The Honest Courtesan

You’re lucky I don’t get out of this car and beat your ass.  –  Ronald Serpico

Though to my adult ear this song is terribly silly, I quite liked it when it came out.  Of course I was just a child at the time, and it appealed to my dyed-in-the-wool lack of respect for authority and my growing rebelliousness.  And since C.W. McCall didn’t exactly have a string of hits, here we are.  The links above it were provided by Clarissa, Franklin Harris, Cop Crisis, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Cop Crisis again (x2), and Tim Cushing, in that order.

• R.I.P.  C.W. McCall.
• Frogs, meet scorpion.
• This is not reformable.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• No, your reason is not an exception.
• Raising victim-blaming to an ugly art-form.
• Government is just a word for the things we choose to do together.

From the Archives

• Everything about modern corporate work makes me happier I’m a whore.
•  “Social purity” campaigns have always been a wholly bipartisan crusade.
• Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw your neighbors outdoors”?
• If only there were a concise word for “systematically forced to have sex”.
• Nobody’s listening to prohibitionist wanking fantasies during the plague.
• Cathy Reisenwitz on a power-hungry politician’s lies about the internet.
• “[The state] incentivizes hotels to pry into the sex lives of their guests“.
• “Sponsored content” means an article is actually an ad, not journalism.
• Politicians have been trying to control the internet ever since it started.
• “Interesting that everyone who left soon committed a traffic infraction.”
• The power to declare something “non-essential” is the power to ban it.
• I hope you amateurs enjoy being hunted like animals by armed thugs.
• Specimens of homo sapiens are always afraid of things they can’t see.
• The bipartisan war on the internet moves us a step closer to idiocracy.
• Why even not-quite-prohibitionist documentaries are not quite good.
• Three of my friends have thoughts on the massage parlor massacre.
• Fascists scheme to make the UK surveillance network even worse.
• We’ll see more articles like this as “sex trafficking” hysteria dies.
• Once the state takes a power, it never surrenders it voluntarily.
• Consent is neither as simple nor as static as puritans pretend.
• Copsucking reporter claims to be critical of mass surveillance.
• Cops, pimples, punctuation, Beverly Cleary, and much more.
• It’s been a while since I’ve seen this topic addressed so well.
• It’s important that “out” sex workers not hide our nerdiness.
• There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
• I hope Pasco County, Florida is bankrupted by this lawsuit.
• I am not your attack dog, so don’t try to whistle me up.
• When I upgraded this blog to avoid an “improvement”.
• This psychopath is far too close to power for comfort.
• Cops, government, ghosts, Godzilla, and much more.
• I haven’t seen this once-popular fantasy since 2018.
• Sex workers have often been blamed for epidemics.
• Prohibitionists want Ontario to be more like the US.
• Cops, restaurants, the Freakies and much more.
• Prohibitionists claimed this would be a disaster.
• A retrospective of my blogging for March 2011.
• As always, sex workers take care of our own.
• Moving my books into my new bookcases.
• The twelfth member of my Hall of Shame.
• Why my news columns are shorter now.
• Decorating, a fundraiser, and a baby.
• Too much “togetherness”, y’all?
• Scratch a SWERF, find a TERF.