Back Issue #157

Sex work isn’t going anywhere, no matter what cops, prosecutors, and morally-retarded billionaires want you to believe. – “Scrupleless in Seattle” Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape. Bizarre, stilted language is used to describe a very ordinary escort service. “Pimp” classification schemes are among the stupidest tropes of the panic. The ludicrosity of small-town police chiefs trying to justify sex work stings. Sometimes hiding border control behind “sex trafficking” is very apparent. A craptastic mixture of the obvious, the pearl-clutching & the dead wrong. Media never tire of presenting ordinary sexwork practices as new & novel. Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will. The idea we might be neither is too much for the tiny minds of politicians. It’s really gratifying to see sex workers rebel against paternalistic bullshit. Sex workers who pretend they aren’t are almost as bad as prohibitionists. The “big…