Do you really need seventeen FBI agents to arrest two sex workers?

A guest at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf said she and her mother were on their way to their room after checking in shortly after midnight yesterday when they encountered a raucous scene in a sixth-floor hallway as some 17 FBI agents and plainclothes officers were struggling to ( Read more... )

Ren, saying something that needs to be said:
THERE-ARE-NO-UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCES. So yeah, since I am being scum anyway today…listen to me now and hear me later: Your life and experiences might have been pure hell, they sure sound as if they were, but you have no fucking write to name experiences for other women, or mock and dismiss how they ( Read more... )

A couple of posts you must read now.

First, Ren (I've added some line breaks):

Now, one, I am fucking sick of people who know jack and shit talking about how all clients/johns whatever are. Because you know what? That is bullshit. Like everyone out there, folk who buy sexual services are varied people. There are such things as good ones, okay ones, ( Read more... )

is up over at Bound, Not Gagged.

Go watch it. You have no excuse for not doing so.

I probably shouldn't even bother as this makes utterly no sense, but Hugo Schwyzer has posted a new post about pornography (the previous one is here.) The post itself is thoughtful and interesting, but one commenter is so strange I can't even figure out what she's saying.

Here's a bit of the post itself, included because it actually talks about ( Read more... )

DC Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey Commits Suicide

Palfrey, known as the “D.C. Madam,” was convicted April 15 by a federal jury of running a prostitution service that catered to members of Washington’s political elite, including Sen. David Vitter, R-La. She had denied her escort service engaged in prostitution, saying that if any of the women engaged in ( Read more... )

Ick. I can't say I'm terribly surprised at this, but I sure don't like it.

“My Real Name” was a One New Earth Production performance by Students and Artist Fighting to End Human Slavery. Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Ethics Studies and promoted by the SAGE Project violent scene after violent scene was played out against streetbased prostitutes. This ( Read more... )

I got linked on Feministe.

Later that day, I was talking to my partner, and telling her about the conversation that had taken place. I expected her to come down on my side, and tell me how unreasonable and out of proportion mythago’s response to me was. Instead, she completely agreed completely. To paraphrase her comments-

“Even if what you said ( Read more... )