It is not every question that deserves an answer. - Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (#581) It’s time once again to answer questions posed by you, my readers; if you have a question you’d like to see answered here just send it to the address listed in the right column. Is there a right way to go [...]
Archive for April, 2011
April Q & A
Posted in Miscellaneous, Q & A, Tyranny, tagged bad customers, cops, ethics, pimps, psychology, stereotypes, streetwalkers, Swedish model on April 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
A Narrow View
Posted in Current Events, Perception, Tyranny, tagged cops, dirty, ethics, hysteria, law, New York, pimps, stereotypes, streetwalkers, underage on April 29, 2011 | 42 Comments »
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. - Karl Kraus As we’ve discussed many times before, Americans have the distressing tendency to pretend that all prostitutes are streetwalkers, even though any person who isn’t living in a fantasy [...]
The Coffee Klatsch
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged anecdote, archeofeminism, dirty, ethics, Europe, law, Madonna/whore, sisterhood, stage names on April 28, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” - C.S. Lewis In the nearly a year since I started this blog, I have acquired many regular readers, and a fair percentage of them have blogs of their own; as one might expect [...]
…And Don’t Forget To Wash Behind Your Ears
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged dirty, hysteria, law, psychology, rape on April 27, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson. One of the first ways a child knows his mother recognizes that he’s growing up is that she stops reminding him of commonsense things. Obviously, there are some mothers who never [...]
Dr. Schrödinger and His Amazing Pussycat
Posted in Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged ethics, law, neofeminism, psychology, Swedish model on April 26, 2011 | 45 Comments »
Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault [at all]. - John 18:38 In the extensive commentary following my column of April 18th there was a discussion of the relativity of truth. For those [...]
Their Lips Are Moving
Posted in Current Events, Perception, The Dark Side, Tyranny, tagged bad customers, condoms, cops, dirty, ethics, law, lawheads, New York, psychology, stage names, stereotypes on April 25, 2011 | 132 Comments »
Q: How can you tell if a politician is lying? A: His lips are moving. Whores are used to being lied about by prohibitionists, politicians and cops, but since we’re the subject of the current moral panic the current crop of lies is even worse than usual, and the most outrageous of these lies are [...]
Easter
Posted in Miscellaneous, Tyranny, tagged anecdote, carnival, cops, dirty, holidays, Hollywood, New Orleans, Rome, stripping on April 24, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. - A.E. Houseman On numerous occasions I’ve written of the way in which Christianity transformed older pagan holidays into Christian ones, but Easter is unusual in that it actually retained the name [...]
Valeria Messalina
Posted in Biography, Harlotography, History, Tyranny, tagged archeofeminism, brothels, marriage, psychology, Rome, stage names on April 23, 2011 | 31 Comments »
She would greet each client sweetly, demand cash payment, and absorb all their battering – without ever getting up. Too soon the brothel-keeper dismissed his girls: she stayed right till the end, always last to go, then trailed away sadly, still, with burning, rigid vulva, exhausted by men, yet a long way from satisfied, cheeks grimed [...]
Fictional Interlude: Faerie Tale
Posted in Fiction, Miscellaneous, Philosophy, tagged archeofeminism, bad customers, courtesans, ethics, fantasy, sacred prostitutes on April 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful—a faery’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild. - John Keats, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” “So, where did you hang her?” Humphrey asked over his pipe. “I beg your pardon?” “The portrait, man. The Tudor lady you purchased [...]
