The War on Sex | Duke University Press
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Is all this s*** really happening? Or am I falling for a stupid conspiracy theory nonsensical book? If all this s*** is real what a shame my tax dollars are being wasted. Now I am scared to use dating sites. I won't use them ever again. Anyways, I thought bribery was illegal.
Chapter One
"In Florida, police detective in some jurisdictions go further. They troll adult online dating sites, where they meet men who are looking for other adults. After baiting and grooming the men, sometimes over the course of days, and after steering the conversation to sex, the decoys then switch the age they claim to be, indicating that their "real" age is fourteen or fifteen - and try to convince the sting targets to continue the conversation anyway. Alternatively, the undercover detective introduces the idea that the man on the hook might have sex with the decoy's underage "child" or "sister". Men who say no to this latter proposition are arrested anyway just for talking to the detective. Even men who cut off such conversations and report them to authorities are keep nonetheless under "active investigation""
"Cell phones put the tools for serious lawbreaking—“sexting” among underage teens, which violates child pornography laws—in everyone's hands. (A recent survey finds that nearly 20 percent of teens under the age of eighteen have sent a sexually explicit picture of themselves via cell phone; nearly 40 percent had received"
"Police registries of “known homosexuals” and those arrested for engaging in acts such as “outraging public decency” were inaugurated in the 1940s"
Certainly, policies of mass incarceration, disproportionately directed against racial minorities, begin to resemble fascist techniques of coercion. In the past, we would have referred to the resulting form of government as “authoritarian” or called it a “police state.”