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• Yet another transparent attempt to prohibit sex work to "protect" sex workers proves that, like all the others of its kind, it only makes sex work more difficult and dangerous.

  The hateful fanatics behind these preposterous laws know full well that this is the predictable result and don't give rat's ass. These feminists (and they really are a tiny minority of feminists overall) don't mind throwing a few women under the bus in the mad frenzy to abolish all sex commerce, a thing that has been tried over and over throughout history and failed every time.

  Until governments come to their senses and stop listening to these miserable harpies sex workers will suffer the consequences of such campaigns while sex commerce rolls along as it always has, just under worse conditions.

  The lack of real political leadership capable of pushing back such insanity is a disgrace.

• It's not the "feminists" that hijacked the movement. In Los Angeles during the 1980's there was a minimum of five serial killers targeting prostitutes operating at the time with the police refusing to lift a finger. Despite me personally taking one victim who had been stabbed 51 times by the cousins who were later dubbed as the "Hillside Stranger" killer to the task force offices with their names, addresses, etc - they still threw us out of their office and refused to get even warrant. They couldn't get a warrant because as we all know prostitution is a crime. Therefore "our" word is no good in court and it won't be good enough to be evidence in a case against these murderers - so they did nothing. Now when they had the same problem with respect to locking up old Italian mobsters - they sure pulled out the RICO laws real quick. Then a case based only on the word of a "criminal" became good enough. But with respect to helping us stop men who were beating, kidnapping raping and torturing and murdering us - and also us as mothers too - no that wouldn't work. It didn't help that we also had the Iran Contra going on out here at the time AND oil deals - so many women were literally being put onto diplomatic planes back then never to be heard from again. When I'd try and stop these planes - they would threaten to arrest me! So when I started coming out in the media in 1987 as a true trafficking survivor and witness, and with other survivors and witnesses - it was to demand decriminalization. I would explain on the talk shows and documentaries that only when a witness could come forward without fear of being arrested or having their lives ruined - then we'd be able to stop domestic trafficking. After 20 years of this - finally the public believed this was real. So what did the religious republican male right wing do? They hijacked the movement entirely. They pumped out millions in grant money to faith based groups who have no idea what they're doing who then used this as their platform for their message - which is why we're not hearing about things like "end demand" and about "victim courts" now even. The documentaries created by the media they control has now tried to change the meaning entirely around to whereas we used to define as a trafficker men involved in our government making American women disappear - now they've turned it all around into people thinking we're talking about African American males. So just as they demonized the black man with Iran Contra - now they're doing it again with the trafficking movement. This was men behind the hijacking - not women.

  • Are you currently sniffing paint? You should seriously consider a treatment

    • No doubt. :-(