10/10/20 the increasingly severe rhetoric of US laws about youth sexuality

Here is the link to my October 10, 2020, Twitter thread, where I list some documents I'd already studied, and some documents I haven't yet studied, that point to a transition in US law, from calling illicit youth sexuality "delinquency," to calling it "exploitation," and eventually, while still calling it "exploitation," linking it under the heading of "human trafficking" in a wide variety of situations.

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9/20/20 review of Kimberly Hamlin article on age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 20, 2020, Twitter thread reaction to Kimberly Hamlin's Smithsonian Magazine article "What Raising the Age of Consent Taught Women About the Vote."

In this article, from as recent as August of 2020, Hamlin literally becomes the only person other than myself (sorry, but this is true), and the only authority on this subject, to discuss the connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws.

However, Hamlin makes this connection and her argument for purposes of further conservatizing sex laws -- including sex work laws.

This really highlighted for me how important it is for sex work decriminalization to recognize this historical connection between sex work laws and age of consent laws, before conservative authorities take and rewrite this history -- in favor both of high age of consent laws, the continued criminalization and stigmatization of sex work, and the continued vicious cycle of sex paranoia in the United States.

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9/15/20 the intersecting history of sex work and age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 15, 2020, Twitter thread on why it's so important to recognize how intertwined the history of sex work laws is with the history of age of consent laws -- not just so we can critically examine those laws, but so we can try our best and undo the vicious cycle of sex paranoia in America that is underpinned by them.

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5/10/20 review of the poem "The Hustler," from Vanguard zine, issue 1

Here is the link to my May 10, 2020, Twitter thread review of the poem "The Hustler," in issue 1 of the Vanguard zine.

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3/18/20 review of the book They Sell Sex, by Sara Harris

Here is the link to my March 18, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book They Sell Sex: The Call Girl and Big Business, by Sara Harris.

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2/22/20 question of connection between terms "baby pro" and "baby dyke"

Here is the link to my February 22, 2020, Twitter thread, basically wondering whether there is a connection between the term "baby pro," which signifies a youth sex worker, and "baby dyke," which signifies a young (though not always youth) lesbian.

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1/19/20 review of the book "Baby-Pros", by Dorothy Heid Bracey

Here is the link to my January 19, 2020, Twitter thread review of the book "Baby-Pros": Preliminary Profiles of Juvenile Prostitutes, by Dorothy Heid Bracey.

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1/10/20 review of the article "Wouldn't a Boy Do?" by Don Romesburg

Here is the link to my January 10, 2020, Twitter thread review of the Journal of the History of Sexuality article "Wouldn't a Boy Do? Placing Early-Twentieth-Century Male Youth Sex Work into Histories of Sexuality," by Don Romesburg.

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10/26/19 review of the film Angel, directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill

Here is the link to my October 26, 2019, Twitter thread review of the film Angel, directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill.

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9/28/19 review of the film Tank Girl, directed by Rachel Talalay

Here is the link to my September 28, 2019, Twitter thread review of the film Tank Girl, directed by Rachel Talalay.

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9/24/19 review of the article "Little Girls and Sex," by James A. Incardi

Here is the link to my September 24, 2019, Twitter thread review of the article "Little Girls and Sex," by James A. Incardi, in the 1984 issue of the journal Deviant Behavior.

As you'll notice, I did not mention the title of the article in this thread. This brief article is available through academic article sources online. It deals with direct accounts from girls who did sex work of varying kinds in the early 1980s. It is one of the few documents of its kind, as, usually, the accounts of the youths in these situations, if not erased entirely, are heavily monitored by organization representatives who essentially serve as censors.

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9/8/19 summary of my research on youth sex and sex work

Here is the link to my September 8, 2019, Twitter thread discussion, basically summarizing all the research -- much of which I'd already discussed -- about youth sex, youth sex work, and adult sex work. I also discuss some avenues for research I was hoping to explore.

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9/7/19 discussion about sex work and age of consent laws

Here is the link to my September 7, 2019, Twitter thread discussion -- essentially about how I felt sex work theorists and activists were ignoring the role age of consent laws have played in the history of sex work laws.

This thread is horribly written. And, honestly, I'm not a fan of my opinion pieces, the threads that are all opinion, with no new research. However I wanted to include this thread in this table of contents because I definitely still believe a lot of what I'm saying here.

There are some sex worker rights groups who include youth sex workers as part of their discussion. And plenty of folks who are involved in the fight to decriminalize sex work also talk about some really important aspects of the lives of LGBTQ youth -- such as rejection by parents, homelessness, and unemployment.

However, even in 2021, there remains an absolute refusal among sex worker rights activists to recognize the very close historical connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws.

It's hard for me to stress how important I feel it is to recognize the connection between age of consent laws and sex work laws. And, as I've continued to talk about sex work over the years, I've tried to keep my focus on this one aspect of the issue.

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8/25/19 review of the film Pretty Baby, directed by Louis Malle

Here is the link to my August 25, 2019, Twitter thread review of the film Pretty Baby, directed by Louis Malle.

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8/10/19 review of the book The Boys of Fairy Town, by Jim Elledge

Here is the link to my August 10, 2019, Twitter thread review of the book The Boys of Fairy Town, by Jim Elledge.

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8/8/19 discussion about research into the history of youth sex workers

Here is the link to my August 8, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about some ideas I was having after doing research into the history of youth sex workers.

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7/30/19 discussion of some of my own ideas about sex work

Here is the link to my July 30, 2019, Twitter thread discussion of some of my own ideas about sex work.

While I agree with these ideas, even still, and while a lot of my ideas came from research, reading, etc., I'm still not always fond of these threads where I give a lot of my own ideas and theories.

I don't think they're bad. And I definitely want to make sure I post them. But I also feel like I can probably do better to continue studying topics and presenting the results of my topics, rather than giving my own opinions on topics, especially when it comes to sex work -- which I have no personal experience with.

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7/2/19 review of two ESPLERP videos of Alexandra Lutnick

Here is the link to my July 2, 2019, Twitter thread review of two videos featuring Alexandra Lutnick, author of the book Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking.

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7/1/19 review of the book Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, by Alexandra Lutnick

Here is the link to my July 1, 2019, Twitter thread review of the book Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains, by Alexandra Lutnick.

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6/28/19 discussion of youth sex paranoia and lemonade stand arrests

Here is the link to my June 28, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about youth sex work, the paranoia of youth sex, and the way this paranoia might have led to the wave, in 2019, of kids and parents actually having the police called on them for running lemonade stands.

Twitter's platform has twisted each of my threads through 2018 and 2019 out of chronological order. This thread is very affected, and is only somewhat coherent. My apologies.

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