Prostitution
David Letterman, the voice of dude nation
I was about to hit the sack this morning (don’t ask) when I noticed a few emails in my inbox about David Letterman. “Is he still alive?” I wondered. It occurred to me that perhaps he’d died in an autoerotic asphyxiation accident, and would soon be joining David Carradine and Michael Hutchence in [...]
One Perfect Sentence
Twisty:
The idea that women’s public sexuality can so precisely mirror traditional male fantasy while simultaneously existing in a kind of pro-woman, I-do-it-for-myself alternate universe is the cornerstone of funfeminist “thought.”
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So close and yet so far
I slept! Nine hours, I think. The world is a beautiful place again. Or it was until I got to my computer and started on the news.
Two items this morning caught my eye with their promise to tell the truth, to actually say what the hell is going on [...]
He couldn’t be bothered with a single mention of all the raped and enslaved women?
I haven’t been watching the Ken Burns documentary “The War,” but this post over at Heart’s got my attention:
Where in the name of all that is holy are the comfort women?
And it’s not just the “comfort” women; it’s all the enslaved and prostituted and raped women in that global apocalypse, that furnace of souls. [...]
So that’s why all the morons think prostitution is an empowerfuling career choice
I keep as much distance between myself and popular culture as possible, so I’ve only just now discovered that for the past few years HBO has been running some utterly unrealistic “reality” show about a brothel in Nevada, a happy place where happy people do happy things, just because they’re so darn happy. [...]
O the joys of being an empowered sex worker
As I understand it, the rationale behind legalizing all kinds of sex work is that the women (strippers, prostitutes, etc.) will then enjoy the rights and dignities of workers in other fields. They’ll be able to set boundaries, demand safe working conditions and reasonable job standards, earn respect for a job well done, all [...]
Prostitution Debate Part 2: New Zealand
(See Prostitution Debate Part 1: Thailand for an introduction to this series. That first post also contains the moderation rules for the debate.)
This is going to be a very different post than I’d expected it to be.
New Zealand decriminalized prostitution in 2003, and I’ve seen it mentioned online as a model that ought [...]
Prostitution Debate Part 1: Thailand
(See also: Prostitution Debate Part 2: New Zealand)
As promised, here’s the first part of a little series of posts on prostitution.
Back in The Thread That Won’t Die, I explained here and here what I have in mind:
First of all, I’m going to start a new post in a [...]
Prostitutes = Pizza
Stephanie Zacharek has an article in Salon today about Colin Farrell, in which she defends his enthusiasm for using prostitutes — which Farrell has compared to “phoning up for a pizza.”
More precisely, Zacharek sneers at those fuddy-duddies who think Farrell’s likening of a live human being to an Italian pastry is pretty fucking [...]
Hot New Blog Celebrates Police Abuse of Prostitutes
Although I’m a denizen of Virginia, I hadn’t planned to post on the story about Spotsylvania County police officers having sex with prostitutes in order to get “evidence” for convictions. Twisty covered it perfectly well.
But in the course of my travels this morning I happened upon a big-name new blog — big because [...]
