You searched for SESTA - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:43:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 You searched for SESTA - Mike South https://mikesouth.com/ 32 32 1788040 Only Fans Empty Promises https://mikesouth.com/only-fans/only-fans-empty-promises-81276/ https://mikesouth.com/only-fans/only-fans-empty-promises-81276/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:39:40 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=81276 Only Fans Empty Promises – It’s false advertising and marketing that will make India’s Call Center Scams look almost legit by comparison. Only Fans empty promises have lured in over 5 million creators making it a very successful platform. However, the average (indeed the majority) of creators don’t make enough to cover their utilities. Despite […]

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FSC Addresses 2024 Presidential Election Results https://mikesouth.com/free-speech-coalition/fsc-addresses-2024-presidential-election-results-80317/ https://mikesouth.com/free-speech-coalition/fsc-addresses-2024-presidential-election-results-80317/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:29:57 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=80317 Having failed to make any positive appreciable impact upon the 2024 U.S. Presidential or down-ballot races, adult industry trade group Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has released the following letter: Dear Industry Members, Donald J. Trump has been re-elected President of the United States. Whether you’re a MAGA diehard or part of the majority* in our industry […]

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When Hookers go Hungry https://mikesouth.com/ask-hamilton-steele/when-hookers-go-hungry-78519/ https://mikesouth.com/ask-hamilton-steele/when-hookers-go-hungry-78519/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2024 22:23:19 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=78519 When hookers go hungry it’s a symptom of  a dystopian society. When hookers go hungry is when it’s time to re-examine our relationship with government and big tech. The world’s oldest profession is showing itself to be the proverbial canary in a coal mine when it comes to authoritarianism. The tools of oppression, developed by […]

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Attorney Corey D. Silverstein Guests on the Granny Panty Podcast https://mikesouth.com/cory-silverstein/attorney-corey-d-silverstein-guests-on-the-granny-panty-podcast-74440/ https://mikesouth.com/cory-silverstein/attorney-corey-d-silverstein-guests-on-the-granny-panty-podcast-74440/#respond Thu, 04 May 2023 07:11:58 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=74440 The Granny Panty Podcast is a fun, informative, and empowering. The podcast highlights mature creators in the adult industry. Therefore, as the most recent guest, Cory Silverstein shared insights about age verification, current legislation, and the impact it will have on broader access to adult content. They also discussed how Silverstein paid his way through […]

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Is Master Card and the Peanut gallery anti sex worker groups, just being idiosyncratic, Making porn productions more difficult ? https://mikesouth.com/porn-news/is-master-card-just-being-idiosyncratic-making-porn-production-difficult-70741/ https://mikesouth.com/porn-news/is-master-card-just-being-idiosyncratic-making-porn-production-difficult-70741/#respond Mon, 25 Oct 2021 03:31:49 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=70741 Arguably the boogie man mantra these days, “Trafficking”, ” Prostitution”, ” Sex workers” and a distant last “Porn” are certainly all vastly different topics, summing and lumping all these terms together in one category, as the same type of sex work or activity, is feeding the fanatical so-called nonprofits, anti-sex worker groups. It is like […]

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OnlyFans ‘Suspicious Activity Reports’ Mostly Show that Banks Hate Sex Work https://mikesouth.com/industry/onlyfans-suspicious-activity-reports-mostly-show-that-banks-hate-sex-work-67644/ https://mikesouth.com/industry/onlyfans-suspicious-activity-reports-mostly-show-that-banks-hate-sex-work-67644/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:11:45 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=67644 Vice took a look at yesterday’s story by Forensic News and here is what they learned …. banks hate sex workers. Then again that’s not really news to those of us who have been in the adult biz for more than a minute.  So what else did Vice think about the OnlyFans story? Let’s take […]

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ACLU: Sex Work is Real Work, and It’s Time to Treat it That Way https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/aclu-sex-work-is-real-work-and-its-time-to-treat-it-that-way-57771/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/aclu-sex-work-is-real-work-and-its-time-to-treat-it-that-way-57771/#respond Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:32:31 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57771 Long overdue and quite welcome from the ACLU: Sex workers aren’t always a part of the conversation about police brutality, but they should be. Police regularly target, harass, and assault sex workers or people they think are sex workers. The police usually get away with the abuse because sex workers fear being arrested if they […]

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Sex Worker Rights Advocates Raise the Alarms about EARN IT on International Whores Day #IWD https://mikesouth.com/politics/sex-worker-rights-advocates-raise-the-alarms-about-earn-it-on-international-whores-day-iwd-57541/ https://mikesouth.com/politics/sex-worker-rights-advocates-raise-the-alarms-about-earn-it-on-international-whores-day-iwd-57541/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2020 18:42:44 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=57541 Since its inception nearly 45 years ago, International Whores Day reclaims a sometimes derogatory word to set the tone for a day of political action.

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EFF: The Graham-Blumenthal ‘EARN IT Act’ is an Attack on Online Speech and Security https://mikesouth.com/legal/eff-the-graham-blumenthal-earn-it-act-is-an-attack-on-online-speech-and-security-56019/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/eff-the-graham-blumenthal-earn-it-act-is-an-attack-on-online-speech-and-security-56019/#respond Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:36:25 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=56019 Like FOSTA-SESTA, this proposed bill chips away at the protections offered by Communications Decency Act section 230 under the guise of stopping human trafficking. Members of Congress have mounted a major threat to your freedom of speech and privacy online. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently introduced a bill that would undermine […]

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FOSTA/SESTA has been a disaster for sex worker safety, research study confirms https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/fosta-sesta-has-been-a-disaster-for-sex-worker-safety-research-study-confirms-54780/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/fosta-sesta-has-been-a-disaster-for-sex-worker-safety-research-study-confirms-54780/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:43:38 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=54780 A new research study about the consequences of FOSTA/SESTA, the 2018 law that was supposedly meant to curtail online sex trafficking, confirms that the effect of the law has been to render sex workers “more vulnerable to human trafficking and exploitation.” More than one in three sex workers report that they have experienced increased frequency of […]

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