No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. - George Bernard Shaw My monthly dip into the electronic mailbag for questions from my readers. Maggie, I live in (an American city), do you know someone who works here? I don’t know how to find someone like you. Can [...]
Archive for February, 2011
February Q & A
Posted in Call types, Miscellaneous, Q & A, tagged condoms, cops, ethics, oral sex, psychology on February 28, 2011 | 26 Comments »
See How Well It Works?
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged cops, dirty, fantasy, hysteria, law, pimps, stereotypes, streetwalkers, Texas on February 27, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Straight Man: Why do you keep snapping your fingers? Comedian: To keep the elephants away. Straight Man: But there aren’t any elephants within a thousand miles! Comedian: See how well it works? I really wish this silly bit of business, which was probably already old when vaudeville was young, was merely a joke; unfortunately, this [...]
Crime Against Society
Posted in Current Events, Tyranny, tagged cops, hysteria, law, New Orleans, oral sex, sisterhood, stage names, streetwalkers on February 26, 2011 | 24 Comments »
Simply put, commission of what the Legislature determines as an immoral act, even if consensual and private, is an injury against society itself. - Judge Chet Traylor, in the majority opinion for State vs. Smith (2000) In my column of August 17th I wrote about Louisiana’s tyrannical “Crime Against Nature” law and the New Orleans [...]
Fictional Interlude: Carnival
Posted in Fiction, History, Tyranny, tagged archeofeminism, bad customers, carnival, courtesans, drugs, ethics, holidays, sisterhood on February 25, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Regular readers know that once per month I publish little tales of heroic whores; if you like this one you might also enjoy the others linked here. Deputy Leclerc pulled his coat closer about him against the icy wind of early Ventôse; how he hated this time of year! It used to be that the [...]
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part Four)
Posted in Biography, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged bad customers, condoms, cops, dirty, ethics, harm reduction, law, Madonna/whore, neofeminism, psychology, rape on February 24, 2011 | 104 Comments »
I was…trying to create a voice for women who had actually been in prostitution within a framework that was largely made up of activists who hadn’t and who didn’t particularly want the opinions of those who had. - Jill Brenneman This is the conclusion of an interview which started Monday; if you have not read [...]
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part Three)
Posted in Biography, Perception, Philosophy, The Dark Side, tagged dirty, ethics, harm reduction, Madonna/whore, neofeminism, pimps, psychology on February 23, 2011 | 23 Comments »
More harm emotionally was done to me by rad fem activists than any pimp. - Jill Brenneman This is a continuation of an interview which started Monday; if you have not read it please go back and read that part first, but be warned that the first two parts are the most graphic, disturbing narrative [...]
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part Two)
Posted in Biography, The Dark Side, tagged bad customers, cops, drivers, pimps, psychology, rape, slavery, streetwalkers, underage on February 22, 2011 | 29 Comments »
The only sense from me that seemed to interest him was pain. - Jill Brenneman This is a continuation of an interview which started yesterday; if you have not read it please go back and read that part first. As I said yesterday, the first two parts are the most graphic, disturbing narrative I have [...]
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part One)
Posted in Biography, The Dark Side, tagged bad customers, neofeminism, pimps, psychology, rape, slavery, underage on February 21, 2011 | 30 Comments »
All of us doing sex work remain in danger because of criminalization and because of the “work” of the abolitionist movement. - Jill Brenneman Regular readers have seen me refer to Jill Brenneman on several occasions before, and she commented extensively on my February 7th column as I had hoped she might. You see, Jill [...]
Old Men and Young Women
Posted in Current Events, Perception, tagged cops, ethics, Europe, fantasy, hysteria, law, psychology, stage names, underage on February 20, 2011 | 43 Comments »
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry I’ve said it many times before; the most common request escort service operators get is “as young as possible,” and because of it most whores tend to lie about their ages. And since in many countries prostitution is either illegal [...]
John Law
Posted in Current Events, Perception, That Was the Week That Was, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged bad customers, condoms, cops, dirty, drivers, ethics, Europe, hysteria, law, Madonna/whore, pimps, rape, stereotypes, streetwalkers, underage on February 19, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Overload the police with victimless crimes and other minutiae and eventually only creeps and bullies remain cops. – Rick Gaber Four short articles about whores and cops drawn from friends’ blogs and correspondent tips. Get Out of the 19th Century Often? In Brandy Devereaux’s column of February 10th she called attention to this story from WLBT [...]
