Every single time SMH

Rep. Josh Schriver, the Republican currently pushing to ban porn in Michigan, used his email to register for account on the adult site Fling, the “world’s best casual personals for adult dating, sex, and swingers.”

Mr. "The Mouth and Anus Are Not Sex Organs" may have some explaining to do.

Heads up, y'all.

It seems that maybe this site is using your images to train AI?

Personal security question as sadly running Ugly Mugs means I'm constantly being threatened by violent men. Does anyone know of a good parcel box? I need a way to receive packages too big to fit through a letterbox, without my having to open the door.

This image is so true. And huge thanks to all the people, many anonymous and thus uncredited, who give their time and energy selflessly to the thankless and difficult task of trying to talk to these people. I see your hard work and respect you for it greatly 🙌

What Needs to Change
If the goal is protection, the path forward is clear: decriminalize sex work and expunge related records. Redirect funding from policing to harm reduction, housing, and survivor-led support systems. Build policies that prioritize equity and justice over punishment and stigma.

By criminalizing sex work, authorities claimed they were “rescuing” women, when in reality they were expanding police power and reinforcing racial and gender hierarchies. This framing has endured, recycled in modern anti-trafficking campaigns, zoning ordinances, and “end demand” policies.

Where This Myth Comes From
The idea that criminalization protects has roots in moral panic and state control. Beginning with “White Slavery” campaigns of the early 1900s, reformers used fear of sexual exploitation to justify laws targeting immigrants, poor women, and women of color.

Criminalization leaves sex workers, survivors, and children more vulnerable. Instead of functioning as a shield, these laws become weapons that drive people deeper into danger.

Black, Indigenous, migrant, and trans sex workers are targeted, and criminal records become lifelong barriers.

On the surface, this framing feels persuasive because it appeals to morality and fear: who wouldn’t want to “protect” women, children, and marginalized people? But in practice, the exact opposite is true.

Criminalization is wielded most harshly against the very communities it claims to safeguard

Myth: Criminalization Protects Vulnerable People

This myth frames laws against sex work as protective shields for vulnerable populations. It suggests that arrests, raids, and crackdowns are acts of compassion—that by criminalizing sex work, the state is keeping people safe from exploitation.

this is why lD verification is the wrong move, to be resisted at every turn: the stewards of that data are not savvy or sophisticated enough to keep it secure.

business guys can't protect shit

oh. right.

"If history teaches us anything, these projects of moral and social purity are doomed to fail... But the costs of these panics—censorship, stigma, surveillance and state-sanctioned discrimination and violence—are borne by real people whose freedoms and dignities are stripped in the process."

"Due to various circumstances like recent restrictions from payment processors and the changing online landscape, our team has found it difficult to continue.

With saddened hearts, we plan to close Manga Planet’s digital service at the end of March 2026."

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Oops looks like someone tried to find a payment processor

My bad Twitch, didn't realize sex education material was banned. tf

In Ohio, starting on Monday 9/29, we'll be implementing an age assurance solution similar to what we're doing in South Dakota and Wyoming. Read more here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

There's a lot to be said about the way many DV services receive funding from the DOJ and VOCA (victims of crime act) and how the financial entanglement of these services with the criminal justice system is not ideal and how one can care deeply about survivors and also reject the carceral system 1/11

"Passing ineffective law to satiate the public breeds contempt for the law and the political process. It also deters efforts to find solutions that really will work. Having already passed a law, the politicians can move on to the next thing, even though the law in question is ineffective."

Surprise. The Online Safety Act is only pushing people to worse corners of the internet.

To combat the fact that their surveillance law is a failure, Labour proposes revamping school curriculum focused on digital literacy, which is what they should have been doing all along.

The tide may be turning. "Educated We Stand," a national counterpoint to the pro-censorship group Moms For Liberty, says it had a 78% win rate in school board races nationwide last year.

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