The Honest Courtesan

At the beginning of the pandemic, the news was so dominated by it that there really weren’t many items for my news columns (other than the undermining and/or outright violations of civil liberties politicians used the pandemic to justify).  So a couple of weeks in, I wrote:

…it’s become difficult to fill my news columns due to the pandemic; nobody’s talking about anything else (even though there are definitely other things to talk about), so there just aren’t enough stories to feature (because I have even less interest in writing a column about stupid epidemic memes than you have in reading one).  So for the time being, I’m rationing news items to seven per news column (instead of the usual nine to thirteen) until I start noticing the number of fresh items has increased again…

Three and a half years later, I’m still at seven per column, and have no intention of expanding that even though I probably could pretty easily average about nine.  The reason is very similar to the one for no longer writing full essays on the occasions I used to observe with polemics: too much repetition runs the risk of this blog degenerating into irrelevance.  Though cops are still conducting their entrapment schemes and pretending they’re something more than an excuse for moral degenerates to rape and rob women and ruin men’s lives, the public has largely lost interest in the “sex trafficking” hysteria which drove them, and they’re limping along on a mixture of inertia, sadism, and the federal government’s profligate spending until such time as the sociopaths in office can think of a way to interject more mindless carceral violence into their war on the internet.  Nor do I need to amplify the voices of others writing on this topic any longer; they seem quite capable of attracting attention themselves, and there are plenty of good articles by sex workers and about sex worker issues all over the internet every week.  So I’m content for the time being to keep things as they are, maintaining a comfortable pace until such time as I decide to make another in the long series of adjustments I’ve made to keep things going for the past thirteen years.