The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mahatma Gandhi
One obituary, ten updates and four meta-updates from the past week.
I’m glad she outlived Zindler by almost five years, after having the last laugh on him in the court of public opinion for almost four decades.
Edna Milton Chadwell [84], the last madam of the Chicken Ranch, an infamous La Grange brothel which inspired a ZZ Top song, a Broadway hit and a movie starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton…died in Phoenix…on Feb. 25 of complications from injuries she received in a car wreck last October. The Chicken Ranch…was the oldest continuously operating brothel in the nation when it closed in August 1973, following an expose by KTRK consumer reporter Marvin Zindler…Chadwell…[later] moved to Phoenix, where she lived in relative obscurity until she died…
The full article gives a lot more detail about Miss Edna’s life and management style and tells how The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas came to be.
Updates
Bits and Pieces (Part Two) (December 10th, 2010)
Politicians are well-known for being two-faced, but on the issue of internet censorship American politicians have raised duplicity to an art form. For the past several years we’ve been subjected to their sanctimonious lectures about internet censorship in countries like China, while they…conspire to shut down Wikileaks via denial-of-service attacks, pressure on companies such as Amazon, Paypal, Visa and Mastercard and a campaign to crucify its founder Assange with what looks suspiciously like a “honey trap”.
When I wrote that I didn’t know the half of it, but my instincts (as usual) were good:
United States prosecutors have drawn up secret charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a confidential internal email obtained from a private US intelligence company, Stratfor…In the [January 26th, 2011] email…the company’s vice-president…Fred Burton…wrote: “We have a sealed indictment on Assange”…The news…comes as the WikiLeaks founder awaits a British Supreme Court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden…[which] Assange…fears…will open the way for his extradition to the US on possible espionage or conspiracy charges…US army private Bradley Manning was last week committed to face court martial for 22 alleged offences including ”aiding the enemy” by leaking classified US documents…Stratfor “senior watch officer” Chris Farnham…referred to a conversation with a family friend who he said knew one of the Swedish women who have accused Mr Assange of sexual assault, and added that “there is absolutely nothing behind it other than prosecutors that are looking to make a name for themselves”…
Creating Criminals (January 15th, 2011)
Since American politicians insist on making it difficult (sometimes nigh-impossible) to obtain pseudoephedrine legally, I thought I’d help out by sharing the method for making the hard-to-get drug from readily-available methamphetamine. If sinus sufferers are defined as criminals anyway, we may as well be uncongested, headache-free criminals.
Dirty Whores (June 24th, 2011)
Yet another example of why the incidence of STDs in promiscuous non-prostitutes is up to 160x that in escorts: “…[a new] study revealed…that young women with lower GPAs and more [binge drinking] used condoms less and less frequently over time…”
Secret Squirrel (July 16th, 2011)
Here’s yet another creepy gadget for spying on spouses; this one is apparently intended for polygamous relationships (we’re told it enables one to “watch them”, “track them” and “catch them”), but I presume it would also work if one only wanted to spy on one person. As I said about the semen snooping service, “if you have that little trust for your wife, your relationship is doomed so you might as well save the money and just break up.”
Bootlickers (July 20th, 2011)
Remember the “bikini baristas” who were accused of “prostitution”, and the indignant letter from the woman who called the coffee bars “slut stands” that hurt “children” because “the ol [sic] man can’t keep his eyes to himself or his hands off himself?!” Well, Italy has ignorant prudes just like her:
Busty brunette Laura, 34…has dominated newspapers and TV chat shows after pictures of her dressed in her revealing clothes appeared on the internet…Men have flocked to her bar…so much…that…wives and girlfriends in the town…have banned their partners from going…One said: “It is outrageous and should not be allowed. This town is quiet and respectable now we are known across the whole country because of the little amount of clothing this barmaid is wearing to serve drinks…”
One Size Fits All (August 9th, 2011)
I guess these folks didn’t get the memo that arranged marriages are also considered “human trafficking” now: “…[Fifteen] young girls in Wadia village near Palanpur are getting ready for a mass marriage…For the first time, the girls will not be forced into the flesh trade. Wadia is known as the village of prostitutes in Gujarat. The…marriage…is scheduled on March 11…” Artificial lines between prostitution and other types of female behavior are drawn everywhere, and the Indians seem just as bad at it as Americans are.
Elephant in the Parlor (October 23rd, 2011)
I can’t vouch for this 2007 story (which I somehow missed before), but I do know the lady:
A former New Orleans prostitute…has said David Vitter was a regular customer in 1999…In an interview…[with] Hustler…Wendy Yow Ellis…said she…[saw] Vitter…[regularly] for several months…”I could not wear any perfume, body lotions, not even take a shower,” Ellis said. “Because he did not want any scent on him whatsoever…” Vitter would [even] take his used condoms with him. Vitter has acknowledged being a customer of Pamela Martin & Associates, a Washington, D.C., escort service…[Ellis] and Jeanette Maier, who…[ran] a brothel on Canal Street, then said that Vitter had also used their services…[after a while she told him her real name] “…and he said, ‘Oh, my God.'” That was the last time they met for sex…Vitter’s wife is named Wendy. Before that, Ellis said, she had used the name Leah…
Forward and Backward (November 22nd, 2011)
The DA of Washington, D.C. admits that “prostitution-free zones” are unconstitutional, but Florida cops never let a little thing like that stop them:
…anyone convicted in Hillsborough County of three or more prostitution charges can be prohibited from a 6½ square-mile area …called the “prostitution exclusion zone”…that long has been known for prostitution…and while police already…impound vehicles when a prostitution or drug arrest is made, the council agreed in December to raise the cost of reclaiming the vehicle to $500. The new exclusion zone is neither a law nor a city ordinance…it’s a rule that judges can include as a condition of probation for anyone convicted of felony prostitution…
Yes, consensual sex between adults can be a felony in Florida. Surely you aren’t surprised?
The Prudish Giant (December 28th, 2011)
Apparently, Paypal has entered a “biggest busybody” competition with Google:
…On…February 18, PayPal began threatening indie book publishers and distributors with immediate deactivation of the businesses’ accounts if they did not remove books containing …specific sexual fantasies that PayPal does not approve of…Of course, [this]…would devastate these businesses and all of their authors (not just the erotic writers) overnight…PayPal has a monopoly on the market of online payment processing. There are few alternatives, though none that are widely used by online shoppers…the [banned themes include BDSM, incest and] pseudo-incest (including “daddy” fantasies, step-family)…fantasies about non-consensual sex or rape, bestiality (widened to include non-human fantasy creatures)…[including] shape-shifters – if the shape-shifters were to have sex in their non-human forms…
The More the Better (January 9th, 2012)
No sooner was this article about a stripper mom published in Redbook than a pompous pearl-clutcher named Penny Nance felt compelled to spew this sick bigotry out on the Fox News site, claiming (among other absurdities) that “the strip club industry has painful ramifications on society and leads to pornography addiction, gangs, drug use and sex trafficking — just to name a few.” I’m glad when people make such ridiculous statements, though, because they’re right about one thing: “Cultural acceptance of pornography, stripping, and prostitution is growing day by day.” And when our descendants look back at this time period, articles like this will allow them to clearly identify people like Nance as the delusional fanatics they are.
Metaupdates
January Updates in February Updates (February 13th, 2011)
The ersatz plastic surgeon who accidentally killed a young Englishwoman with black-market butt injections may have been caught:
…Padge Victoria Windslowe, 42, was arrested Wednesday night as she prepared to host a “pumping party” where she was to illegally inject clients…She faces charges including aggravated assault and deceptive practices after…an exotic dancer…suffered serious lung problems after an injection… Windslowe…was being held on $10 million bail…[and] is a “person of interest” in the death of the 20-year-old London woman who last year received injections at a hotel near Philadelphia International Airport…
Where Are the Victims? in November Updates (Part Two) (November 3rd, 2011)
“Considering the economic and social collapse of Detroit (which has lost 60% of its population in the last 30 years), one would think its ‘authorities’ would have better things to do than persecute hookers.” But since the cops disagree, the people of Detroit now have to fend for themselves: “…Justifiable homicide in [Detroit] shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year…the local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force…are fighting back…on their own…” I might point out that not too long ago nearly everyone had this sensible attitude, and it was only after the majority grew too lazy and timid to protect themselves that the police departments with which we are now oppressed were allowed to grow to their present dangerous size, power and level of armament.
Gorged With Meaning in First Updates of the Year (Part Two) (January 4th, 2012)
Another British article bemoaning the fact that women use sex to make a living:
An increasing portion of students in the United Kingdom looking for a way to pay for their tuition are turning to prostitution…the problem may be particularly acute among medical students, who generally go to school longer, accrue more debt and have less time for paid employment, according to the paper by Jodi Dixon, who is studying at the University of Birmingham. Dixon pointed to a study of about 300 British university students, in which 10 percent reported knowing a student who had worked as a prostitute or escort in 2010. That’s up from about 6 percent in 2006, and 4 percent in 2000, Dixon said, a rise that coincided with an increase in college tuition fees…While the ethical implications of soon-to-be doctors working as prostitutes are unclear, “what is unacceptable is a student being forced into prostitution out of financial desperation,” Dixon said…
Waaaah, waaaah, boo hoo hoo. It’s “unacceptable” to be forced into sex work out of financial desperation, but not to be forced into waitressing or au pair work or any other job that makes a whole lot less? And if you think its “unethical” for medical professionals to have ever done sex work, I’ve got some really bad news for you…
Sales Pitch in We’re Not Done Yet (January 28th, 2012)
Proponents of the Swedish Model insist that there are no brothels in Sweden and that their law makes “sex trafficking” virtually impossible:
Six men are set to be charged…on suspicions of operating a…human trafficking operation which brought young women from Romania to Sweden to sell sex. According to prosecutors, the trafficking ring is one of the largest of its kind ever uncovered in Sweden…Last year in Gothenburg, 255 men were reported and fined for buying sex, a number which led local police to…the discovery of the…trafficking ring…Exactly how many women were selling sex on the streets in Sweden remains unclear, however.
Well, at least there weren’t any government officials involved with this one.
One Year Ago Today
“He Said, She Said” is yet another example of why it’s really stupid for men to get involved in BDSM games with emotionally unstable women.
“A private US intelligence company” … am I the only one that sees a serious problem with having such an animal?
It’s not the money, Maggie – it’s the DRAMA! The new whiz-bang gadgets for snooping only increase the drama. I’ve known couples like this who snooped on each other – and I’m convinced they LOVED it … it was like some kind of fetish for them, catching their spouse cheating. Even after being caught and even after making it a big deal – they still stayed together, eager for the next round of self-inflicted drama, which was always only five minutes around the corner!
I’ve said this before that women hold the keys to a lot of this shit. Those men WILL stop going if their wives forbid it too.
On David Vitter, it’s pretty well documented his hooker exploits. The thing I will say, on his behalf, is I read one account from a New Orleans madame who said he was a very well-behaved customer who treated the girls right and they all liked him. Is that true? I don’t know. But the same Madame said that Billy Nunguesser was also a patron – and a sexual deviant. Who knows?
Paypal? It’s going to go out of business because it places so many limitations on it’s patrons. I tried to “check out” last night from A1 Supplements online – and I was refused the PayPal option because I had a bottle of Yohimbine HCL in it. It’s a completely legal product – and I use it for thermogenesis during my workouts. PayPal don’t like it though so I had to go the debit card route.
And … they’ll be better doctors, in the end, than their male counterparts are. Those women service men of every age – and that’s real world experience that will be useful to them when they become doctors. Again, on this I’ll refer to my friend in Germany who’s an FKK enthusiast and, he claims those women have given him so much good advice and seem to know exactly what kind of things will and won’t work for men. He calls them “Dr. Whore” … LOL! Yeah, he was telling me … “Well I had this problem and I thought I should to do THIS – but Dr. Whore told me “no”, she’s seen this before in men and what I actually should do is this other thing!”
Dr. Whore is usually right. 🙂
I agree, but not as big a problem as private prisons are.
Same thing with spousal abuse, though it’s not PC to say it. I’ve seen the dance too many times to ignore it; she pushes and needles him ’til he strikes out to “show her”, then she cries and goes running to friends for sympathy. He feels horribly guilty, she uses that as fuel for a new round. Modern “domestic abuse” laws have added a new step to the dance: eventually neighbors call cops, they arrest him, she bails him out. If it’s a “mandatory prosecution” state his defense costs them a ton of money and introduces a new reason to argue. Sometimes she eventually leaves him, goes to a shelter, then they enter a new dance of restraining orders and such until she finds a new partner and starts the dance all over again. Two sick people feeding on each others’ sickness.
Oh, of course! I just thought it was interesting that a girl I had worked with had “outed” herself, even if it was 5 years ago.
I dropped Paypal two years ago when it started demanding info I didn’t want to give and blocking me from ordering pet meds from an Australian site I use (Petshed.com).
I’ve spoken on occasion about how many medical pros I know (doctors, nurses, X-ray techs, massage therapists, veterinarians…) were either escorts in school or still do it on the side.
I agree with you on the “drama” aspect of spousal abuse. However, I used to deal with a lot of Sailors involved in spousal abuse – and they often used the excuse … “Well she forced me into it”.
My advice to them – was that this is game that is only won by not playing. There is nothing to be gained from ever hitting a woman. Whatever behavior you wanted to change – will not change. She will only come back at you stronger – and armed with the law on her side.
So just don’t EVER hit a woman. It’s one of the very few “zero tolerance” positions you can take and likely never have to break. A woman comes at you with a weapon – different story I suppose but that’s never happened to me (though a woman did fire a paintball gun into my nuts one time just for fun – but I was wearing a cup! 😉 ).
I know that a lot of “Angry White Men” are produced by the imbalances in the justice system towards these kinds of men. However, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for them since – THERE IS an “escape hatch” by not playing the game. Like Gunny Highway said in “Heartbreak Ridge” – “We’re Marines, sir. We’re paid to adapt, to improvise.” 😀
This doesn’t excuse evil women – but evil women are a part of the fabric of the universe and they must be navigated safely! 🙂
I’ve spoken on occasion about how many medical pros I know (doctors, nurses, X-ray techs, massage therapists, veterinarians…) were either escorts in school or still do it on the side.
The common aim of both is to attend to their patients/clients and make them feel better. So it is fitting that some Swiss prostitutes have been trained in using cardiac defibrillators.
PayPal needs to make a decision. Are they running a business or not? If they ARE running a business then they need to accept payments for perfectly legal products, or they just might find themselves out of business.
We used to have tremendous problems with the Yellow Pages in New Orleans; every year they came out with new and even more absurd and arbitrary rules for escort service ads. In 2002 they even established the rule that the only words allowed in ads had to come from a certain list; even the NAME of the company had to come from that list, effectively destroying any chance of a service establishing a reputation for quality because it couldn’t keep its own name.
PayPal’s slayer may already be here, once Bitcoins mature enough.
Here in the UK “The Daily Telegraph” leading (and longest) obitary was for Miss Edna under the heading “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”.
It was easy to see where the writer’s sympathies lay – and that was NOT with Marvin Zindler.
What was this Zindler jassack “exposing,” anyway? As I understand it, the Chicken Ranch’s existence and activities were common knowledge.
Had I been his editor, I’d have spiked the story and told him to go do something useful.
Even better if the editor had spiked him!
When Zindler realized that public opinion was turning against him, he started to claim that his motive was exposing the sheriff’s “corruption”. It still didn’t win him any friends, but I guess he figured it sounded better than “I wanted to ruin a local institution and put a bunch of women out of work.”
Bet they wouldn’t even DREAM of banning the sale of the Bible using PayPal, which has stories of incest and rape.
When they can ban “barely legal” sex, i.e. sex with and 18-19 year old, you cease to expect any logic or sense from them.
This should be viewed as a sexual discrimination, anti-female issue, since the “rape for titillation” genre is almost exclusively written by and aimed at women.
And “sex with werewolves”? Seriously? Not only are the tales fictional, they are mythological and totally impossible of being implemented in real life. In that case, what about The Princess and the Frog? Isn’t hot human on (magical) amphibian action worthy of banning? As for BDSM, I once read this medical text describing a series of experiments in which female volunteers had their vaginas tortured before and after they masturbated (Gruenwald, 2007) in order to determine whether sexual arousal affected the way women processed pain in their genitals(The women generally could bear more pain when sexually aroused, by the way). I found this enormously “titillating”.
re:Bootlickers, this highlights the fact that many (most) wives object (violently) to their husbands even looking – in the literal sense – at another attractive woman. I wonder if women appreciate how impossible this really is. Men constantly, relentlessly, scan their surroundings for attractive women. You would have to blind them to prevent this from happening. And even from a feminine point of view, it should be obvious that the best way to ensure that something happens is to openly tell people not to do it.
re: Elephant in the parlour – Politicians not only patronise prostitutes, but it is institutionalised. Back in the early 1990s I was working in Indonesia. One night, I visited my favourite brothel, which was one of the most exclusive brothels in the city, and was told not to bother coming the following month, because an international heads of state meeting was going to be held in Bali, and literally all of the girls in the organisation, from three cities, were being flown in and processed for security passes so that they could service the heads of state.
The Laura the barmaid thing is just a bit ridiculous. We used to have a bar nearby with a busty waitress who wore low-cut tops. My g/f loved to take me there because there was no chance I was going to sleep with the girl, but the g/f got the benefits of the ogling. If she’s not sleeping with customers, why do these women care? Women need to realize that men want to sleep with other women. It comes with the testosterone. If they confine that to the occasional ogling, they deserve a gold star.
I’ve become convinced of this, too.
‘“…[a new] study revealed…that young women with lower GPAs and more [binge drinking] used condoms less and less frequently over time…”’
Could this be an example of someone having an astute grasp of the obvious?
I’d love for the author of that article to explain, in detail, what is the ethical conflict of a prostitute becoming a doctor. I can see the ethical conflict of a serial killer becoming a doctor…. of a psychopath or sociopath becoming a doctor. Despite the fevered and ridiculous beliefs of religious fanatics who hate prostitutes or the angry beliefs of neofeminists who hate prostitutes, prostitution and its practitioners have nothing in common with serial killers, sociopaths or psychopaths, so how is any of our sisters becoming doctors an ethical issue for that profession?
Indeed, if a prostitute becomes a doctor, she has less time for prostitution. If one is against prostitution, then wouldn’t prostitutes becoming doctors be a GOOD thing, because the doctors then can’t be doing as much of that icky prostitution?
I’m going to get a bit pedantic here so I’ll beg your forgiveness in advance, but “them” and “they” aren’t necessarily plural pronouns. Until the 1800s, when the Victorians really got busy standardizing the English language and trying to jam a Celto-Romanto-Nordic pidgin language into something akin to formal late Republic Latin grammar, “them” and “they” were sort of general nonspecific pronouns, so using them in reference to what a theoretical person might do is just as proper as using them in reference to what a theoretical group of people might do.
I was taught that they’re plural, and so were the people who designed that website and everyone who uses them incorrectly today. In modern English, the proper pronoun for a single person of indeterminate gender is “he”, not “they”. If we’re going to allow older rules as an excuse for grammatical errors, you can kiss formal spelling and grammar goodbye.
That’s true, and I’m sure not going to go to the mattresses over it, but the singular use of they/them/their has remained part of the living language -despite the wishes of grammarians- throughout the intervening centuries, leading many contemporary linguists and grammarians to accept the use as valid. Moreover, it fills a vital need for an elegant gender-neutral and identity-indeterminate pronoun in our language that “he” or “he or she” do not.
Having said all that, the “he” usage is not only perfectly valid, but also insisted upon by more than a few college profs out there. The word-nerd in me just feels the need to stand up for small heterodoxies like this and flat adverbs from time to time.
I don’t mind it in common speech, but in writing it looks anything BUT “elegant” IMHO.
Regarding Paypal’s policies, I suspect this might be in response to that new “anti-child porn” bill, which basically is designed to outlaw any possible depiction of what might be construed as pornography involving a child (including short women with small breasts). Lots of conventional search sites, art sites like DeviantArt, as well as the big porn aggregators (RedTube, Rule #34, ect.), have been instituting new policies to try and be in compliance with PCIP (Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers).
You know, maybe it’s actually a good thing that I’m not rich. I’d be tempted to set up the biggest lolicon/shotacon website the world has ever seen. Every 10,000th visitor gets a free copy of Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.
For those of you who need a PayPal alternative, check out :
https://www.dwolla.com
I’m not shilling for ’em, do your research and check ’em out, make yer own decision.