April Would.

The penalty on paying would apply when a sex act involves physical contact between the person paying and a sex worker or when it involves a sex worker "touching themselves for the sexual gratification of the other person." The touching provision doesn't seem to include any exceptions for instances when the performance is done digitally, which could make it illegal to pay someone putting on a webcam show or to directly pay a performer for a clip. The punishment for paying for sexual activity or paying to watch someone masturbate would also be up to 10 years in prison.

Ten years in prison for tipping a cam model to masturbate.

The Crime and Policing Bill is working overtime to re-criminalize sex work ... which I guess will give them crime and more funds for policing.

Your semi-annual reminder that the best way to actually honor deceased veterans is to stop making so damned many of them.

Sex worker doesn't work as a joke because it's an inherently humanizing term, unlike hooker or prostitute.

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Somebody asked me if I've been reading anything exciting lately, and all I could think to say was Narrow Rooms by James Purdy, so that guy's got a wild ride ahead of him.

Reminder you can use this image any time they try to show you ai slop

Reading transgressive queer horror fiction to show my support for representation while also shaking my head to show that I disapprove of transgressive queer horror fiction

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

We did it for you Dick Cheney

The Thin Line Between Phobia and Fetish Or what the hell is submechanophobia?

Reposted from my old blog. An oldie, but a goodie.

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New York just elected a mayor who supports trans people, unions, and sex workers. I have nothing witty to say. I’m happy.

I hope everyone on Mamdani’s campaign team gets this printed on commemorative t-shirts

Zohran literally just quoted Spider-man (2002) and I am here for it 😊

THATS FUCKING RIGHT NEW YORK CITY BABY

The Captain America sit down and shoot straight meme. I made it say: So, you said you're going to leave New York.

Mamdani just explicitly shouted out the trans community in his victory speech in saying that NYC stands with them

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

“Certain vague and strange sensations visited me in my sleep. The prevailing one was of that pleasant, peculiar cold thrill we feel while bathing, when we move against the current of a river."
-Carmilla, JS Le Fanu

Happy Halloween!

How I Almost Killed a Plant and the breakdown it didn't cause

Challenged myself to write a quick and easy piece from scratch in under two hours inspired by work and life.

(Featuring art by my current hyperfixation, Hilma af Klint, born October 26, 1862).

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There's No Such Thing as Vanilla so don't freak out about it

Behold! New substack! open.substack.com/pub/aprilwou...

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

I should be forbidden from waking up early because now I'm just blasting the Jekyll & Hyde soundtrack

the idea of antifa paying protesters is so funny. if i wanted to get paid to destroy the government i’d run for congress

Everything makes sense now.

Sounds like a man who doesn't give a shit about his child and just wants to punish his ex.

Gentlemen, I beg your indulgence. Who are fictional literary women you find bewitching / attractive / erotic? They can be from any genre as long as it's literature (comics and manga don't count; they're also visual media). There can be movie/comic adaptations, but they must be primarily literary.

Fairy tale that has stuck with you?

Changing my NiteFlirt listing to "eligible, but scandalous."