Department Of Homeland Security Shows Surprising Proficiency In Sex Trade Slang

Via Nerve comes the story of this document, recently obtained by The Smoking Gun, which is apparently from a letter sent by the Department of Homeland Security to Yahoo, "demanding records for a website that is apparently allowing hookers to ply their trade on its pages." The website in question appears to be for some sort of Tijuana brothel, and I'm gathering that DHS' interests here are over a serious matter -- the potential for human trafficking of minors -- and not some more generalized form of "Mexican whore panic." Nevertheless, I am just as taken aback as the next guy to find the DHS' seemingly superfluous flaunting of their fluency with online erotic acronyms.

As Nerve points out: "It completely freaks us out to see these gleeful announcements that condoms are not being used by these prostitutes." True, true. Still, this is precisely the sort of information you are not likely to get from Fodor's: Tijuana Adventure. Your Department of Homeland Security: not afraid to be servicey!

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Comments

[SouthJerseySteve]

Wow! I need to get out more! I had not idea those "code words" existed! LOL

[Texas4Obama]

I'm getting old .. I didn't know those either ;(

[gemzenith]

Even though their are some who would like to see prostitution legal, I fear it has done enough damage already, legal or not. It is still a trade that mostly men will pay for, and it had nothing to do with who wants sex more. Women enjoy sex as well, but I so believe biologically it is wiser to not degrade sex to a commodity.I don't know what the statics are but I'd like to know how many women who are prostitutes end up with lives that are successful,healthy(mentally,emotionally,physically)and can say as their hair starts to gray and their boobs sag,that they have lived a wonderful life.

[theone718]

Lol that greek one had me laughing hard

[useyourbrain]

I feel so secure now. RE: greek had you laughing out loud? Why, are you ticklish down there or did you not know that "greek" in this context as meant that for as long as there have been greeks?

[EmeraldWorld]

Haha! A testament to the leisurely activities of the Ancient Greeks (and what about the Romans, they should get a shout out too!)

[TheBrimeCow]

My roommate (an anthropologist) was once working on a study of BDSM and kink culture and, if I remember correctly, Roman was was a euphemism for "group activity"

[Disuberence]

It's against the law to "DFK"?

[filo]

WTF ? LOL !

[Kolors]

The point isn't whether any of these things are against the law. The point is to explain what the abbreviations mean when hookers advertise on the web.

[bubbuh]

"field of prostitution (i.e. pimps or madams) of online sex services will blackout eyes and faces to mask the age of their prostitutes to deter law enforcement." from the document.

Too bad Via Nerve did not include the previous. That might have been interesting. Porn LEET a middle-schooler can figure out is not very.

C'mon, Jason. Yesterday wasn't that bad.

[shel3364]

So like Tea-bagging, how is the conservative movement going to be oblivious & use these acronyms so Fox can promote??


CBJ - Conservatives for Bobby Jindal?
COT - Conservatives of Texas?
COF - Conservatives of Florida? (should be able to work "freedom" in there)
DATY - Democrats are the Yuckiest?

[DarthDerisive]

HAHAAHAHAHAAHAHA

[brandnewstuff]

Nasty as I read all - translate-- Stranger Danger
CDC report comes to mind

[edwcorey]

The DHS is another government trough. Can anyone name one competent, efficient thing this expansion of the police state has accomplished? The Bush regime used it to create panic in the "big, bad Americans" by issuing self-serving warnings at curious times during election campaigns, and the Democrats took a page out of the Republican playbook by nominating their friends and accomplices to run it. It seems that, at every turn, pols are rewarded, and the people defrauded.

[BlueFloyd]

i know, and agree. dhs was a huge bureaucratic expansion (if obama did it, it would be called socialist and big govt), ostensibly designed, in large part, to consolidate our intelligence efforts. Then, about 5 years after dhs' creation, we needed an intelligence czar and a special office to coordinate, because lo and behold, agencies were still not talking to each other.

as for the use of dhs to scare us, i am well aware of that bs, living in nyc, and technically living under a level 2 terrorist alert (ie: threat of attack is imminent) for about 5 or 6 years straight (which, by the way, it is physically and emotionally impossible, even for a trained security expert, to maintain an extra-heightened alert for more than a week or so).

[benji85]

I was in the airport the other day and I heard the emergency status or whatever the hell Bush calls it is orange and I couldn't help but think to myself wtf does that mean, and why the hell is it being broadcast. If there was a serious threat to the airport I would want to know, if everything if fine and dandy then don't make it sound like something might happen, in fact don't tell us.

[MiddleRiver]

What color alert are we in? I forgot....

[Texas4Obama]

Rainbow ;)

[BlueFloyd]

If DHS is involved, it probably does concern underage "sex slaves", and is no laughing matter, or gleeful memo. This memo is nothing different than what happens in a court case involving workplace sexual harassment or worse, child abuse, or any number of taboo subjects, where the offending and/or trade words must be spelled out to be recognized, entered as evidence, etc.

bfd......

[Middleclassvotingbloc]

Their are more important matter that they should be attending to like Domestic Terror.

Ref: Tiller

[tel8034]

Human traficking, child abiuse, child prostitution, child predators etc ARE ALSO EXAMPLES OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM.