Come yourself to me, and in this enclosure we will fall into each other’s arms. - Phryne I mentioned in yesterday’s column that one of my heroines was Phryne (390-330 BCE), the hetaera of classical Athens, whom I first read about in the paperback version of The Book of Lists when I was 13 or [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Phryne
Posted in Biography, Harlotography, History, Tyranny, tagged Aphrodite, archeofeminism, brothels, cops, courtesans, law, marriage, sacred prostitutes, sisterhood, slavery, stage names, streetwalkers on July 31, 2010 | 36 Comments »
Genesis of a Harlot (Part Three)
Posted in Biography, Perception, Philosophy, tagged anecdote, carnival, ethics, Madonna/whore, marriage, psychology, stripping on July 30, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent. - Michel de Montaigne If you’ve been reading this column for the past two days you already know that I’m recounting my own story as a way [...]
Genesis of a Harlot (Part Two)
Posted in Biography, Perception, tagged anecdote, bisexuality, neofeminism, psychology on July 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
You must be a lost angel Dressed in your silk lace Born somewhere between heaven And hell, I don’t know what place Yes, I can tell that you’ve cast your spell The way you hold me, somehow If this is sin, baby, count me in I can’t turn back now. – Don Felder, “All of [...]
Genesis of a Harlot (Part One)
Posted in Biography, Perception, tagged anecdote, bisexuality, ethics, neofeminism on July 28, 2010 | 17 Comments »
The weakness of little children’s limbs is innocent, not their souls. - St. Augustine Neofeminists consistently claim that all prostitutes are the victims of sexual trauma which renders us incapable of making competent choices. They arrive at this conclusion via the psychological defense mechanism known as projection; since the majority of neofeminists are themselves victims [...]
Pimps
Posted in History, Perception, Tyranny, tagged cops, drivers, Hollywood, law, Madonna/whore, pimps, stereotypes, streetwalkers on July 27, 2010 | 17 Comments »
‘Tis the strumpet’s plague/To beguile many, and be beguil’d by one. – William Shakespeare, Othello (IV, i) In a reply to my column of July 18th, Sailor Barsoom said “Everybody talks about streetwalkers and pimps, but I hear that pimps aren’t as common as they used to be,” to which I replied “They were never as [...]
Rough Trade (Part Two)
Posted in Perception, The Dark Side, tagged anecdote, bad customers, condoms, drugs, Madonna/whore, psychology, rape, sisterhood, stereotypes on July 26, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men. – George Bernard Shaw One major professional hazard for whores is the possibility of rape, and though it is much less likely for call girls than for streetwalkers it does still happen sometimes. In yesterday’s column I defined rape [...]
Rough Trade (Part One)
Posted in Perception, The Dark Side, tagged anecdote, bad customers, cops, law, rape, streetwalkers on July 25, 2010 | 16 Comments »
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche Every profession has its dangers, and an omnipresent one for whores of every level is the possibility of rape, though obviously it is much more likely for streetwalkers (especially at the hands of cops, but we’ll talk about that another day). Because call [...]
Playing the Part
Posted in Perception, Philosophy, Q & A, tagged anecdote, ethics, fantasy, psychology, rape on July 24, 2010 | 57 Comments »
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. - Margaret Oliphant In a comment to my July 21st column, Imnoangel asked “How easy is it for a prostitute to play her part if the man concerned is personally unattractive to her [...]
The Numbers Game
Posted in Perception, tagged anecdote, ethics, porn on July 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to the ages of other women. - Countess Diane of Poitiers I described myself to customers on the phone so many times that it became entirely automatic. “I’m five foot five and weigh one hundred twenty-five pounds; I have long, [...]
Mary Magdalene
Posted in History, tagged anecdote, sacred prostitutes on July 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
After this, Jesus traveled about from one town and village to another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with him, and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out; Joanna the wife of Cuza, the [...]
