Thursday, June 26, 2008 | 7:34 pm
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“She discovered that nearly all the posts on the site that mentioned her or her work had disappeared - save for one, a post from last year on the Top 10 Sex Memes from 2006. Shortly after that post was discovered via Google site search, it disappeared as well.”
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“Grind the Vote is a national effort, with events happening across the country. From Sin City to the Windy City, the Capital to the Big Apple, we’re organizing our sex worker electorate into a political force to ‘Grind the Vote!’”
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“Xaviera Hollander just hosted a big 65th birthday bash for herself at her Bed & Breakfast in Amsterdam, and in this episode of Naked City TV she reflects on how Amsterdam’s red light district is changing, plus her perceptions of the sex industry…”
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“Spending three weeks looking at Erotic Services ads on Craigslist? Really, this council member’s office doesn’t have other stuff that needs getting done?”
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“When you lose it all in a fire, you lose a lot of hope. You are afraid to hold onto anything, or want for something, because you never want to hurt like this again.”
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“Why is everyone so afraid to be even the slightest bit positive about teenage sexuality?”
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Ha!
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“Men who act like assholes, children, or rapists don’t do so because they can’t help it; they do it because they know they’ll be forgiven.”
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“The nature of blogging is that it busts up our ideas about narrative, there often isn’t a clear story or arc of reasoning. Especially in the world of personal blogs, the evolution of emotions and ideas is what carries the real narrative quality.”
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“Beyond the issue of legality, these protests (’I'm not a -’ or ‘I would never -’) stem from a desire for legitimacy, because no matter what Ariel Levy says, there is still no sex work that has true legitimacy in the eyes of the public.”
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“Does my history of depression mean that I can’t be trusted to ever make romantic/sexual decisions ever again? … To insist that sex is something Patrick is doing to me instead of with me is the most sexist thing I’ve ever heard.”
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“[P]eople misunderstand my choice to reveal certain elements of my life. It does not entitle them to dig for the parts I do not share or to actively interfere in events that have nothing to do with them.”
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“It was left to her daughter, her doctor, and the woman who runs the assisted-living facility to explain how this grown woman, who lived through the Depression and survived breast cancer, managed a home and mourned a mate, wound up being treated like a child.”
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“It’s important to support sex workers because they are routinely denied a voice and others consistently insist on speaking for them. It’s a typical irony that those who think they know what’s best for sex workers tend to advocate laws that are damaging to them.”
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“Announcing a new course to be offered at Duke University in Fall 2008.” Hmmm…
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