The Honest Courtesan

Please don’t kill my husband.  –  Shameka Smith

Grace suggested this video to commemorate the passing of guitar legend Jeff Beck; I was unfamiliar with it, but less than 60 seconds in I knew it was the right choice.  The inks above the video were provided by Dan Savage, Mama Tush, Clarissa (x2), Mike Siegel, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.

• R.I.P. Jeff Beck.
• Tampons make Jesus cry.
• Never underestimate Roman genius.
• R.I.P. Walter Cunningham and Fay Weldon.
• Another cop wantonly murders another kid.
• The message here is, “We know who you are”.
• Never call the cops for any reason whatsoever.

From the Archives

• Wherever there are men making money, there will be sex workers nearby.
• Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
• Working people all over are done with arbitrary authoritarian “lockdowns”.
• If there’s one thing the US needs, it’s more sadistic rapists in the military.
• This disgusting trash is loaded with copsucking & emotional manipulation.
• Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
• The bipartisan war on the internet moves another step toward idiocracy.
• Nothing infuriates violent, self-important busybodies more than privacy.
• Are most people really surprised to find out that cops are habitual liars?
• Remember this when people claim prohibitionists are “well-intentioned”.
• SCOTUS leaves the conflict between the 7th & 10th Circuits unresolved.
• Whores are even less popular with the Establishment than MAGA types.
• He pronounced the wrong magic words in the magic Spell of Forfeiture.
• Even journalists reporting on this insist on referring to it as “correction”.
• Though this is becoming a safe position, we still have a long way to go.
• The machine of authoritarianism is vast, complex, and has many parts.
• Anti-vaping lunacy is reaching “sex trafficking” levels of disinformation.
• Another example of how “lockdowns” cause far more harm than good.
• Pro-decrim article by a sex worker in conservative-leaning newspaper.
• Politicians & the media feign shock over a disaster they helped create.
• Discussing extreme fetishes in writing with any amateur is a bad idea.
• The fashion and beauty industries owe their very existence to whores.
• Some rapist cops take measures to permanently silence their victims.
• An account of Epstein’s crimes that doesn’t devolve into torture porn.
• France becomes the first European country to start this conversation.
• Reporters must learn that “people work to make money” is not news.
• Silly “awareness raising” stunts are now mostly marketing gimmicks.
• Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently, do so?
• PayPal needs to be buried in similar lawsuits before this will stop.
• PayPal is now actively seeking to rat sex workers out to the pigs.
• The only way to market yourself as I do is to be Maggie McNeill.
• Cops, pigeons, Florida, Siegfried Fischbacher, and much more.
• In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Texas cops raid migrant-owned businesses; what a surprise.
• “Tolerance policies” are not equivalent to decriminalization.
• Cops think they can just make up their own pharmacology.
• Cops, nerds, puritanism, Ronnie Spector, and much more.
• Still doubt that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
• Another firsthand account of China’s torture of Uighurs.
• All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
• A sad regurgitation of all the usual anti-porn nonsense.
• It would be difficult to bury this lede any further down.
• Fascist profiteers sue to force censorship on everyone.
• The recrudescence of the “repressed memory” myth.
• Old-fashioned Stasi-type surveillance isn’t dead yet.
• Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?
• The War on Whores, now showing on YouTube.
• Alabama is trying to make up for its late start.
• We told you so, over and over and over again.
• Brooke Magnanti’s new project, Body of Work.
• Cathy Reisenwitz on the awfulness of Polaris.
• Prohibitionism is a dangerous mental illness.
• Cops, Bach under glass, and much more.
• The Essential Maggie McNeill, Volume I.
• Not concerned yet?  You should be.
• Dealing with a constipated pig.
• So helping!  Many respectful!
• What an exhausting week!
• Rapist cop of the week.
• A visit with Dr. Quest.
• Fascism in action.

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