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Episode 117: Maggie McNeill – "What To Know Before You Pay For Sex"

by Peter R. Quiñones | Jun 10, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall

Mance welcomes Maggie McNeill to the show. Maggie is an escort and more famously, an advocate for sex workers. Maggie talks about the recent article she wrote for Reason Magazine, "What to Know Before You Pay for Sex," as well as the recent passing of the FOSTA bill...

First Congress Took Sex Workers’ Websites. Now It’s Coming For Their Bank Accounts.

by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 31, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics

A new law that shuttered websites used by voluntary sex workers to screen clients has already forced some to risk their lives by returning to the streets to find business. But the broad bipartisan alliance that passed that legislation last month isn’t done. Now, Sens....

Senate Votes to Endanger Sex Workers and Censor the Internet

by EFF | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice

Today [March 21, 2018] was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users....

The State, Individuals, and Decriminalizing Sex Work

by Maggie McNeill | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

The chair of the Libertarian Party of Chicago, Justin Tucker, and Outright Libertarians recently hosted heroic sex worker rights activist, journalist, and proprietor of The Honest Courtesan blog, Maggie McNeill, while she was promoting her latest book of short...

Police Oppose Bill Banning Sexual Contact with Sex Workers

by Alaska Dispatch News | May 11, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

[Ed. note: when police coerce sex workers into sexual acts with explicit threats of violence or simply with the implicit power of their badge, that is rape.] Earlier this year, the Anchorage Police Department sent one of its top officials to Juneau with a request for...

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The Madness Continues: Ground Troops in Yemen?

The Houthis occupy the western on third of the map above of Yemen. A ground presence will not succeed, the Saudis and a coalition of nine nations have made no progress since their invasion in 2015. US involvement in this conflict directly will not end well. Officials:...

Anti-War Blog – Peace Be With You

Easter Time used to mean a lot to me. I was once a Christian. I would pray every day and I believed in a creator, the Lord. I felt pain when I imagined the journey of Christ as he carried the cross, just a man who was burdened with all of our sin. The son of God. The...

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War is the Health of the Stock Exchange

Some genius will be able to determine what percentage of Israeli "aid" packages essentially never leave the DC/VA corridor. That handout of taxpayer funds to Israel coupled with Israel’s, and global, demand increasing for weapons in a period of instability, has been...

Decent Fight Scene Outrages the Memers

The cancel culture mob is upset over a piece of media, this time it’s because a girl character in a television show based on a video game did something that they were OUTRAGED about. A fictional character was able to defeat a man in an unarmed struggle. Her being...

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