The Honest Courtesan

There are many less severe and less dangerous ways to garner sympathy that don’t include shooting oneself.  –  Jeffrey Lichtman

It seems appropriate to send Marianne Faithfull off with her first big hit.  The links above the video were provided by Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, Gustavo Turner, Radley Balko, Lucy Steigerwald, Tim Cushing, and Mike Masnick, in that order.

• R.I.P. Marianne Faithfull.
• A library of imaginary books.
• Our Lord and Savior, Dracula.
• Was this “protecting” or “serving”?
• An empire rapidly descending into madness.
• Another cop demonstrating exactly what he is.
• Google should adopt the motto, “Don’t be stupid”.

From the Archives

• Vast sums of time, money & energy, flushed down the “culture war” toilet.
• Amateurs are a public health menace who should be licensed & regulated.
• Defrauding & exploiting workers is only “trafficking” when sex is involved.
• Prohibitionists want people to wrongly think the Swedish model is decrim.
• Everyone harmed by “prostitution stings” needs to keep suing over them.
• This article on the “super bowl sex trafficking” myth is no longer unusual.
• This tells you everything you need to know about politicians’ motivations.
• I’ve always wanted a place big enough to properly host overnight guests.
• Repellent even by the abysmally-low standards of local news copaganda.
• Why can’t amateurs grasp the difference between offering & demanding?
• The government is beginning to grudgingly admit what everyone knows.
• 41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with beating.
• This will continue as long as screws have absolute power over prisoners.
• Another way for governments to steal things that don’t belong to them.
• Who else uses “prostitution” as a label for behavior the regime dislikes?
• Hollywood follows rather than leads, so this is a sign of a cultural shift.
• This would at last truly be the beginning of the end for these evil laws.
• AZ still pushes this mummified fantasy with police violence vs women.
• The “sex trafficking” moral panic is imploding in a spectacular fashion.
• One of the people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• Everyone harmed by “stings” and raids needs to keep suing the cops.
• US states compete to make adolescence most like a prison sentence.
• I think we have enough evidence to start calling this “McNeill’s Law”.
• Cops, Burt Bacharach, Lisa Loring, Cindy Williams, and much more.
• Politicians claim the solution to torture in prisons is MOAR PRISON.
• It’s never called “trafficking” when the government & cronies do it.
• “Porn addiction” is still being used as an excuse for violent crimes.
• Destigmatization of psychedelics is happening amazingly quickly.
• The people the government empowers to police your sexuality.
• Cops, disappointment, Melanie, Chita Rivera, and much more.
• It usually starts with sex workers, but it never stops with us.
• There’s a reason I’ve repeatedly called this cult “dangerous”.
• Once again, vanillas reveal themselves as the true perverts.
• Cops, Skynet, Debussy, Douglas Trumbull, and much more.
• A teleplay more relevant today than when it was filmed.
• The third installment of my six-part review of Blake’s 7.
• All that’s left of the once-popular “gypsy whores” myth.
• Copmala will never let go of her hatred of sex workers.
• On the psychology behind cops’ entrapment schemes.
• Yet another opportunistic fraud has been unmasked.
• This would be terrible even if the cops weren’t lying.
• Cops still love their “crackdowns” against gay men.
• My highest subscription levels come with perks!
• There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
• Forgetting to take pictures until it’s too late.
• It’s never really about “protecting children”.
• Authoritarian is as authoritarian does.
• You just can’t keep a bad law down.
• This has been going on for years.
• There are no gaps in this roof.
• Anyone can now join BlueSky.
• Lady Throwback Thursday.
• Rapist cops of the week.
• Lighting my atrium.
• Vanishing gumbo.

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