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03.28.09
The key to recovery
is phone sex.
Yes, indeed. The fact is, we all look around us helplessly, uncomprehending the enormity of the economic cataclysm we see ourselves in, and we ask, “What can I do? What meaningful sacrifice can I make?”
All I can do is to quote a bit from Lily Tomlin, but completely out of context.
The answer is so simple I am surprised even you did not think of it.
The answer is phone sex. Spending money on phone sex puts it right into the hands of other workers like yourself, who will spend it at retail establishments, resulting in more employment and more Americans with disposable income. People will buy houses and durable goods, the stock market will rise.
You should in fact spend more on phone sex now, as much as you can possibly afford. Phone sex is the glue that will bind us together as a nation in a new prosperity.
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Call me now!01.07.09
About that bailout…
Well, well, it’s about time somebody did something to help the little people and their needs. You’ve probably noticed that porn prices are not going down. Girls still have to work to earn a living, even if they’re making fewer sales. Dropping prices doesn’t seem to lead to more sales, since the people who no longer can afford it really can’t afford to pay any price.
Larry Flynt is applying for TARP funds to bail out the porn industry. You go, guy!
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Call me now!06.01.08
Condi tells us what we really want to know
Of course we always suspected as much…
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Call me now!10.31.07
Bush goes after Democrats on health care
WASHINGTON – President Bush ratcheted up his confrontation with Democratic leaders Wednesday, laying out what he said is a stark ideological divide between a fiscally prudent, free market-loving GOP president and a Congress that aims to raise taxes and nationalize health care. MORE
W-w-w-wait a minute. “Fiscally prudent, free market-loving GOP president…” Looking under the table… Nope, not there. Looking behind the door… Nope not there. Under the rug… Nope, not there. Looking in the White House… Nope, not there.
I don’t see a fiscally prudent President in this entire country. What dreamland is Bush living in? I see a profligate spendthrift, glad to put poor and working people out on the street and cut them off from all social services that HE collects abundantly, selling us out to his corrupt cronies when he’s not giving it all away. Penny wise and pound foolish is the best he could be described. Let’s go start a war in Iran. That’ll turn the other two disastrous wars we are dumping unlimited money into around.
Or maybe he can just start World War III, so Bush can bring on Armageddon and the End Times. It’s his destiny, you know.
We know he’s a liar, and he’s delusional. C’mon people, lets all call him on this.
Dreamworld starts in the next life.
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Call me now!10.06.07
Jon Stewart on the veto of SCHIP
“My job is a decision-making job. And as a result, I make a lot of decisions.” – George Bush
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Call me now!Politician investigated about nude image during school lecture
Let this be a lesson to you: when you’re giving a lecture at a high school, don’t use the same memory stick you use for downloading porn.
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Call me now!06.14.07
52% of Americans would support impeachment for wiretapping
By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge’s approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
Just an update.
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Call me now!03.31.07
Gonzales aide says “I can’t remember” 122 times during hearing
Excuse me… Doesn’t it seem like we have an awful lot of government officials with memory loss and/or cognitive impairment?
read more | digg story
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Call me now!03.26.07
Why can’t you e-file to the IRS for free? Ask Intuit and HR Block
The IRS recommends that taxpayers file electronically, but it refuses to set up its own Web portal to receive the filings because of pressure from the tax-preparation industry.
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Call me now!03.18.07
Sex workers and Society
This entry is based on Identification of the Adult Entertainment Industry as a Social Taboo is a Social Construct — Thursday, March 15, 2007
Read it. Think. Then read this.
A basic point missed is that the subjugation, etc. of (female) sex workers is not merely done by men. Women who are not sex workers probably do this even more than men. Men who use the services of sex workers have a variety of attitudes toward them. Most respect them, understanding that they serve a need. I have never run into the attitude that my customers would be happier if I were poor and desperate. They are glad that I am earning a good living, so I can continue to provide them with services.
The attitude is different in the general public, and differences within vary mostly by degrees.
Women and men both project their sexual fears and anxieties on female sex workers — and this is a society with many sexual fears. They feel sex is dirty. They villify female sex workers and scapegoat them in an effort to feel cleansed themselves.
If there was no demand, obviously we would all voluntarily find another line of business. Society’s disapproval of our profession is based on the fanciful notion that supply determines demand, that if supply were to be cut off, demand would go away. Society at large is unable to face the fact that their own are voluntarily purchasing our services. It must be something evil that we have done to suck them in. This is not normal. Sex is not one of OUR family values. Good men are chaste, aside from when they are with their wives, and forever if their wives decide they are no longer interested.
All of which, biologically speaking, is bullshit.
Remember Mom’s motherly advice to her daughter. Sex is dirty and disgusting. Save it for someone you love. Women would only do something so degrading if they were forced to do it. But even if they were forced, it’s their own fault. No self-respecting woman would do such a thing. She would do absolutely anything to avoid it — live on the street, stay married to a man who beats her, even work at Walmart, which pays so little she would qualify for food stamps and other social services.
But here we are, not only not dead in the gutter — as we would be in a “fair” world where THEIR rules are actually applicable — but doing quite well both economically and emotionally. It is a slap in the face to those who already are having trouble reconciling their values with reality, and finding a poor fit.
Therefore, anything bad that happens to female sex workers is perfectly all right. It’s acceptable in the eyes of people who feel this way to pass laws that make our lives unsafe and to cause our lives to be less safe if they selectively fail to enforce the ones that exist.
There is the dangerous attitude among many men that they deserve sex from whatever woman they want it from. They feel it is an injustice whenever a woman might reject them. They feel that the sex worker has chosen the work (and these are people who feel that choosing one form of sex work is the same as choosing them all) and they feel no inhibition whatever when it comes to acting on these feelings. It is these men who are dangerous to women sex workers, and this attitude in general that threatens women in the industry.
Some men who use the services of sex workers are unable to perceive boundaries. Like the guys who call a phone sex operator looking for a domme, or an escort, or gfe, they think that the fact that a woman has chosen one form of sex work means she has chosen all types. Or they think that we really don’t want to be here, and we’re just trolling for a husband. Guys like this probably have issues with boundaries for women in other sorts of relationships, too. Since I know so few of them – in comparison to the apparently normal guys I’ve met in the business – I think that they are atypical and not representative of customers at large. When I say this, I am not saying that the attitude is atypical, but that it is atypical among true paying customers.
It is men who pay for sexual services who truly respect women.
Prostitution and Sex Work
This topic is a difficult one that lies at the crossroads of feminism, morals, pleasure, gender inequality, exploitation and male violence. The difficulty in discussing it is compounded by the large degree of diversity and stratification of experiences within prostitution: from straight and gay prostitutes on the street to elite escort services. The range of experiences increases again if we explore sex work, which takes into account exotic dancing, the adult movie industry and an increasing number of people who run an adult-oriented website that features themselves. Further, the level of exploitation in sex work should be compared and contrasted with a variety of exploitative, meaningless and alienating work produced by a technologically advanced, consumption oriented capitalist society. The question is thus not whether sex work is exploitative, but how does it compare with being a waitress, working in a factory or a McDonalds – perhaps even a graduate assistant?
1996 interview with Carol Leigh, sex worker and activist
Feminist Perspectives on Sex Markets
Another Perspective
Prostitution is not “sex work;” it is violence against women. It exists because significant numbers of men are given social, moral and legal permission to buy women on demand. It exists because pimps and traffickers prey on women’s poverty and inequality. It exists because it is a last ditch survival strategy, not a choice, for millions of the world’s women.
How Pornography is Inherently Damaging to Women
This is long and boring. I’ll give you a brief summary. Pornography is always damaging because the customer is not seeking to relate to the sex worker as a whole person. He only seeks a part of her, her “image”. But it’s not just simply damaging, it is “violent”. Hmm… I’m trying to think of the last time I interacted with anyone out there, seeking the whole person. I don’t want to bring home the clerks at the corner store or the guy who pumps my gas. I want them to stay on their side of the divide. Is that violent of me?
Bayswan – Bay Area Sex Workers Advocacy Network.
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