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LETTER TO AVN

Dear AVN: I wanted to bring your attention to the petition against the Cupcake Girls. https://www.change.org/p/the-cupcake-girls-portland-stop-stigmatizing-sex-workers/u/7808020 There seems to be some problems associated with them. First of all, they're spreading "mis-information" by stating that "strippers aren't able to find jobs outside of stripping if they have a prostitution conviction on their record". That's just not true. Not only have we been placing women in jobs with prostitution convictions in both Las Vegas and Portland for years now, if you walk into any employment agency in Vegas they have a list of employers who will hire you with a record of some kind - along with a very very short list of those who won't.   Essentially the only crimes where you can't find work in Nevada pretty much is if you have a violence charge or a fraud charge. Anything else - I've seen people with drug running charges hired for jobs

OPEN LETTER TO ANNIE LOBERT, ALICE JAY, SHELLEY LUBBEN & JOY HOOVER

This is exactly what the devil/disease wants by whatever name you want to call it -  in the story where Christ went into the mountains He was tested.  He was tested how?  With money, fame, power, and even with the idea of being God himself when Satan told Him "throw yourself off the mountain and let your Angels come to save you". What did Christ do?  He resisted temptation and then went seeking his disciples where he then TAUGHT.  He found Mary being about to be stoned to death and didn't say to her "I'm going to love you where you're at".  No.  He said "go and sin no more".  Then what?  She followed Him.  As she was puttering around in the kitchen - He then told her "come over here and sit and learn with me".   His band of disciples then went out and did what? Did Christ ask the people to come up with the bread and fishes when there wasn't enough to feed the people?  Or did He create enough?  God is the source of whatever our

LETTER TO KELLY HOUSE ABOUT THE CUPCAKE GIRLS

We found this letter in response to Kelly House's article on the Cupcake Girls.   http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-31998-stripper_responds_to_kelly_house_of_the_oregonian_i_am_no_mary_magdalene.html   My daughter read it by the way who has grown up around sex workers and said "let me get this straight - they sit around the club and get paid without taking their clothes off - boy have they got a hustle going.  Shame they're taking away tips from the ones taking their clothes off or tending bar for living."    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRSawe33sA   Got to hand it to you Joy - you found a way to get tips with your clothes on as my daughter says! Look folks Joy married a Christian.  He clearly wanted her out of the business.  She had a baby and can't shake her ass for money any longer but clearly can't leave the lights and music behind.  In AA - they call it a dry drunk.  She's just found a new way to hustle in the club with her clothes on.   Here

OPEN LETTER TO EVERY DAY VICTIM BLAMING

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Believe me I understand your frustration and where you're coming from. Especially when it comes to the issue of language. As you can imagine, language was a very difficult issue we also had when forming the 12 step program that we formed in 1987. We had to call ourselves as a group something. Alcoholics Anonymous was for alcoholics who had the disease of alcoholism. They identify as “alcoholics” in their meetings. However, in Narcotics Anonymous they do not identify as “narcotics” in the meeting. They identify personally as “addicts” because they suffer from the disease of addiction. So why not call themselves “Addiction Anonymous”? Well for one thing the program was founded in 1956. The disease had not been officially recognized as a disease at that time. The reason why they chose to use the term “narcotics” in the title of their program was because they felt that it defined that both prescription drugs as well as street drugs, in other words, any “narcotics” was

LETTER TO TORONTO STAR ABOUT SEX TRAFFICKING ARTICLE

In response to this article -  http://projects.thestar.com/human-sex-trafficking-ontario-canada/   I sent their editors this letter for publication in their editorial section: Dear Canadian Media: I know you probably don't know who I am from Adam and there's a reason for that.  I'm writing you to see what I can do to change that and explain.  Catch this clip from "Enter the Dragon" with Bruce Lee in 1973.   http://www.movieclips.com/videos/enter-the-dragon-official-clip-master-fighter-510741059967  I need to get the rest of that scene - but you can see this jail cell with men in this clip.  The men are human trafficking victims.  After they show the men, they show a white girl, not an Asian girl mind you, but a white girl, who is being drugged and clearly being prepped for sex trafficking.  In Elvis "Harum Holiday" he's also trying to rescue a woman from sex trafficking.  Only we didn't have the word "sex trafficking" back in those