sex worker is the easier, but also a 'more honest' and safer option than affairs or one-night stands…They worry about the possible negative effects of selling sex and state that they would not pay for sex with somebody who appears coerced or forced. This constitutes a stark contradiction to the image painted in the public discourse…where clients are described as sexual predators who do not care whether the person they pay for sex is an independent sex worker or a victim of trafficking."
Surplus Women
And her police record is important…why, exactly?
…Anchorage police found [Jacqueline] Goodwin's body in a Subaru after it crashed into a light pole…they charged the driver…Benjamin Wilkins, with murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, tampering with evidence and DUI…they…don't know how long Wilkins had been driving around with the body…Goodwin's past was riddled with…convictions related to drugs and prostitution…Wilkins…has a history of charges for driving violations…
A False Dichotomy (The Beat Goes On)
You'd think that Australian journalists would have the sense to go to Scarlet Alliance for commentary on sex work, but you'd be wrong; they lap up the noxious idiocy vomited out by "rescue" fetishists, just as they do in the US:
Dan…[is] an undercover rescue worker, searching for underage girls and trafficking victims…we talk of the girls he has seen rescued and the men who travel to Thailand to purchase them…research has shown Australian men to be among the largest contributors to sex tourism in southeast Asia…"These men…they've all got the same story…They think coming to Thailand for sex is going to fill a void in their lives…then they realise that the lifestyle they've chosen is empty and meaningless"…It's easy to understand the emotional toll that such work takes on rescue workers…like Dan…"When we first meet…[the girls] they hate themselves…these girls were raped and abused"…Dan feels deeply for each of these girls, and his voice is often drenched with emotion as he talks about the damage done to young women at the hands of men looking to satisfy their own lust…"The more men that have had sex with them, the harder it is and the less worth they feel"…Dan can't help but feel sadness for the men he meets…"They're hurting men, they're lost men, they're men who've made decisions that have set them on a path of destruction"…Dan…understands that sex tourists need help to overcome their addictions — which in some cases, are killing them…
Boo hoo hoo, the clients are victims too! And the "rescue" fetishists! We're ALL victims of evil, evil sex!
The Widening Gyre
Ever wonder where all those supposed "sex trafficking victims" are?
Due to the NYPD not updating their missing person's list, City Councilman Andy King of The Bronx [negligently claimed] that 14 Bronx girls were missing since July of 2014 and [fantasized] that they were smuggled into a prostitution ring. NYPD and family members of the formerly missing girls came forward and stared that 11 of the 14 girls had been found or had returned home…publications like the Daily News and New York Magazine, ran with the story without verifying the details…
The Scarlet Letter (#576)
Why does a publication named Vice insist on publishing so much twisted, ignorant, anti-whore propaganda? This collection of prohibitionist lies, mostly from a prosecutor, reads like something one would find on a prohibitionist website:
Susan Kang Schroeder, prosecutor…for…Orange County [California, vomits out all kind of disgusting filth and writer Cole Kazdin eagerly licked it up]…public shaming is part of a larger program to prosecute sex trafficking…by limiting the supply of men willing to purchase sex…Southern California…draws a lot of sex traffickers…Most prostitutes…have a pimp and are trafficked. Very few are working as free agents…Some traffickers have social media pages…and they complain to each other, posting, "Don't go to Orange County, they have a task force"…Schroeder says decriminalization…would backfire because then the DA wouldn't be able to go after the traffickers. She says that many men who traffic women over 18 also have underage girls they force to work for them…Some of the girls are as young as 13…some have been "branded" by the men who traffic them: their names are tattooed on the girls' faces…
Can't you just hear Schroeder's Hitachi going while she recounts her sick fantasies? Someone needs to be locked up, shamed, and put on a "sex offender" registry, all right, but it isn't sex workers' clients; it's perverts like Schroeder. And please, Ms. Kazdin, if there are "sex traffickers" with social media pages, please share them; I for one would love to see that.
The Course of a Disease (#637)
This is not "decriminalization" as some sources are reporting; note that it still leaves the door open for the horror of client criminalization. But I'm cautiously optimistic, as the committee rejected a lot of prohibitionist lies out of hand:
The criminalisation of sex workers in England and Wales should come to an end, a cross-party committee of influential MPs has recommended…the home affairs select committee…said the Home Office should immediately change existing legislation so that soliciting is no longer an offence and brothel-keeping laws allow sex workers to share premises…the Home Office should legislate to delete previous convictions and cautions for prostitution from the record of sex workers, to make it easier for them to move into other forms of work should they wish to do so. It added, however, that those who use brothels to control or exploit sex workers should continue to be prosecuted. With regards to changing the laws on buying sex, the inquiry will continue, and the committee will seek further evidence on the impacts of recently introduced laws in Northern Ireland and France, as well the model of regulation used in New Zealand…
If this is the way cops treat other cops, what hope do whores have?
In a lawsuit…Miami-Dade Police Officer Krystal Spence says her supervisor…Anthony Collins…routinely made lewd comments to her, grabbed her face multiple times and kissed her, followed her into the women's bathroom, emailed Spence's mother asking to date her daughter, and at one point trapped her in his office and touched her [vulva]…as early as 2011, she told her sergeant, Terry Williams, that Collins was making her feel uncomfortable. Williams "never addressed the situation"…Instead, she claims the harassment only got worse…On November 1, 2014, Spence says the incident was reported to the department's Professional Compliance Bureau — Spence claims Internal Affairs told her "not to discuss the case"…[and] actively tried to "undermine" her complaint…in order to prevent [her] from contacting the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission or trying to sue…
In Texas, the victims of rapist cops are at least offered food, if not actual help:
According to a pending lawsuit, a woman who was sexually assaulted by a La Joya [Texas cop] while in custody was offered a taco instead of medical assistance after his supervisors watched the surveillance video….after "Autumn Renee" was booked and brought to her cell, [Felipe Santiago Peralez III] "began an all-night invasion" of her body…Peralez assaulted [her] for hours with his fingers and hands…[orally raped] her…and left her with severe bruises. According to a report from the Texas Rangers, Peralez is seen "engaging" with the victim 49 times while she was in custody…Peñitas [cop] Elizabeth Garza…tried to silence the victim with threats, telling her that "she should forget all about the incident and go on with her life, because 'people come up missing all the time in the valley'." Peralez was arrested a year later, after Texas Ranger Robert Garcia got wind of the assault and got his hands on the incriminating surveillance video…
To Molest and Rape (#651)
It's good to see all this coming out, but I hope people don't get the idea that this is unique to Oakland:
Rory Keller-Dean, [a sex worker] who was trying to keep her boyfriend's car from being impounded, said…she was forced to perform oral sex on [Gary] Romero and six other Oakland [pigs]. "I thought I was gonna be dead. I thought they were gonna kill me…But then he hands me the keys to the Cadillac and tells me goodbye and not to say a damn thing." Keller-Dean, who sued and was awarded $350,000 by the city, said that night in 1997 started two years of forced sex with Romero while he was on duty. In 2002, after the settlement, then Deputy City Attorney Barbara Parker said the city's internal investigation corroborated many of Keller-Dean's claims. Romero denied the allegations throughout, calling the sex consensual. Although she has tried to put her past behind her, Keller-Dean decided to share her story to support Celeste Guap…


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Title : Baseline Survey
Title: Baseline Survey
I.	Project Title	: Eradicate structural exclusion with Equal partnerships
II.	Location	: Nuwaraeliya, Kandy and Matale
III.	Project period : Jan 2021 – Dec 2023
IV.	Contract Duration	: 45 Days (February to March 2021)
V.	Expected Start Date : February 10th to March 25th of 2021
VI.	Application Close Date	: January 30th 2021
VII.	Introduction to the Organization
Institute of Social Development (ISD) is a non-governmental organization based in Kandy Sri Lanka, established in order to empower the marginalized and discriminated Plantation community. ISD was founded in 1991 by a group of intellectuals. For the last three decades, ISD executed various programmes on Human Rights awareness and capacity building in order to empower the marginalized plantation community. At present, ISD is involved in sensitizing and advocating the plantation community in varied aspects such as Human Rights, Labor Rights, Housing and land rights and empowerment of Women. In the year 2011, the ISD broaden its programmes thus expanding its services to the most vulnerable in the Plantation sector.
VIII.	Introduction to the Project
This is a continuation of the previous project, but the beneficiaries and the target areas are different. The previous project was aimed to promote the excluded Hill Country (plantation) Tamil community (HTC) to enjoy the legitimate rights. The project provides technical assistance to strength the community by forming and strengthening the RDS/CBOs in the estates while it raises the plantation issues at the national level and international level. The project focuses to bring the development through the inclusion process of the HTC while, it also lobbies for inclusion process of the HTC. The project work closely with the government department/authorities and policy makers to ensure the rights of the plantation workers community. Besides, the project focuses the women issues and strength them to win the equal rights at all level in project area. The project set the following targets to achieved by end of the 2023 and the given indicators will be used for the measure result.
1.	Empowered members of the target groups have improved access to development projects and social services from local government institutions and ministries.
1.1	At least 30% of 30 DMCs are included into the disaster preparedness plan of the government.
1.2	At least 15% of the submitted development plans are implemented
2.	Women and girls of the project location successfully demanded equal access to their rights within the private as well as in the public sphere.
2.1	At least 750 women approached the divisional secretariats and local government and obtained services provided such as skill training of 30 DMCs are included into the disaster preparedness plan of the government.
2.2	At least 30% of 1800 working women enjoy equal status at home and in public sphere.
2.3	At least 150 harassment/violence case against women at working place been reported to RDS and ISD Staff.
3.	The inclusion of HTC in government acts is ensured
3.1	At least 3 acts have been amended for HTC
3.2	The Government has introduced the "National plan of Action" for the development of the HTC.
The United Nations 2030 agenda considers Women development and Equal rights are central in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the first time in the global context recognizes that the parallel efforts are needed to ensure that the Human Rights of all citizens around the globe.
SDG 1 No poverty, SDG 5 Gender equality, SDG 10 Reduce inequalities and SDG 13 Climate action are the main goals that will be underlined through project activities.
IX.	Purpose
The baseline study will focus on the collection of data and information for set performance indicators outlined in the project logical framework. The baseline survey will form the basis for the final evaluation other than setting the baseline and helps to be achieved the targets for the project indicators. Consequently, it's vital to consider the impact that are going to create through the project also to be considered in this baseline survey.
X.	Scope of Work
The baseline study will cover selected plantation estates in Nuwaraeliya, Kandy and Matle including government agencies, estate management, TUs, and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) as well as beneficiaries in the above estate the project will be operating in.
The study the existing socio, political, economic and environmental aspects and level of community participation in local government development in the focused areas in order to understand the feasibility of the project interventions and the findings would help to redesign the project and to assess pre- and post-conditions of the focused areas in the end of the project intervention.
XI.	Objectives of the Baseline
To assess the current situation of socio-political and economic conditions, standard poverty indices, power relations, information on most excluded groups and nature of exclusion, prevalent social/cultural practices, emergency and disaster situation, policies, local governance issues etc. Through this activity of the project intervention can be reviewed, adjusted and improved, to thereby enhance and support the effectiveness of the intervention.
To identify number of existing community based organizations such as Youth Clubs, Child Clubs, Elders Club, Temple Society, CBO, RDS and DMC etc.
To Assess the community's Level of knowledge and understanding on Rural Development Societies, Disaster Management Committees, Right to Information Act and degree of usage, Postal service in the plantation, Living wage concept, new electoral system and voting, government institutions such as Hill country Development Authority, DS and PS, Land and housing rights, Accountability, Transparency, Democracy, Political Leadership and Governance, Gender and gender related issues, Labour rights and Issues, environmental risk, mitigating and preventive measures, linkages with government institutions related to Environmental disaster.
XII.	Task and Responsibilities
Review of program documents and preparation of a brief baseline design document
Conduct a detailed baseline assessment, assessing all the relevant components of the project
Develop the baseline timeline/schedule and select interview and focus group discussion participants.
Collect, triangulate and summarise the primary and secondary data for quantitative and qualitative analysis and study
Prepare data collection tools for review, feedback and possible translation into local language to make it more understandable and easier to use by the baseline team members.
Undertake in-depth interviews with relevant participants and sector experts in order to gain valuable and relevant information
Conduct briefing and de-briefing with project stakeholders and representatives of beneficiaries.
Validate findings with Stakeholders, ISD project team.
Update progress of the baseline survey on weekly basis to Programme Manager
XIII.	Competencies
Demonstrable experience in conducting research
Demonstrable experience in statistic data evaluation
Excellent oral and written communications in English
Excellent oral communication in Tamil
XIV.	Budget
The applicant should include their proposed daily rate, which should include all costs. Value for money will be taken into account in applications evaluation. Reasonable and receipted travel and accommodation related to the execution of the tasks in this Terms of Reference will be covered, based on prior agreement.
XV.	Tender methodology
Please submit your CV and your tender under the following headings
Relevant Experience - including 2 -3 pieces of research papers from previous work
Proposed methodology
Work plan including timeframe for baseline, including the time for writing the reports
Budget - including daily rate of consultant
Two references (including telephone numbers) and web links to your previous work (if available)
Specifically, consultant is expected to provide
1.	Submit the final report, data sheet and filled questionnaires to the project after incorporating the feedbacks and suggestions from ISD.
2.	Give a presentation of draft report to practical action.
The report should be submitted in English language and should be of high enough quality to share with outside agencies, donors or interested third parties.
Additional outputs include a Power Point presentation on key findings and a soft copy of all the relevant documents in a CD.
The deadline for submitting applications is 30th of January 2021. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Address to sent
Institute of Social Development - ISD
No 246/4, Ranawana Road,
careers@isdkandy.org
About ISD
The Institute of Social Development (ISD) is a Non-Governmental Organization founded in 1991 to empower the marginalized and discriminated Plantation Communities in Sri Lanka.
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246/4 Ranawana Road,
Katugastota 20800, Sri Lanka
Email: kandyisd@sltnet.lk
Phone: +94 (0)81 2071288
Copyright 2020, Institute of Social Development (ISD) Kandy, Sri Lanka.

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H.R.22 - United States Postal Service Financial Relief Act of 2009111th Congress (2009-2010)
Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23] (Introduced 01/06/2009)
House - Oversight and Government Reform | Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
H. Rept. 111-216
Senate - 12/07/2009 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security. (All Actions)
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12/07/2009 Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
Action By: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
10/15/2009 Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
09/16/2009 Senate Received in the Senate.
09/15/2009-5:51pm House The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
09/15/2009-5:51pm House Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
09/15/2009-5:51pm House On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 388 - 32 (Roll no. 701). (text: CR H9502)
09/15/2009-1:12pm House At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
09/15/2009-12:43pm House DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 22.
09/15/2009-12:43pm House Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9502-9506, H9535-9536)
09/15/2009-12:43pm House Mr. Towns moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
07/21/2009 House Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 118.
07/21/2009 House Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government. H. Rept. 111-216.
07/10/2009 House Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Action By: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
07/10/2009 House Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
06/24/2009 House Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Unanimous Consent .
Action By: House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia
06/24/2009 House Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
02/24/2009 House Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
01/06/2009 House Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
01/06/2009 House Introduced in House
12/07/2009 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
10/15/2009 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
09/16/2009 Received in the Senate.
09/15/2009 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
09/15/2009 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 388 - 32 (Roll no. 701). (text: CR H9502)
09/15/2009 At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
09/15/2009 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 22.
09/15/2009 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H9502-9506, H9535-9536)
09/15/2009 Mr. Towns moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
07/21/2009 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 118.
07/21/2009 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Oversight and Government. H. Rept. 111-216.
07/10/2009 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
06/24/2009 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Unanimous Consent .
06/24/2009 Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
02/24/2009 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
01/06/2009 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
01/06/2009 Introduced in House
All Actions Except Amendments [19]
All Actions [19]
House Roll Call Vote [1]
Oversight and Government Reform [4]
Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia [3]
Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security [1]