The Honest Courtesan

You’re going to kill me.  –  Lisa Edwards

Since every one of this week’s links, all provided by Cop Crisis, was just horrible, I’m sure y’all will understand if I inject some levity by way of the video.

• Stop faking!
• This cannot be reformed.
• Cop murders man for being afraid of cops.
• Laws only apply to the ruled, not the rulers.
• “Crime”: no license plate. Penalty: summary execution.
• Cop shoots man in back after failing to murder him with truck.
• It’s amazing how often people die mysteriously when cops are near.
• Politician claims shooting businessmen is “protecting the community”.

From the Archives

• Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
• Somebody who isn’t me is actually applying critical thought to this claim.
• A timid but possibly important challenge to FOSTA from inside Congress.
• I dislike St. Patrick’s Day almost as much as I dislike St. Valentine’s Day.
• Trumpists are clinging to the “sex trafficking” narrative like grim death.
• The travel industry will regret collaboration with “trafficking” fetishists.
• People need to keep suing government actors for every single assault.
• Exploitation is, sadly, more common than not in the “rescue” industry.
• “Human trafficking” is nothing more than a dysphemism for sex work.
• “Sex trafficking” now means whatever authoritarians want it to mean.
• An attempt to take one weapon of racist persecution away from cops.
• Unless some country provides a haven, the open internet is doomed.
• They’ve chased this ambulance from Austin to Washington and back.
• “Packed” = “concentrated”. And the word for “tent facility” is “camp”.
• It took almost seven years for the press to finally catch up with me.
• Another cost of America’s sick worship of state-sanctioned violence.
• The government needs to be buried in lawsuits before this will stop.
• Japanese attempts to hide sexuality will never be enough for gaijin.
• A perfect storm of stupidity, sex fantasy and authoritarian violence.
• It looks as though at least one court is attempting to grow a spine.
• “Authorities” want to keep sex workers from protecting each other.
• I’ve never seen chicks grow and develop as quickly as this batch.
• Removing excuses cops use to persecute people is always good.
• Another specimen of the garbage the state pays to violate kids.
• Cops, businesses, Steven Banks, William Hurt, and much more.
• “Survivors” are exploited by prohibitionists, but some wake up.
• Texas cops routinely destroy lives by creating false memories.
• Your last bit of privacy during travel is about to be eliminated.
• An imaginary “offense” is excused by an imaginary “disorder”.
• It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart.
• A long-overdue move by Mexico to throw off US domination.
• Columns like this one by Steve Chapman are no longer rare.
• Some US states are trying to bring back a form of serfdom.
• Your “leaders” know what’s best, so shut up and obey.
• Another step toward a fully-independent demimonde.
• When malodorous moralists went after Pepe Le Pew.
• Why do puritans pretend that shaming is “modern”?
• Matthew 21:31 seems pretty straightforward to me.
• Still doubt politicians are deranged megalomaniacs?
• Doctor Who has always been one of my favorites.
• My two previous columns for the vernal equinox.
• Cops, Metallica, Lyle Waggoner, and much more.
• This will definitely be uphill in most of Louisiana.
• Prohibitionists love victim-blaming sex workers.
• Your government calls this “border protection”.
• We told you so, over and over and over again.
• The framework for the wall of a new full bath.
• Tips for sex workers pivoting to online work.
• How China tries to keep the genocide quiet.
• How the pandemic is harming sex workers.
• There really is nothing new under the sun.
• This is going to hurt a lot of sex workers.
• It’s good when they feed on each other.
• Cops, covers, saints, and much more.
• I move to Sunset for the duration.
• I’ll bet you knew this was coming.
• Sex workers reaching out via art.
• Far too little, far too late.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• More Twitter stuff!
• Chick days.

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