<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>Kinda adds a whole new understanding of the Breeder's Cup, huh?</div><div><br></div><div>How about . . . <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Breeder Bingo?</span></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:68BA4549-FFDB-44D7-8208-7FAD456FB1EF" alt="image.jpeg" id="68BA4549-FFDB-44D7-8208-7FAD456FB1EF" width="561" height="648" apple-original-width="561" apple-original-height="648"><br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jul 21, 2012, at 10:21, Art Deco <<a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Sobering Story, or What Seeing Women As Sexual Colonies Helps To Cause, or the World As Would Be Constructed By Cultmaster Douglas Willson's Theology Of "God's Proper [And Only] Sexual Role Of Women."<br>
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<h1>For women at risk, the risks just got higher</h1>
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<a href="http://www.spokesman.com/staff/shawn-vestal/">Shawn Vestal</a><br>
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<p class="caption">Lynn Everson, who runs the needle exchange at
the Spokane Regional Health District, maintains a lists of dangerous
tricks – customers of local prostitutes.</p>
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<p> Lynn Everson keeps a Bad Trick List. </p>
<p>It’s a compilation of assaults, abuses and horror stories inflicted
upon women working on the streets as prostitutes in Spokane – an early
warning system meant to provide some thin protection to a group of women
with virtually none: Look out for this guy. Unless you are extremely
familiar with the saddest, ugliest corners of the community, the Bad
Trick List will make you recoil.</p>
<p>There was the guy who drove around in a red sports car, picking up
girls and choking them until they passed out. Or the fellow who hired a
woman, took her to a basement, tied her to a pole with wire, wrapped a
plastic bag over her head with wire, assaulted her and then left her
there. She escaped before he could return, fleeing to get help. The man
was caught, convicted of a crime, registered as a level 1 sex offender –
the least offensive level – and was soon back out there, picking up
women, Everson said.</p>
<p>In the wake of the Great Spokane Spa Raid, we should all pay
attention to the Bad Trick List. Because that’s the environment waiting
for about 200 women who were working in those massage parlors that were
busted with such fanfare.</p>
<p>“I think the effect of the raids is to put women into even riskier
positions than they were in the massage parlors,” said Everson. “It’s a
very tough life to get out of.”</p>
<p>Everson has been coordinator of Spokane’s needle exchange, in the
health department’s HIV/AIDS prevention program, for 23 years. She calls
herself a “dinosaur of outreach,” but it’s more accurate to call her
the godmother of the most vulnerable – a person who has been protecting
and helping the least among us, on a human and humane level, as the rest
of us pass by or pass judgment.</p>
<p>It’s one of the ironies of our fascination with prostitution and
pimping – as a crime, as a subject, as a story, as a rap lyric, as a
tease – that we’re not very interested in or empathetic about the women
who do it; about the kinds of suffering and desperation that lead them
there; about the ways in which we sit, as a society, aloof and
moralizing and punitive. About the ways we dehumanize them.</p>
<p>“Prostitution is not a choice,” she said. “It’s a lack of choices.
When there is nothing else a woman … can do to survive, they work
in prostitution.” </p>
<p>Police from all over the region busted eight “spas” last week in an
investigation driven by Airway Heights police. The women working there
were not arrested – nor were any men – but owners were. As part of the
investigation, a local website that included information about “bad
clients” has been taken down, said Sophie Hirschfeld, a volunteer who
says she helps and counsels local escorts through the Sex Workers
Outreach Project.</p>
<p>Hirschfeld said that the spa busts and the removal of that online
bad trick list have the effect of removing a “safety net” for escorts in
the area. “Looking the other way would have been a lot better,”
she said.</p>
<p>As a practical matter, police can’t decide to simply look the other
way, said Spokane Officer Jennifer DeRuwe. The raids were not driven by
the Spokane Police Department. The SPD helped on the day of raids, as
did every other police agency in the region, but whatever one thinks of
the priorities on display in the raids, they did not flow primarily from
the Spokane department.</p>
<p>Still, DeRuwe said, police can’t simply ignore or sanction crimes,
or create get-out-of-jail-free zones. The women are in danger because
they’re engaged in dangerous, criminal activity, she said, not because
police busted the spas.</p>
<p>Everson said that spas were a relatively controlled, safe
environment. As for “looking the other way” – there has long been little
secret about what the places actually were. </p>
<p>“The massage parlors were in operation, in different incarnations,
for the entire 23 years that I have been doing my job,” Everson said.
“I’m 90 percent sure they were in operation long before that.</p>
<p>“I don’t know why the decision was made, but it just makes me really
sad that women are out on the streets or on the Internet, and more
vulnerable than they were in a massage parlor.”</p>
<p>Everson is an expert in this vulnerability. She comes at the subject
from a different perspective than police or the public, she says – she
wants to keep women as safe and healthy as possible until they can make
it to a better life. They battle violence, homelessness, addiction,
“major feelings of worthlessness” and a firsthand acquaintance with the
absolute worst among us. </p>
<p>Perhaps we all ought to hear a report from Everson’s Bad Trick List
on a regular basis. It is sobering in the extreme. It does not do a
thing for your faith in humanity – except maybe to remind you of the
humanity of women we mostly just ignore. </p>
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<p><em>Shawn Vestal can be reached at (509) 459-5431 or <a href="mailto:shawnv@spokesman.com"></a><a href="mailto:shawnv@spokesman.com"><a href="mailto:shawnv@spokesman.com">shawnv@spokesman.com</a></a>. Follow him on Twitter at @vestal13.</em></p>
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