The Honest Courtesan

One of the great things about the internet is that it’s a lot easier to share fan-made films than it used to be; here (just in time for May Eve) is a funny little Lovecraft video from creators we’ve seen here before; next week I’ll share another one.  The links above the video were provided by Clarissa, Mike Siegel (x2), Radley Balko, and Cop Crisis (x2).

• R.I.P. Mary Quant.
• Juvenile delinquents.
• Another metaphor alert.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Not a police state yet, no sirree!
• “Flagging cops down” is the same as calling them.

From the Archives

• Sex work businesses are ineligible for loans; individuals still get the check.
• Declaring things “non-essential” is a versatile excuse for authoritarianism.
• As long as our work is marginalized, whores will be targeted for violence.
• It’s good to see a few government employees with spines and principles.
• Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw your neighbors outdoors”?
• So many “enlightened” countries still pretend disease is caused by “sin”.
• The state cages women to force their participation in its morality plays.
• I’ve been pointing out the inherent violence of prohibitionism for years.
• Another dog’s-breakfast record review billed as a “sex trafficking sting”.
• Notice how fanatics like to focus on demonizing one website at a time?
• Violence against trans people is finally starting to get media attention.
• Does anyone still believe that this is about anything other than profit?
• Liz Brown takes a detailed look at the current US pro-censorship cult.
• The prohibitionist crusade against all adult material online continues.
• Innocent people targeted by attention-hungry loons are hitting back.
• I find it funny so many get so bent out of shape by the Babylon Bee.
• The more complicated a plan, the more there is to go wrong with it.
• A headline writer without a boot permanently lodged in his mouth.
• Pro-Swedish criminalization politicians will lose their shit over this.
• China attacks those who tell the truth about the Uighur genocide.
• Abrogating freedom of religion and freedom of assembly at once.
• Female victims of violence are increasingly treated like criminals.
• Sex workers are always among the first targeted for deportation.
• Desire in the abstract is often different from partaking in reality.
• Cops, pets, bullshit, Mr. Electrico, song covers and much more.
• Cop murders pregnant girlfriend, claims it was suicide.  Again.
• It’s good to see the “sex addiction” myth slowly falling apart.
• Cam work isn’t just a stopgap measure; it’s a specialization.
• Wealth and power do not create evil; they merely enable it.
• And guess who gets to declare that an “emergency” exists?
• Cops, lost cities, Jim Steinman, Felix Silla, and much more.
• Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will only keep multiplying.
• Maya Morena on yet another gang of prohibitionist nitwits.
• Kaytlin Bailey presents a “whore’s eye view” of US history.
• Anything can be “trafficking” if you use your imagination.
• Documenting my progress toward crazy cat lady status.
• Cops, pigs, Robert Morse, Bertha Butt, and much more.
• A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
• Hey lede writer, the word you’re looking for is “abolish”.
• They’ve chased the ambulance back to Texas again.
• Compare to the ugly behavior of France & the US.
• A murderer is also a rapist. Gee, what a surprise.
• It’s so lovely to see them feeding on each other.
• Sociopaths claim this is what sex workers want.
• Five months of winter is two months too much.
• On century-old houses and “clean enough”.
• How to challenge Swedish criminalization.
• Another example of sex worker ingenuity.
• Another collection of bits from Twitter.
• It’s just going to keep getting worse.
• The “Swedish model” helps women!
• “Youth pastors” are as bad as cops.
• Cashmere and chainsaws.
• April 2017 in retrospect.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• What a koinkydink.

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