“To a degree, these activists are right; a whore is a whore is a whore, and legal, moral or procedural lines serve only to break people into smaller groups which are more easily dominated by the power-hungry. If you accept money from someone that he gives due to sexual interest in you, then you are a whore and everything else is just semantics.” Sex Work Book:The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan" Source: The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan"
“Meanwhile, Hawaiian politicians tried to make up for lost time by officially granting cops the “right” to rape sex workers by spelling the permission out in the text of the new prostitution law. When a legislator discovered this provision in 2015 and rewrote the law to scrap it, the cops demanded that their decades-old droit du seigneur remain in place, and it probably would’ve had not the media gotten hold of the story and a public outcry not ensued. Now there’s a movement to decriminalize sex work there, which might at last free Hawaiian whores from the tender mercies of cops.” CopsPolice Force Book:The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan" Source: The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I: Collected Essays from "The Honest Courtesan"