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"Supporting Prop K does not mean that you advocate prostitution. Prop K is about supporting the rights and health of all San Francisco residents, including prostitutes. Prop K asks San Franciscans to look past their socially-conditioned attitudes about prostitution to the human lives that are impacted by prohibition."
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"However, they are no different from, oh, those same people who defend crap like SPC and TPoP…because, as evidenced by the huge amount of tap dancing and screams of fair use and picking apart of in order to dodge 2257 bullshit that I have seen in present and past discussion…well, let’s say this: The opinions of the women in those films and slide shows means nothing to these people. Nothing. And those who support it? Well, they don’t give a fuck about these women either, and would not deign to, until they were dead and then, post mortem, could be used as a poster example!"
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"But pornos are like sausages — if you want to keep enjoying them, you don't really want to see them put together. If you're a scrappy and somewhat clueless outsider, the harsh realities of the jizz biz will fwap you in the face pretty quickly — and we're not just talking about the romantic confusion of screwing your best friend for money on camera. So in the spirit of porno, sausages, and ruining your lunch, I couldn't resist the urge to dissect some pieces of Zack and Miri's Fantasy Porno World."
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"This photograph of Palin makes me cringe. It makes me angry. It doesn’t make me laugh. It doesn’t change my view of Palin (or McCain) one iota. Many have argued, as I have argued, that the Ashley Todd story says much more about the people who exploited it and her than it does about the young woman herself. The posting of this photograph, photoshopped by the blogger, says more about him and his appreciative audience than it does about anything else. I don’t like what it says.
I’m not gonna visit a blog where there’s any chance I’ll be subjected to images like this posted as jokes. There are just too many places where I can get good stuff, and funny stuff, that isn’t offensively and overtly misogynist. He’s coming off my blogroll because I can’t ask you to visit him either."
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"What I did learn from working in the sex trade is that the very people who can most likely afford to hire a sex worker are in the same socioeconomic demographic that rallies against the rights of sex workers. Where are these roving hordes of hookers they rave about? How can you tell that condom or syringe on your doorstep came from a working girl or boy, or from a careless slutty hipster?"
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"The assumption that criminalizing prostitution reduces its prevalence, or even more absurdly, helps those engaged in the sex trade, is fundamentally flawed. Prostitution arrests help no one, especially not the people arrested. Not only is arrest itself traumatic and often violent, it drives sex workers into a broken criminal justice system and comes with a host of collateral consequences. Sex workers who have been arrested may face the loss of their mainstream jobs, adverse impacts on their immigration status, eviction from their homes, or even problems retaining custody of their children. All of these factors may force them to return to the trade, if only to be able to pay fines and legal costs, or because their criminal record precludes them from securing other employment." Another win from Sienna Baskin and Melissa Ditmore.
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Wilson is great. :)
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