Wednesday, March 12, 2008 | 6:23 pm
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“Mainstream media, if you’re so concerned about the exploitation of sex workers - stop perpetuating the exploitation with your own tools.” Dacia nails it, as usual.
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“Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia has long been a key hub of African American commerce, leadership and religion. This podcast allows visitors to know the sites and hear the stories of the famous places and people along this street.”
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From Oprah to the hot seat, one addiction specialist’s surprising (or not) perspective on cybersex
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“Everyone seems to be delighting in the screenshots of headless torsos and ‘diamond’ ratings and interpretations of antiquated federal laws, but mostly they seem to enjoy the opportunity to call people ‘whores’ in polite company.”
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“What I’d like to see come out of these scandals is progress. Prostitutes are not going to go away no matter how many politicians are caught with one. Why not talk about the need for legal prostitution?”
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“You think Spitzer will actually do time for this? His career might be over, his rep might be destroyed, but time? Nah. The escorts will do the time. Spitzer will cry on the television.”
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“What loopholes am I missing? I’m not a lawyer, so perhaps there is a difference in paying and arranging transport of a sex worker, and receiving the payment and arranging for transport of a sex worker.”
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“Who gets lost once again? The sex workers. In the frenzy to finger point, to dig up whatever graphic details possible of what kind of sex Spitzer may have had for tabloidesque gossip, the impact of his farce is missed.”
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Very interesting, poignant, and wonderfully-written post.
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“Both you and I interact on a regular basis with people who’ve been with prostitutes, and we’ll never know because these people are nice.” What the fuck is that? Why the assumption that they *wouldn’t* be nice? And you also interact w/ prostitutes, hello!
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“Aside from the kinky slap to his Mr. Clean reputation, Spitzer is also facing legal jeopardy, since, among other things, the feds are hitting him with the Mann Act, a 1910 prostitution law designed to crack down on interstate ‘white slavery.’”
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“If tax payers are unhappy, if imprisonment doesn’t deter crime all that effectively, and if this is costing a ridiculous amount of money that could be better spent elsewhere, why are we expanding this system?”
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“It is so incredibly insulting to women- all women- to tell them that prostitution and other forms of sex work are horribly demeaning and exploitive and the ultimate form of bowing down to the patriarchy we live in.”
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“‘It’s commercial, but it’s also social, so people do really form relationships,’ says Audacia Ray, author of ‘Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration’ and a former sex worker.” AP story Dacia was quoted in.
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“It’s fairly evident a lot of folk don’t give a rats ass about ‘unrepentant’ sex workers of any stripe until they are corpses…and that attitude is not limited to the famous men (or any men) they have fucked.”
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“Women will continue to sit quietly, laughing politely at misogynistic comments, choosing flats to make a man feel more masculine. It takes courage to act unexpectedly, to risk ridicule or judgment. It takes courage, but courage we’ve got.”
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“[Farley] blames the ‘buyers’ for the problems of sex work. No, it’s people like her who maintain the status quo of criminalizing sex workers.” Amanda has been WONDERFUL in her coverage of the Spitzer case!!
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“[S]ex workers and activists and advocates are banding together to send a message to the media about the hypocrisy of it all, rather than quietly grumbling but staying out of the limelight for fear of reprisal.”
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“As a former sex worker, I’m puzzled by what is reported to be Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s preference for the riskiest form of indoor prostitution I have ever experienced. Escort agencies are constantly being investigated, infiltrated and spied on.”
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“How does she justify objectifying language like this? We are not fractured and damaged beings as she repeatedly claims. Since when is ‘a man who knew’ a legitimate source of information?”
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“One thing I found fascinating about all this is the media’s use of the word ‘prostitute’ and references to how exploited the girls are, then printing every screenshot of the ECVIP Web site they can find - especially if it has sexy girl pictures.”
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woo, two tags! Yet, the second one has less to do with Spitzer and more to do with the morbid love affair the media and some feminists have with dead pornstars/sex workers…well, at least the tragic ones.
The post at Feministe, while well intentioned, and the resulting comments, still continue to sit really WRONG with me. In an awkward, annoying way that is obvious, in ways that I’ve stated, and in ways that are harder to put my finger on.
I just really get the impression that, oh, say if a lot of us “happy whores” who have done a few rounds with various feminists were to blow our brains out, or get murdered, a bunch of people who had treated us like shit in life would be weaping crocodile tears and mourning yet another poor, deluded victim of the patriarchy and sex industry…even if hey knew it would leave us spinning in our graves…
And it’s always the tragic ones, you know? Never the happy ones. Never, ever, ever. Which is why I posted on Anna Malle.
okay, i managed to formulate actual thoughts on why it bothered me so much, and they are up in post form.
Thank you for the kudos, Amber. My burning, tired eyes are going to bed!
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