That Was the Week That Was (#351)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. I am writing this on my phone, for the living and the dead.– Jemima A man who raped a prostitute…has been jailed for [forty]...
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By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. The violence of a john does not diminish the role of the state in making a prostitute more vulnerable to that violence.–...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#401)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. We don’t know what sex workers themselves think about [the Swedish model] because nobody, it seems, bothered to ask them.–...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#403)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. What would it mean to think of sex workers not as traitors to feminism but as feminist forebears? – Mattilda Sycamore The...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#404)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. Trafficking has become one of the new “it” words in the bankrupt moral vernacular, craftily used by puritans, property...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#407)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. Sex work can be dangerous; but those dangers are exacerbated, or in many cases even created, by criminalisation.– Jean Urquhart...
View ArticleMarkets in Everything: Prostitution for Beginners
By Alex Tabarrok donkeyrock shared this story from Marginal REVOLUTION. The Guardian: An enterprising association of sex workers in Barcelona has angered some of Spain’s most prominent feminists by...
View ArticleAnother Example Of Why Police And Courts, Not Universities, Should Be...
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. Another Example Of Why Police And Courts, Not Universities, Should Be Investigating, Prosecuting Rape Accusations From MLive.com,...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#422)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. Preteens selling goodies, the police…lectured [her]…was unfair to establishments…like Starbucks.– Robert Fernandes...
View ArticleLibertarians Vs. Conservatives (9PM ET on FBN)
By John Stossel donkeyrock shared this story from Fox Business. WAR ON DRUGS: Libertarians think the war on drugs is nuts. Adults should be free to do what they want with their own bodies. Congressman...
View ArticleHalf Of All Medical Reporting Is Subject To Spin
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. Half Of All Medical Reporting Is Subject To Spin I’ve long been disturbed that the LA Times “Health” section simply moves over...
View ArticleDecriminalizing indoor prostitution
By Tyler Cowen donkeyrock shared this story from Marginal REVOLUTION. There is a new NBER paper by Scott Cunningham and Manisha Shah: Most governments in the world including the United States prohibit...
View ArticleSex Offenders Never Stop Being Punished By The State
I know I defend the indefensible scum bags, the taboo subjects, but I just don’t see the fairness or justice in such things. I don’t know how the legal system continues to justify the continual...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#438)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. I was…struck by how the…treatment for these women mostly consisted of convincing them that they were victims. – Jessica...
View ArticlePaglia On The Campus Rape Hysteria And The Illusion Of The "Perfectibility Of...
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. Paglia On The Campus Rape Hysteria And The Illusion Of The “Perfectibility Of Mankind” Camille Paglia writes in TIME: Wildly...
View ArticleMore on that California college sex law
By Walter Olson donkeyrock shared this story from Overlawyered. Hans Bader has some clarification on one issue on which there’s been widespread confusion, on which the California law does not go to the...
View ArticleMargo Kaplan: Pedophilia Should Be Treated As A Disorder, Not A Crime
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. Margo Kaplan: Pedophilia Should Be Treated As A Disorder, Not A Crime Kaplan, an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Law, writes...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#441)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. Tattooing of [“trafficking” victims doesn’t]…make much sense outside of sadistic, pornographic fantasy. – Julia Davidson …an...
View ArticleISIS Explains The Justification For The Enslavement Of Women
By Amy Alkon donkeyrock shared this story from Advice Goddess Blog. ISIS Explains The Justification For The Enslavement Of Women It comes straight out of Islam. Salma Abdelaziz writes for CNN [annoying...
View ArticleThat Was the Week That Was (#442)
By Maggie McNeill donkeyrock shared this story from The Honest Courtesan. [To a prohibitionist California judge] “help”…means keeping a pregnant teen locked up in juvenile jail because she accepted...
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