The Honest Courtesan

This appears…to be another incident of senseless police violence.
–  Joel Sansone

This week’s video is something extremely unusual: a brand-new official video for a song released in 1966.  It was provided by Matt Welch, and the links above it by Dan Savage and Franklin Harris; Cop Crisis (x3); Popehat; and Lucy Steigerwald, in that order.  I stumbled onto the last one myself while reading another item.

• R.I.P. Leslie Phillips and Gallagher.
• “Never” really, truly does mean “never”.
• What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
• Cops harass and abduct old man for being blind.
• Cop murders man for trying to save a stranger’s life.
• When Facebook-style algorithms are used for marketing.
• I think amateurs definitely need to screen more thoroughly.

From the Archives

• Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity.
• Arizona screws are devoted to yelling “Stop faking!” at the sick and dying.
• Using “violence against women” cant to increase violence against women.
• Cops had no interest in catching him until he started killing non-whores.
• Americans suffer from a peculiar and characteristic ignorance of history.
• Two hardline prohibitionists at the top do not bode well for sex workers.
• UK reporters discussed this more in weeks than US ones have in years.
• Is Hollywood finally starting to back off from “sex trafficking” hysteria?
• Politicians won’t stop until they can censor the internet as they please.
• Prohibitionists don’t care who suffers to advance their twisted agenda.
• The racism of European “anti-trafficking” is getting harder to disguise.
• Prohibitionists want inexperienced sex workers harmed or even killed.
• “Police explorer” programs are grooming schemes for predatory cops.
• Hungarian politicians are as potty-obsessed as their US counterparts.
• “This is completely insane and endangers everyone’s property rights.“
• Amazon’s fascist collaboration with cops just keeps getting worse.
• Any data in government hands will inevitably be misused by cops.
• Why can’t people choose a government as they choose a religion?
• Useful idiots never see where “hate speech” laws inevitably lead.
• Every four years, Ipswich claims it will “eradicate” street work.
• Both “teams” love ugly, racist, agency-negating whore stigma.
• On the dogma that sex without “enthusiastic consent” is rape.
• Censors’ fixation on Pornhub spreads to Thailand and India.
• They should never have been made public in the first place.
• It’s unusual for reporters not to excuse this as a “mistake”.
• More blaming of bad behavior on an imaginary “addiction”.
• Male sex workers’ clients are never predominantly female.
• Country life isn’t without its peculiar issues and problems.
• Seattle cops have a positive fetish for illegal surveillance.
• They’re talking about ordinary-sounding escort agencies.
• Cops, cats, straight people, Beethoven, and much more.
• Your government wants this to happen more often.
• Cops, Clue, exploding whales, and much more.
• Cops, vampires, James Bond, and much more.
• More presents from a lovely birthday season.
• A review of an episode of Deep Space Nine.
• The horrifying recrudescence of censorship.
• How to get a nude picture of my genitalia.
• It’s good when they feed on each other.
• Decriminalization is just the beginning.
• “We might as well go down fighting.“
• A ramp down into the paddock.
• My office starts to take shape.
• A tactic pioneered by China.
• Greta Thunberg, child saint.
• A short collection of tweets.
• The quiet week that wasn’t.
• Rapist cops of the week.

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