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Kink.com workers lost in the anarchist shuffle.

Posted by March 21, 2013

 

 

It was with great concern that the Archaist Book Fair hosted two  possibilities to talk about what’s going on at their host space, Kink.com.

 

One was the very generous Saturday night evening discussion over the withdrawal of one of the speakers, conflated Kink.com with Bank of America and deemed that un anarchist like.

And the other was the sex worker section on Sunday afternoon.

Having only attended the Sunday session for the last 15 minutes and hearing from those who attended the Saturday night event, there didn’t seem much discussion of the topic of how anarchy would benefit the workers at kink.com  Thinking about the workers and their present situation is on my mind. I would have liked to have effected the conversation towards the fate of the workers at Kink.com in light of the recent arrest of the owner, Pete and recent public complaints from former workers about his management practices.

 

I, like many of my fellow kink/sex/worker positive community  members can remember when in 2007, we all piled into city hall planning commission to show public support for kink.com’s right to buy the armory. It wasn’t so much I personally was standing up for Peter’s right to buy and occupy the armory but more of the right for a kink based business to occupy the armory.  Like many of my fellow kinksters, we knew that peter had his detractors then.   In hindsight, a key question that ought to have been asked and answered about if the workers had a collectively bargained contract to cover their labor and work conditions in place.

 

So it was of no surprise to read about recent complaints of the disrespectful management practices where he unilaterally changed a pay scale for webcam performers without negotiating with them first,  the lack of concern for injuries and questionable scene negotiating practices.  The former being a major value in our community.

 

At least one worker found out she didn’t have the skill set to take on unionization in a competitive adult work site to make the necessary changes.  Not many people do.  That skill set comes with training, support and determination.  Maggie Mayhem’s explicit indictment of the peter culture in the wake of  his arrest for cocaine and shooting off guns rings harsh in my ears.  I would say that any new approvals in city planning have to include a collectively bargained contract for the workers no matter what kind of business.

 

So I know I cannot be the only one who feels that our community should take up our part in being responsible for this situation that the kink.com workers are in and start the conversation with them about where to go now.   Where do they want to go now?  I think its really important to be available to listen to concerns as a community.

 

The criminal charges against Peter are not really of that concern as most of us have had problems with Johnny Law, but there’s a question of the what could happen to him and what state will the business be left in or more to the immediate, what state is the business in now as the workers depend on it, the kink community vouched for it, the city approved it, with the haters are nipping at our heels always.  There’s more on the line here besides Peter’s status.  He might be able to buy his way out of his legal situation but to what end?  To go back to business as usual?  Is that what the workers want?  Is that what the community who stood up for kink.com that day in 2007 wants?

 

I hope that part of the conversation can include looking at models of unionization that includes a cooperative component as depicted in this article.   Sustainable Jobs, Sustainable Communities: The Union Co-Op Model   Its about the United Steel Workers and co-op hybrids coming together to create some new possibilities in our new economy that might apply to a fairly new industry.

 

 

I know the Lusty Ladies have had experience with these institution and how they  might relate to Kink.com especially considering  Kink.com has some interests now with the LL.  But that’s a topic for another blog….

 

Maxine

Erotic Service Providers Union

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Violent Feminsts

Posted by March 2, 2013

This whole debacle of calling out these perpetrator feminist types for their violence by stigma, their weapon of choice against us whores is getting really good.

Like the batterers they are, they’re consistent in their acts of violence when they retaliate for being called out for the actors of violence against our class in maintaining criminalization of prostitution.

Its just further evidence of their violent intentions to continue to pollute the public domain with their hate speech again and again with their made to order faux facts about us and our lot in this life.

 

Violence de-escalation training and anti oppression training is in order for us to help put their behavior in the right context.  Then hopefully, our class won’t feel the need to extend ourselves so civilly as to try to reason or educated them with the expectation they’ll stop hurting us.

 

How many times have battered peoples said that if they could just tell the abuser or who ever will listen, the effects of suffering from their bad treatment or try to confront the flawed logic used to justify their attitudes of indifference and denial of abuse in that hope that the violence might finally stop and but it never works out that way.

These types won’t ever stop their violence against us no matter what we say, no matter what do. Its a fact of life and no fake facts the likes of which they use to perpetuate negative stigma against us, are ever going to change this cycle.

 

But some people do change their minds.

We can see politicians changing their minds recently in a very public substantial way in these very last days before the high court decides key lawsuits on marriage equality.  Like  jumping off the imminent crazy train wreck at the last minute, politicos are abandoning these kinds archaic ideas only because they’ve lost or stand to loose elected positions and the subsequent fortunes that accompany them.  We even saw the mother of invention of john school change their minds during Proposition 35 in California and withdraw their endorsement of that menace legislation weeks before the election.  Even with the passing of the Violence Against Women Act, Sen. Leahy managed to added a provision to stop arresting minors for prostitution and substantially defund the imperialist Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons!

 

 

But the feminist types of which we rail against, they’ll never change their minds.  Saying they are for stopping arresting us while they’ve actively opposed legislation to do just that typifies their constant two faced antics. They won’t change their minds because they oppose our rights with the veracity of the religious zealots and the brute force of the police all of which they’ve aligned together to walk in goosestep.

 

The way to deal with them is similar to the way other oppressed groups, like LBGT and African Americans have dealt with the same systems of violence.  When the AIDS epidemic hit, anti sodomy, female impersonation and associating with homosexuals laws had been decriminalized for the most part and for parts that weren’t, the high court’s decisions eventually upheld privacy that dealt the death blow to the hold outs in this area.

Too, it took 100 years after emancipation to pass the civil rights act to finally name discrimination as an illegal act not only against those who are of color but gender too.

 

Since  we still suffer from having our labor and relationships criminalized in the anti prostitution laws and the subsequent discrimination, we have to start with were we are here in the US;  we must all focus our energies together to change these things in short order.

 

As far as dealing with public opinion, I suggest a truth and reconciliation commission convene itself as to fully expose the extend of the damage and corruption that criminalization and discrimination has brought.

 

And FYI, we’ll consider paying taxes 10 years after the last discrimination case has been litigated similar to how the Voting Rights Act mandates 10 years of uninterrupted compliance before restrictions on judicial review can be petitioned to be removed.  But in the meantime, feel free to ban the Dennis Hoff owned walmart brothel and enforce the laws already on the books; rape, robbery, extortion, coercion, theft, abduction, battery, fraud…solicitations for unprotected sex….murder.  I subscribe to the idea that if the workforce is made up of primarily women, then only women from that workforce can be hired by that said workforce in the capacity management.

 

Its okay to be overwhelmed and think, it’s such a tall order, we cannot possible go through with it, but no perfect magic pill can be taken to make it all go away.  Instead find some workable principals and adherence to them and re evaluate and be open to change but lets just start by stepping away from the wasting our time with the hater feminists.

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Feminist as Plantation Owner

Posted by February 7, 2013

In response to this ambivalence feminist’s quibbling about decriminalizing of my occupation.

Supporting Sex Workers’ Rights, Opposing the Buying of Sex

By Jill on 2.6.2013

Criminalizing prostitution is a form of sexual colonizations!
Too your thinking is flawed when you  correlate prostitute’s labor and with a wal mart worker’s labor.
Its not illegal to be a wal mart worker.  There are no wal mart worker sting operations to arrest wal mart workers for working as retail workers at wal mart.
We are not advocating to criminalize wal mart workers as a means to end exploitation on their job but feminist like you are in fact advocating directly to keep prostitution criminalized as a means to end exploitation on our job because YOU cannot figure it how to regulate my occupation without my permission in a way that doesn’t bother you.  I’d say-YOU are the plantation owner.

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Proof of Feminst Women’s Violence Against Prostitutes

Posted by February 6, 2013

I have to challenge the women who promote the idea that they are not directly involved in violence against prostitutes.  Regardless of if  they believe that we’re all poor women of color and that’s why we work as prostitutes, we still  must  hold them accountable for the policies of criminalization of our occupation, the basis of violence, of which they support.  Since the author below has made such false and misleading statements in this article, I challenged her and other like her to face the reality of their role in the cycle of violence against our class that she and her heroes are actually responsible for.

There is no feminist war on sex workers

| February 4, 2013

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/feminist-current/2013/02/there-no-feminist-war-sex-workers

The author states that her heroes in life like Gloria Steinem, are not for arresting prostitutes because they see us as victims.  The author’s point, in this article, is to dispute another article by Melissa Gira Grant, who states that the feminist are actually in bed with the police and religious extremists who are actively bringing the violence to us prostitutes.

The War on Sex Workers

An unholy alliance of feminists, cops, and conservatives hurts women in the name of defending their rights.

http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/21/the-war-on-sex-workers/singlepage

 

Ms Murphy’s statement that we, the pro sex worker activists, are making up stories about how she and other women who say they’re about ending violence against us are really about continuing to criminalize prostitutes which is clearly a form of violence that has to be exposed.

Being arrested is a form of violence,

being put out of work is a form of economic violence,

having the police have sexual contact with us in the course of a prostitution sting operation and then arrest us for prostitution is a form of violence,

being forced into those shame based sex negative diversion programs or risk being prosecuted is a form of coercion-a form of violence,

being sentenced to give our labor for free in performing community service hours for prostitution convictions is a form of violence..

Not having access to our free speech, our first amendment right to negotiate for our own labor and safe work condition is a form of violence!

Not having the right to equal protection under the law because our occupation is criminalized is a form of violence.

My response to this author is this:

 

Dear Ms M. I wish to respond to your statement, “It is both unproductive and dishonest to claim that feminists advocate to criminalize prostituted women, as one of the few things feminists and those who advocate to end violence against prostitutes can agree on is that decriminalizing prostituted women is key.”
I have the ballot argument that Gloria Steinem signed to opposing San Francisco’s 2008 Proposition K that would have decriminalized prostitution. Would you like to see it? I also have a photo of fake researcher Melissa Farley holding a ‘no on prop k’ sign. Too, you are aware that an Ontario Superior Court Judge could only give little weight to her testimony because of her political position? There is plenty of evidence that your heroes have actively supported the continued criminalization of prostitution, my occupation, thereby supporting the war on the whores. I look forward to you response.

 

Here is the PDF of Gloria Steinem’s support in opposing the San Francisco 2008 ballot measure Proposition K that was printed in the voter information guide.  Prop K would have stopped arresting prostitutes and thereby stopping the primary violence against prostitutes.  She also notes in this statement that she opposed Berkeley’s Measure Q, a similar effort to stop the criminalization of prostitutes. She like others who’s names are listed in the documents, have continued to use their  class privilege to perch and preach from their Ivory towers the  very policies that are their preferred weapon of violence against prostitutes-Criminalization, incarceration, jail, shame bases sex negative psychological counseling.

CON Doc page 2

 

And here are other ballot arguments opposing ending the criminalization of prostitution signed by others who say they’re against violence.  7 paid opposed

 

 

Here is a photo of the fake researcher campaigning against Prop K.   Melissa Farley one of the leading American Feminist Scholars leading the push to criminalize all sex commerce on the grounds that prostitution is a form of personal violence that violates the personhood and human rights of “prostituted women,” was disqualified as a expert witness by an Ontario Superior Court Judge Himel who stated that: “Dr. Farley’s choice of language is at times inflammatory and detracts from her conclusions. . . Dr. Farley stated during cross-examination that some of her opinions on prostitution were formed prior to her research. . . For these reasons, I assign less weight to Dr. Farley’s evidence.”

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Fake Researcher with campaign sign.

Fake Researcher with campaign sign.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Feminist Idea of Equality?

Posted by February 5, 2013

 

Equal protection comes in many forms.  One form is when we are victims of violence we, like anyone else have access to the Victims Compensation Fund as it’s called here in California.

How ever, California State regulation  649.56 states that victims can and are precluded from access the fund if those injuries occurred in the course of working as a prostitute.

http://www.vcgcb.ca.gov/law/regs.aspx

 

California State regulation  649.56. Involvement in the Qualifying Crime of Prostitution:

Involvement in the events leading to the qualifying crime of prostitution by the victim may be found if the victim was:

 

*  Engaged in activity related to prostitution.

*  The qualifying crime occurred as a direct result of the activity related to prostitution.

 

Activity related to prostitution includes, but is not limited to the following:

 

*  Soliciting or participating in the solicitation of an act of prostitution.

*  Purchasing or participating in the purchase of an act of prostitution.

*  Engaging in an act of prostitution.

*  Pimping as defined in California Penal Code, section 266h.<http://calvcpmanual.vcgcb.ca.gov/Codes/pc266h.txt>

*  Pandering as defined in California Penal Code, section 266i.<http://calvcpmanual.vcgcb.ca.gov/Codes/pc266i.txt>

 

Where are is the outrage from those women who claim to be against violence when prostitutes, who they consider only as victims, are denied access to the Victims Compensation Fund?

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