The Honest Courtesan

I can’t breathe.  –  Ivan Gutzalenko

There are many popular Tina Turner songs I could’ve chosen to honor her passing, but instead I decided to use one most of my younger readers may be unfamiliar with.  The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible; Cop Crisis; Phoenix Calida; Scott Greenfield; Dan Savage & Franklin Harris; Lenore Skenazy; and SWOP-USA, in that order.

• I can’t breathe.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• Border patrol are just federal cops.
• Who could ever have predicted this?
• R.I.P. Tina Turner and George Maharis.
• Now I can finally fuel up my warp engine and go home!
• Calling any government “emergency” number = calling the cops.

From the Archives

• Laws like this have already been ruled unconstitutional by the 4th Circuit.
• Cops will never stop doing this until the state stops giving them pretexts.
• Cops, history, sensationalism, Rube Goldberg machines, and much more.
• It’s good to see a government hoist with its own “sex trafficking” petard.
• They make this sound like the bureaucrat was doing his victims a favor.
• Cops are responsible for more violence than any other US social group.
• I’m extensively quoted in this article about everyone joining OnlyFans.
• The Dutch scheme to Disnify De Wallen is no longer merely a scheme.
• Violet Blue on protecting yourself from phone surveillance at protests.
• Laws enabling nuisance lawsuits will grow until ruled unconstitutional.
• German sex workers answer the ugly lies of prohibitionist politicians.
• Like the Netherlands, Belgium only pretends to respect sex workers.
• The same thing Biden wants, but please tell me more about “wings”.
• Compare to the contrived prohibition in Australia & the Netherlands.
• The best way to accomplish prohibitionist goals is to buy politicians.
• The 5th Circuit sucked Louisiana politicians’ dicks on this in 2018.
• June 2nd is a day for sexual outlaws, not well-behaved “workers”.
• “Sex predators” are mostly men with authority over their targets.
• Prohibitionists’ real goal is to completely ban online sex work.
• If this doesn’t horrify you, you haven’t been paying attention.
• Over half of Americans now live in states with legal cannabis.
• Government never, ever blames itself for the harm it causes.
• The problem isn’t religion; it’s blind submission to authority.
• Looks like the judge didn’t buy his “porn addiction” excuse.
• A retrospective of my blogging from May 2011 and 2012.
• Just another of those nonexistent false rape accusations.
• French law provides some defense vs religious activism.
• One of the greatest legal abominations ever conceived.
• Indian sex workers have awaited this ruling for years.
• The days of my never saying “I told you so” are over.
• A collection of essays for International Whores’ Day.
• Cops, dentists, mutant hamsters, and much more.
• Cops, kinks, robots, Eric Carle, and much more.
• The end of being handicapped by broken nails.
• Fake client texts from an unscrupulous ad site.
• I wonder when Hollywood will catch up?
• Instagram and TikTok users, take note.
• Sophie Ladder on “restricted content”.
• For every weapon, there is a defense.
• Fixing the wiring problems at Sunset.
• In which Scotland out-Herods Herod.
• Nearly finished with the atrium roof.
• Sows hoist with their own petard.
• Whores are as eternal as the sea.
• Rapist/murderer cop of the week.
• And it can find you just as easily.
• It’s just to keep people SAFE!
• Setting posts for my annex.
• Far too little, far too late.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Building a new stable.
• Stop faking!

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