Colorado Democrats have introduced a bill that would make the Centennial State the first to fully legalize prostitution.
<a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb26-097">Senate Bill 97</a>, sponsored by Democrat Senate Majority Whip Nick Hinrichsen, would repeal penalties for prostitution, currently a petty offense under Colorado law. It would also allow for “soliciting for prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, and prostitute making display.”
Michael Allen, district attorney for Colorado’s 4th Judicial District and the top Republican candidate for state attorney general, called the bill “disgraceful.”
“Coloradans are leaving this state in record numbers because crime is rising and the cost of living is out of control — yet radical Democrats in the legislature are focused on legalizing prostitution,” Allen said in a statement.
Colorado <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/colorado/article_12d02ddb-6814-494e-996c-e67711def869.html">ranked</a> 13th in the nation with 88 human trafficking cases in 2024. Preliminary data show the state had 110 cases in 2025, surpassing its previous record of 107 in 2023, according to Center Square.
“Human trafficking is inseparable from violent crime, drug activity, and organized criminal networks,” Allen said. “Legalizing prostitution will only fuel these dangers and further victimize the most vulnerable among us.”
Prostitution is legal in certain Nevada counties, while Maine legalized prostitution, but criminalized paying for sex.
The legislation also legalizes advertising prostitution and escort services and removes language classifying buildings used for prostitution as public nuisances. If passed, it would not allow for any local laws prohibiting prostitution.
“Criminalizing prostitution endangers adults who engage in consensual sexual activity,” the bill reads. “Sex workers deserve clarity and certainty that they can safely conduct business within the state, regardless of the local governing authority.”
The bill does not allow paying for sex with children or pimping.
Co-sponsors of the bill include Democrat Senate Assistant Majority Leader Lisa Cutter and Democrat representatives Lorena García and Rebekah Stewart.
The ACLU of Colorado supports the bill, but a few towns, including Fountain, Monument, and Woodland Park, are opposing it, <a href="https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-could-legalize-prostituion-sex-work-new-bill-40843835/">according</a> to Westword.
The bill has been assigned to the Judiciary Committee, which includes Hinrichsen, but a hearing date has not been set. Democrats have a 5-2 majority on the committee. If passed, the bill would take effect immediately.
“The Democrats running for attorney general must join me in condemning this legislation and the most extreme elements of their party — immediately,” Allen said. “Colorado deserves better.”

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The following is an adapted transcript excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1885-hammer-wielding-trans-leftist-arrested-trying-to-break-into-jd-vance-s-house?elementPosition=8&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.
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One of the OnlyFans models who slept with a thousand guys in one day, someone named Lily Phillips, has apparently just had a religious conversion.
I don’t know if that’s her real name or a stage name, but here is the question: Is Lily Phillips&#8217;s conversion sincere? And the broader question is how should Christians react to this?
Here&#8217;s the video of her baptism:
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There is a nice Kanye pop gospel song behind the video. She appears to be in either an Anglican or Episcopalian church and it&#8217;s a full immersion baptism in a bathtub. Her caption reads, “A day to remember forever.”
Now, some people are accusing her of being cynical. So why do I think she’s sincere? First of all, as you will see, she does not sound cynical to me. But even if she is, I always like to be on the side of credulity when it comes to these matters. Not to the point of absurdity, of course, but I always want to be on the side of grace when it comes to these things.
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Well, turns out she recently did <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/why-onlyfans-star-lily-phillips-decided-to-be-rebaptized-excl/">an interview with US Weekly</a> where she explained her actions, saying:
<blockquote>I think for a while I’d kind of deviated from religion, and I think I was kind of in denial for a lot of it … Quite a big thing happened more in my personal life, where I kind of felt the need to start speaking to God again. I hadn’t really practiced faith for a while. I just wanted to get rebaptized to kind of reinstate my relationship with God.</blockquote>
So right off the bat, there is a major problem: you can&#8217;t get rebaptized. Baptism happens once. The Nicene Creed actually states this. All of the flavors of Christianity, even ones that are a little far flung from Orthodoxy, at the very least recognize the statement in the Creed that says, “I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.” It’s one baptism, not two.
The reason you are only baptized once is that baptism is not a personal action of yours. Baptism is an action of God the Holy Spirit. It&#8217;s the grace of God coming down — and God doesn&#8217;t make mistakes. God doesn&#8217;t act insufficiently. It works. When God acts on you, when you are baptized, that leaves an indelible mark on your soul.
People do not have to be rebaptized. It&#8217;s like gay marriage — you can&#8217;t. Why? Because the sacrament works. But in our fallen, broken human life, we just feel like we need to do something more sometimes, and we get it wrong. But I get why people do it.
What she&#8217;s saying is, &#8220;I felt a calling to God,&#8221; and she reacted to that in a way that is silly at best and contrary to the religion at worst. But I think it comes from a good place, and I know other people who have done it.
She <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/why-onlyfans-star-lily-phillips-decided-to-be-rebaptized-excl/">goes on</a>:
<blockquote>I definitely need to do that because I think that there are a lot of Christian girls who are in this industry … but people might not know it and they might not feel comfortable talking about it because of the judgment.</blockquote>
I totally believe that. I totally believe that there are a lot of girls who are baptized Christians who feel a pull toward Christianity, toward God, who work in pornography and all sorts of disreputable fields. Whether we&#8217;re talking about prostitution or whether we&#8217;re talking about law and finance — I&#8217;m sure there are all sorts of people who feel a tension between the work that they do and religious truth. However, here&#8217;s where it gets a little dicey, and I think this is why some people are attacking Lily Phillips. 
She <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/why-onlyfans-star-lily-phillips-decided-to-be-rebaptized-excl/">says</a>, 
<blockquote>I’m definitely not claiming to be a traditional Christian at all. Obviously, I’m not against gay marriage. I am also pro-choice. So I definitely don’t have, necessarily, traditional values. But that doesn’t mean to say that I can’t be Christian. I would just hope that the Christian community welcomes me, because I guess everyone’s relationship with God is bespoke to them.</blockquote>
I think there are a lot of people who feel this way, at least in the early stages of their conversion. But we have to clear up a few things, so let’s break this down.
She says, “I’m not against gay marriage.”
Christianity does not permit so-called gay marriage. It is contrary to the Christian faith. The weird sex stuff broadly is contrary to the Christian faith. And even beyond questions of religious revelation, it just comes down to basic logic: two opposing things cannot be simultaneously true in the same respect, as per the law of non-contradiction. So, no, inasmuch as you believe these things of the world, you are opposing the Christian faith.
She says, “I am also pro-choice.”
The church, since the very beginning, has opposed abortion. You can see proscriptions against abortion in the UK, the very first catechism of the church, all the way back in antiquity, just after the Apostolic Age. You can&#8217;t do it. You can say that you&#8217;re Christian and you can say that you support killing babies, but those things are diametrically opposed. They&#8217;re totally in conflict with each other.
She then says, “So I definitely don’t have, necessarily, traditional values.”
What do we mean by “traditional values”? Are we talking about the traditions of China? No. Are we talking about the Chinese—some different values than we do here? Are we talking about the traditions of Islam, the caliphate? No. When we talk about traditional values in the English language, generally, we&#8217;re talking about the Christian tradition that built our civilization. So if you say, I&#8217;m Christian, but I don&#8217;t have Christian values, that&#8217;s confusing. She sounds confused by the twin darkness into which we are all born — ignorance and sin.
She says, “And I just hope the Christian community welcomes me.” 
We will welcome you. I will welcome you, at least. But not on your terms. But we will welcome you. We&#8217;re not going to force you to do something that is maybe extremely difficult or impossible for you to do. We&#8217;re not expecting you to radically transform everything about your life all at once, but if you want us to welcome you, that means you have to come to the church, which means you have to give your assent to the church.
If two things are going to join together, one of them has to change. The thing that&#8217;s going to change is not going to be the church. It&#8217;s going to have to be you, which is true for all of us.
Every time we go into church, every time we go into confession, every time we go to receive the Blessed Sacrament, every time we go to mass, every time we go into a chapel to pray, we are imperfect — all of us. And when we go there, we are saying, “I want to be transformed by you, Lord.” I don&#8217;t want you and your holy institution to be transformed into myself.
She says, “I guess everyone&#8217;s relationship with God is bespoke to them.”
True, but God is the same for everyone. Everyone&#8217;s relationship with God is bespoke. It&#8217;s not off the rack. It&#8217;s not one size fits all. You&#8217;re right about that. But God is the same for everyone because God is objectively real. He&#8217;s the real God. That&#8217;s why you believe in him in the first place. And yet a lot of people want to make false gods for themselves.
She goes on to say, “I&#8217;m going to take more of a backseat in work and stuff like that, just to really prioritize this.” 
Well, by work she means prostitution. She means pornography. She&#8217;s not going to give it up entirely yet, apparently. Too bad. 
But she does say, “I&#8217;m going to prioritize religion.” Good, love that. 
She then says,
<blockquote>Even though I travel so much, I don&#8217;t necessarily go to church a lot because I&#8217;m traveling, but it doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t pray and I can&#8217;t practice my religion outside of church. So I will definitely be doing that and taking that forward.</blockquote>
Well, you have an obligation to go to church on Sunday. You have an obligation to do that even if you&#8217;re not feeling it and don&#8217;t want to. You have an obligation to at least do that. You have other obligations too. But she&#8217;s right — you can pray outside of church, and you should. You have to live your faith all the other days of the week too. That&#8217;s true. However, when you don&#8217;t go to church, when you don&#8217;t practice your faith, when you sanction these kinds of awful things that are so harmful to people, you are making a choice to move away from God.
So, what should we do about the Lily Phillips conversion? Should we make her the Archbishop of Canterbury right away? Probably not. Should we put her on the podcast circuit? In this case, probably not just yet. This could take a little while.
Should we say you don&#8217;t have to change anything about yourself or what you believe to be a real, practicing Christian? No. She&#8217;s got to change, but I think we should encourage her.
This is my message to Lily Phillips: This is great news. Wonderful. I love it. I love hearing that this is happening for you. But you have got to keep going, young lady. You were in a very, very bad place and now, by God’s grace, you have apparently taken a step to get out.
It&#8217;s going to be a long journey, but God will be with you the whole way. So just keep going.

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When I was Susannah Luthi&#8217;s editor years ago, she kept pitching stories about a California lawmaker named Scott Wiener. One day I asked her: I realize these policies are crazy, but why do we care so much about some random state senator?
She responded that one day, Wiener was going to run for Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s seat in Congress, and all these stories would be incredibly relevant. I trusted her and saved that email.
Susannah was right. Two weeks ago, Wiener announced he was running for Pelosi&#8217;s seat. And now Pelosi is hanging up her hat after 40 years in Washington. It&#8217;s finally happening.
Like Zohran Mamdani, Scott Wiener is the frightening face of a new Democratic Party, in which letting children get transgender surgeries is just the tip of the iceberg. From letting the state take gay kids away from their parents to legalizing pedophilia, Wiener makes even the most radical member of Congress look like a moderate.
No one knows more about Scott Wiener than Susannah, and she&#8217;s been right about him so far. We should all pay attention. — Tim Rice
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If you think men don’t belong in girls’ bathrooms, kids shouldn’t get irreversible sex changes, or cops should stop street prostitution of minors, Scott Wiener probably thinks you’re a bigot.
Indeed, it seems easy to offend Wiener, the San Francisco Democrat running for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D.) seat — and anyone who holds mainstream or conventional views on biology, women’s or parents’ rights, or conservative governance frequently does.
Last month, Wiener found it “<a href="https://x.com/WomenAreReals/status/1982259108108743044" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gross</a>” that San Francisco women turned up at his annual Halloween event to protest his transgender policies. He called the late Charlie Kirk a “vile bigot”<a href="http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-responds-governor-newsoms-comments-transgender-women-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> before</a> and<a href="https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1967604784757940280" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> after</a> the conservative activist was brutally, publicly murdered. Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are also “bigots,&#8221; and Republican diplomat Richard Grenell is a “<a href="https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1673352593530294273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-hating gay man.</a>”
The people he approves of are very different — like a<a href="https://www.thesisters.org/roma" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> gay porn-purveying drag queen</a> from the anti-Catholic drag troupe Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whom<a href="https://abc7news.com/post/sister-roma-state-capitol-protest-the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-honored-in-sacramento/13348438/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> he honored</a> on the California Senate floor as “one of the very best community leaders,” as well as San Francisco’s former soft-on-crime district attorney George Gascón, with whom he has<a href="https://scott-wiener.medium.com/moving-toward-decarceration-191c99638896" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> collaborated</a> on legislation. San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair, a public nudity-and-group sex festival whose attendees are<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1nmtl0l/first_time_at_folsom_street_fair_tips/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> advised</a> to watch out for men peeing on one another, is a “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=777812248385874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beautiful community</a>” that Wiener is “proud to stand up for.”
Wiener’s personal proclivities loom large in the California State Senate, where he’s served since 2016. But they could soon have national relevance: Weiner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-trans-leftist-launches-bid-for-pelosis-seat-before-she-has-a-chance-to-announce-retirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his intent to run for Pelosi’s seat a full two weeks before the veteran California Democratic operator announced she would retire after four decades in Washington.
Pelosi’s retirement will kick off a brutal succession bid in California. The former speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-pelosi-successor-pushed-a-bill-so-woke-even-the-new-york-times-has-doubts?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Potential+Pelosi+Successor+Pushed+A+Bill+So+Woke%2C+Even+The+New+York+Times+Has+Doubts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly favors</a> San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan as her successor.
But Wiener is a real contender — which is bad news for anyone who wants California to keep its policies to itself.
<h3>Justice For Pedophiles</h3>
In the Golden State, Wiener has pushed socially seismic policies that allow male sex offenders live in female prisons if they claim to be transgender, to exempt gay sex offenders from the state registry if the minor is at least 14 and within a 10-year age gap, and to make California a “haven” for out-of-state kids to come for sex changes without their parents’ consent.
And these laws have already wreaked notable havoc. One of the first male inmates to enter California’s female prison is standing trial for allegedly raping two women cellmates — with the judge<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/pronoun-use-center-rape-case-involving-former-chowchilla-central-california-womens-facility-prisoner-tremaine-carroll/15696730/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> insisting</a> that the offender be referred to as a woman throughout the proceedings, even though he impregnated at least one female inmate.
Wiener also authored a bill that decriminalized streetwalking because he found anti-loitering laws “discriminatory” against transgender people and “people of color.” The law has effectively blocked cops from taking trafficked minors off the streets and led to an uncontrollable<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> spike in sex trafficking</a> of young girls, so much so that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-pelosi-successor-pushed-a-bill-so-woke-even-the-new-york-times-has-doubts?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Potential+Pelosi+Successor+Pushed+A+Bill+So+Woke%2C+Even+The+New+York+Times+Has+Doubts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even the New York Times</a> finds the law problematic.
But Wiener shows no signs of backing down. His critics say it’s due to the personal nature of his policy stances, which make it impossible to get him to moderate his legislation.
“Since I’ve been going to Sacramento to his legislative hearings, I’ve seen him treat us pretty badly, in public, during sessions,” said Julie Lane, co-founder of Women Are Real, a Bay Area feminist advocacy group that fights gender ideology. “He’ll have long discussions on his committees and as soon as it’s an issue we’re involved with, he’ll leave the room, or get on his phone, or say we’re ‘anti-trans activists.’”
“He won’t listen to us.” 
<h3>“He’s Looked At As A Bully”</h3>
Wiener was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey, where, after graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked for the state supreme court justice who wrote a <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16151905477157446342" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landmark 1975 decision</a> deeming that a trans-identifying man should be treated as female in a marriage contract and could collect spousal support after his divorce.
He moved to San Francisco in 1997, practicing in a now-dissolved corporate law firm and working in the city attorney’s office before he was elected to the county’s Board of Supervisors.
There, according to one conservative local, he was “popular and moderate and even likable” when he first started.
“What we’ve learned over time is that career politicians start slipping further left year after year. And the farther up the ladder they go, they get even more left,” said Richie Greenberg, a leader of the successful recall campaign of the city’s former left-wing district attorney Chesa Boudin.
Greenberg added that many San Franciscans see Wiener as a “carpetbagger” who went to Sacramento as a state senator to force changes in the city that he couldn’t make as a local lawmaker.
“What he supports is often not agreed on by constituents here, and that’s what gets locals upset,” he said. “He’s looked at as a bully, among other things. He has passed legislation that has stripped away the ability of cities to control things.”
Wiener touts his past post on the national board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign — a radical George Soros-funded organization behind the push to force transgenderism into the medical system and K-12 schools.
He’s done the same thing in the state legislature. Wiener has proved a powerful figure on the California state senate’s public safety committee, where he’s fought to soften criminal penalties and permit open public drug injection sites. Last year, he caused a furor when he opposed making it a felony to purchase 16 and 17-year-olds for sex, stating that “Sending an 18-year-old high school senior to state prison for offering his 17-year-old classmate $20 to fool around isn’t smart criminal justice policy.”
Those who have opposed him in hearing rooms or in the real world say he either ignores them completely or hits them with emotional arguments divorced from reality.
Consider SB 132, his 2020 law that allowed men into female prisons — and which, from its early days, led to a long string of complaints by women that some of their male cellmates were threatening, harassing, and assaulting them.
Amie Ichikawa, founder of the group Woman II Woman, which advocates for women prisoners, said Wiener’s office has answered her about other, unrelated issues but continues to ignore her reports about this law.
“I had gotten a phone call about a rape, and I said, ‘I need to speak to Sen. Wiener about SB 132 and the people taking advantage of it — I can’t take another phone call about another rape,’” Ichikawa said. “I never got any responses to that.”
Later, she went to the state capitol and personally handed Wiener letters from female inmates themselves about SB 132. “The letters were pleading with him and the governor to remember them, said that we’re all survivors of sexual abuse, how can you do this to us?” she said.
He never responded.
Last year, one of Wiener’s Republican State Senate colleagues responded to the growing reports of SB 132’s safety risks by introducing a bill that would have established separate housing for the trans-identifying males and banned convicted sex offenders from moving into women’s prisons at all.
Wiener opposed these proposed reforms during a hearing and claimed the state’s sex offender registry targeted “LGBTQ people.”
“We also know that LGBTQ people have been massively and disproportionately targeted and subjected to being slammed onto the sex offender registry,” Wiener<a href="https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258956?t=1479&amp;f=e17600b674ef3117c38ca500eb9270ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> said</a> at the time. “That’s the whole history of the sex offender registry.”
<h3>&#8220;Just A Little Bit Off&#8221;</h3>
A longtime Bay Area activist who knows and likes Wiener personally agreed that he fails to look at the true effects of his legislation — although she attributes the reason to the powerful funding groups behind progressive policies he pushes.
“I think he has good intentions,” said Naomi Akers, whom Wiener nominated for the San Francisco Entertainment Commission in 2010. “I think there are a few things that are just a little bit off because I don’t think he’s getting informed from the community, but from a funder-driven activist agenda that is bypassing the community.”
Formerly incarcerated herself, Akers said most former prisoners within the prisoner rights organization she worked with opposed SB 132, but said, “I guess we have to go along with it.”
“I said something about it, and I got fired,” she said.
Akers saw similar issues with Wiener’s SB 357, which legalized “loitering with the intent to commit prostitution.” The law has been<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/predators-paradise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> blamed</a> for a spike in sex trafficking and for turning city neighborhoods into dangerous red light districts.
“I think it harms the residents and young women in a community,” she said of the law. “I think it’s unsafe for children and other women walking around. It degrades the safety of a neighborhood and has a detrimental effect on everyone.&#8221;
Parents who have fought Wiener on bills like SB 107, which grants “sanctuary” for gender-confused youth to run away to California for sex-change drugs and procedures, see outright hostility when they voice their opinions in hearing rooms.
<h3>&#8220;Name-Calling Is All He Has.&#8221;</h3>
“Senator Wiener habitually hurls derogatory remarks at us because he cannot engage in a coherent conversation that can justify placing males in females’ spaces,” said Erin Friday, co-lead of Our Duty, a group for parents of gender-confused kids. “He cannot rationalize sex-rejecting interventions, especially the removal of sex organs of children. Devolving to name-calling is all he has.”
In 2023, he co-authored a bill that could have stripped custody from parents who didn’t “affirm” their child’s transgender identity. He blamed public outcry on “a pretty massive misinformation campaign about this bill by the right-wing media,” and claimed opponents wanted “to erase trans kids” and mount “an attack on gay and lesbian kids.”
Yet even as he regularly attacks Californians who oppose him and has consistently voted to lower penalties for violent crime, Wiener has been quick to build up his own defenses — most notably with a co-authored law that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) signed in 2023 to allow politicians to use unlimited donor money for private security.
“Since I was first elected to public office in 2010, we’ve seen a terrifying spike in threats and violence against elected officials — myself included,” he said when the legislation was unveiled. “It’s been harrowing to deal with endless threats on social media; I’ve gotten thousands over the past few years.”
The race to replace Pelosi has yet to take shape, but Wiener seems poised to take the lead. The day he announced his candidacy, he raised more than $730,000 to add to his existing<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00909283/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $1 million war chest</a>. His top donors include<a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/24/scott-wiener-raises-730k-first-day-campaign-nancy-pelosi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> powerful</a> unions and real estate developers who have backed his laws to override local zoning laws to build dense housing blocs.
Still, Greenberg thinks Wiener’s public manner could hurt him if the race turns competitive.
“He is lashing out,” he said. “It’s like he and Newsom both took petulant pills. I don’t know what happened in the last few months to make them so angry and so off-putting.”
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It isn’t exactly shocking when a pimp turns out to be a rapist. It is a little shocking when the police deliberately protect him — and he gets elected to state office.
Welcome to Nevada, the only state in America that has legalized pimping. A&amp;E’s new docuseries, “<a href="https://www.aetv.com/shows/secrets-of-the-bunny-ranch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secrets of the Bunny Ranch</a>,” reveals the late Dennis Hof’s <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472944" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HBO-featured</a> brothel empire for the cesspool of violence and exploitation that it (unsurprisingly) was, featuring powerful interviews from survivors and Hof’s former publicist.
But the series is not just an exposé of the crimes of the man who was once Nevada’s biggest legal pimp. It also brings to light the corrupt system underpinning and enabling the abuses, and the callous way that HBO profited off them with its nine-year run of “Cathouse.”
Prostitution is <a href="https://nevada.public.law/statutes/nrs_244.345" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legal in rural counties</a> in Nevada, but only if it occurs <a href="https://nevada.public.law/statutes/nrs_201.354" target="_blank" rel="noopener">within brothels</a>. In other words, prostituted women must be under the control of a brothel for legal status. If a woman receives a license for one brothel, she cannot simply leave and strike out on her own or <a href="https://nyecounty.municipalcodeonline.com/book?type=ordinances#name=9.20.140:_Requirement_And_Application_For_Work_Card" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even go to another brothel</a>. She must apply and pay for a new license, a process that also requires compulsory <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/nevada/NAC-441A-800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STI </a><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/nevada/NAC-441A-800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testing</a>.
Prostituted women are thus not only forced to have pimps, but they are also discouraged from leaving them by law.
In “Secrets of the Bunny Ranch,” survivors detailed the fee system that kept them in debt to these brothels. The brothels took 50% of whatever the women made off the top, while also charging the women for room and board. Many women do not stay in the black.
These accounts dovetail with what dozens of survivors of Nevada’s legal brothels have told me. After the brothels take their cut, the women must still pay licensing fees, cover STI examination costs — which are mandatory for the women, but not for the men who visit the brothels — and whatever fines the brothels decide to dish out. Debt, of course, is one of the oldest means of enslavement, and was a <a href="https://repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/media/39642" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prominent feature</a> of 19th-century American brothels.
In one case, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation Law Center <a href="https://endsexualexploitation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024.02.08.-Doe-v.-Lombardo-Complaint.pdf?sm_guid=NzcxOTIyfDc4MzA5NjAxfC0xfGNlc2VAbmNvc2UuY29tfDcyMDIwMTJ8fDB8MHwyMjU0MzA0NTd8MTEzMnwwfDB8fDc2NjM5Nnww0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> that women at the Chicken Ranch brothel were routinely subjected to searches of their emails, phones, and personal possessions, according to the NCOSE lawsuit. If they were caught with personal items or cash in their own rooms, they would forfeit all of the money in their Chicken Ranch accounts.
What’s more, survivors reported that women in the brothels were not allowed to leave at will, but were locked inside for weeks at a time.
Where is the law enforcement in this ostensibly regulated prostitution system, especially given these abuses? “Secrets of the Bunny Ranch” answers that too, describing how officials in Nye and Lyon counties, where Hof’s brothels were located, protected him. It is well established that slavery thrives where it enjoys official protection. This can be through explicit legalization, as in chattel slavery in the American South. It can also happen through corruption, where — as in most of the world today — slavery is illegal on paper.
A survivor — interviewed at length in the show — described how she was raped by Dennis Hof almost as soon as she arrived in the brothel. She went to the Nye County Police to report the rape. When she informed them of the perpetrator, they shrugged and didn’t even file a report. When she later attempted to leave the brothel, she was allegedly beaten on Dennis Hof’s orders until she began having seizures, and then was hospitalized with head injuries.
To be clear: engaging in prostitution because the pimp has said you cannot leave, and has repeatedly subjected you to violence from his own rapes and other abuses, and from ordering other people to beat you up, is textbook sex trafficking.
<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sex trafficking</a> occurs whenever there is a commercial sex act and the victim is either under 18 or subjected to force, fraud, or coercion. <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=18-USC-826895778-1007944208&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:77:section:1591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coercion</a> includes abuse or threatened abuse of legal process, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&amp;height=800&amp;iframe=true&amp;def_id=18-USC-908443408-1007944211&amp;term_occur=999&amp;term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:77:section:1591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threats</a> of physical restraint, or financial, psychological, or reputational harm — something the jurors in the Diddy case had trouble grasping.
The show details how a sheriff’s deputy would show up at the Moonlite Brothel in his squad car and uniform as a sex buyer. This seems to get disturbingly close to the line of “threatened abuse of the legal process,” when the police are not only failing to do their most basic job of protecting the community from the rapists, but are actively enabling the rapists.
When Hof was running for the Nevada Assembly, the survivor who had unsuccessfully tried to report him to the police spoke up in a public county meeting. She was silenced by the local officials and told to file a new report with the police department. The police never charged Hof, who was found dead in his bed the next month. Nevadans posthumously elected him to the state legislature.
It has become fashionable to defend legal prostitution. But the corruption and violence “Secrets of the Bunny Ranch” exposed in Nevada’s legal brothels are not bugs, but features of any legal system that permits human beings to be bought, sold, or rented. A reckoning is well past due.
Christen Price is senior legal counsel for the <a href="http://www.endsexualexploitation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Center on Sexual Exploitation</a>, the leading national non-profit organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation, such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking, and the public health harms of pornography. On X: @NCOSE
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‘Secrets of the Bunny Ranch’ Reveals The Deep Corruption In Nevada’s Legal Brothel System 

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As a survivor of sex trafficking, I am following Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial very closely.
It may seem obvious why this trial matters so much to survivors like me. But there’s more to it than simply bringing predators like Diddy to justice.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, as Sean Combs rose to fame as a hip-hop artist and producer, hip hop itself underwent a transformation — something oftentimes credited to Diddy himself. Lyrics shifted to more directly glamorize street life, often portraying pimps as powerful, enviable figures and the women and girls they exploited as mere accessories and products.
To many, these were just lyrics: hyperbole, fantasy, and entertainment. But for some of us, they were the soundtrack to our real-life horror.
Imagine growing up in a loving, stable family. Imagine meeting a man who is kind and generous, until he reveals, months later, that he’s a pimp. He forces you, just 21-years-old, to work as a prostitute.  Imagine being sold, night after night, against your will.
Can you hear the music playing in the background? I speak from experience when I say it’s music, some of it recorded and produced by Diddy himself, that glorifies violence against women as “pimpin’ hoes”. My trafficker would blare songs that celebrated beating women so they would “make more money.”
But this wasn’t just music to my sex trafficker: it was a blueprint. A reinforcement. By glamorizing men like him, this music made my trafficker popular in his community. That gave him power. And he used that power to make me a victim.
Did Diddy do it? The jury will decide that. But I can tell you this: his music, and the music of many like him, created a cultural safe haven for traffickers, where exploitation could be repackaged as power, where suffering could be rebranded as luxury, and where the victim in the back seat — terrified, traumatized, and praying to survive another night, is portrayed as loving her part in this game they call “the life.”
Diddy isn’t the only one on trial. It’s the sexual culture he represents and helped make possible.
To be sure, Diddy isn’t the only one who glorified “the life” in his music. Consider Andres Louis Hicks,“Mac Dre”, the late Bay Area rapper from Vallejo, California. He’s immortalized by a mural in his old neighborhood, where marginalized communities revere him as the artist who “put the Bay Area on the map.” Even after his murder in 2004, his music is remembered as music that depicts real-life pimpin’ that has reached and influenced global audiences in glamorizing the overt abuse, isolation, kidnapping, and sex trafficking of women and girls.
But what I remember most about Mac Dre is not his music, but how excited my sex trafficker was when one of his albums dropped. To him, it was more than music — it was instruction. A manual on how to control, break, abuse, exploit, terrify, and keep women and girls enslaved in prostitution.
I specifically remember the lyrics from the song, “Dollalalalots,” in which Mac Dre raps:
“I got a stable full of hoes and I’m breakin’ &#8217;em daily.”
This is one of those lyrics that may sound abstract to the casual listener, but is all too real for survivors. It calls to mind the trauma, isolation, psychological manipulation, and violence used systematically to strip away a person’s will to run, resist, or even ask for help.
Sex traffickers often refer to their victims as  their “stable.” Just like horses, these women are kept in isolation, subjected to brutal “training,” and then sent out to perform on the street, in hotels, in back alleys — so someone else can profit. That’s also why the areas where victims are forced into prostitution are called “tracks.” It’s not just slang. It’s a system, one built on dehumanization and sexual slavery.
Lyrics from Sean Combs’ music will not be a part of the upcoming trial, but his attorney, Brian Steel, brings extensive experience in similar cases. In 2024, Steel represented Jeffrey Williams, known as “Young Thug”, who faced multiple RICO charges, including racketeering, the same charges brought against Combs. In a surprising development during the Williams’ case, the judge permitted the use of lyrics as evidence. Williams ultimately accepted a plea deal that year, pleading guilty to firearms, drugs, and street gang charges.
For many survivors of sex trafficking, this trial isn’t just about Diddy. It’s about reckoning with a culture that lets artists hide abuse and sex trafficking behind popular beats. And it’s about whether we’re finally ready to listen to the women who miraculously survived the world they glorify.
For survivors, this trial isn’t just about one man’s guilt or innocence. It’s about the cost of glamorizing their enslavement.
Christina Rangel is the Director of Public Policy at Exodus Cry, where she advocates for legislation to combat sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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I’m A Survivor Of Sex Trafficking. Diddy’s Trial Matters More Than You Think.

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Film director Sean Baker, who won a record four Oscars on Sunday night for his movie &#8220;Anora,&#8221; <a href="https://apnews.com/video/anora-director-wants-sex-work-decriminalized-bce579a1e031465e8bed54ecfb194ba5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters afterward that he wants sex work decriminalized.
&#8220;Anora&#8221; is about a prostitute who marries the young son of a Russian oligarch. The boy’s parents object to the marriage, and ultimately they split up.
“So I’ve been pretty outspoken about my stance on sex work,” Baker told reporters. “It’s our oldest profession. Yet it has an incredible unfair stigma applied to it and what I’ve been trying to do with my films is sort of chip away at that very unfair stigma. Personally, I think it should be decriminalized and I guess through my work, through hopefully humanizing my characters that are usually seen as perhaps caricatures in most film and television, it will help do that.”
Last May, Baker <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/festivals/sean-baker-movies-sex-workers-remove-stigma-next-film-1236012783/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> at the Cannes film festival, where he was asked about the fact that his last five films had featured sex workers. He replied that after he made the film Starlet in 2012, he was “introduced to the adult film world. &#8230; I became friends with [sex workers] and realized there were a million stories from that world. If there is one intention with all of these films, I would say it’s by telling human stories, by telling stories that are hopefully universal. It’s helping remove the stigma that’s been applied to this livelihood, that’s always been applied to this livelihood.”
Best Actress winner Mikey Madison, who starred in “Anora,” <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/film/mikey-madison-pays-tribute-to-sex-worker-community-during-oscars-speech-3843163" target="_blank" rel="noopener">echoed</a> in her acceptance speech, “I also just want to again recognize and honor the sex worker community. I will continue to support and be an ally.”
Prostitution is illegal in all U.S. states except Nevada.
Arguments against criminalizing sex work have been made by the political Left, from the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/topic/its-time-to-decriminalize-sex-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ACLU</a> to the <a href="https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/ghjp/documents/consequences_of_criminalization_v2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale Global Health Justice Partnership</a>.
Arguments for leaving the laws criminalizing sex work in place assert that it contributes to the decay of moral standards in society, promotes sex trafficking, expands the sex industry, increases child prostitution,  increases the demand from men for more prostitution, dehumanizes women, and normalizes the sexualization of women,
“Many claim if the sex trade were legal, regulated, and treated like any other profession, it would be safer. But research suggests otherwise. Countries that have legalized or decriminalized commercial sex often experience a surge in human trafficking, pimping, and other related crimes,” Demand Abolition <a href="https://www.demandabolition.org/research/evidence-against-legalizing-prostitution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>.

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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss charges against him, citing claims of “racist” laws which they say are unfairly used to target black men.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He is currently being held in a federal jail in New York City awaiting trial in the spring and, if convicted on all counts, is facing a maximum of 15 years in prison.
Diddy’s defense attorneys are now saying the government is guilty of racist actions because &#8220;no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution,&#8221; per <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/sean-diddy-combs-singled-black-defense/story?id=118959797">ABC News</a>. They state that enforcement of The Mann Act of 1910 has historically been used to “target black men.”
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The legal team says the statute has a “long and troubling history” with “racist origins,” plus was “used to target black men and supposedly protect white women from them.”
“The government has concocted a criminal case based primarily on allegations that Mr Combs and two of his longtime girlfriends sometimes brought a third party — a male escort — into their sexual relationship,” they add.
The Mann Act was called the White-Slave Traffic Act when it was enacted in 1910. It made it illegal to transport people across state or international lines for the purpose of prostitution, which in that era was happening frequently as young girls worked in brothels, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-claims-hes-been-singled-out-by-racist-us-law/">noted</a>. 
“What was racist in its inception has often been racist in its operation,” the filing states.
One of the charges involves Combs’ highly publicized “freak off” parties, or drug-fueled orgies, which included acts of coercion, force, and prostitution. These events are mentioned in the motion to dismiss.
&#8220;Yet no other person, and certainly no white person, has ever previously been prosecuted under the White-Slave Traffic Act for hiring male escorts from another State,&#8221; defense attorneys Alexandra Shapiro and Marc Agnifilo wrote. 
&#8220;Mr. Combs has been singled out because he is a powerful black man, and he is being prosecuted for conduct that regularly goes unpunished. Count Three should be dismissed because this is a clear case of selective prosecution.&#8221;
They argue that Combs should not be prosecuted because other high-profile individuals have engaged in threesome sexual encounters and paid for the experience. 
&#8220;Many couples, including wealthy high-profile couples, involve third parties in their sexual relationships, sometimes for implicit or explicit remuneration,&#8221; the filing says. &#8220;No federal prosecutor, in this district or any other, has targeted the company, its CEO, or its escorts.”
Despite the attorneys’ claims, Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffery Epstein, was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-are-charges-ghislaine-maxwell-sex-abuse-trial-2021-11-30/">convicted</a> under the Mann Act for transporting minors with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Maxwell was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022.

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Diddy’s Lawyers File Motion To Dismiss, Claim He’s ‘Singled Out’ By ‘Racist’ Laws

Diddy's Lawyers File Motion To Dismiss, Claim He's 'Singled Out' By 'Racist' Laws

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The online prostitution website OnlyFans has been in the news quite a lot recently. Last week a prominent OnlyFans prostitute went viral for propositioning a Five Guys employee while he was on the clock at the burger restaurant. Fortunately, the young man kept his dignity and turned her down.
This week, the same predatory degenerate — I think we should treat these people like mass shooters and try not to use their names, when possible— has now claimed that she set a “world record” by having sex with 1,000 men in a 24-hour period. Actually it was 1,057. Far be it from me to deprive her of that extra 57 strands of gonorrhea she likely contracted.
Here she is talking about her big accomplishment:
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OF Bonnie Blue says she broke the World Record by sleeping with 1,057 men in 12 hours.
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You often hear people, especially conservatives, say that they feel sorry for women like this. I have to admit I don’t. I reserve all of my sympathy for whoever owns the AirBnB they used for this stunt. You’ll have to go in there with hazmat suits to fumigate that room.
Now, you may remember a few weeks ago the story of the OnlyFans prostitute who had sex with one hundred men. These are not the same people. That woman also planned to jump in bed with a thousand men, but she was apparently beaten to the punch. There is now an arms race among cyber hookers to see who can have sex with the most men in a day. Eventually someone is going to figure out a way to crack a million, which will be a pace of about 11 men a second. I don’t see how that’s physically possible right now, but someone will figure it out. This insatiable quest for sexual self-debasement will be the primary driver of scientific and technological advancement in the future, I have no doubt.
Needless to say, business over at OnlyFans is thriving. Back in the fall, it was reported that the website’s revenue for the previous year had cracked $1.3 billion. They are generating all of that money from the approximately 300 million “fan” accounts on the site. But the “fans” are all there for the hookers, or as OnlyFans refers to them: creators. This euphemism makes no sense, of course, because these women aren’t creating anything. They are selling their bodies — that which has already been created, by God Almighty — to the lowest bidder. They are profiting from their own degradation and humiliation. This is not an act of creation, but of destruction — self-destruction.
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But whatever you call these women, how many are there? According to recent reports, there are currently about 1.4 million American women producing pornography for OnlyFans. 1.4 million. That number is undoubtedly a severe undercount. It doesn’t count all the women who “created” on OnlyFans in the past. And it doesn’t count the women who use other platforms to sell their bodies. All in all, it’s impossible to know exactly how many women in this country have elected to become prostitutes. We only know that the number, whatever it is, is well into the millions.
This is a truly unprecedented circumstance. Prostitution itself is not new or unprecedented. It is the world’s oldest profession, as the saying goes. And there’s nothing necessarily new about having such a high percentage of women in a given population turning to prostitution to make a living. You could almost certainly find more per capita prostitutes in most third world countries today. Historically, it’s thought that something like 1 in 5 women in 18th century London were prostitutes — 20% of the female population. There are a lot of OnlyFans “creators.” But there aren’t that many, percentage-wise. So the sheer numbers do not reveal the full scope of this problem.
As I tried to explain a few days ago, although prostitution has always been prevalent in basically all human societies, in one form or another, it has almost always been the province of young, poor, desperate women. You would have to drive down to the sections of the city where these women congregated. That’s because prostitution was not a part of polite, mainstream society. It was kept out on the fringes, in the shadows, in the dank, dark places where normal people would never want to go.
That is all changing now, and very rapidly. Suddenly, prostitution has become a career option, or a way to earn extra spending cash, for middle class and upper middle class women. The kinds of women who would never stand on a physical street corner now have the opportunity to sell their bodies on a virtual street corner. And a depressing, even terrifying, number of women have jumped at that chance. Some of them have even become multi-millionaires in the process. That is another thing that separates old fashioned prostitution from the newer variety. There are OnlyFans “creators” making $20 or $30 million a year. The highest paid star running backs in the NFL don’t make that much.
That’s not to say that most of the hookers on OnlyFans are raking in millions. The sad reality is that the vast majority are debasing and dehumanizing themselves for the sake of a few hundred bucks a month at most. They could earn as much selling homemade candles on Etsy. They could earn significantly more if they went out and got real jobs. Instead they choose to become masturbatory aides for random, unseen men. And in return they make only enough money to feed their Starbucks habit. It is hard to imagine something more pathetic than that.
But even this does not fully capture the width and breadth of this crisis. It’s not just that so many women are becoming prostitutes. And it’s not just that women who have many other options are choosing to be prostitutes anyway. It’s that, through platforms like OnlyFans, prostitution — or “sex work,” as it is euphemistically called — is now mainstream. It is a part of popular culture in a way that it never was before. It has been validated, accepted, and therefore elevated, so that prostitution is not just a common practice, but a conventional one. Prostitution may be the oldest profession but it was never considered a “normal” one. Until now.
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This didn’t happen out of the blue. The stage was set over the course of decades, with the proliferation of internet pornography. Nearly all of the moral guardrails around sex were torn down and replaced with a flimsy, woefully insufficient consent-based moral structure which says that anything is permissible so long as both parties verbally agree to it. But it turns out that just because both parties agree to something, that doesn’t make the thing good, or acceptable, nor does it mitigate the harm done by it. If you sacrifice your dignity while robbing someone else of theirs, it doesn’t matter that you consented to it. A thing is not dignified merely because it was done on purpose, with the willful acquiescence of all parties.
Most of all, we have removed shame from society. At least we have removed it from the things that are actually shameful. History shows that we can put an end to pretty much any type of conduct, or drive it into the shadows and out of public view so that very few people engage in it, simply by using shame. We stopped shaming whorish behavior, and now we have soccer moms turning to prostitution for some extra spending money. One follows from the other.
50 years ago, around half of all adults in the country smoked cigarettes. Now that number is down to about 10%. We have cast cigarette smokers out to the edges of society, and this has been accomplished largely through shame and social pressure. Our culture has relentlessly demonized cigarettes as disgusting, dangerous, and low class, and as a result cigarettes went from cool and mainstream to obnoxious and odious. It used to be that you could smoke cigarettes anywhere. Now cigarette smokers are given an eight foot wide box outside, 100 feet from entrance of any building. Society is more welcoming of sex offenders than cigarette smokers at this point.
Now, I think the anti-cigarette campaigns are quite overdone and hysterical. My point is only that when a behavior is targeted and shamed — even an addictive one — you will end up with less of it, and when it does happen, it will happen out of view, on the margins, where shameful things belong.
We cannot get rid of prostitution entirely. It will always be one of the unsightly barnacles that attaches itself to the hull of civilization. But that’s what it should be. A slimy, crustaceous thing clinging to the outside of the ship, below the water line. Not sitting up on deck, reclining on a beach chair in full view, while the wait staff serves it margaritas.
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This kind of behavior should be shamed. That goes for the customers, the men. Most people aren’t hesitant to call them out, nor should they be. But it also goes for the women. The women who choose this lifestyle. They are not resorting to it out of desperation, or forced into it. We should look at that choice with disgust and contempt, not acceptance and understanding. We should treat it with shame. Which is the primary reason why OnlyFans and all similar platforms should be outlawed. Prostitution is already illegal in most jurisdictions. It makes no logical sense that prostitution should be legal only if it is done with a camera and sold for a subscription. Why should the more accessible version of the thing be legal? If anything, it should be the other way around. Though I prefer for both versions to be banned. Would banning it stop women from selling their bodies online? No, not entirely. But it would go a long way towards ostracizing the behavior so that otherwise normal and financially comfortable people would not engage in it.
There is one side of the ideological divide that wants to actively normalize the most debased forms of human behavior. And the other side which, though not seeking to normalize it, has largely lost the wherewithal and appropriate sense of moral indignation to treat shameful things as shameful. Which is why the conversation around OnlyFans so often centers on how much pity we should have for the prostitutes, and how hard their lives must be, and the deep sadness you can see in their poor little puppy dog eyes. There is almost no one stating plainly what used to be commonly understood: that this kind of conduct is disgusting and reprehensible, and we are revolted by it. That message is harsh and impolite. It also happens to be true. It is honest. And if the recent history of our culture should have taught us anything, it’s that it is better to be honest than polite.

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There is something deeply broken about our society. Egregious symptoms show that being the case.
One of those symptoms is Lily Phillips.
Lily Phillips is 23-years-old. She&#8217;s become quite prominent because she has a very lucrative OnlyFans account where she earns millions of dollars to take her clothes off and have sex.
Back in October, Lily Phillips did a stunt in which she had sex with 101 men in a day. She did a documentary about it titled, &#8220;I Slept with 100 Men in One Day.&#8221; 
In the documentary, she says, “It’s not for the weak girls, if I’m honest. It was hard. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d recommend it. I think if you&#8217;re a different type of girl, it&#8217;s very like… it&#8217;s kind of like being a prostitute in a sense of like, it&#8217;s just a different feeling. I don&#8217;t know how to explain it, like.”
“It&#8217;s not like just having sex with someone,” a man says to her.
“Yeah. Yeah. Just one in, one out. Like, it feels intense,” she replies.
“Like, more intense than you thought it might,” he suggests.
“Definitely,” she answers, then breaks down in tears.
She says, “I think by the 30th, when we&#8217;re getting on a bit, I&#8217;ve got a routine of how we&#8217;re going to do this and sometimes you disassociate and it&#8217;s not like normal sex at all.” She admitted not remembering much of this. She said, “In my head right now I can think of five, six, 10 guys I remember. And that&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s just weird, isn&#8217;t it? If I didn&#8217;t have the videos, I wouldn&#8217;t have known I did 100.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/11/lifestyle/onlyfans-model-lily-phillips-cries-after-sleeping-with-101-men-in-a-day/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Phillips shared that it’s not just the physical intimacy of having sex with so many men that made her feel “so bad” but also disappointing them by not being able [to] talk with them, or even being interested in doing so.
She said that conversing with them was also “hard” and recounted how one man complained that they only chatted for about two minutes when she had said beforehand that they would talk for about five minutes.</blockquote>
Then, she breaks down in tears.
But none of this is apparently stopping her from taking on a new challenge now because the money is too good. She has claimed she wants to take on a new challenge in January. She <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14166101/middle-class-graduate-sex-Lily-Phillips-OnlyFans.html">posted</a> on social media: &#8220;1,000 men in 24 hours. Male talent casting call. 18+ only. Location TBC.&#8221;
“I dreamed it up with my assistant. I can’t wait … It’s very exciting. It will be a world record. A real challenge!” she enthused.
“The current world record is held by Lisa Sparks, an adult film star who bedded 919 men in one day at a sex industry event in Poland back in 2004,” the Post noted.
The question here: Why is this wrong in our modern society? What&#8217;s the big problem for a lot of folks, particularly on the secular Left? That&#8217;s a relevant question. After all, she&#8217;s engaging in consensual activity. Why is this wrong? Why is this bad?
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We live in a society in which consent is considered the highest and perhaps only value.
That&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve largely bought into the liberal framework for how society ought to run.
According to social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, there are six moral matrices for how we measure morality. The first is care versus harm. The second is liberty versus oppression. The third is fairness versus cheating. The fourth is loyalty versus betrayal. The fifth is authority versus subversion, and the sixth is sanctity versus degradation.
For example, care versus harm would include feeling compassion for a suffering human being. That&#8217;s one value system. Liberty versus oppression would include seeing an unjust rule being promulgated that oppresses someone versus that person being free to make their own choices.
Fairness or cheating would be if somebody cheats, it&#8217;s unfair because somebody has cheated. Loyalty versus betrayal would be if someone betrays a group. Authority versus subversion is if somebody disrespects legitimate authority, and sanctity versus degradation is if, for example, somebody does something disgusting.
Leftists and conservatives think of the world in very different ways from one another. 
Leftists are interested in only three of these six matrices: care versus harm (compassion); liberty versus oppression (individual rights and individualism); and finally, fairness versus cheating (the final outcome of a system as fair or rights as fairly distributed).
Conservatives, people on the Right, care about all six of those matrices, including notions like loyalty and betrayal, authority and subversion, and most importantly, sanctity versus degradation.
Thus, what does the Left do about somebody like Lily Phillips? Theoretically, the argument could be made that she&#8217;s harming herself, that this violates the sort of care/harm principle. That&#8217;s why what she&#8217;s doing is wrong.
But that runs directly against the liberty foundations of liberalism, because after all, she&#8217;s the one who has volunteered her consent to it. How can you tell her? Can you be paternalistic enough to suggest she has harmed herself under the rubric of leftism? And also, is it unfair that she did this if she did accept the arrangement? In fact, she sought the arrangement; she&#8217;s being paid by the tonnage for this arrangement.
For conservatives, the answer is actually quite easy. Phillips and women like her are engaging in self-harm. Liberty is not libertinism; it is bound by rules. Fairness is not implicated because she has no right to engage in this sort of conduct on a moral level. She has no moral right. She does have a legal right, but that is not the same thing as having a moral right to engage in this.
She&#8217;s being disloyal not only to any boyfriend she might have, but to the standards of her society and to humanity at large. You&#8217;re being disloyal to humanity when you violate yourself this way. She is undermining the authority of basic morality.
But most of all, and most importantly, what she is doing is disgusting.
Now, I know that word has fallen out of usage. “Disgust.” “Disgusting.” The idea in modern left-wing parlance is that if you talk about something being disgusting, it means that you&#8217;re being judgmental.
In his book “The Righteous Mind,” Haidt wrote about asking college students if it would be immoral to have sex with a frozen chicken. Liberals will initially say maybe, and then they&#8217;ll think about it and say, “No, it doesn&#8217;t violate my principles of consent. It doesn&#8217;t violate the care/harm matrix. It&#8217;s a violation of liberty to say that it is disgusting, problematic, or wrong.”
Conservatives would react, “Yes, that&#8217;s gross. It&#8217;s wrong. You&#8217;re degrading yourself.”
Disgust is useful and has kept human beings alive for eons. Originally, it evolved as a way of naturally driving people away from things that are quite bad for them. The reason human beings have a reaction of disgust when they see a snake is because snakes can kill people.
Now, that does not mean all disgust historically is proper. Sometimes human beings are disgusted by behaviors or traits that are perfectly legitimate or have arisen through no fault of the person by whom they are disgusted. So, for example, many primitive cultures found people with mental disabilities to be disgusting. In ancient Sparta, if you had a disabled baby, you left it out on a cliff somewhere.
But disgust as a general human emotion is a response to the violation of the sacred.
So what exactly is “the sacred”? 
The sacred is the thing that we as a species place beyond question. That&#8217;s what sacred means. Sacred means to declare something holy.
To be holy means to be separate from the secular. It is something that is not to be questioned. It is something that has such high value that to question it would undermine the entire society. To throw away the sacred is to throw out that which is most important in building a society.
There are some things we find so sacred that we will not violate them.
An entire community cannot come together to share the same values unless they agree on a concept of the sacred and the profane; things that are so high in value that they are not worth arguing about — and to argue about them should generate a feeling of disgust.
It is community, says Robert Nisbet, that gives to the sacred its most vital expressions everywhere: birth, marriage, death, and other moments of the human drama.
These are all of such high value that they become sacred.
In the case of Lily Phillips, what is sacred here?
The individual human soul.
You do not own your own soul. It does not belong to you. You have duties attached to the stewardship of your soul.
Your innate humanity is made in the image of God. You as a human being are sacred. You are the sacred property of the Divine.
After all, whatever disgusting substances this woman has anointed herself with can be washed off, but her soul can&#8217;t be washed off without repenting of what she has done to herself.
And she knows that. Why is she breaking down? Why is she upset? It&#8217;s not just because of the physical exertion. It&#8217;s because she made herself into a sex robot. She made herself into something profane. She engaged in profane behavior, and she should be disgusted with herself. She should be ashamed of herself.
A society should be able to look at that behavior and declare it wrong. It is not just a mere matter of moral apathy because a society that greenlights, celebrates, or pays people millions of dollars for this sort of behavior gets more of it.
It reduces the humanity of all of us to the level of the animal. It removes the sacred completely. Then, all that remains is the profane.
No community, no workable society, can be built solely on the profane. Human beings have a natural understanding of the sacred. We have a natural understanding, a desire to worship, a desire to understand there are things that are of eternal value.
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This is why, by the way, when it comes to sex, the concept of consent is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Of course consent is necessary to sex, but it is not the only marker of whether sex itself is a good thing or a bad thing in regard to how people engage in it.
It&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve lost the concept of the sacred and the profane.
In the #MeToo movement, there is a phenomenon that has arisen many times where women will consent to sex with someone they should not have. They will treat themselves badly; then, they&#8217;ll wake up the next morning and decide they didn&#8217;t like it.
And they don&#8217;t have the language to even express what it is they don&#8217;t like because they already gave consent. Un-giving consent is not possible. So then they go to the language of consent again. In some cases, they&#8217;ll go so far as to say they were raped when they weren&#8217;t actually raped or the evidence shows they weren&#8217;t raped.
But they&#8217;re not wrong to feel bad about themselves.
They&#8217;re not wrong to feel bad about the decision-making. Regret is a realization of having taken something sacred and having made it profane.
The relationship between two people who love one another in a committed bond is sacred. That&#8217;s what makes sex sacred rather than profane.
If sex is treated in a profane way, a lot of the time, it will feel profane. You might wake up in the morning and feel degraded because you degraded yourself.
Then, people look for an excuse for why they feel the way they do, but they don&#8217;t even have the language to explain why they feel the way they do. This is particularly true of young women who are engaging in activities they later regret. They don&#8217;t even understand why they regret.
The answer is that we are all, men and women, capable of sullying ourselves, of disgusting ourselves. And that is a worthwhile tendency in human beings to recognize: that sometimes when we look at the behavior of somebody like a Lily Phillips, we should be upset. We should be upset that as a society we have decided an OnlyFans kind of society is fine, decent, and good.
It is not. It is not fine, decent, or good. Pornography ought to disgust us because it is disgusting. It should disgust us because it turns something that should be about commitment and love into something that is simply about rutting. Sex is meaningful — not because it is a matter of consent, but because it is a matter that has meaning attached to it and has throughout human history.
Pretending that people don&#8217;t have emotions connected to sex is one of the most ridiculous aspects of the modern feminist movement and the modern secular Left. Even Phillips acknowledges that. She says, “I didn’t even get to talk to the guys.”
That’s the most pathetic expression of the problem, but she’s not wrong. It turns out that very often, both women and men actually want to know the person with whom they are having sex because it means something beyond pure consent.
A society that boils its morality down to consent alone is a society that doesn&#8217;t even have the language to express why it&#8217;s corrupting itself. It&#8217;s why we as a society have such trouble declaring pornography is morally bad or OnlyFans is a blight.
Young men are being destroyed by OnlyFans. Young women are certainly being destroyed by OnlyFans.
And this should not be a matter of moral apathy in our society. I&#8217;m not talking about regulation or legislation. Perhaps that&#8217;s appropriate, but that&#8217;s not even the question. The question is: Do we even have the moral language anymore to look at human behavior that ought to disgust us and say it&#8217;s acceptable to be disgusted by that behavior?
It&#8217;s ok to look at what violates the nature of being made in the sacred image of God and say, “That&#8217;s bad, and I have an innate sense of being provoked by it into disgust.”
It&#8217;s ok. We were made that way, and that is a good thing.
A society that loses any concept of the sacred and trades the sacred for the profane is a society that is not long for this world. Because in the end, if we can&#8217;t place certain principles above and beyond debate and in the realm of the sacred, then we&#8217;re not going to have a society for very long.
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The Biden administration&#8217;s Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee’s</a> aggravated prostitution law for people with HIV.
The law, which imposes tougher penalties for engaging in prostitution while knowingly infected with HIV, violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-02/complaint-u.s._v._state_of_tennessee_and_tennessee_bureau_of_investigation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> in its lawsuit.
The department said Tennessee’s law elevates the crime simply &#8220;because the individual has HIV, regardless of any actual risk of harm.&#8221;
“People living with HIV should not be subjected to a different system of justice based on outdated science and misguided assumptions,&#8221; Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s civil rights division <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-tennessee-enforcing-state-law-discriminates-against-people-hiv#:~:text=All%20News-,Justice%20Department%20Sues%20Tennessee%20for%20Enforcing%20State,Discriminates%20Against%20People%20with%20HIV&amp;text=The%20Justice%20Department%20filed%20a,with%20Disabilities%20Act%20(ADA)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
Tennessee’s law, passed in 1991, raises prostitution from a misdemeanor to a felony “when, knowing that such person is infected with HIV, the person engages in sexual activity as a business or is an inmate in a house of prostitution or loiters in a public place for the purpose of being hired to engage in sexual activity.”
The law also requires people who are convicted of engaging in prostitution while HIV-positive to register for life as a “violent sex offender.” It is the only state with this requirement.
This means the convicted person faces up to 15 years in prison and a fine up to $10,000 for the felony charge, rather than just six months a fine up to $500 fine for a misdemeanor charge.
Much of Tennessee&#8217;s prostitution occurs in the Memphis area.
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The Justice Department&#8217;s lawsuit includes details about an anonymous, black, trans-identifying man who found out he had HIV in 2008 and was arrested in 2010 for prostitution near a church or school, ultimately pleading guilty in 2012 to attempted aggravated prostitution. The man has been homeless at times, has had trouble finding a job, and is barred from seeing his nephew alone because of his conviction, the lawsuit says.
The department&#8217;s lawsuit demands Tennessee get rid of the law and also expunge the convictions of those convicted under the law and take them off the sex offender registry.
The state attorney general&#8217;s office has <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-justice-department-sues-tennessee-law-targeting-hiv-107271090" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it is aware of the complaint and plans to review it.
In December, the Justice Department warned Tennessee about the law, saying the state could face a lawsuit if it does not stop enforcing it.
Since 1991, there has been “significant progress” in understanding and treating HIV, Rebecca Bond, chief of the DOJ’s Disability Rights Section, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-12/2023.11.30_tn_hiv_lof_final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a letter to Tennessee officials.
“Beliefs and assumptions that individuals with HIV will spread it, or that having HIV is a death sentence, are now outdated and unfounded,” Bond wrote.
In recent weeks, Republican state lawmakers have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tennessees-outdated-law-targeting-hiv-positive-sex-workers-could-soon-revised" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> a change to the law that would remove the &#8220;violent sex offender&#8221; registration requirement for those who engage in prostitution with HIV.
Earlier in October, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Transgender Law Center also <a href="https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-hiv-lawsuit-sex-offender-34713572f57d02ab39751776dbf80710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a federal lawsuit over the law, saying they want it scrapped.

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/federal-election-commission-fec" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Election Commission</a> paralegal specialist was caught with a massive stash of pornography on his government laptop, some of it “potentially unlawful,” according to the FEC inspector general. 
The employee <a href="https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/Investigative-Summary-I22INV00002.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> had 687 pornographic videos and 8,166 sexually explicit or suggestive images stored on his FEC-issued laptop. Additionally, an investigation from the IG found that the employee had searched for “adult tourism guides and maps” to locate prostitutes in Italy, Costa Rica, Mexico, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. 
The inspector general’s office opened up an investigation into the employee in January 2022 after a source pointed them to a file in a shared FEC drive that allegedly contained a video of a naked person. The investigation found that the employee had uploaded pornographic videos onto a shared FEC drive. &#8220;The files consisted of five video clips that featured a nude female performing various sexually suggestive acts,&#8221; the FEC report says. 
An investigation by an external law enforcement organization was also initiated after the IG flagged potentially unlawful content during its search of the hundreds of pornographic videos found on the employee&#8217;s laptop, potentially referencing child porn or other illegal content. The employee resigned from the agency in June 2022, about six months into the IG investigation. According to the IG&#8217;s report, the employee downloaded pornographic materials between 2018 and 2022. 
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“OIG investigators identified evidence of sexually explicit images that were potentially unlawful. Accordingly, the OIG referred the matter to external law enforcement agencies for possible criminal charges. In addition, during the OIG investigation, the agency took prompt action to remove the subject’s access to FEC information systems,” the report said. 
The law enforcement investigation was ultimately closed due to insufficient evidence. 
The IG report added that the employee gave misleading statements when being interviewed by investigators and that he downloaded pornographic files during scheduled work hours. The content also included “inappropriate animated drawings.” 
The report said that the employee had violated FEC policies by using government resources for unauthorized purposes and for violating “agency policies that prohibit the use of agency information resources to access sexually explicit material.”

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A high-end brothel network servicing &#8220;wealthy and well-connected clientele&#8221; in apartment complexes in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/massachusetts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Massachusetts</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> was uncovered by federal investigators, leading to the arrest of three men allegedly connected to the commercial sex ring.
&#8220;This commercial sex ring was built on secrecy and exclusivity, catering to wealthy and well-connected clientele,&#8221; acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua Levy <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-virginia-brothel-prostitution-commercial-sex-ring-arrests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a news conference in Boston.
Authorities said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/three-arrested-operating-high-end-brothel-network" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a> the commercial sex buyers included elected officials, high-tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors who possess security clearances, professors, attorneys, scientists, and accountants, among others.
&#8220;Pick a profession; they&#8217;re probably represented in this case,&#8221; Levy said.
Levy said the identities of the commercial sex buyers were not shared, but indicated that could change as the investigation is ongoing and far from over.
The three individuals charged with conspiracy to coerce and entice to travel to engage in illegal sex activity included James Lee, 68, of Torrance, California, Han Lee, 41, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Dedham, Massachusetts.
According to the court documents, the three men operated an interstate prostitution network in multiple brothels in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, as well as in Fairfax and Tysons, Virginia, from at least July 2020.
Authorities said the men allegedly enticed primarily Asian women to travel to Massachusetts and Virginia to engage in prostitution in rented high-end apartment complexes as brothel locations that were furnished and regularly maintained.
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The three men accused allegedly ran two websites that advertised nude Asian models for professional photography at upscale studios as a front for prostitution offered through appointments with women listed on their websites.
Levy said clients would first have to fill out a form with personal information, including their names, work information, email addresses, phone numbers, and a reference, before booking an appointment, costing up to $600 an hour.
The clients were then given a &#8220;menu&#8221; of options and paid the women in cash.
&#8220;Business is booming, until today,&#8221; Levy told reporters.
If convicted, the charged individuals face up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000.
&#8220;It&#8217;s through these investigative efforts that we shine a light on sexual trafficking as a global issue,&#8221; Cambridge Police Commissioner Christine Elow <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/feds-to-announce-sophisticated-high-end-brothel-network-bust-in-mass-va/3184748/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said at the news conference.

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