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Backpage, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work, Videos and Podcasts

Essential Videos and Podcasts Covering Sex Work, SESTA/FOSTA and Backpage

Stephen Lemons/December 28, 2019November 1, 2020 /Leave a comment

A number of videos and podcasts have taken on the misguided narratives parroted by the mainstream media in reference to Backpage, FOSTA/SESTA, sex work and related subjects. Here follows an ever-expanding list of links to such productions. 1) The War…

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Kamala Harris
Election 2020, Kamala Harris, News, Section 230, Sex Work

Kamala the Cop Craps Out of Prez Race

Stephen Lemons/December 3, 2019December 4, 2019 /Leave a comment

California Senator Kamala Harris, one of the most inauthentic, Janus-faced Democratic politicians of recent memory, exited the presidential race on Tuesday, pointing the finger at others and failing to grasp the most important rule of leadership, or lack thereof: the…

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2010 photo of Kamala Harris laughing while standing behind a podium at a rally in San Francisco
News, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work

Irony Alert: Kamala Harris Profited from an Affair with Willie Brown, Yet She Wages War on Sex Work

Stephen Lemons/February 19, 2019 /Leave a comment

It’s the hypocrisy, stupid. That’s what pundits from The Nation to the Washington Post fail to grasp about the onetime romance between former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and California Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris. Harris’s apologists would have…

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A smiling Kamala Harris at a summertime political rally, handing a microphone to fellow U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who is visible only by the back of his bald head
Censorship, News, Politics, Sex Work

Kamala Harris’s Record as a Prosecutor Exposes the Dirty Truths Behind Her Newfound ‘Progressive’ Persona

Stephen Lemons/January 22, 2019January 31, 2019 /Leave a comment

You can roll the silkscreens on those “Kamala in 2020” T-shirts now. The first-term U.S. senator from California made it official on January 21, 2019: She will seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency. The announcement was equal parts…

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Photo of President Trump at his desk in the Oval Office, surrounded by VIPs, as he prepares to sign a bill in to law.
News, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work

Trump Approves $430 Million to Screw Sex Workers

Stephen Lemons/January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 /1 Comment

Come fire or flood (or wall), the federal government never seems to run out of money to throw at its war on sex workers. On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization…

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Illustration depicting Donald Trump's face opening up to reveal a smiling poo emoji
Backpage, Campus Speech, Censorship, Donald Trump, First Amendment, News

Free Speech in the News: The Top Ten Stories of 2018

Stephen Lemons/January 1, 2019April 28, 2019 /Leave a comment

The battle over free speech raged in courtrooms, on college campuses, and on social media in 2018, with wedding cakes for same-sex couples and the federal government’s attack on sex workers taking center stage. In no particular order, are the…

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Color photo of oil heiress Swanee Hunt standing at a lectern and smiling
News, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work

The Millionaire Abolitionist: Oil Heiress Swanee Hunt’s Crusade to Stamp Out Sex Work

Stephen Lemons/September 27, 2018 /1 Comment

Seattle-based sex worker and blogger Maggie McNeill devoted a recent post on her site The Honest Courtesan to an intriguing document: two pages purportedly culled from a report prepared for Demand Abolition, a group that aims to eradicate the commercial sex…

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Mugshots, front and profile views, of a man wearing a jail-striped shirt
Backpage, News, Sex Work

Texas Serial Killings Highlight the Need to Decriminalize Sex Work

Stephen Lemons/September 19, 2018September 19, 2018 /Leave a comment

U.S. Border Patrol supervisor and confessed serial killer Juan David Ortiz stalked sex workers in and around Laredo, Texas — picking them up off the street, driving them to deserted patches of freeway, then shooting them in the head during a two-week…

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photo of John and Cindy McCain at a 2017 hearing held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. John McCain is prominent in the background, while Cindy McCain has her back to the camera in the foreground, identifiable by a name placard and her silvery blond hairdo and pearl necklace
Backpage, First Amendment, Free Speech Rattler, Freedom of Speech, John McCain

How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin

Stephen Lemons/September 17, 2018October 25, 2018 /Leave a comment

Introduction: April 2018 — The FBI Seizes Backpage.com, and the McCains Rejoice Hours after news broke on April 6, 2018, that the FBI had seized the online listings giant Backpage.com and arrested seven current and former executives of the company,…

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Color screenshot of Rob Portman addressing the U.S. Senate with flames shooting out of his ass. Entirely fake.
Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Sex Trafficking, Sex Work, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

The U.S. Government’s Trojan Horse War on Prostitution

Stephen Lemons/August 22, 2018April 28, 2019 /Leave a comment

The Federal Government Has Been Waging a Trojan-Horse Assault on Sex Workers U.S. officials couched the passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) in March 2018, coupled with the FBI’s takedown of the online listings giant Backpage.com weeks later,…

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           Required Reading

  1. The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com’s Founders Speak for the First Time., Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason, 8/21/18.
  2. The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers, 38-minute Reason documentary, 6/26/19.
  3. Seventh Circuit Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner’s decision in Backpage v. Dart,11/30/15.
  4. Inside Backpage’s Vicious Battle With the Feds, Christine Biederman, WIRED cover story, 6/18/19.
  5. Feds Bungled Preservation of Server Evidence in U.S. v. Lacey and Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 10/8/2019.
  6. Real Men Get Their Facts Straight, The Village Voice, 6/29/11.
  7. How John and Cindy McCain Came to Hate Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, Front Page Confidential, 9/17/18.

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