From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! - Scottish children’s prayer Halloween was always my favorite holiday, and only partly because it is my birthday. Now, I have nothing against Christmas; in fact I love Christmas, and it runs such a close second [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Halloween
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged anecdote, holidays, hysteria, New Orleans on October 31, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Deadbeats
Posted in Call types, tagged anecdote, bad customers, fantasy on October 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
If I want my time wasted, I’ll waste it myself. – Mason Cooley One of the banes of an escort’s existence, second only to cops, is constituted by time wasters and deadbeats; the former are men who pretend to be interested in our services but never actually arrange anything, and the latter those who make [...]
Whores in the News
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, That Was the Week That Was, Tyranny, tagged bad customers, cops, cosmetic surgery, dirty, drugs, Europe, Hollywood, hysteria, law, neofeminism, porn, stereotypes, streetwalkers, Swedish model on October 29, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Why is it constantly necessary to do something to people? If we can’t do something for them, when are we going to learn to let them alone? Or must this incessant interference, this meddling, this mauling and manhandling, go on in the world forever and ever? - Samuel Milton Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio c. [...]
Good Fantasy, Bad Reality
Posted in Current Events, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged BDSM, bisexuality, dirty, fantasy, hysteria, law, porn, psychology, stereotypes, stripping on October 27, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. – Mason Cooley As I discussed in my column about BDSM, it is easily as misunderstood and persecuted as sex work. It is thus probably a really bad idea for a master to prostitute his slave, especially to strangers and especially if she is rather young and he is [...]
Sweet Painted Ladies
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged cops, fantasy, psychology, streetwalkers on October 25, 2010 | 9 Comments »
So she lays down beside me again My sweet painted lady, the one with no name Many have used her and many still do There’s a place in the world for a woman like you. - Elton John, “Sweet Painted Lady” Since last month’s column on songs about prostitutes proved fairly popular and there are [...]
An Enormous Big Nothing
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged bisexuality, dirty, fantasy, Hollywood, hysteria, law, psychology on October 23, 2010 | 20 Comments »
“It had the biggest head you ever saw, Christopher Robin. A great enormous thing, like — like nothing. A huge big — well, like a — I don’t know — like an enormous big nothing.” - A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Poor Piglet had of course never seen a heffalump, in fact had never even heard of [...]
Linda
Posted in Biography, Perception, The Dark Side, tagged anecdote, drugs, ethics, neofeminism, New Orleans, pimps, psychology, sisterhood, stage names, stereotypes on October 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree. - W. C. Fields I’ve mentioned Linda a number of times before, but I think I have enough to say about her to justify a full column. I first met her at Pam’s agency, and when she heard I had left [...]
