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Cartoon: The News Could Not Be Any More Objective
If you like these cartoons, please help us make more! This cartoon was drawn by the one and only Kevin Moore! Hello from the east coast! When I originally wrote these words (in December 2021), I was in upstate New … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Fat, fat and more fat, Media criticism, Sex work, porn, etc, Union Issues
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Cartoon: Support Workers’ Rights! (But not THOSE workers.)
If you like these cartoons and want there to be more, please support my Patreon! A $1 or $2 pledge really helps! (Supporters got to see this cartoon back in April!) An article on The Hill about sex workers lobbying … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Sex work, porn, etc
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Fosta-Sesta and The Art Of Not Listening
If you like these cartoons, please help me make more by supporting my Patreon! A $1 pledge really matters. This is sort of a “guilty obligation” comic. :-p By which I mean, it makes me furious that our pundit class … Continue reading
Posted in Cartooning & comics, Elections and politics, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Sex work, porn, etc
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Lines That Didn’t Make The Cut – Ruth’s Story
Trigger warning: These lines describe the sexual exploitation of a young woman. Ruth’s Story It wasn’t like I showed him anything he hadn’t seen before. Besides, he took the ones with clothes, the good ones, only if I did a … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Sex work, porn, etc
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Texas Jury Acquits Man For Killing Escort Who Wouldn’t Have Sex With Him
(UPDATE: Make sure to read the update at the end of the post, which puts a very different spin on the jury’s decision.) From Vanity Fair: Frago went outside where her driver, Christopher Perkins, was waiting. Gilbert came out and … Continue reading
Posted in In the news, Prisons and Justice and Police, Sex work, porn, etc
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Non-Consensual Sex Is Evil, Not Non-Conventional Sex
Public Disgrace is an online pornography series that advertises itself as “women bound, stripped, and punished in public.” It is the creation of a 30-year-old San Francisco–based porn director and dominatrix named Princess Donna Dolore. Princess Donna conceived of the … Continue reading
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The Snuggery: Cuddles As Sex Work
I was annoyed by this New York Magazine article about a business called The Snuggery, both by the writer’s snideness (“It almost seems like men are paying to get blue balls”) and by the choice to illustrate with a nude … Continue reading
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Prostitutes in the US are 42 times as likely to be murdered as the average American (Not an accurate statistic – see update)
UPDATE: I definitely can’t stand by the statistic I quoted in this post; it’s way too high, it seems. See the discussion in the comments for details. Original post follows. From an article about serial killers who work as truck … Continue reading
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