The Honest Courtesan

No one wants to hear the Cookie Monster say he’s going to kill their family.  –  LA business owner

Some of you may know the name of Wayne Shorter, the great jazz saxophonist whose passing is commemorated by this week’s video. But few will know the name of Ricou Browning, the diver, underwater stunt man and underwater cinematographer who played the “gill man” in The Creature from the Black Lagoon and also directed many underwater action sequences in movies of the ’50s & ’60s, notably Thunderball.  The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker, Franklin Harris, Jesse again, Franklin again, Scott Greenfield, Joe Lancaster, and Fiona Harrigan, in that order.

• Headline of the week.
• Serious anger management issues.
• Where’s Kolchak when you need him?
• R.I.P. Ricou Browning and Wayne Shorter.
• Bureaucrats claim threats motivated by “safety”.
• Crime: shoplifting. Penalty: summary execution.
• No pleasure is so small that a puritan won’t try to ban it.

From the Archives

• Cops, movies, censorship, Max von Sydow, the One Ring, and much more.
• Those who actually need “correction” are the ones who enable this horror.
• A “study” claiming such impossibly-tiny numbers can be safely dismissed.
• Prohibitionists demonstrate their sociopathic need to control others’ lives.
• Whores are morons whose lives must be micromanaged by governments.
• It took fifty pigs to entrap a woman for the “crime” of introducing people.
• I’m sick of the current popular obsession with people’s genes & genitalia.
• Burying government in lawsuits is the only way to slow its depredations.
• Even journalists reporting these abuses euphemize them as “correction”.
• 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
• So many “enlightened” countries still pretend disease is caused by “sin”.
• ”Happy endings” have apparently become a matter of national security.
• China has adopted a method of subjugation invented by the Assyrians.
• Did somebody in charge actually develop a particle of moral judgment?
• Future historians will refer to the 20th Century as “the Prohibition Era”.
• While sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targets for creeps.
• Repurposing a disused tag to feature sex worker activism of this type.
• Another article trying to elicit sympathy for a cop’s criminal behavior.
• If they actually punished wife-beating cops, they’d lose half of them.
• Louisiana can always be counted on to make a bad idea even worse.
• The urge to control women cannot be stopped by a mere pandemic.
• Will WA politicians accept progress, or demonstrate their hypocrisy?
• One can never have too many anti-Swedish criminalization articles.
• It’s about time they started using their money to fight censorship.
• Do prosecutors think scoring points trumps a harassment lawsuit?
• Disgusting men never tire of blaming women for their own rapes.
• Politicians don’t think “science-driven policy” applies to sex work.
• Mar Brettmann will say anything to sell her anti-whore snake oil.
• Far too many people adore authoritarian public health schemes.
• Cops lie so frequently, they can’t tell which lies are believable.
• The typical politician’s response to criticism:  doubling down.
• Sows cry, “We didn’t know the leopards would eat our faces!”
• Harassment like this will continue until FOSTA is overturned.
• Ever notice how often predatory cops’ targets are underage?
• Support posts for the northwest roof section of my annex.
• Indian politicians want to help demolish the internet, too!
• Cops, bureaucracy, tea, Emilio Delgado, and much more.
• Costumed criminals regularly abduct and torture people.
• Cops, beer, Norton Juster, Doctor Who, and much more.
• It’s a bad idea for a sex worker to pay no income taxes.
• Still think this djinni can be stuffed back into its bottle?
• Signed copies of Ask Maggie, Volume II are available!
• Florida prohibitionists are completely out of control.
• The old strip club business model is a dead duck.
• The conclusion of my 6-part review of Blake’s 7.
• I called this a hoax as soon as the story broke.
• Just another cop demonstrating what he is.
• Sex worker rights is not an isolated issue.
• The Swedish model protects sex workers!
• What is wrong with doctors who do this?
• Crypto-moralism rots people’s brains.
• A nice review of The War on Whores.
• A panel on the idea of “free love”.
• Why we can’t have nice things.
• The orgasm tool for women.
• Fan letters are so inspiring!
• On the death of Orville.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• It’s chick time again!
• R.I.P. Jack Hammer.
• Presents!

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