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We don’t have any big plans for New Year’s Eve; we’ve both got little colds, but that’s not why we’re not doing any partying — we *never* really do any partying. I’m looking forward to a Very Sober New Year.

My main focus today and tomorrow is to relax and start the new year out right (by being RELAXED and FOCUSED). I find it totally bizarre that so many other people like to start out their new year by making themselves sick — I want to start it out feeling energized, not depleted. Seriously: it makes more sense and sounds more appealing to me to spend these two days housecleaning (which you all know I hate) than getting shitfaced or socializing.

My main project for today (and the upcoming week or two) is continuing to work on a redesign for my site (which is actually like THREE new designs since there’s one for the members-only area, one for the free area, and one for affiliates to promote; actually, make that FOUR since I want to make the blog match the new look a little bit, too).

I have a very small list of things that MIGHT be called “resolutions”, but only a couple of them are things that will be immediately visible and, I hope, appreciated by fans. The main thing? I resolve to wear clothes I actually LIKE more often rather than drag-assing around wearing stuff that doesn’t even make me happy. Translation = I’ll be “sexier” on our spycams. Notice I didn’t say “I resolve to wear less clothing” or “I resolve to stop wearing clothes on cam”. This is about quality, not quantity (though I will attempt to display more cleavage and/or more form-fitting tops to show off my Big Boobs better).

I’m also starting 2008 with health insurance and saying goodbye to six years of being uninsured. I have my doubts about whether or not this is actually a good/worthwhile thing, but I guess since it already is making some friends and family feel relieved and less worried that it’s a good thing.

Most people would say the small town where I grow up is one of those safe, cozy, little enclaves of cow pastured country-living. They would be surprised that six people could be murdered there day-before-yesterday on Christmas Eve.

I’m not surprised at all. I never felt like my town was safe, in fact I always felt LESS safe there than I have in any of the places I’ve lived since, including crime-riddled areas of Tacoma. I’ve no idea why people would imagine that a small town is somehow immune to this stuff, particularly when it’s family-style stuff. Why would a girl’s boyfriend be less likely to kill her whole family in a small town than in a big city? Somehow it seems MORE likely in a small town, but that’s just my own personal feeling about it.

The weird part of it is that when I look at those pictures in the slideshow accompanying the article on the murders, I actually feel homesick. Not in the sense that I wish I still lived there, but sick with recognition and the knowledge that no other landscape or location will ever feel or look or smell like home to me the way that does. I look at those pictures and know “that is where I am FROM”. My roots are literally two towns away from Twin Peaks.

It’s not that I was afraid of being randomly murdered there, it’s that there seemed to be a disproportionate amount of violence so that everyone seemed infected by it without acknowledging they were carriers. You know the faces of really mean people in a small town and you know that if one or two of them decide to hate you, you aren’t ever going to be able to hide or get lost in a crowd. On top of that, my entire childhood and teenage life was filled with current news of our famous neighbors, Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer; it’s like we were constantly driving through and swimming with their victims’ ghosts.

Long story short? Violent crime doesn’t surprise me; it’s too much a part of the local lore I grew up on. Woods were never just woods to me, they were always potential dumping grounds and they were EVERYWHERE.

If you’re wondering whether or not I knew the victims, the answer is “no”. No doubt I’d recognize the post office lady (and I’m sure my mom does know her) but none of them are family friends or anything.

Thanks for the heads-up on this story, Birdman.

Update: Here’s another clue as to why I don’t think small-town life is safe; in this more-recent article (or maybe they just updated the old one since it’s the same link I posted before) that describes more of the possible motive we also find out that the cops were too unconcerned to bother with the locked gate after a 911 call:

A 911 call was actually placed from the house at about 5:15 p.m. Monday, around the time of the killing. But responding deputies investigating the hang-up call apparently turned back after finding the gate at the home locked, according to Sheriff’s Office reports . . . . The emergency operator who took the call heard yelling in the background, but no voices.

“Heard a lot of yelling in the background,” wrote the call taker in a note to a dispatcher. “Sounded more like party noise than angry heated arguing.”

The first two patrol cars available were dispatched to the property minutes later, and the operator made two calls to the residence but the phone went to voice mail each time, Urquhart said. Both responding deputies arrived at the scene at about 5:45 p.m. only to find that a locked gate prevented them from accessing the property.

What the fuck? It wasn’t an armed fortress with a motherfucking moat. Having had our own experiences with lackadaisical cops I have to say that I don’t have the utmost faith in their ability to save the day. What the fuck more do you need to have than a 911 call during the holidays to get your ass out of your patrol car and walk onto the property? I guess it wouldn’t have changed a whole lot in this case, but whatever. It’s not the kind of action that breeds a strong sense of security in a community. On top of it taking a long time for the county cops to get to places outside city limits you have to wonder what they’ll do once they finally arrive.

One of the best gifts I could ever get for Christmas is a job well done: work I am happy to look at and share with other people. For this shoot I got to dress up in snowy ice queen garb, all while enjoying our fabulous pink tree. I got to incorporate three things I’ve had tucked away in hiding far too long: the silvery Diab’less leopard-print coat I paid “too much” for (and now must insist that I wear instead of leaving it hanging unloved in the closet for months on end), long PVC gloves and those whorey bosslady heels. And I am in LOVE with how pale my skin is to the point of looking bluish:

I’m especially thankful for Delia who not only takes my pictures and all that jazz, but puts up with my bullshit. She was really tired yesterday but got everything set up for the shoot AND endured me freaking out because I couldn’t find my black waist cincher and insisted she go look for it amongst her own garb. Of course, it was in one of MY drawers, exactly where I first looked for it; I just didn’t dig quite deep enough. My hissy fit could have cast a pall over the entire operation, but instead I wound up having a grand time and we captured a great set of photos to share with our members for Christmas. Yay!

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I made a lot of appointments this week to take care of things we’ve been neglecting. We both got our hair done (roots be gone!) AND went to the dentist. Neither of us has been in over five years; we’ve given our dog better dental attention than ourselves. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I have a whole bunch of cavities that need to be filled. Once upon a time I was obsessive about brushing my teeth (I think I only had one tiny cavity/filling until I was out of high school) but not so much anymore; our estimate for work needed is over three thousand dollars between the two of us.

I also used some of my personal webwhore earnings to get not one, but TWO massages. I found the most promising (yet least expensive) advertised therapists and gave them a whirl that was WELL worth the $100 I spent for 2.5 hours of blissful therapeutic touch. More on that later, though. I’m going to take a bath, then put the finishing touches on this gallery for members.

After my rant about ending violence against sex workers, here’s a hysterical bit from Extras featuring Clive Owen (it’s about prostitutes and actresses):

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Taken out of the context of the show, it probably wouldn’t be funny to me if we weren’t already fans of Ricky Gervais. Too scary-true.

Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Here are some of my thoughts on why violence against sex workers happens and some suggestions for helping to end it:

Violence against sex workers boils down to two things: a woman who demands money for sex is a woman who is saying NO to sex without money. For all of our fancy talk and progress, our society STILL does not wholly support women’s right to say NO. Our problem is not just with women charging money for sex, our problem is with women SAYING NO to sex with men unless the men meet conditions set by women.

We still do not wholeheartedly agree that women own their own bodies. We still do not wholeheartedly agree that women should have the right to determine the circumstances under which we choose to allow people access to our bodies. We still think that one woman’s individual sexuality is responsible for wreaking havoc on men’s behavior, on other women’s happiness, and on children everywhere. We still blame individual women’s sexual agency for bringing about the downfall of all that’s good for the Christians’ cause, for the feminists’ cause and for unraveling the the moral fabric of society. We still believe women shouldn’t be allowed to capitalize on natural resources the way that men do — we fear the complete disintegration of order in our society if women are allowed to openly capitalize on and dominate the biggest demand in the marketplace.

Violence against sex workers is all about refusing women the right to NOT consent to sex; this refusal is RAPE. We’re all (as a society) accessories to rape by not supporting sex worker rights.

Violence against sex workers is violence against women. Violence against sex workers is often an act of angry insistence that women are of no value except what men, their brainwashed handmaidens, certain hysterically irrational feminists, and society place on them or allow them to be, and that a woman who values her body enough to deny someone access to it unless they provide her with money or material compensation is a woman who has stepped so far out of line that she deserves to be punished or committed to the care of Concerned Women who insist no woman in her right and undamaged mind could have chosen sex work willingly.

Gary Ridgeway, The Green River Killer, did not just target prostitutes because he knew crimes against people who work the streets are harder to solve; that makes it sound like he would have been happy killing just about ANYbody when that’s not the whole truth. He didn’t want to and never did kill homeless veterans or women who consented to having sex with him for free. Gary Ridgeway said, “I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex.” That hatred of sex workers and the belief that charging money for sex is loathsome, unjustifiable, immoral, indecent, “devalues” women (the most absurd charge of all), and/or somehow dirties or corrupts a society that would otherwise be asexual outside of the bonds of married love or male ownership permeates our culture and is not unique to serial killers. Gary Ridgeway was able to talk openly with his neighbors about his desire to exterminate prostitutes without them batting a fucking eyelash; chances are you yourself have tolerated similar hate speech without objection when you would certainly have responded differently had the target of the hatred been twelve year old Catholic schoolgirls or boy scouts or soccer moms.

When people say that women’s bodies and sex are SO VALUABLE and precious that it’s taboo to put a real dollar amount on sex acts, they are talking irrational, brainwashed rubbish, pure and simple. Violence against sex workers is not so much about women charging money for sex as it is about women having the right to WITHHOLD sex and to define the terms under which they will CONSENT to sex. Any of us who deny sex workers the right to set the terms of consent is effectively denying ALL WOMEN their right to consent or not consent to sex. Do not tell me or any other woman that she can only have sex when she loves someone or is attracted to someone or is sex-positively horny for someone or is in the politely prized possession of a husband. Do not tell me or any other woman that she is “too good” to work in the one industry that women naturally should dominate. Do not tell me or any other woman that it’s more respectable to do ANYTHING for money other than turn a trick. All of that bullshit is part of the the same belief system that claps people on the back who perpetrate violence against sex workers and says, “what you did to her? SHE’S A PIECE OF GARBAGE AND SHE FUCKING ASKED FOR IT.” And that? That’s part of the same belief system that enables violence against ALL women. It’s also part of the same belief system that leaves women in helping professions like teaching, nursing, and mothering grossly underpaid and overworked: because women should not do the most important jobs in the world for MONEY, we should do them for LOVE. You know what that I call that? A BIG FAT CROCK OF SHIT.

If that’s not enough for you to think about, here are some suggestions for behavior I think would go a long way in changing this mindset that promotes violence against all women via endorsing violence against sex workers/subverting sex workers’ rights:

*Don’t sit in mute and complicit witness when your friends, coworkers, acquaintances, partners, etc. use hateful speech against women and sex workers. Use peer pressure by expressing disapproval of expressions of hostility towards sex workers. Challenge them to rethink their prejudices. Tell them they sound like crazy fucking assholes. Tell them you don’t want to hear that shit and walk away from them. Just do *something* instead of accepting that it’s okay. Even if they respond initially with belligerence or defensiveness, it will give them food for thought and make them think twice the next time they feel like saying that. Anything you can do to break down the assumption that prostitutes and sex workers are “fair game” is a step in the right direction.

*Never, EVER, shortchange a sex worker, refuse to pay a sex worker after receiving service, demand or force a sex worker provide services she doesn’t want or hasn’t agreed to, or tolerate someone bragging who does any of those things. Stealing service from a sex worker IS RAPE. Also, make sure our justice system knows that assaulting or forcing a sex worker to perform or endure sex acts without meeting her (or his) terms and conditions IS RAPE, not some lesser charge (read this story for an example).

*Buy time with a sex worker. Pay your sex worker with the same respect and appreciation you give any other person who provides you with service. Hell, pay your sex worker with GREATER respect and appreciation than you’d give other service providers because sex workers do their work at greater social costs and legal risks. Act as proud of supporting your favorite sex workers as you are proud of supporting your favorite record store, restaurant, mechanic, or chiropractor.

*Let people know you support sex workers, and have the balls to say that you proudly patronize sex workers (if you do). Be vocal in your support for sex workers’ rights. Let people know you think sex work is a valuable service and that women own their own bodies, are capable of making their own decisions about what to do with them, and should not be denied the right to set the conditions (and prices) to access them under their own terms. Insist that NO ONE — not the government, not other women, not their husbands or boyfriends or jealous stalkers, and not their customers — should tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her own body, either for free or for money.

*Think critically about sex work and prevailing attitudes towards sex workers. Question media portrayals of sex work, and
do so OUT LOUD to get other people thinking and talking about it too. Ask yourself whether or not your positions on sex worker rights are consistent with your other positions on women and women’s rights (example: if you believe no one should interfere in a woman’s right to an abortion, why is it okay to interfere with her right to charge someone money to touch or be touched by her?).

*Recognize and publicize that not all sex work is the same while also acknowledging sex work for what it is, wherever it is (in many marriages, for example). DO NOT equate sexual slavery with sex work performed by consent. Feminists: don’t get all hysterical and irrational by insisting that all sex work is intrinsically bad; it’s horrible when women and girls are kidnapped, forced to act as sex slaves, are raped, assaulted and killed but you just sound like fucking morons with your inability to separate those crimes from sex work done by women who CHOOSE to do it on their own terms. EVERYTHING A WOMAN DOES WITH HER BODY OR INVITES SOMEONE ELSE TO DO WITH HER BODY SHOULD BE DONE ON HER OWN INDIVIDUAL TERMS. It is unacceptable for anyone, man or woman, to set those terms for another woman (or man).

*Read about sex work, sex worker rights, womens’ rights and feminism (from as many sources/voices as possible). Be open-minded. Be rational. Decide what’s right for you and let other people decide what is right for themselves. Understand that sex worker rights are a gender issue and educate yourself about other gender issues. Do what you can to understand and prevent rape (that’s right, ESPECIALLY if you are a guy).

*Let your elected representatives, local law enforcement and government agencies know that you support sex worker rights and that discrimination against sex workers is intolerable and counterproductive. Have arguments handy that illustrate the perverse double standards used to regulate socially acceptable industries vs. the sex industry. Learn what a “victimless crime” is and do not tolerate people trying to turn bullshit abstractions into crime. Write to the media and complain when you read or hear biased reporting on sex work-related stories.

*Demand higher wages for ALL work traditionally viewed as “women’s” work: mothering, caretaking, nursing, teaching and WHORING.

*Support womens’ right to reject men. It is crucial to women’s right to choose that they be allowed to choose other women as mates and be given the same rights and privileges that heterosexual partners enjoy. Women should not have to insist that they didn’t “choose” to be queer and that it was all decided biologically. Lesbians should not be obligated to soothe ruffled feathers by promising that they really love and appreciate men, just not in that “special” way (even if it’s true). Stopping violence against women mostly means stopping men from perpetrating that violence, and the first step in doing that is insisting that men are not ENTITLED to our bodies. The second step is making everyone believe it. We do not need to make excuses for saying no and those of us who DO say no (whether by not having sex with men, not shacking up with men, or by specifying the conditions under which they will have sex and/or specify the TYPE of sex they will have with men) should not be punished for it.

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Here are posts on the same subject by Audacia Ray and Seska.

Anyone else with posts on the subject can provide links in comments.

A few precious moments from one of my webcam shows on Friday:

Delia had a sperm deposit to make in Seattle on Thursday. On our way to catch the ferry, we stopped for Chicken McNuggets on Bainbridge Island. I went inside quickly while Delia waited in the car and thought I saw an old familiar face of someone I fucked (and adored) years ago: Brian the Cop. I only saw him briefly out of the corner of my eye sitting at a table in back with some other men and dismissed the feeling of recognition to hurry and fill up our pop and get on our way so we wouldn’t miss our boat. When I went back outside and noticed a police car with K-9 Unit written all over it, I realized it really must have been him and became GIDDY remembering how senselessly attracted I was to him.

This past year I’ve thought a lot about my promiscuous post-divorce adventures and the guys I met through a mutual interest in sex. I’ve thought about how they were all pretty decent fellows and that I was lucky to cross paths with them. I’ve thought about how unfairly mean and dismissive I was to some of them in my retarded early blog posts. I didn’t have much in common with most of them, but I did like them and I feel even more fond of them now that they’re cute little memories I can wonder about and wish well from a distance.

As I get older, I also feel guiltier and more conscious of some things I’ve done (or failed to do) that were idiotic, insensitive, unforgivably horrid, self-indulgent and/or just plain embarrassing. In fact, just the day or two before the Brian sighting I was spanking myself internally with mortification over the memory of how my retarded and unjustifiable infatuation with Brian the Cop led me to make my sorta-girlfriend at the time cry. I was inexcusably mean and stupid, and I enjoyed the whole fantastically dramatic mess.

Seeing him again, albeit fleetingly, made me forgive myself. He’s stupid, I’m stupid — we’re all stupid. And beautiful. It doesn’t matter what a goon the guy was, it WORKED for me and it’s just not human to deny that some people electrify your insides in spite of how wrong they are for you. I’m thankful I never got the chance to completely ruin my life over someone like that and feel blessed that I got to enjoy the silly thrill of it all.

He was 6′4″ and his penis was on the small side. He was a premature ejaculator and he had this song playing on his website. He was big and hairy and ridiculous and I loved every lie he told me. When I expressed interest in humping his assault rifle, he followed through and brought it over for me. Though I loved seeing its sexy blackness laying on my bed, I had to admit with disappointment that it wasn’t designed for humping and that his hand and small penis were much better suited to my genitals.

I grinned like an idiot all the way to the ferry terminal and chuckled to myself over the bad fucking joke of it all. While we waited for the boat to arrive, Delia left the car to go to the bathroom and I looked around the holding area wondering if I’d see Brian jump out with one of his big German Shepherds to sniff out drugs and terrorists. I wanted to see him again without him seeing me.

I got distracted from thoughts of Brian when I saw a beautiful brunette woman in the distance and immediately felt a pang of attraction, that “WHO is THAT?!?” moment, before realizing a split second later that I actually knew her, too!

It was Delia coming back from the bathroom. Lucky, lucky, lucky times three (billion) because that woman in the distance is my girlfriend and it’s no accident she’s walking towards me.

Our cable internet connection went down (and most of our spycams with it) about fifteen minutes ago so I’ve been on hold ever since trying to find out what the deal is. Apparently some change they made that was supposed to be transparent to customers wasn’t so transparent. They have to send a signal to our modem to get it working again, but because of how many people are affected there are loads of signals trying to get out so it COULD TAKE FOUR OR FIVE HOURS before ours goes through.

And they don’t have any way of prioritizing business accounts like ours over regular ones, SO the only cams we’ll be able to broadcast until it gets back up are our Rude cams which we run from our DSL machine.

Eventually I will get a wireless router for the DSL modem and wireless for our other machines so we can switch to the DSL connection when this happens, but for now we’re a little stuck, which sucks since a bunch of our cams were down last night, too since a bunch of our machines auto-updated overnight. Blargh.

A comment from a viewer (SonicSanta) to me during a webcam show I did on one of the big cam networks yesterday:

“Your morose demeanor and wan speech patterns are highly alluring.”

Mmmmm, that’s me — alluringly wan and morose!

I couldn’t help being delighted by SonicaSanta’s remark even though I don’t think I was particularly morose yesterday and suspect it wasn’t intended to be a genuine compliment (though it might be if he’s a Tim Burton fan). I’ll have to analyze the archived video to determine whether or not my speech patterns were wan.

SonicSanta later decided my “alluring” behavior can be attributed to me living in the Pacific Northwest.