No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt Feminists of nearly all stripes are always blathering about the “objectification” of women, as if society, the media, the magical “male gaze” or whatever had the power to literally transform women into inanimate objects like the aliens in a certain memorable episode of Star [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Objectification Overruled
Posted in Philosophy, tagged censorship, dirty, fantasy, hysteria, Madonna/whore, neofeminism, porn, psychology, stereotypes on January 31, 2012 | 44 Comments »
Sleazier Than Thou
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged anecdote, disease, ethics, fantasy, harm reduction, Madonna/whore, marriage, stereotypes on January 30, 2012 | 39 Comments »
Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill. - Cato the Younger Those who read my “2011 in Review” column may have noticed that after adjusting for several very popular picture searches, my second most popular column was [...]
Moloch
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged cops, dirty, harm reduction, hysteria, law, lawheads, neofeminism, psychology, rape, welcome to our world on January 29, 2012 | 28 Comments »
MOLOCH, horrid King besmear’d with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents tears, Though, for the noyse of Drums and Timbrels loud, Their children’s cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim Idol. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book I) Moloch is the traditional (via the Bible) name for a Semitic god worshipped by the [...]
We’re Not Done Yet
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, That Was the Week That Was, Tyranny, tagged brothels, censorship, cops, dirty, ethics, Europe, harm reduction, hysteria, law, neofeminism, porn, psychology, rape, Swedish model on January 28, 2012 | 21 Comments »
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. - Charles Caleb Colton What, you thought we were finished with updates for the month? I’m getting so many of these now I’ll soon be changing the way I handle them; look for a new feature, “That Was the Week That Was”, coming next [...]
Sex, Lies and Busybodies
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged California, condoms, cops, dirty, disease, Down Under, East Asia, ethics, harm reduction, Hollywood, hysteria, law, porn, stereotypes, welcome to our world on January 27, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns. - Plato A busybody is, by definition, one who cannot resist meddling in other people’s business even when his victim’s actions have absolutely no effect on him. And because respect for the rights of individuals has generally increased since the late Middle [...]
Scapegoats
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged censorship, cops, dirty, ethics, hysteria, law, psychology on January 26, 2012 | 14 Comments »
I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. - Woody Allen, What’s Up, Tiger Lily? Humans are obsessed with assigning blame. To a degree, this is understandable; when something bad happens, we want to know why it happened, and if somebody caused it we want to know who [...]
An Angel of Mercy
Posted in Biography, Current Events, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged archeofeminism, condoms, drugs, ethics, harm reduction, law, pimps, sisterhood, streetwalkers, United Kingdom on January 25, 2012 | 21 Comments »
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women. - Catherine McAuley My column of January 10th contrasted the religious views of prostitutes with the views of the religious toward prostitutes, and related the story of a priest who avoided dealing with a group of streetwalkers until [...]
Safety in Numbers
Posted in Miscellaneous, Perception, tagged bad customers, brothels, condoms, cops, disease, Down Under, drugs, East Asia, Europe, hysteria, law, marriage, neofeminism, New York, pimps, porn, psychology, rape, Rome, stereotypes, streetwalkers, Swedish model, Texas, underage, United Kingdom on January 24, 2012 | 22 Comments »
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. – Josh Billings One year ago today I published “Numerology”, my most-viewed post of all time (discounting the three with extremely popular illustrations). As of today it has been viewed 3790 times, and that doesn’t count all the times it [...]
The Princess de Caraman-Chimay
Posted in Biography, Harlotography, tagged archeofeminism, courtesans, drivers, Europe, marriage, restaurants, stage names, stripping on January 22, 2012 | 26 Comments »
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. - Daniel J. Boorstin Though the popular conception of the Victorian Era is that it was a time of very repressive sexual morality, one must never lose sight of the fact that this was only among those of the middle class. The upper and [...]
