The Honest Courtesan

I’m going to feel like the biggest idiot taking this to court.  –  foolish cop

To honor the passing of Tito Jackson, I’ve chosen this performance of “I Want You Back” on The Ed Sullivan Show, mostly because it’s my favorite Jackson 5 song.  The links above it were provided by Jesse Walker, Walter Olson, C.J. Ciaramella, T. Greg Doucette, Aaron Ross Powell, and Phoenix Calida (x2), in that order.

• R.I.P. Tito Jackson.
• I’m sure you feel safer now.
• The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil.
• I don’t use the word “ghoulish” lightly.
• Strange immigrants in small New England town.
• Computers make more work for humans, not less.
• Supervillains used to steal things that actually existed.

From the Archives

• Everyone who spread “sex trafficking” hysteria contributed to this atrocity.
• Government thinks it even has the right to leer at the inside of your body.
• Cops, robots, aliens, Patrick Nonwhite, Jean-Luc Godard, and much more.
• “Fentanyl” is now another porcine pretext for harassing & robbing people.
• The events which eventually led to decriminalization in New South Wales.
• Australian cops bravely protect imaginary children from imaginary abuse.
• The hysteria is imploding so hard, it’s falling all the way back to its roots.
• This is no more “raunchy” in Taiwan than Halloween costumes in the US.
• Asstoon’s surveillance company will keep outing sex workers to the pigs.
• If prohibitionists want to “rescue” whores, why keep us from other jobs?
• Government often attacks with civil suits rather than criminal charges.
• Anyone who’s ever closely known a narcissist will see the truth of this.
• Cops and politicians think barfing out “children!” excuses any tyranny.
• About damned time, considering they backed Amnesty six years ago.
• Did you ever wonder why the government stopped harassing bitcoin?
• Sleeping with a cop is dangerous even if the woman is a cop herself.
• It’s more than a bathhouse, and my terminology should reflect that.
• Don’t infantilize young victims of government brutality as “children”.
• It’s rare for a UK article on sex work to be so free of dysphemisms.
• Any information you give to cops can and will be used against you.
• What the people who enforce “sex trafficking” laws are really like.
• India protects rights the West now seems determined to destroy.
• Why do people refuse to see injustice until it’s inflicted on them?
• “Inappropriate contact with inmate” = “rape of a caged woman”.
• Just because his victim was gullible doesn’t make this not rape.
• “Pastor and sex offender” is a large and ever-expanding group.
• Surprising absolutely no one who understands McNeill’s Law.
• The state is only sympathetic to imaginary “perfect” victims.
• Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
• Cops, Escher’s diner, Sodom & Gomorrah, and much more.
• Prohibitionists learned nothing from the Atlanta massacre.
• Can a sex worker win an election in the puritanical US?
• It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
• This vulture feeding frenzy is going to get a lot uglier.
• The same everywhere sex work is at all criminalized.
• Cops, “records”, Roger Whittaker, and much more.
• Spooge-based sexual assaults are growing worse.
• Quotes from my “Banned Books Week” columns.
• Cathy Reisenwitz interviews me on her podcast.
• Some Louisiana cops prefer to rape by proxy.
• My first and only guest column by a robot.
• Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
• What is wrong with doctors who do this?
• Tweets from September 2021 and 2023.
• Improving cell phone service at Sunset.
• Basically the same as a “youth pastor”.
• Getting the first steel rafter into place.
• “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpteen.
• My two previous columns for Mabon.
• My recipe for fried green tomatoes.
• The Curse of Throwback Thursday.
• Presented without comment.
• Rapist cop of the week.
• Our outside cat, Rocky.
• Stop faking!

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