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The Honest Courtesan

Frank commentary from a semi-retired call girl

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As I’ve said before, you can take the girl out of the library but you can’t take the librarian out of the girl.  This is a continuously-updated index of all of my posts by title, complete with links.

Above the Law
Above the Law (updates)
Absolute Corruption
Absolute Corruption (updates)
AC/DC
Accountability
Accredited Whores
Accredited Whores (update)
Across the Pond
Across the Pond (updates)
Acting and Activism
Acting and Activism (updates)
Action and Reaction
The “Active” in “Activism”
The Actual Cost
Actual Working Knowledge
Actually, This is Good News
Actually, This is Good News (update)
Ad Absurdum
Ad Absurdum (updates)
Ad Astra
Ad Scortum
Ad Scortum (update)
Adolescence, Ambiguity and Axes
Advice for Clients
Advice for Clients (updates)
Against Conscience
Against the Storm
Against the Tide
Against Their Will
Against Their Will (updates)
Age Before Beauty
Agenda
Agenda (update)
Aggressive Ignorance
Aggressive Ignorance (updates)
The Agitator
Agony Aunt
Agony Aunt (updates)
Aileen Wuornos
Alice Keppel
All About the Men
All About the Men (updates)
All Clean
All Hallows Eve
All in the Family
All in the Family (updates)
All in the Head
All-Purpose Excuse
All-Purpose Excuse (updates)
All Shapes and Sizes
All Shapes and Sizes (updates)
All the Difference
All the Difference (updates)
All the Quiet Sociopaths
All Traffick, All the Time
All Wet
All Wet (updates)
Allied for Change
Allied for Change (updates)
Aloha, Oy!
Aloha, Oy! (update)
The Aloha State
Also in Jezebel
Alternative
Am I Missing Something?
Amateur Night
Amateur Night (updates)
Amazingly Stupid Statements
Amazingly Stupid Statements (updates)
Ambition
Amnesty At Last
Amnesty At Last (updates)
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (updates)
Anarchy?
Anatomy of a Boondoggle
Anatomy of a Boondoggle (updates)
…And Always Know Where Your Towel Is
…And Always Know Where Your Towel Is (update)
…And Don’t Forget To Wash Behind Your Ears
And Speaking of Victim Blaming…
And Speaking of Victim Blaming… (update)
An Angel of Mercy
An Angel of Mercy (updates)
The Angels of Dien Bien Phu
An Angry Reply
Anniversary
Another Chick in the Hall
Another Column on Sex-Worker Rights
Another Example of Swedish “Feminism”
Another Example of Swedish “Feminism” (updates)
Another Fine Mess
Another Fine Mess (updates)
Another Friday the Thirteenth
Another Porn Influence
Another Reason Not to Do Cowgirl
Another Reason Not to Do Cowgirl (update)
Another Small Victory
Another Small Victory (updates)
Another Super Bowl Invasion
Another Super Bowl Invasion (Update)
Another Whore Who Thinks She Isn’t
The Anti-Life Equation
The Anxiety Trap
Any Old Port
Any Old Port (update)
Ape and Angel
Approach Pattern
Approaching Infinity
April
April Miscellanea (Part One) 
April Miscellanea (Part Two) 
April Updates
Are You a Pimp?
Argument Department
Around the Block
As Always
As Young As Possible
Ashley Madison
Ashley Madison (updates)
Aspasia
Assume a Sphere
Athena
The Auctioneer Effect
The Auctioneer Effect (updates)
August Miscellanea (Part One)
August Miscellanea (Part Two)
August Movies
August Updates (Part One)
August Updates (Part Two)
The Autumnal Equinox
Available Weapon
Available Weapon (updates)
An Avalanche of Bullshit
An Avalanche of Bullshit (updates)
Aversion Qualified
Aversions
Aversions (updates)
Awakening
Awakening (update)

Baby Steps
Baby Steps (updates)
Back and Forth
Back and Forth (update)
Back from the Dead
Back in the Saddle
Back Issues
Backfire
Backfire (updates)
Backlash
Backlash (updates)
Backup
Backward, Turn Backward
Backward, Turn Backward (updates)
Backwards into the Future
Backwards into the Future (updates)
Bad Advice
Bad Boys
Bad Fantasy, Good Reality
Bad Fantasy, Good Reality (updates)
Bad Girls
Bad Girls (updates)
Bad Idea
Bad Jobs
Bad Jobs (updates)
Bad News
Bait and Switch
Bait and Switch (updates)
Balancing Act
Ban the Super Bowl!
Banishment
Banishment (updates)
Banned Books Week
Barbara Payton
Barbie
Barbie (updates)
Bareback
BDSM (Part One)
BDSM Part One (updates)
BDSM (Part Two)
BDSM (Part Three)
Be Careful Who You Rape
Be Careful Who You Rape (updates)
Be the Change
The Beat Goes On (Part One)
The Beat Goes On (Part Two)
Beating a Long-Dead Horse
Beauty and the Beast
Because Everyone Knows That Laws Deter Streetwalkers
Because Everyone Knows That Laws Deter Streetwalkers (update)
Because It Is
Because We Say So
Because We Say So (updates)
Beck and Call
Bed Death
Being Heard
Being Maggie
Believe Them
Believe Them (updates)
Bell, Hook and Kettle
Bell, Hook and Kettle (updates)
Beltane
Beneath the Veil
Bérénice, Madame de Pascal
The Best Part
Better Left Alone
Between the Ears
Between the Ears (updates)
Between the Lines
Between the Lines (updates)
Beyond the Pale
Big Deal
Big Dick Energy
Big Dick Energy (update)
The Big Lie
Big Sister
Big Sister (updates)
The Big Table
The Biggest Whores
The Biggest Whores (updates)
Bird of Prey
The Birth of a Movement
The Birth of a Movement (updates)
Bits and Pieces (Part One)
Bits and Pieces (Part Two)
Bits and Pieces (updates)
Black Hat, White Hat
Black Men
Blackball
Blackball (updates)
Blasphemy
Blasphemy (updates)
Blessed are the Poor
The Blessing
Blind Spot
Blood on the Sand
Blood on the Sand (updates)
Blunt Instrument
Blunt Instrument (updates)
Body and Soul
The Body Count
Bogeymen
Bogeymen (updates)
Bone of Contention
Bone of Contention (updates)
Book Launch
Book Questions
Book Review:  America’s War on Sex
Book Review:  The Science of Fear
Book Review:  SuperFreakonomics
Book Reviews (March 2012)
Book Reviews (October 2012)
Book Reviews (updates)
The Boonies
Bootlickers
Bootlickers (updates)
Born, Not Made
Borrowing Trouble
Boss Lady
Bottleneck
Bottleneck (updates)
Bottom Feeder
Bound to Break
Boxing Day
Boy Juice
Bread and Circuses
Bread and Circuses (updates)
Breaking News: President Obama Has a Human Friend!
Bride of the Agitator
The British Policy on Sex Rays
Broken Record
Broken Record (updates)
A Broker in Pillage
A Broker in Pillage (updates)
Bucket List
Building a Current
Bullies With Badges
Bullies With Badges (updates)
Buried But Not Dead
Buried But Not Dead (update)
Buried Truth
Buried Truth (updates)
Business As Usual
Business As Usual (updates)
Business Opportunity
Business Opportunity (updates)
Buttons, Bags & Banknotes
Buttons, Bags & Banknotes (updates)
Buyer’s Remorse
Buying Time
By Any Other Name
By the Numbers

A Cake for All Seasons (Part One)
A Cake for All Seasons (Part Two)
Calamity Jane
Calling
The Camel’s Nose
The Camel’s Nose (updates)
Camp Followers
Camp Followers (update)
Can We Talk?
Candlemas
Candyland
Capricious Lusts
Capricious Lusts (updates)
Cardboard Cutouts
Cardboard Cutouts (updates)
Caring Professionals
Caring Professionals (updates)
Carnival
Case Study
Case Study (updates)
Cashing In On Shame
Cassandra’s Mirror
Castle on a Cloud
Castle on a Cloud (update)
Catastrophic Consequences
Catastrophic Consequences (updates)
Catching Up
Catching Up With Maggie
Caution to the Winds
Caveat Emptor
Ceding Ground
Celebrities
Celebrities (updates)
Celebrititties
Celebrity
Celebrity (update)
Censor Chic
Censor Chic (updates)
The Censor-Moron
Censorship Ascendant
Censorship Ascendant (updates)
Challenge
Challenge (updates)
Change a Few Words
Change a Few Words (updates)
Change in the Air
Change Is
Change of Heart
Change of Heart (updates)
Changing the Rules
Changing the Rules (update)
Charlie Sheen Trashes Hotel Room
Chauvinism
Chauvinism (updates)
Check Your Premises
Check Your Premises (updates)
Checklist
Checklist (updates)
Cheesy Scheme
Cheesy Scheme (update)
Child Saint
Childish Things
Childish Things (updates)
Children’s Hour
Children’s World
China Dolls
Ching Shih
Choke Point
Choke Point (updates)
Christmas
Christmas Belle
Christmas Cookie
Christmas Eve
Chupacabra
Chupacabra (update)
Circle
Cleaning Toilets
Cleansing Fire
The Clipboard Effect
Clowning Around
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical
The Clueless Leading the Hysterical (updates)
Clueless Wonders
Clutter
The Coffee Klatsch
The Coffee Klatsch (update)
Cognitive Impairment
Cognitive Impairment (updates)
The Cold, Grey Light of Dawn
The Cold, Grey Light of Dawn (updates)
Collaboration Horizontale
Collaboration Horizontale (update)
Collective Consent
Collectivism vs. Cannabis
Colossus Blinks
Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone (updates)
Coming and Going
Coming and Going (updates)
Coming Out
Coming Out (updates)
Coming Up Short
Community
Companion
Companionship 101
The Company of Strangers
Concubine
Confidentiality
Confined and Controlled
Confined and Controlled (updates)
Conflation Creates Criminality
Conjuration
Conjuration (update)
Connection
Constructive Criticism
Continuing To Crumble
Contract
Convenient and Inconvenient Victims
Convenient and Inconvenient Victims (updates)
Convolution
The Cool Kids
Cooties
Cooties (updates)
The Cop Myth
The Cop Myth (updates)
Cops and Condoms
Cops and Condoms (updates)
Cops and Robbers
Cops and Robbers (updates)
Copsucker
Copywrong
Cora Pearl
Count the Idiocies
Count the Idiocies (updates)
Counter-Countermeasure
Counter-Countermeasure (updates)
Counterfeit Comfort
Counterfeit Comfort (updates)
The Country of the Blind
Couples (Part One)
Couples (Part Two)
Couples (updates)
The Course of a Disease
The Course of a Disease (updates)
Courtesan Denial
Coyote Beauty
Cracks in the Dam
Cracks in the Dam (update)
The Craving
Creating a Monster
Creating a Monster (updates)
Creating Criminals
Creating Criminals (updates)
Creating the Crisis
Creating the Crisis (updates)
Credit Where Credit is Due
Credit Where Credit is Due (update)
Creeping Rot
Creeping Rot (updates)
Creepy Coppers
Creepy Coppers (updates)
Crime Against Society
Crime Against Society (updates)
Crippling Thought
Criticism and Response
The Crumbling Dam
The Crumbling Dam (updates)
Crumbling House
Crumbling House (updates)
Crying for Nanny
Crying for Nanny (updates)
Crying Wolf
Crying Wolf (updates)
Crystal Ball
Crystal Ball (update)
Cuckoo Advertising
Cuckoo Advertising (updates)
The Cult
The Cult of Coupling
Cutting Remarks

Damned If You Don’t
Damned If You Don’t (updates)
Damned Lies
Damned Lies (updates)
The Dance of Death
Dance of the Seasons
Dangerous Speech
Dangerous Speech (updates)
Dark Corners
Dark Corners (updates)
Dating Game
Dating Game (updates)
The Daughters of Shamhat
The Daughters of Shamhat (update)
A Day Against Hate
A Day for Whores
The Day of the Dead
The Day of the Dead (updates)
The Day We Fight Back
Dead On Arrival
Deadbeats
Deadbeats (update)
Deafening Silence
Deafening Silence (updates)
Dear Parasite
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah Jeane Palfrey (updates)
December Miscellanea
December Seventeenth
December Updates
A Decent Boldness
Decentralization
Decentralization (updates)
Deep Frustration
Definitely Not the Worst Pickup Line Ever
Déjà Vu
Déjà Vu (updates)
Delicious Poison
Delightful Conversation
Delightful Conversation (updates)
Denunciation
Dependence Day
Desperately Seeking
Devil’s Advocate
Devil’s Advocate (updates)
Devil’s Advocate (Holiday Leftovers)
The Devil’s Toys
The Devil’s Toys (update)
Diary of a Sad Man
Diary of a Sad Man (update)
Different Strokes
A Different View
Dilemmas
Dirty Amateurs
Dirty Amateurs (updates)
Dirty Laundry
Dirty Laundry (updates)
Dirty Whores
Dirty Whores (updates)
Disaster
Disaster (updates)
Disqualified
Disqualified (updates)
Distinctive
A Distorted Lens
Divided We Fall
Divided We Fall (updates)
Divided We Stand
Divination
Divination (updates)
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (updates)
Do Not Tolerate Domestic Violence
Do Not Tolerate Domestic Violence (update)
Do You Know What It Means?
Do You Party? 
Dog Bites Man
The Dog Days
Dominating the News
Dominating the News (updates)
Don’t Buy It
Don’t Buy It (updates)
Don’t Call It Trafficking
Don’t Call It Trafficking (updates)
Don’t Confuse Us With Facts
Don’t Confuse Us With Facts (updates)
Don’t Take My Word For It
Don’t Take My Word For It (updates)
Don’t Try This At Home
The Doors of Perception
Double Deal
Double Dip
Double X
Doublethink
Doublethink in Modesto
Doubling Down
Doubling Down (updates)
Down Under
Down Under (updates)
Dr. Schrödinger and His Amazing Pussycat
Dr. Schrödinger and His Amazing Pussycat (updates)
Drama Queens
Drama Queens (updates)
Drawing Lines
Drawing Lines (updates)
Drinking on the Job
Driskill Mountain
Droit du Seigneur
Droit du Seigneur (updates)
Dry Run
Dry Spell
Due Consideration
Due Consideration (updates)
Dutch Threat
Dutch Threat (updates)
Dutch Treat
Dysphemisms Galore
Dysphemisms Galore (updates)

East is East and West is West
Easter
Eating Up Time
Eavesdropping
Eavesdropping (updates)
Édith Piaf
An Educated Idiot
An Educated Idiot (updates)
Eglimaphilia
844,739
Election Day
Election Day (updates)
The Elephant and the Mouse
Elephant in the Parlor
Elephant in the Parlor (updates)
Empathy
Empowermental
The Empress Theodora
Empty Set
The Enablers
The Enablers (updates)
Enabling Oppression
Enabling Oppression (updates)
End Demand
End Demand (updates)
The End of the Beginning
The End of the Beginning (updates)
End Violence, Not Demand
End Violence, Not Demand (update)
An Ending and a Beginning
Endorsement
The Enemy of My Enemy
The Enlightenment Police
The Enlightenment Police (updates)
An Enormous Big Nothing
An Enormous Big Nothing (updates)
Enough is Enough
Enough is Enough (updates)
Eostre
Epilogue
Epiphany
Eros and Phobos
Eros and Thanatos
Escorts.com Raided by FBI
The Essence of Evil
The Essential Maggie McNeill
Eternal Vigilance
Eternal Vigilance (updates)
Eternity
Eurydice
Even This Shall Pass Away
Even Worse Than I Had Thought
Everything Old is New Again
Everything Old is New Again (updates)
Everywhere a Sign
An Example to the West
An Example to the West (updates)
Extra Edition
Extra, Extra!
The Eye of the Beholder
The Eye of the Beholder (updates)

The Face of Trafficking
The Face of Trafficking (updates)
Facts in the Case of Monica Jones
Facts in the Case of Monica Jones (updates)
Fadeaway
Faerie Tale
Fair Game
Fair Play
Fair Trade
Fair-Weather Friends
Fair-Weather Friends (updates)
Faithless
Fallen Idol
Fallen Idol (updates)
Fallout
False Assumption
False Compromise
False Confidence
A False Dichotomy
A False Dichotomy (updates)
False Target
False Target (updates)
False Witness
False Witness (updates)
Familiarity Does Its Thing
Family Curse
A Fantasy of Hate
A Fantasy of Hate (updates)
FarmVille
FarmVille (updates)
Fat Tuesday
A Fate Worse Than Death
A Fate Worse Than Death (John Law)
Father’s Day
Favor
Fear of Commitment
The Feast of Stephen
February Miscellanea
February Updates (Part One)
February Updates (Part Two)
Feeding On Their Own
Feeding On Their Own (update)
Feeling Small
Feet of Clay
Feet of Clay (updates)
Feminine Pragmatism
Feminine Pragmatism (updates)
Feminists and Other Puritans
Feminists and Other Puritans (updates)
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale (updates)
Fetish-Focused
Feudalism Redux
Feudalism Redux (update)
Fever Dream
Fever Dream (updates)
Fictional Interludes
Filtering Out the Poison
Finding What Isn’t There
Finding What Isn’t There (updates)
Fireworks
The First Christmas
First Impression
First They Came for the Hookers…
First They Came for the Hookers… (updates)
The First Time
The First Time (updates)
First Updates of the Year (Part One)
First Updates of the Year (Part Two)
Fit To Print
Five Women in Whitechapel
Five Women in Whitechapel (updates)
Flaky Pastries
Flavor of the Month
Floralia
Flush Criminalization
Flush Criminalization (updates)
Follow the Leader
Follow the Leader (updates)
Follow Your Bliss
Follow Your Bliss (updates)
Footprints
For I Have Sinned
For Justice
For Love
For Love (update)
For the Children
For the Record
For Their Own Good
For Their Own Safety
For Those Who Think Dating is Safer Than Whoring…
For Those Who Think Legalization is a Good Idea
For Those Who Think Legalization is a Good Idea (updates)
For You As Well
Forbidden Questions
A Foregone Conclusion
The Forest for the Trees
The Forest for the Trees (update)
Forward and Backward
Forward and Backward (updates)
Fossil
Fostering
Four Meanings
Four Years Ago Today
Fourth Anniversary
The Fourth of July
Fraught With Complications
Fraught With Complications (update)
The Free Speech Mafia
The Free Speech Mafia (update)
Frequently Told Lies
Frequently Told Lies (updates)
Friday the Thirteenth
Friday the Thirteenth Again
Friday the Thirteenth Times Three
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th, In Tandem
Friend
A Friend in Need
Frightful Films
From the Top
Frozen Smoke
Fuck You, Pay Me
Full of Themselves
Full of Themselves (updates)
The Funniest Unintentionally Sexual Album Covers Ever
Funny Shows
The Fur Is Flying
Further Developments

Galvanized
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Gardasil
Gatekeeper
Gateway
Gateway (updates)
The Generation of Leaves
Genesis of a Harlot (Part One)
Genesis of a Harlot (Part Two)
Genesis of a Harlot (Part Three)
Genetic Fallacy
Genetic Fallacy (update)
Genius Loci
Genteel Indolence
Get Out of the 19th Century Often?
Get Out of the 19th Century Often? (updates)
Getting Around
Getting Caught
Getting Started
Ghost
Ghost in the Machine
Ghost of the Agitator
Gift Horse
Gift Horse (update)
The Gift of Sight
Gilda
Gingerbread House
Gingerbread House (updates)
A Girl Who Can’t Say No
The Girls from Tarzana
Girls, Girls, Girls!
Girls, Girls, Girls! (updates)
Give It a Rest
Give It a Rest (updates)
Give Them an Inch…
Give Them an Inch… (updates)
The Giving Season
The Giving Season (update)
Glorious Gifts
Godwin’s Law
Godwin’s Law (update)
Going Abroad
Going After the Pimps
Going After the Pimps (updates)
The Going Rate
The Going Rate (update)
The Golden Afternoon
Good Advice
Good Advice (update)
Good Fantasy, Bad Reality
Good Fantasy, Bad Reality (updates)
Good News, Bad News
Good News, Bad News (updates)
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish (updates)
Gorged With Meaning
Gorged With Meaning (updates)
Grace
Grace’s Chili
The Grand Illusion
The Greater of Two Evils
Greek God
Greeks Bearing Gifts
Greeks Bearing Gifts (updates)
Green Eggs and Ham
Grow the Hell Up!
Grow the Hell Up! (updates)
Guest Column:  Client Survey
Guest Column:  Harm Enhancement
Guest Column:  Street Outreach
Guest Columnist:  Alyxx S Berg
Guest Columnist:  Andrea Werhun
Guest Columnist:  Anonyma
Guest Columnist:  Anonymous
Guest Columnist:  Aspasia Bonasera
Guest Columnist:  Aya de Leon
Guest Columnist:  Ayna
Guest Columnist:  Bo Jensen
Guest Columnist:  Brooke Magnanti
Guest Columnist:  Carol Fenton
Guest Columnist:  Chester Brown
Guest Columnist:  Christina Parreira
Guest Columnist:  Christina Slater
Guest Columnist:  A Client
Guest Columnist:  Dave Krueger
Guest Columnist:  David Ley
Guest Columnist:  David Wraith
Guest Columnist: Domina Elle
Guest Columnist:  Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Guest Columnist:  Elsi Dawson
Guest Columnist:  Endza Adair
Guest Columnist:  Hawk Kinkaid
Guest Columnist:  Hugo
Guest Columnist:  Jasper Gregory
Guest Columnist:  Jeremy Malcolm
Guest Columnist:  John Seattle
Guest Columnist:  Justin Kardel
Guest Columnist:  Kaytlin Bailey
Guest Columnist:  Kelly Michaels
Guest Columnist:  Kevin Wilson
Guest Columnist:  Laura Lee
Guest Columnist:  Madison Graham
Guest Columnist:  Mara
Guest Columnist:  Mark Bennett
Guest Columnist:  Mike Crawford
Guest Columnist:  Mike Siegel
Guest Columnist:  Molli Desi (Part One)
Guest Columnist:  Molli Desi (Part Two)
Guest Columnist:  Norma Jean Almodovar (Part One)
Guest Columnist:  Norma Jean Almodovar (Part Two)
Guest Columnist:  Norma Jean Almodovar (update)
Guest Columnist:  Onioja (Part One)
Guest Columnist:  Onioja (Part Two)
Guest Columnist:  Paul Maginn
Guest Columnist:  Sarah Woolley
Guest Columnist:  Sasha Castel
Guest Columnist (updates)
Guided Tour
Guilt-Free
Guinea Pigs
Guinea Pigs (updates)
Gullible’s Travels
Gullible’s Travels (updates)
Gumbo
The Gun in the Room
Gunung Kemukus
Guy Fawkes Night

Habitable Room
Habitable Room (update)
Half-armed
Halfway Whores
Halfway Whores (updates)
Hall of Shame
Hall of Shame (updates)
Halloween
Hands On
Handy Figures
Handy Figures Revisited
Handy Figures (updates)
Hanukkah
Hanukkah (update)
Happy Birthday, Devil Dogs!
Happy Birthday, Devil Dogs! (update)
Happy Endings
Hard Numbers
Hard Numbers (updates)
Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark
Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark (updates)
Harlots of the Bible
Harm Magnification
Harm Magnification (updates)
Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction (updates)
Hate Mail
A Haughty Spirit
He or She?
He or She? (updates)
He Said, She Said
He Said, She Said (updates)
Head Games
Head Games (update)
The Head of a Pin
The Head of a Pin (update)
Heads in the Sand
Heads in the Sand (update)
Heart of Gold
Heart of Ice
Heat
Held Together With Lies
Held Together With Lies (updates)
Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (update)
Help!
Helping Themselves
Here Comes the Groom
Here We Go Again
Here We Go Again (updates)
Heroines
Heroines (updates)
Hers Alone
Hi
Hidden Hordes of Hookers
Hiding from the Light
High End
High Yuletide
Higher Education
Higher Education (updates)
The Hits Keep Coming
HIV-Positive Man Cured in Berlin
HIV Cure (updates)
Ho, Ho, Ho!
Holiday Leftovers
Hollow Claims
Hollow Claims (updates)
Honolulu Harlots
Honored in the Breach
Honored in the Breach (update)
Honoring Our Dead
Hooker Humor
Hooker Humor (updates)
The Hooker Vote
The Hooker Vote (updates)
Hooters, Japanese Style
Hooters, Japanese Style (updates)
Horns
Horns (update)
Horror Comics
Hortense Mancini
Hot Mess Alabama
Hot Mess Alabama (updates)
House Rules
Housewife Harlotry
Housewife Harlotry (updates)
How Bi I Am
How Exactly is This Different from Every Other Year Since the Dawn of Civilization?
How Many Will It Take?
How Many Will It Take? (update)
How Not To Get Your Comments Posted
How Old is Oldest?
How Old is Oldest? (updates)
How To Be a Stupid, Greedy Whore
Humorous, Adventurous Rapists
Hurdling Over Reality
Hussies
Hussies (updates)
Hwang Jini
Hysteria on Parade

I Believe in Father Christmas
I Can’t Breathe
I Can’t Breathe (updates)
I Disbelieve It!
I Do Not Consent
I Get Mail
I May Sell You Some of Mine
I Really Shouldn’t Even LOOK at an Issue of Cosmopolitan
I Really Shouldn’t Even LOOK at an Issue of Cosmopolitan (updates)
I Saw My Brain
I Saw My Brain (updates)
I Scream, You Scream
I Spy
I Spy (updates)
I Swear To God
I Swear To God (updates)
I Told You So
I Told You So (update)
Ice Cream in the Hand
Ideal
IF
If I Can’t Sell It…
If It Were Legal
If It Were Legal (updates)
If Men Were Angels
If Men Were Angels (updates)
If You Give A Masochist a Cookie
If You Want Something Done Right…
If You Want Something Done Right (updates)
Ignoble Experiment
Illegitimate
Illicit Affairs
I’m Not At All Surprised, and That’s Truly Sad
I’m Sure This One Was Wearing a Bra and Panties
I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now
I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now (updates)
Image Enhancement
Imaginary Crises
Imaginary Crises (updates)
Imaginary Evils
Imaginary Evils (updates)
Imaginary Lines
Imaginary Lines (updates)
Imaginary Victims
Imaginary Victims (updates)
Imagination Pinned Down
Imagination Pinned Down (updates)
Imagine the Sky
Imagine the Sky (updates)
Imbolc
Immoral Purposes
Immune to the Stuff
The Immunity Syndrome
The Immunity Syndrome (updates)
The Implosion Begins
The Implosion Begins (updates)
In a Similar Vein…
In a Similar Vein… (update)
In Charge of the Henhouse
In Denial (Part One)
In Denial (Part Two)
In Denial (Part Two) (update)
In Praise of Paul
In the Street
In Their Own Words
In Their Own Words (update)
Inappropriate Women
Incurable
Indecent Exposure
Independence Day
Inevitability
Inexperience
Infantilization
Inflexible
Innocence Never Had
Innocence Never Had (updates)
Inspiration
Inspiring Work
Instant Criminal
Instant Criminal (updates)
Interchangeable Parts
International Sex Worker Rights Day
International Sex Workers’ Rights Day
International Whores’ Day
Intersectionality
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part One)
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part Two)
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part Three)
Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part Four)
Interview: Jill Brenneman (updates)
Interview:  Laura Agustín
Interview:  Laura Agustín (update)
Interview:  Maggie’s Husband (Part One)
Interview:  Maggie’s Husband (Part Two)
Interview:  Stanley Siegel
Invasion
An Island of Sanity
It Had To Happen
It Looks Good On Paper
It Looks Good On Paper (updates)
It Takes All Kinds
It Tolls for Thee
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
It’s a Start
It’s a Start (updates)
It’s Complicated
It’s Different Because It Involves Sex, Part Umpteen
It’s Different Because It Involves Sex, Part Umpteen (updates)
It’s That Time Again
It’s That Time Again (updates)
It’s What They Do
It’s What They Do (updates)
Its Own Reward
I’ve Been a Busy Girl Lately

J’accuse
J’accuse (updates)
Jae Q&A
Jane Shore
January Miscellanea
January Second
January Updates
January Updates (update)
January Updates (metaupdate)
Japanese Prostitution
Japanese Prostitution (updates)
Jeanne de Clisson
Jenny Haniver
Jezebel
Jezebel (updates)
Jill Brenneman Q & A (Part One)
Jill Brenneman Q & A (Part Two)
John Law
John Law (update)
Jolly Old Saint Nick
Josie Arlington
The Joy of Juxtaposition
The Joy of Juxtaposition (updates)
Judd Not, Lest Ye Be Judded
Judd Not, Lest Ye Be Judded (update)
The Judge, the Feds and the Stripper
July Miscellanea
July Updates (Part One)
July Updates (Part Two)
June Miscellanea (Part One)
June Miscellanea (Part Two)
June Updates (Part One)
June Updates (Part Two)
June Updates (Part Three)
Just Another Chick in the Hall
Just Another Day in America
Just Another Day in America (update)
Just Call Me Nobody
Just Call Me Nobody (updates)
Just Drawn That Way
Just Drawn That Way (update)
Just Friends
Just Plain Weird
Just Too Risky
Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition (updates)

Keep Doing What You’re Doing
The Kindness of Strangers
King Day
King of the Hill
King of the Hill (updates)
The Kisaeng
Klondike Kate
A Knight There Was
Knights Erroneous
Knights Erroneous (updates)
Knock, Knock, Knock
Kristof’s Totalitarian Fantasy

La Belle Otero
La Libertine’s Salon
Lack of Evidence
Lack of Evidence (updates)
Ladies of the Night
Ladies of the Night (updates)
Lady Castlemaine
Lady Hamilton
Lais of Corinth
Lammas
Larentalia
The Last Shall Be First
The Last Shall Be First (updates)
The Last Thirteen for Fourteen
The Last Thirteen for Fourteen (updates)
Late Bloomer
Launched!
Laura Lee, Sex Work Stigma, and the Limits of #MeToo
Laura Lee, Sex Work Stigma, and the Limits of #MeToo (updates)
The Law is an Ass
The Law is an Ass (update)
The Law of Attraction
The Law of Averages
The Law of Averages (updates)
Law of the Instrument
Law of the Instrument (updates)
The Lawyer List
The Leading Players in the Field, Not
The Leading Players in the Field, Not (updates)
Leap Day
Learning Curve
Learning Curve (update)
Leave Well Enough Alone
Leaving the Life
Leaving the Life (updates)
Leaving the 20th Century
Leaving the 20th Century (updates)
Left Behind
Left or Right?
The Legacy of Roe
Legal Is as Legal Does
Legal Is as Legal Does (updates)
Legal Sundries
Legislators Gone Wild
Legislators Gone Wild (updates)
Legitimate Outrage
Legitimate Outrage (updates)
Lending Credibility
Less To Be Understood
The Lesser of Two Evils
The Lesser of Two Evils (updates)
Let Me Help
Let Me Help (update)
Let There Be Dark
Letting Go
Leviathan
Leviathan (update)
Lexicon
Liane de Pougy
Liar, Liar
The Liars’ Club
The Liars’ Club (update)
Libertarianism Happens To People
Libertarianism Happens To People (updates)
License to Rape
License To Rape (updates)
Lies Piled on Lies
Lies Piled on Lies (update)
Life Imitates Artifice
Life Imitates Artifice (updates)
Life With a Fast Brain
Lifeline
Like a Courtesan
Like a Horse and Carriage
Like a Horse and Carriage (updates)
Like Houses
Like Houses (updates)
Lillie Langtry
The Limits of Patience
Linda
Links columns
Links and Changes
The Lion and the Ox
The Lion and the Ox (updates)
Lip Service
Lipstick on a Pig
Lipstick on a Pig (September Miscellanea)
Lipstick on a Pig (updates)
Litha
Little Boxes
Little Boxes (updates)
Little Christmas
Little Girl Found
A Little Help from Our Friends
A Little More Mentoring
Little Tin Gods
Little Tin Gods (updates)
Liu Rushi
Living in Truth
A Living Thing
A Load of Farley
A Load of Farley (updates)
Local Flavor
The Logical Song
Lola Montez
Long Spoon
Long Spoon (updates)
Look Again
A Look at the Works
Loose Cannons
Loose Cannons (updates)
Lopsided Deal
Losing Their Shit
Losing Their Shit (updates)
Lost Angel
Lost Friends
Lou Graham
The Love-Hate Relationship
Low Priority
Lower Education
Lower Education (updates)
Luck Has Nothing To Do With It
Lughnasadh
Lulu White
Lupercalia
Lupercalia (update)
Lying Down With Dogs
Lying Down With Dogs (updates)
Lysistrata
Lysistrata (update)

Mabon
Madame de Pompadour
Made To Be Broken
Madonna and Whore
Madonna and Whore (update)
The Magdalene
Magdalene’s Day
Maggie in the Media
Maggie In the Media (updates)
Maggie’s Kitchen
Magic Formulae
Magic Formulae (updates)
Magna Mater
Maier’s Law
Maier’s Law (updates)
Make Up Your Damned Mind!
Make Up Your Damned Mind! (updates)
Making It Up As They Go
Making It Up As They Go (updates)
Malice Aforethought
Maman
Managing Resources
Mandy Rice-Davies
Man’s Inhumanity to Whores
A Manufactured War
A Manufactured War (updates)
March Miscellanea
March Movies
March Updates
Marching Up Their Own Arses
Marching Up Their Own Arses (updates)
Mardi Gras
Marie Duplessis
Marie Duplessis (update)
Marion Delorme
Marilyn
Mary Ann Hall
Mary Anne Clarke
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene (updates)
Mass Hysteria
Mata Hari
Mata Hari (update)
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
A Matter of Choice
May Day
May Eve
May I Add…
May Miscellanea (Part One) 
May Miscellanea (Part Two) 
May Updates (Part One)
May Updates (Part Two)
May Updates (Part Three)
The Maze of Consent
The Maze of Consent (updates)
Mea Culpa
Meaningless
Mechanocracy
Mechanocracy (updates)
Mecca
Mecca (update)
Meeting Maggie
Memory Hole
Mentoring
Mentoring (updates)
Mercy
Meretrices and Prostibulae
Meretrices and Prostibulae (update)
Metaupdates
Methods of Payment
Michael Weinstein Isn’t Happy About This
Micromanagement
Micromanagement (updates)
Millennium
The Mills of the Gods
The Mills of the Gods (update)
Mind Over Matter
Mind Over Matter (updates)
Mind Reading
Mind Reading (updates)
Mind-Witness Testimony
Minnie Rae Simpson
Miscellanea columns
Misdirection
Misdirection (updates)
Misrepresentation
The Missing Piece
The Missing Word
The Missing Word (updates)
Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (updates)
Mixed Signals
The Mob Rules
The Mob Rules (updates)
Modern Marriage
Modern Marriage (update)
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal (updates)
Moloch
Moloch (updates)
Money Changes Everything
Money Don’t Grow On Trees
Moneygamy
Monkey Business
Monkey Business (updates)
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Monolith
Monopoly
Monsters
Monsters (updates)
The Monsters Are Due
The Monsters Are Due (updates)
Moondance
A Moral Cancer
A Moral Cancer (updates)
Moral Climate
Morality Lessons
Morality Lessons (updates)
More Harm Than Good
More Harm Than Good (update)
More Hooker Humor
More Mentoring
More Prudes
More Q & A
More Stand-Up Guys
More Terminology
More Than Ever
The More the Better
The More the Better (updates)
More Therapy Than Etiology
More Trick or Treat
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
The Mote and the Beam
The Mote and the Beam (updates)
The Mother Learns From Her Children
The Mother Learns From Her Children (updates)
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day (update)
A Mound of Filth
A Mound of Filth (updates)
Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures (updates)
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing (updates)
Mulberry Street
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo (updates)
My Body is Not Yours
My Body, My Choice
My Body, My Choice (updates)
My Favorite Authors
My Favorite Books
My Favorite Christmas Things
My Favorite Columns
My Favorite Games
My Favorite Halloween Stuff
My Favorite Movies
My Favorite Musicals
My Favorite Poems (Part One)
My Favorite Poems (Part Two)
My Favorite Short Films
My Favorite Short Stories
My Favorite Things (Part One)
My Favorite Things (Part Two)
My Favorite Things You May Never Have Heard Of
My Favorite TV Comedies
My Favorite TV Dramas
My Favorite Updates
My First Conference
My First Million
My First Million (updates)
My Next Tour
My Normal
My Police State, ‘Tis of Thee
My Readers Write
My Readers Write (updates)
My Second Shot
My Turn
The Myth of the Wanton
Mythbusters
Mythbusters (updates)

The Naked Anthropologist
The Naked Anthropologist (updates)
The Naked Emperor
The Naked Emperor (updates)
Naked Truth
Naked Truth (updates)
A Narrow View
A Narrow View (updates)
Nasty Words
Nasty Words (updates)
Natural Processes
Natural Processes (update)
A Necessary End
A Necessary Evil
Necessity
Negative Secondary Effects
Negative Secondary Effects (updates)
Neither Addiction nor Epidemic
Neither Addiction nor Epidemic (updates)
Neither Cold nor Hot
Neither Cold nor Hot (updates)
Neither Here Nor There
Nell Gwyn
Never Let ‘Em See You Sweat
Never Too Many
New and Improved
New Around Here
New Book Reviews
New Book Reviews (update)
New Excuse
New Excuse (updates)
New Film Reviews
New Girl in Town
New Kid on the Block
New Orleans’ Nasty Little “Sex Offender” Game
New Orleans’ Nasty Little “Sex Offender” Game (update)
New Orleans’ Nasty Little “Sex Offender” Game (July update)
New Reviews for June
New Reviews for May
The New Victorianism
The New Victorianism (updates)
New Year’s Day
New Year’s Eve
The Next Target
The Next Target (updates)
Nice While It Lasted
Nice While It Lasted (updates)
A Night To Forget
Ninon de l’Enclos
No Difference
No Difference (updates)
No Escape
No Escape (updates)
No Fooling
No Friend of Ours
No Friend of Ours (updates)
No Fun
No Fun Shall Be Had
No Fun Shall Be Had (update)
No Moss
No Moss (updates)
No Need?
No Other Option
No Other Option (updates)
No Protection, No Service
No Thanks
Nobody Asked
Noise and Nuisance
Non-starter
None of Woman Born
None of Your Business
None So Blind
None So Blind (update)
Nonessential
Nonessential (updates)
Not a Good Time
Not All [Your Group Here]
Not an Addiction
Not an Addiction (updates)
Not-At-All-Innocent Broads
Not-At-All-Innocents Abroad
Not At All Unusual
Not Even Close
Not for Any Reason Whatsoever
Not for Any Reason Whatsoever (updates)
Not for Everybody
Not for Everybody (updates)
Not Good Enough
Not Good Enough (updates)
Not Last Night
Not Reason, But Force
Not Rocket Science
Not So Different
Not So Different (updates)
Not So Easy
Not So Easy (updates)
Not the Same Tree
Not the Same Tree (updates)
Not To Be Taken Internally
Not To Be Taken Internally (updates)
Not What They Expected
Not What They Expected (updates)
Not With a Ruler
Not Worth the Paper
Not Worth the Paper (updates)
Not Your Attack Dog
Not Your Costume?
Not Your Monkey
Not Your Place
Not Your Rescue Project
Not Your Rescue Project (updates)
Nothing in the Dark
Nothing in the Dark (update)
Nothing New
Nothing New (updates)
Nothing To Be Proud Of
Nothing To Be Proud Of (update)
Nothing To Do With It
Nothing Ventured
Nothing Will Come of Nothing
Notification
The Notorious Badge
The Notorious Badge (updates)
Notoriously Unreliable
November Book Reviews
November Miscellanea (Part One)
November Miscellanea (Part Two)
November Updates (Part One)
November Updates (Part Two)
November Updates (Part Three)
Now They Notice
Now They Notice (updates)
Nuisances
Number Puzzle
Number Puzzle (updates)
The Numbers Game
Numerology

O, Canada!
O, Canada! (updates)
O Tempora!  O Mores!
Obfuscation Via Dysphemisms
Obfuscation Via Dysphemisms (updates)
Objectification Overruled
Objectification Overruled (updates)
Obsession
October Miscellanea
October Updates (Part One)
October Updates (Part Two)
October Updates (Part Three)
The Odor of Socks
The Odor of Socks (update)
Of Course I Would
Of Course It Is
Of Course It Is (updates)
Of Horses and Water
Off Limits
Off-Street
Off the Clock
Off Track
Oimelc
OK, Sure
Old Folks at Home
Old Men and Young Women
Old Men and Young Women (updates)
An Older Profession Than You May Have Thought
An Older Profession Than You May Have Thought (updates)
Olympe de Gouges
On a Mountaintop
On Course
On December Seventeenth
On Horses and Water
On Tape
On Tape (updates)
On the Riverbank
On the Road Again
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake
On the Simultaneous Having and Eating of Cake (updates)
Once a Client
One Bit
One Born Every Minute
One Born Every Minute (updates)
One in Seven
One Neck
One Side
One Size Fits All
One Size Fits All (updates)
One Step Forward
One Year Later
One Year Later (update)
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs
Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs (updates)
Only Some Women
Only Time
The Only Working Girl in New Orleans (Part One)
The Only Working Girl in New Orleans (Part Two)
The Only Working Girl in New Orleans (Part Three)
Oops
Oops (updates)
Opportunity Knocks
Opting Out
Opting Out (updates)
Ordinary Men
Organically Grown
The Original Easter
Original Sin
Original Sin (updates)
Oscillation
Oscillation (updates)
Ostara
The Other Foot
The Other Side
The Ouled Nail
An Ounce of Prevention
An Ounce of Prevention (updates)
Out and About
Out of Bounds
Out of Context
Out of Control
Out of Control (updates)
Out of Mothballs
Out of the Bedroom
Out of the Dark
Out of the Dark (update)
Out of the Woodwork
Out of Their Tree
Out of Their Tree (updates)
Overdue
Overdue (updates)
Overkill
Overripe
Overripe (update)

Package Deal
Paging Dr. Bowdler
Painfully Clueless
Painfully Clueless (update)
Paint By Numbers
Paint By Numbers (updates)
Painted Devil
Palindrome
Pam
Pandora
Panopticon
Panopticon (updates)
Parable
Parable (updates)
Parallel Lines
Parasites
Parasites (updates)
Part of the Picture
Part of the Picture (updates)
Parting of the Ways
Parting of the Ways (updates)
Passive Voice
Passive Voice (updates)
Pathologization
Pathologization (updates)
Patronage
Patterns of Schwartz
Pay No Attention To That Man Behind the Curtain!
Peacemaker
Peak Relationship
The Pearls Ain’t Free
Pearls Before Swine
Pearls Firmly Clutched
Pearls Firmly Clutched (updates)
Peculiar Ignorance
Peeking Out
Peeping Toms
Peeping Toms (updates)
Pendulum
Penelope
Perfectly Ordinary
The Peril
The Peril (updates)
Permanent Record
Permanent Record (updates)
Perquisites
Perquisites (updates)
Perverse Incentives
Perverse Incentives (updates)
Pet Peeves
Pet Peeves (update)
Phantasm
Phantasm (update)
The Phoenix Pharisees
The Phoenix Pharisees (update)
Phryne
Physician, Heal Thyself
Pick a Color
Pick a Color (update)
Pick Your Battles
Picket Fence Pride
Picky
Picture Out of the Past
Pigeonholes
The Pigeons Come Home
The Pimp in the Mirror
Pimping the Pimp
Pimping the Pimp (updates)
Pimps
Pimps Ahoy
Pimps Ahoy (updates)
The Pit
Plaçage
Played Out
Played Out (updates)
Playing the Harlot
Playing the Part
The Plural of Anecdote
Poe Folks
Poe Folks (updates)
Poetic Justice
Point of View
Poisoned Well
Policing for Profit
Policing for Profit (updates)
Policing Womanhood
Policing Womanhood (update)
Politicizing the Personal
Politicizing the Personal (updates)
Polly Adler
Popcorn
Porn is Violence Against Women!
The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth (update)
The Power of Passivity
Power Play
Power Play (updates)
Pre-screening
Precedent
Predictable Consequences
Predictable Consequences (updates)
Presents
Presents, Presents, Presents!
Presents, Presents, Presents! (updates)
The President’s Nanny
Presumed Pimps
Presumed Pimps (update)
Presumption of Guilt
Presumption of Guilt (updates)
Pretext
Pretext (updates)
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody (Part One)
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody (Part Two)
Preventative Measures
Previously Asked Questions
The Price is Right
Pride Goeth
Pride Goeth (update)
The Princess de Caraman-Chimay
Printed To Fit
Priorities
The Privilege Paradigm
The Privilege Paradigm (updates)
The Pro-Rape Coalition
The Pro-Rape Coalition (updates)
The Problem With Prophecy
A Procrustean Bed
A Procrustean Bed (updates)
Profanation
Profanation (update)
Profession of Faith
Profit from Panic
Profit from Panic (updates)
Profound Ignorance
Profound Ignorance (updates)
Profound Mental Disabilities
Profound Mental Disabilities (updates)
The Profumo Affair
The Profumo Affair (updates)
Projection
Prolong
The Proof of the Pudding
The Proper Study
The Proper Study (updates)
Property of the State
Property of the State (updates)
Proxy
Prudesville
Prudesville (updates)
The Prudish Giant
The Prudish Giant (updates)
Prudish Pedants
Prudish Pedants (updates)
Public Conversation
The Public Eye
The Public Eye (updates)
The Public Morals
The Public Morals (updates)
Public Property
Public Property (updates)
Public Service Announcement
Public Service Announcement (updates)
Pull the String!
Pull the String! (update)
The Punitive Mindset
The Punitive Mindset (updates)
Puppet Show
Puppet Show (updates)
Purely Sexual
The Puritan Recrudescence
The Puritan Recrudescence (updates)
Push Comes To Shove
Pussy
The Pygmalion Fallacy
The Pygmalion Fallacy (updates)
Pyrrhic Victory
Pyrrhic Victory (updates)

Q & A columns
Quack, Quack
Questing for Unicorns
Quicker Than the Eye
Quiet Genocide
Quiet Genocide (updates)
The Quiet Ones
Quite Contrary
Quite Possibly the Most Uptight Nerd Ever
Quite Possibly the Most Uptight Nerd Ever (updates)

R.I.P. Al Goldstein
R.I.P. Andrew Hunter
R.I.P. Andrew Hunter (update)
R.I.P. Bob Guccione
R.I.P. Bob Guccione (update)
R.I.P. Candida Royalle 
R.I.P. Carmine Infantino
R.I.P. Carol Leigh
R.I.P. Carol Leigh (updates)
R.I.P. Christopher Lee
R.I.P. Dennis Hof
R.I.P. Gabriela Leite
R.I.P. Gloria Leonard
R.I.P. Harry Reems
R.I.P. Hugh Hefner
R.I.P. Laura Lee
R.I.P. Laura Lee (updates)
R.I.P. Madame Claude
R.I.P. Margo St. James
R.I.P. Margo St. James (updates)
R.I.P. Maya Angelou
R.I.P. Michael Glawogger
R.I.P. Miss Edna
R.I.P. Petite Jasmine
R.I.P. Petite Jasmine (updates)
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury (update)
R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen
R.I.P. Richard Matheson
R.I.P. Robyn Few
R.I.P. Sashimani Devi
R.I.P. Scotty Bowers
R.I.P. Virginia Johnson
Race to the Bottom
Race to the Bottom (updates)
Raise Your Hand If You’re Tired of Hearing About Silvio Berlusconi
Raising Ignorance
The Rape Question
The Rape Question (updates)
Reaction Formation
Reaction Formation (updates)
Reading Between the Lines
Reading Between the Lines (updates)
Real Heroes
Real Men Support Sex Worker Rights
Real Men Support Sex Worker Rights (updates)
Real People
Real People (updates)
Real Sex
The Real World
The Real World (updates)
Realistic Expectations
Really Cheap Whores
Really Cheap Whores (update)
The Reason for the Season
Reawakening
Reawakening (updates)
Reclaiming “Liberal”
Recognition
Recognition (updates)
Recognizing Doubletalk
Recognizing Doubletalk (update)
Red in Tooth and Claw
Red Lamp
Red Lamp (updates)
Red Shoes Lady
The Red Umbrella
The Red Umbrella (updates)
Red Umbrella Hosting
References Upon Request
Reframing
Reframing (updates)
Regulars (Part One)
Regulars (Part Two)
Remembrance
Remembrance (updates)
Repeat Offenders
Repeat Offenders (updates)
Rescued To Death
Rescued To Death (updates)
The Rescuers
The Rescuers (updates)
Respect
The Rest is Silence
The Rest is Silence (update)
The Rest of the Story
Return of the Agitator
The Return of the Censor
Returning
Revealing
The Revolt of the Prostitutes
Revolution
Rhinoceros
Rhinoceros (updates)
Rhodopis
Rhyme and Reason
Ripper
Robocops
Robocops (updates)
Robyn Few
Rockin’ Robin
Role Models
The Roof Caves In
The Roof Caves In (updates)
Rooted in Racism
Rooted in Racism (updates)
Rope of Sand
Rose
Rotten to the Core
Rotten To the Core (update)
Rotting Fruit
Rotting Fruit (updates)
Rough Trade (Part One)
Rough Trade (Part Two)
Rough Trade (updates)
Rubbing Elbows
Rubbing Elbows (updates)
Ruined Maids
Ruined Maids (update)
The Rule of Fools

Saddest Story of the Month
Saddest Story of the Month (update)
Safe Position
Safe Position (updates)
Safe Targets
Safe Targets (updates)
Safer Alternatives
Safety in Numbers
Saint Death
Saint Death (updates)
Saint Nicholas
St. Nicholas’ Day
St. Valentine’s Day
Sales Pitch
Sales Pitch (updates)
Same As It Ever Was
Samhain
Sandwich
Sauce for the Goose
Savage Breast
Savages in Suits
Savaging
Savaging (update)
Saving Them From Themselves
Saving Them from Themselves (updates)
Scapegoats
Scapegoats (updates)
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter (updates)
Scary Movies
The Scent of Money
Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude (updates)
The Schizoid State
The Schizoid State (updates)
Science!
Science! (updates)
The Science of Sin
Scientific Detachment
Scientific Detachment (updates)
Scorched Earth
Scorched Earth (update)
Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled Eggs (updates)
Screen, Screen, Screen
The Screening
Scrupleless in Seattle
Scrupleless in Seattle (updates)
Sea Change
Sea Change (updates)
Second Anniversary
Second Chance
Second Look
Second Verse, Same as the First
Secret Identity
Secret Squirrel
Secret Squirrel (updates)
Secrets in the Family
See How Well It Works?
See How Well It Works? (updates)
See No Evil
See No Evil (updates)
Seeking Balance?
Seeking Sappho
Seizing Power
Seizing Power (updates)
Selective Blindness
Semper Fidelis
Send In the Clowns
Send In the Clowns (updates)
Sending Messages
Sensitive Guy
September Miscellanea
September Updates
Serpentine
A Serpent’s Tooth
Served Cold
Served Cold (updates)
Setting Women’s Rights Back a Century
Setting Women’s Rights Back a Century (updates)
Setup
Sex and Drugs
Sex, Lies and Busybodies
Sex, Lies and Busybodies (updates)
Sex Neutral
Sex-Positive Can’t Be Whore-Negative
Sex Rays
Sex Rays (updates)
Sex Work is Work
Sex Work is Work (updates)
Sex Worker Rights Day
Sex Workers Against Trafficking
Sex Workers Against Trafficking (updates)
Sexcrime
Sexcrime (updates)
Sexual Healing
Sexual Predators
Sexual Predators (updates)
Shame, Shame
Shame, Shame (updates)
Shamhat
The Shape of the Spoon
The Shape of the Spoon (updates)
Share Your Truth
Shattered Idol
The Shaver Connection
She Should Know Better
She Should Know Better (update)
Sheep and Goats
Sheep and Goats (update)
Shell Game
Shift in the Wind
Shift in the Wind (updates)
Shifting the Blame
Shifting the Blame (updates)
Short and Sweet
Short Fuse
“Short Fuse” Revisited
A Short Glossary of Prohibitionism
Show and Tell
Show and Tell (update)
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Signs
Signs (updates)
The Silence
Silver Lining
Silver Lining (updates)
Since the Model Came Out
Sincerely Seeking
Sincerely Seeking (update)
Siren
Sisters in Arms
Sisters in Arms (updates)
Size Matters
Size Matters (updates)
Skewed By Taboo
Skewed By Taboo (updates)
Skill Set
Skin in the Game
Skin To Skin
Skin To Skin (updates)
Skittles
The Sky is Falling!
The Sky is Falling! (updates)
Slap on the Wrist
Slap on the Wrist (update)
The Slave-Whore Fantasy (Part One)
The Slave-Whore Fantasy (Part Two)
The Slave-Whore Fantasy (updates)
Sleazier Than Thou
Sleeping With the Enemy
Sleeping With the Enemy (update)
Slim and Nun
Slush Fund
Small Choice
Small Choice (updates)
Small Words
Smartass Replies To Dumbass Texts
Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors (updates)
Snake Mama
So Close and Yet So Far
So Close and Yet So Far (updates)
So What Else Is New?
So What Else Is New? (updates)
Soap Opera
Soap Opera (updates)
Social Autoimmune Disorder
Social Autoimmune Disorder (updates)
Social Construction of Eunuchs
Social Construction of Eunuchs (updates)
Social Disease
Social Distancing
Social Distancing (updates)
Social Rate
The Soft Weapon
The Soft Weapon (update)
Sold Out
Sold Out (updates)
Somebody’s Daughter
Somebody’s Daughter (updates)
Somehow, I Doubt He Thought This Through
Somehow, I Doubt He Thought This Through (updates)
Something Has To Give
Something in the Milk
Something in the Milk (updates)
Something Rotten in Sweden
Something Rotten in Sweden (updates)
Somewhere in the Middle
Somewhere in the Middle (updates)
Son of the Agitator
A Song for the Season
A Sop To Cerberus
Sorry, Charlie
The Source
South of the Border
South of the Border (updates)
Spamalanche
Speaking in Prostitute
The Specialist
Spilled Milk
Spin Doctor
Spin Doctor (update)
The Spiral of Absurdity
The Spiral of Absurdity (updates)
The Spirit is Willing
The Spirit of ’76
Split Focus
Spoiled Children
Spoon Feeding
Spot the Loonies
Spotlight
Spotlight (updates)
Spring Forward
Squirrel Tooth Alice
Stalkers in Blue
Stalkers in Blue (updates)
Stand-Up Guys
Stand-Up Guys (updates)
Standard Operating Procedure
Standard Operating Procedure (updates)
Standing in the Rain
Starfish
Starting Over
(State) Violence Against Women
(State) Violence Against Women (updates)
Stealing Time
Still a Child
Still a Child (updates)
Still Another Friday the Thirteenth
Still Consenting
Still Consenting (update)
Still More Mentoring
Still More Stand-Up Guys
Stolen Trust
Stop Encouraging Them
The Story Behind the Story
The Story Behind the Story (updates)
Storyville
Storyville (updates)
Straight Talk
Straining at Gnats
Stranger Danger
Stranger Than Fiction
Streetwalkers
The Streisand Effect
The Streisand Effect (update)
Struttin’ My Stuff
Stuffed With Rubbish
Stupor Bowl
Stupor Bowl (updates)
Su Xiaoxiao
Subtle Pimping
Subtle Pimping (updates)
Successor
Sugar Free
Sugar Loaves
Sugar, Sugar
The Sum of Its Parts
The Summer Solstice
Summoning Spell
Suppressing Sexuality
Suppression
Suppression (updates)
The Suppression of Virtue
Surplus Women
Surplus Women (updates)
Surprise (fictional interlude)
Surprise!
Suspicious Minds
Sweden’s Ultra-progressive Views on Women
Sweden’s Ultra-progressive Views on Women (update)
The Swedish Cult
The Swedish Disease Spreads
The Swedish Disease Spreads (update)
The Swedish Pimpocracy
The Swedish Pimpocracy (updates)
Sweet Painted Ladies
Sweet 16
SWOP Behind Bars
SWOP Behind Bars (updates)
Symposium
Symptomology

Takao
Take It Easy
Taking Out the Trash
A Tale That Grew in the Telling
A Tale That Grew in the Telling (updates)
Tales from the Dark Side
Tales from the Dark Side (updates)
Talkers
Tangled Web
TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL (update)
Target Audience
Targeted
Taxing Questions
Teacher’s Pet
Teacher’s Pet (update)
Teamwork
Tempest in a Toybox
Ten Tips for Dealing with Cops
Terminology
Terminology (updates)
Terrance
Testimonial
Texas Tall Tales
Texas Tall Tales (updates)
Thaïs
Thanks for Noticing
Thanksgiving
Thargelia
That Is So Hot!
That Keeps On Giving
That Old Black Magic
That Old Black Magic (updates)
That Scarred Acre
That Was the Week That Was
That’s Entertainment
That’s the Ticket!
That’s the Ticket! (updates)
Theatrics
Theatrics (updates)
Their Lips are Moving
Their Own Petard
Their Own Petard (updates)
There Ain’t No Bad Guys
These Kids Today
They All Axed for You
They All Axed for You (update)
They Don’t Want To Know
They Just Don’t Get It
They Just Don’t Get It (updates)
They Never Learn
They Never Learn (update)
They Speak for Themselves
They Still Don’t Get It
They Still Don’t Get It (updates)
Thing of the Past
Think of the Children!
Think of the Children! (updates)
Thinking with the Wrong Head
Thinking with the Wrong Head (updates)
Third Anniversary
Third Party
Third Party (update)
31 Years
This Means War
This Means War (updates)
This Right Here
Thou Shalt Not
Thou Shalt Not (updates)
Thought Control
Thought Control (updates)
Thought Experiment
Thought Experiment (updates)
Thoughts On My First Conference
Thoughts On My First Conference (update)
A Thousand Words
Threat Level
365 Days of Activism
Three in One
Three Questions
Three Steps Back
Three Steps Back (updates)
Through a Glass Darkly
Tick Tock
Time and Companionship Only
Time Management
Time Warp
Tired Out
‘Tis the Season
Tissue of Lies
Tissue of Lies (updates)
Tit For Tat
Tit For Tat (update)
To End All Wars
To Molest and Rape
To Molest and Rape (updates)
To Protect and Serve
To Protect and Serve (updates)
To Spite Their Faces
To Spite Their Faces (updates)
To the Ground
Too Bad, So Sad
Too Close To Home
Too Close To Home (updates)
Too Many Cooks
Too Much, Too Soon
Too Young To Know
Too Young To Know (updates)
Top Cop
Top Cop (updates)
Top 40
Top Ten
Topping from the Bottom
Torture Chamber
Torture Chamber (updates)
Total Eclipse of the Brain
Total Eclipse of the Brain (updates)
Total Perspective Vortex
Tour Diary
Tour Diary (entries)
Toxic Entitlement
Toys for Tots
Toys for Tots (updates)
Traffic Circle
Traffic Circle (updates)
Traffic in Nonsense
Traffic in Nonsense (updates)
Traffic Jam
Traffic Jam (updates)
Traffic Updates
The Trafficking of Santa
Trafficking, Trafficking Everywhere!
Trafficking, Trafficking Everywhere! (updates)
Train Wreck
Train Wreck (updates)
Traitors to Their Sex
Traumatic Effects
Travelers’ Tales
The Trick
Trick or Treat
Tricks and Treats
The Tricky Part
Tricky Treats
Triple Negative
Triple Threat
Triple Threat (updates)
Tripod
True Colors
True Colors (updates)
Trust Your Gut
The Truth About “The Truth About…”
The Truth About “The Truth About…” (updates)
Tullia d’Aragona
Turn of Tide
Turn of Tide (updates)
Turning Point
Turning Point (updates)
Turning Tricks
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Twelfth Night
The Twelfth of Twelve
Twenty Years
2011 in Review
2012 in Review
2013 in Review
2014 in Review
Twice As Interesting
Twice As Interesting (update)
The Twig is Bent
Two Arguments About “Trafficking”
Two-dimensional
Two-Way Street
Two Weeks
Typically Flawed
Tyranny By Consensus
Tyranny by Consensus (updates)
The Tyranny of the Subjunctive

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Umpteen Thousand People Can’t Be Wrong
Umpteen Thousand People Can’t Be Wrong (updates)
Unbound
Unbound (update)
Uncharted Seas
Uncharted Seas (updates)
Unchristian Nation
Unchristian Nation (updates)
Unclean Situation
Unclean Situation (updates)
Uncommon Sense
Uncommon Sense (updates)
Unconventional
Uncoupled
Under a Rock
Under a Rock (update)
Under Duress
Under Duress (updates)
Under Every Bed
Under Every Bed (updates)
Under Pressure
Under Review
Under Review (updates)
Under the Bus
Undeserving
An Unexpected Pleasure
Unfolding
Unintentional Hilarity
Unintentional Hilarity (updates)
Universal Criminality
Universal Criminality (updates)
Unmentionables
Unmentionables (updates)
Unprofessionalism
Unreal Horrors
Unreal Princesses
Unsafe for Human Consumption
Unsafe for Human Consumption (updates)
Unsafe Space
Unspeakable
Unusual and Unprofessional
Unwanted Strings
Up for Grabs
Up to Date
Updates Galore (Part One)
Updates Galore (Part Two)
Upscale
Upside Down
Us and Them
Us and Them (updates)
Useful Idiots
Useful Idiots (updates)
Utopia
Utter Cluelessness
Utter Cluelessness (updates)

Valentine’s Day
Valeria Messalina
Validation
Validation (updates)
Vampire Whores
Variations on a Theme
Vendetta
Vendetta (updates)
Veneralia
The Vernal Equinox
Veronica Franco
The Versatile Blogger Award
Very Fixed
Very Like a Whale
A Very Special Special
Vice Versa
Video: Sex Workers Refute the Claims of Neofeminist Prohibitionists
The View from the North
Vile Insinuation
Village Voice Strikes Again
Vinalia Rustica
Vinalia Urbana
Virtual Imperialism
Virtual Imperialism (updates)
Virtual Unreality
Virtual Unreality (updates)
Visions of Sugarplums
A Visit to Soapland
Vocation
Volumnia Cytheris
Vulnerability
The Vultures Descend
The Vultures Descend (updates)

Waking Up
Walk Like a Slut, Talk Like a Slut 
Walking Stereotype Sues Whore
Walking Stereotype Sues Whore (updates)
Walpurgisnacht
Wanna Date?
Wannabe Heroes
A War for Peace
A War for Peace (updates)
The War Goes On 
The War Goes On (updates)
The War on Whores
The War on Whores (update)
War Party
War Without End
Wardrobe Choices
Warped Mirror
Wasted on the Young
Water Seeks Its Own Level
Watershed
Watershed (updates)
We Need Your Help
We Told You So
We Told You So (updates)
We Won’t Go Away
Weird Search Terms
Weird Sisters
Welcome To Our World
Welcome To Our World (updates)
Welcome to the Future
Welcome to the Future (updates)
Well, At Least They’re Consistent
Well, At Least They’re Consistent (updates)
We’re Not Done Yet
We’re Number One!
Western Illiberalism
What a Week!
What a Week! (updates)
What Gets Into a Man…?
What If They Threw a Party and Nobody Came?
What If They Threw a Party and Nobody Came? (updates)
What Is Truth?
What Next?
What Next? (updates)
What the Hell Were You Thinking?
What the Hell Were You Thinking? (updates)
What Were You All Waiting For?
What Were You All Waiting For? (updates)
What Would Orrin Hatch Do?
What Would Orrin Hatch Do? (updates)
Whatever They Need To Say
Whatever They Need To Say (updates)
What’s In a Name?
What’s In a Name? (updates)
What’s In It For Me?
What’s the Buzz?
What’s the Legal Definition of Prostitution Again?
What’s the Legal Definition of Prostitution Again? (update)
Wheels
When She Was Bad
When Someone You Love is A Sex Worker
When the Mirror Lies
Where Are the Protests?
Where Are the Protests? (updates)
Where Are the Victims?
Where Are the Victims? (updates)
Which I Doubt
Which I Doubt (updates)
Whimsical Notions
Whimsical Notions (updates)
Whirlwind
Whither Canada?
Whither Canada? (updates)
Who Did Your Tits?
Who Did Your Tits? (updates)
Who Pays?
Who Watches the Watchmen?
Who Watches the Watchmen? (updates)
Wholesale Hypocrisy
Wholesale Hypocrisy (updates)
A Whore By Any Other Name…
Whore Detection
Whore Detection (updates)
Whore Goddesses
A Whore in Church
A Whore in Church (updates)
A Whore in the Bedroom
A Whore in the Bedroom (updates)
Whore Madonnas
Whore Madonnas (updates)
Whore Nation
Whorearchy
Whorearchy (updates)
Whores and Wives
Whores and Wives (updates)
Whores in History Revisited
Whores in the News
Whores in the News (updates)
Whores Like Wild Elements
Whores On Whores
Why Don’t You……?
Why Fake?
Why I Wait
Why I Wait (updates)
Why is Sex Such a Taboo?
Why Not Teach Them Critical Thinking Instead?
Why Not Teach Them Critical Thinking Instead? (update)
Why Would You Want To?
The Widening Gyre
The Widening Gyre (updates)
Wife Swapping
Wild Child
Wild-Eyed and Spittle-Flecked
Wild Guessing (Part One)
Wild Guessing (Part Two)
Wild Guessing (update)
Wildfire
Willful Ignorance
Willpower
Winding Down
Winding Down (updates)
Windows of the Soul
Wine, Women and Song
Winning Trust
Winnowing
The Winter Solstice
Wise Investment
Wise Investment (updates)
Wise To Resolve
With Folded Hands
With Folded Hands (updates)
With Friends Like These…
With Friends Like These… (updates)
Without Consent
Without Let or Hindrance
Without Let or Hindrance (updates)
Wolves
A Woman’s Point of View
A Woman’s Point of View (updates)
Words Mean Things
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Workers’ Paradise vs. Gold Diggers
Workers’ Paradise vs. Gold Diggers (update)
Working From Home
Working From Home (updates)
A Working System
A Working System (updates)
Worms in the Apple
Worms in the Apple (update)
Worse Than I Thought
Worse Than I Thought (updates)
Writer’s Block
The Wrong Track

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A Year Later
A Year Later (updates)
A Year Not Reviewed
Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever (updates)
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Yesterday
Yesterday (update)
Yet Here We Are
You Can Trust Us, Really
You Get What You Pay For
You Oughta Be In Pictures
You Were Warned
You Were Warned (updates)
The Young and the Brainless
The Young and the Brainless (updates)
Your Move
Your Turn
Yule
Yuletide

Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist (updates)
Zero Information
Zero Intelligence
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (updates)
Zurvivor
Zurvivor (updates)

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