The Honest Courtesan

Be mindful of your surroundings and don’t feed sharks.  –  Melissa Brunning

Mocking brutal dictators is a long tradition, exemplified by Spike Jones’ “Der Fuhrer’s Face“.  But due to his megalomania and bizarre antics, the monstrous Idi Amin was an especial favorite of comedians from Peter Cook & Dudley Moore to Richard Pryor.  This is a song by the British comedian John Bird, which I first heard on The Doctor Demento Show when Amin was still in power; I thought of it last week when I realized that Trump is a lot like Amin in many ways.  The links above it were provided by Clarissa, Phantom Joker, Scott Greenfield, Kevin Wilson, Nun Ya, and Tim Cushing, in that order.

• As one does.
• Sex trafficking!
• Just protecting and serving.
• Darwin Award honorable mention.
• Spiders are like creatures out of science fiction.
• Idiot reports self to cops for injuring own foot with exploding camera.

From the Archives

• A craptastic mixture of the obvious, the pearl-clutching & the dead wrong.
• Media never tire of presenting ordinary sexwork practices as new & novel.
• Despite this fantasy’s popularity with UK cops, none has ever been found.
• Adult man wearing a costume mansplains professionals’ own job to them.
• Massage parlor licensing is widely touted as a way to “fight prostitution”.
• Cops, Shazam, Pokemon, Sweden, Michigan, bureaucracy & much more.
• There aren’t enough real “victims”, so the rescue industry creates fakes.
• Remember, cops: raping whores is OK; it’s paying them fairly that isn’t.
• They “see it as a business transaction” because that’s exactly what it is.
• The gap between what actually happened & what cops claim happened.
• Hawaii joins other states in recriminalizing acts that are already illegal.
• Clearly, critical thinking skills are not a prerequisite for nursing school.
• Another chapter in this grotesque campaign to intimidate sex workers.
• Portraying whores as depraved monsters rather than pathetic victims.
• It’s great to see a sex worker run for office, especially when she wins.
• Small cities’ ludicrous concepts for supposed “gypsy whore” magnets.
• Scaling back claims about Charlotte, NC being a “sex trafficking hub”.
• Watching “sex trafficking” hysteria spin out of control of “authorities”.
• Some cops just can’t stick with the “all whores are victims” program.
• No, you fucking filthy liar, it’s not “unique” and you fucking know it.
• Prosecutors’ magic Shazam power can turn “children” into “adults”.
• Fetishists expend so much energy on something that doesn’t exist.
• Your regular reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
• Labeling a particular street a “hotbed” of sex work or “trafficking”.
• Is it “sexist” for a sex worker’s client to request a custom service?
• “Sex trafficking” hysteria spins out of control of the “authorities”.
• Is it OK to ask a sex worker friend if she’d see me professionally?
• Do you want prosecution for acts that weren’t illegal at the time?
• A politician describes my flexible, lucrative job as “undesirable”.
• Is the ACLU finally beginning to do the right thing, at long last?
• Fanatics are recycling old “sex trafficking awareness” stunts.
• Yet another surveillance tool for hunting down sex workers.
• A guest columnist writes about Dennis Hof & Lamar Odom.
• Another in an anti-“sex offender” registry series from Vox.
• Germany prepares a horrible new set of anti-whore laws.
• On the humorous, adventurous rapists of Disneyland.
• Chi Adanna Mgbako on sex worker activism in Africa.
• But picket-fence queers say cops aren’t our enemies.
• Laura Lee braves the hostile waters of Mumsnet.
• Kate Iselin gets it, though four years after I did.
• Notable American proponents of “end demand”.
• A promising start for decrim in South Australia.
• Heading to the Desiree Alliance conference.
• Lorelei and I prepare to depart for Ireland.
• How Taiwanese police harass sex workers.
• “Crime”: stillbirth. Penalty: life in a cage.
• Don’t think this is unique to Oakland.
• “The next generation of condom”.
• Not a good move on Deen’s part.
• Cops, Vangelis and much more.
• It’s enough to make one vomit.
• Good riddance to bad rubbish.
• Writing a column in the air.
• Rapist cops of the week.