“Martin, a 30-year-old Miami native with high cheekbones and a thin chin-strap goatee, rose from the two old chairs he’d pushed together to make a bed, brushed his teeth, and picked up a can of black spray paint. He used it to write just one word, which is still emblazoned—in giant letters—on the concrete embankment below the Julia Tuttle: why?” – Details magazine on the makeshift settlement of sex offenders under a bridge in Miami.
Melissa Gira Grant on why a rape survivor might take her case to YouTube rather than the authorities, “when less than 5 percent of rape cases ever make it to prosecution in Crystal’s home state, including her own, a girl might want a broader audience for her outrage.”
“Most people think that civil assets forfeiture only happens in drug related cases [and that] it’s only after the person has been convicted that they can take the property. Oh no, they take it right up front. They froze all of my assets on October 4 of last year. They stripped me bare.” – Deborah Jeane Palfrey in an interview with $pread. Let’s hope the sad news of her death brings attention to this outrageously unnecessary federal intervention. More on Bound, Not Gagged
“Late last week there were several busts of professional BDSM dungeons here in NYC …which leaves the question: what is ’sex’? How broadly can it be defined? And if a broad definition is used, does this mean that a hell of a lot more acts could be classified as prostitution?” – Naked City
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