Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 18, 2024The Biggest Crisis A #PoliCartoon by me and Becky Hawkins.
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- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Defending Free Speech
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Category Archives: Sex work, porn, etc
Treating Porn Like Every Other Media
On Z Magazine’s website, Gail Dines and Robert Jensen are criticizing the left’s attitude towards pornography: Pornography is fantasy, of a sort. Just as television cop shows that assert the inherent nobility of police and prosecutors as protectors of the … Continue reading
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Meth-fueled prostitution in the Rockies
Via Mark Kleiman, this very readable six-part series about a wealthy businessman and pillar of the community, Dick Dasen, who over the years paid “hundreds” of women to have sex with him. At first, he met the women through abusing … Continue reading
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Outlaw Johns, Not Prostitutes
I’ve mentioned in passing on this blog that I think prostitution should be decriminalized, but that being a John – that is, hiring a prostitute – should be criminal. I thought it might be nice to share with “Alas” readers … Continue reading
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The Deep Throat and Catherine McKinnon
The 1970’s porn movie Deep Throat is coming to movie theaters near you:
Deep Throat,” the infamous 1972 adult film that led to a government crackdown on pornography, is being re-released in theaters as a new generation of lawmakers wages a renewed assault on smut, trade paper Daily Variety reported in its Tuesday edition.The release of the Linda Lovelace opus, which was banned at the time in 23 states, coincides with the premiere of the documentary “Inside Deep Throat,” which hits theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston on Friday.
The original film, which was made in six days for $25,000 and has grossed over $600 million, will not be ready until at least Feb. 18, the paper said. Las Vegas-based Arrow Prods., which owns the rights to the mob-funded “Deep Throat,” started striking 10 prints on Monday, it added. Five of the prints will be edited to garner an “R” rating, which allows admission to children aged under 17 if accompanied by an adult.
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False story alert: Women in Germany probably not being forced into prostitution by welfare state
Yesterday I posted a Telegraph article about a woman in Germany being forced to choose between losing unemployment benefits and taking a job in a brothel. It now seems likely that the Telegraph article is not true. In the comments … Continue reading
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'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
UPDATE (Feb 1): There’s reason to doubt this story is true. Check out this post for details. Original post is below the fold.
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Legalization of Prostitution in Austrailia
I mentioned in passing in an earlier post that I’m not in favor of legalizaing (or decriminalizing) prostitution. (Instead, I favor “the Swedish solution,” which is to decriminalize being a prostitute while retaining – and enforcing – laws against being … Continue reading
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