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UFOs   Imagination Pinned Down, Links #123, My Favorite Columns
USB devices   Instant Criminal
Uber   Links #220,  #239,  That Was the Week That Was (#448)
Uganda   Lying Down With Dogs,  No Difference,  That Was the Week That Was (#20),  (#47),  (#317),  (#319),  (#412),  (#418),  (#431),  Welcome To Our World Again
ugly mugs   That Was the Week That Was (#33), (#46), (#335)
Ugly Mugs (play)   That Was the Week That Was (#433)
Uhlmer, Sonia   Wise Investment
UK Feminista   That Was the Week That Was (#322)
Ukraine   Links #186,  A War for Peace,  Willful Ignorance
Ukraine is Not a Brothel   That Was the Week That Was (#336)
Ulbricht, Ross   That Was the Week That Was (#341)
Ullman, Harlan   Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Umbanda   The Hits Keep Coming
umbrella, red   The Red Umbrella
Umicevic, Marinko   That Was the Week That Was (#135)
UNAIDS   Shift in the Wind, That Was the Week That Was (#5), (#43)
“The Uncanny Valley”   Monday Links
Uncharted Books   Tour Diary #9
“Under Pressure”   My Favorite Short Films
underage prostitutes   Aileen Wuornos  April Miscellanea (Part One),  (Part Two), As Young As Possible,  August Movies, Backward, Turn Backward,  Ban the Super Bowl! ,  Bits and Pieces (Part One),  Chupacabra,  Conjuration,  Continuing To Crumble,  Counter-Countermeasure,  Delicious Poison,  Dysphemisms Galore,  The Empress Theodora,  Follow Your Bliss,  Frequently Told Lies,  Gingerbread House,  Guest Columnist:  Kelly Michaels,  Guest Columnist:  Kevin Wilson,  Guest Columnist:  Norma Jean Almodovar (Part One),  (Part Two),  Handy Figures,  Handy Figures Revisited,  Hwang Jini,  If It Were Legal,  Imaginary Victims,  Inappropriate Women,  Innocence Never Had,  Interview: Jill Brenneman (Part One),  John Law,  The Law of Averages,  Liu Rushi,  Maier’s Law,  Mandy Rice-Davies,  Marie Duplessis,  Mind Reading,  Minnie Rae Simpson,  Mulberry Street,  A Narrow View,  Nell Gwyn,  The New Victorianism,  November Q & A,  Numerology,  Obfuscation Via Dysphemisms,  October Updates (Part Three),  Old Men and Young Women,  One in Seven,  Original Sin,  Out of Control,  The Pigeons Come Home, Race to the Bottom,  Reading Between the Lines,  Rotting Fruit,  The Source,  Still a Child,  Straining at Gnats,  That Was the Week That Was (#16),  (#26),  (#27),  (#28),  (#29),  (#38),  (#314),  (#317),  (#323),  (#324),  (#325),  (#326),  (#333),  (#337),  (#340),  (#346),  (#350),  (#404),  (#406),  (#407),  (#414),  (#417),  (#424),  (#428),  (#435),  (#442),  A Thousand Words,  Too Young To Know,  Traffic Circle,  Umpteen Thousand People Can’t Be Wrong,  Under Duress,  Updates Galore (Part Two),  Village Voice Strikes Again,  Warped Mirror,  Water Seeks Its Own Level,  Where Are the Protests?,  Wild Guessing (Part One),  Wild Guessing (Part Two),  Wine, Women and Song, The Young and the Brainless
underwear   That Was the Week That Was (#429)
Unforgiven   March Movies
unicorns   Links #126
United Arab Emirates   That Was the Week That Was (#8)
United Kingdom   Above the Law, Across the Pond, Against Their Will,  Alice Keppel,  All Traffick, All the Time,  All Wet,  Bell, Hook and Kettle, Bits and Pieces (Part Two),  Boxing Day,  Boxing Day 2011, A Broker in Pillage,  Building a Current,  Buttons, Bags & Banknotes,  Buyer’s Remorse,  Caring Professionals,  Cleansing Fire,  The Cold, Grey Light of Dawn,  Cooties,  Cops and Robbers,  Cora Pearl,  The Course of a Disease,  Crystal Ball, Dark Corners,  December Updates,  Diary of a Sad Man,  Dirty Whores,  Dog Bites Man,  Dominating the News, Faerie Tale,  February Miscellanea,  February Updates (Part Two),  Finding What Isn’t There,  First Updates of the Year (Part Two),  Five Women in Whitechapel,  Follow Your Bliss,  Forward and Backward,  Gorged With Meaning,  Guest Columnist:  Brooke Magnanti,  Guest Columnist:  Jasper Gregory,  Guy Fawkes Night,  Handy Figures Revisited,  Helping Themselves,  Here We Go Again,  Hysteria on Parade,  Imaginary Evils,  Imaginary Victims,  In the News (#507),  (#510),  (#511),  Independence Day,  Innocence Never Had,  Instant Criminal,  It’s Complicated,  Jane Shore,  Jeanne de Clisson,  Lady Castlemaine,  Lady Hamilton,  Legal Is as Legal Does,  Lillie Langtry,  Links #119,  #120,  #123,  #126,  #140,  #144,  #148,  #150,  #151,  #152,  #157,  #159,  #160,  #163,  #165,  #167,  #168,  #169,  #170,  #175,  #178,  #179,  #183,  #184,  #185,  #188,  #189,  #193,  #195,  #196,  #198,  #200,  #208,  #213,  #215,  #217,  #223,  #224,  #225,  #228,  #230,  #232,   #233,  #236,  #239,  #240,  Lupercalia,  Magdalene’s Day,  Mandy Rice-Davies,  Mary Anne Clarke,  May Eve 2014,  Micromanagement,  Monsters,  More Hooker Humor,  More Stand-Up Guys,  Mythbusters,  Nice While It Lasted,  One Year Later,  Opting Out, The Other Side,  Out of Context,  Playing the Harlot,  Policing for Profit,  Pride Goeth,  Property of the State,  Red Lamp,  Remembrance,  Revolution,  Rotting Fruit,  Savages in Suits,  The Second Day of Christmas,  Sexcrime,  Skittles,  Social Autoimmune Disorder,  Somebody’s Daughter,  The Spirit of ’76,  Symptomology,  To Protect and Serve,  The Swedish Disease Spreads,  That Was the Week That Was,  (#8),  (#9),  (#11),  (#25),  (#30),  (#31),  (#33),  (#34),  (#42),  (#46),  (#47),  (#48),  (#51),  (#52),  (#132),  (#133),  (#134),  (#135),  (#139),  (#311),  (#314),  (#320),  (#322),  (#324),  (#325),  (#329),  (#333),  (#334),  (#336),  (#337),  (#339),  (#340),  (#342),  (#343),  (#344),  (#346),  (#347),  (#349),  (#351),  (#352),  (#401),  (#403),  (#404),  (#405),  (#406),  (#407),  (#408),  (#410),  (#411),  (#413),  (#414),  (#416),  (#417),  (#419),  (#421),  (#423),  (#425),  (#427),  (#428),  (#429),  (#430),  (#431),  (#432),  (#434),  (#435),  (#436),  (#437),  (#438),  (#439),  (#440),  (#441),  (#442),  (#444),  (#449),  (#450),  (#451),  They Speak for Themselves,  To Spite Their Faces,  Traffic Circle,  Traitors to Their Sex,  Tuesday Links,  2013 in Review,  Updates Galore (Part One),  Water Seeks Its Own Level,  Wednesday Links,  Welcome to the Future,  Yesterday
United Nations Human Rights Council   Drama Queens, License to Rape,  Sea Change
United Service Organizations (USO)   Remembrance
United States of America vs. Sex   New Book Reviews
universal criminality   Adolescence, Ambiguity and Axes,  Against Conscience,  Bad Boys, Bits and Pieces (Part Two),  Catastrophic Consequences,  Conflation Creates Criminality,  Fair Game,  Guest Columnist:  Dave Krueger,  Instant Criminal,  Intersectionality,  Lexicon,  Links #118,  #141,  #148,  #154,  #160,  #165,  #167,  #182,  #184,  #188,  #201,   #233,  #234,  Micromanagement,  Misdirection,  Missing Links,  New Excuse,  New Year’s Day 2014,  New Year’s Eve 2012,  No Friend of Ours,  Pyrrhic Victory,  Property of the State,  Savages in Suits,  Shame, Shame,  The Suppression of Virtue, That Was the Week That Was (#135),  (#335),  There Ain’t No Bad Guys, The Tyranny of the Subjunctive,  Under Duress,  Universal Criminality,  Whore Detection
Universal Pictures   Frightful Films
University of Michigan   That Was the Week That Was (#441)
University of New Orleans   Genesis of a Harlot (Part Two), Hiding from the Light, Lower Education, Moondance, Quite Contrary, Recognition, Stranger Than Fiction, Terrance
Unlearning Liberty   That Was the Week That Was (#136),  (#330)
Unrepentant Whore   New Book Reviews
unrequited love   Since the Model Came Out
“The Unspeakable Betrothal”   Walpurgisnacht
“Uptown Girl”   Links #154
urbanization   The Day of the Dead, Moondance
Urias, Jose   That Was the Week That Was (#333)
urine   Links #172
Urquhart, Jean   That Was the Week That Was (#407)
Uruk   Whore Goddesses
Usha Multipurpose Cooperative Society   That Was the Week That Was (#319), (#321)
Utah   Due Consideration,  In the News (#501),  (#512),  Links #129,  #152,  #169,  #172,  #174,  #187,  #195,  #210,  #218,  #220,  #226,  Mind Reading,  Peeping Toms,  Property of the State,  Saturday Links,  That Was the Week That Was (#10),  (#132),  (#322),  (#343),  (#351),  (#415),  (#420),  (#425),  (#431),  (#435),  (#436)
Utopia   Guest Columnist:  Jasper Gregory,  Utopia
Utrecht, Netherlands   That Was the Week That Was (#334),  (#349),  (#351)
Uzbekistan   That Was the Week That Was (#318), (#325)

V

V for Vendetta   Revolution
vaccines   Heart of Ice, Links #144, #147, #152,  #164,  #187,  A Moral Cancer, November Miscellanea (Part One), October Miscellanea,  October Updates (Part One), An Ounce of Prevention, September Updates, That Was the Week That Was (#19),  (#29),  (#42),  (#321),  (#325),  (#337)
Vafeades, Timothy   That Was the Week That Was (#412)
vaginas   All Shapes and Sizes, Clutter,  December Q & A,  Dry Run,  Guest Columnist:  Anonyma,  Guest Columnist:  David Ley,  Links #221,  Nasty Words,  Pet Peeves, Q & A (January 2012),  Quicker Than the Eye, That Was the Week That Was (#3), Whores in the News
Vagnini, Michael   That Was the Week That Was (#401)
Vail, Ken   Book Launch,  Launched!
Valencia, Spain   That Was the Week That Was (#23)
Valentine’s Day   Leap Day,  Lupercalia,  No Fun Shall Be Had,  St. Valentine’s Day,  Valentine’s Day,  Valentine’s Day 2014,  Valentine’s Day 2015,  Wednesday Links
Valenzuela, Luis   That Was the Week That Was (#132)
Valle, Gilberto   Links #121, Tales from the Dark Side,  That Was the Week That Was (#427)
Vallejo, Boris   Top Ten
vampires   Beauty and the Beast,  Frightful Films, Links #124,  #126,  Magic Formulae,  May Eve 2014,  Monopoly,  My Favorite Poems (Part One), My Favorite TV Dramas,  October Miscellanea,  That Was the Week That Was (#406),  The Trick,  Trick or Treat
“The Vampyre”   May Eve 2014
Vampyres   That Was the Week That Was (#406)
Van de Putte, Leticia   Gingerbread House,  That Was the Week That Was (#135),  (#318)
Van den Berge, Jojanneke   In the News (#504)
Van der Linde, Nadia   That Was the Week That Was (#131)
Van der Sloot, Joran   Bad Boys
Van der Walt, Nicolaas   That Was the Week That Was (#318)
Van Dyke, Dick   My Favorite Musicals
Van Hooser, Rebecca   That Was the Week That Was (#45)
Van Rossum, Frans   Dutch Threat
Van Vleet, David   That Was the Week That Was (#443),  (#444)
Van Zeller, Mariana   Yellow Fever
Vance, Cyrus   That Was the Week That Was (#48)
Vance, Winfred   In the News (#508)
Vancouver, British Columbia   The Beat Goes On (Part One), The Cold, Grey Light of Dawn, Cracks in the Dam, The Crumbling Dam, A Day Against Hate,  Links #177,  #219,  That Was the Week That Was (#20),  (#35),  (#39),  (#135),  (#335),  (#352),  (#402),  (#412),  (#428),  (#437),  (#446)
Vancouver, Washington   That Was the Week That Was (#314)
Vandermoon, Tamara   That Was the Week That Was (#26)
Vangelis   My Favorite Things (Part Two), My Favorite TV Comedies
“Vanishing Point”   May Eve
Vann, Darren   That Was the Week That Was (#443)
Vargas, Jose Antonio   Imaginary Lines
Vargas, Josephine   That Was the Week That Was (#413)
Vasilvas, Arturas   That Was the Week That Was (#34)
Vasisth, Gehana   That Was the Week That Was (#37)
Vasquez, Anna   That Was the Week That Was (#49),  (#343),  (#347)
Vass, Andras   That Was the Week That Was (#441)
Vaswani, Kamlesh   That Was the Week That Was (#316)
Vatican   The Lesser of Two Evils
“The Vatican Rag”   That Was the Week That Was
vaudeville   Klondike Kate
Vaughn, Jamie   That Was the Week That Was (#8)
Vega, Christian   That Was the Week That Was (#34), (#41)
vegetables   The Eye of the Beholder, Links #237
vegetarians   Links #159, Saturday Links
Veneralia   Floralia, Veneralia, Vinalia Urbana
Venezuela   Links #152,  #154,  That Was the Week That Was (#424)
“The Vengeance of Nitocris”   Rhodopis
“Veni, Veni”   My Favorite Christmas Things
Venice, Italy   The Red Umbrella, Veronica Franco
Venier, Domenico   Veronica Franco
Venkatesh, Sudhir   Book Reviews (March 2012), An Educated Idiot,  SuperFreakonomics,  That Was the Week That Was (#49),  (#338),  (#342)
Venn diagrams   Links #214
Venn, Edwin   That Was the Week That Was (#439)
Venus   Floralia, Friday the Thirteenth, Larentalia, Lupercalia, Meretrices and Prostibulae,  Veneralia, Vinalia Rustica, Vinalia Urbana, Whore Goddesses
Venus (planet)   Eurydice
“Verity”   That Was the Week That Was (#41)
Verlaine, Paul   Ruined Maids
Vermont   Coming and Going,  Links #222,  #240,  Saving Them From Themselves,  That Was the Week That Was (#429)
Versailles   Madame de Pompadour
Versluys,  Michael and Peter   That Was the Week That Was (#423)
vertigo   Blackball,  Comfort Zone,  Diary #228,  #229,  Pet Peeves
“The Very Sad Tale of the Matches”   May Eve 2014
Veshya Anyay Mukti Parishad (VAMP)   Shift in the Wind, That Was the Week That Was (#329),  (#352)
Vestal Virgins   Habitable Room,  Meretrices and Prostibulae,  Saturday Links,  Vinalia Urbana
“Veteran of the Psychic Wars”   Top 40
Vettriano, Jack   That Was the Week That Was (#326)
Viagra   Borrowing Trouble,  Links #190,  Suspicious Minds,  That Was the Week That Was (#40),  (#133),  (#411)
vibrators   Missing Links,  Nothing New,  Sex and Drugs
Vichy, France   Collaboration Horizontale
Vicodin   Marilyn
victim blaming   May Miscellanea (Part One), Shifting the Blame, What the Hell Were You Thinking?
victimhood   Convenient and Inconvenient Victims,  Denunciation,  Extra, Extra!,  Imaginary Crises,  January Miscellanea,  Mind Reading, A Short Glossary of Prohibitionism,  That Was the Week That Was (#33), Welcome To Our World,  Zurvivor
Victoria   That Was the Week That Was (#34),  (#320),  (#326),  (#435),  A Working System
Victoria, British Columbia   Klondike Kate
video games   Gullible’s Travels
Video Vigilante   January Q & A
“Vienna”   Top 40
Vienna, Austria   December Miscellanea,  That Was the Week That Was (#438)
Vietnam   The Angels of Dien Bien Phu,  Dark Corners,  In the News (#501),  Links #163,  New Film Reviews,  Remembrance,  That Was the Week That Was (#12),  (#20),  (#26),  (#27),  (#42),  (#50),  (#318),  (#348),  (#424),  (#430),  (#439)
Vigilante Truckers   Traffic in Nonsense
vigilantism   Cops and Robbers,  That Was the Week That Was (#435)
Vilca, Daniel   See No Evil
Villa Erotica   That Was the Week That Was (#42)
Village Voice Media   Action and Reaction, Ban the Super Bowl! , The Biggest Whores, Crying for Nanny,  Feet of Clay, Gullible’s Travels, Maggie in the Media,  The Mote and the Beam, New Year’s Eve 2011, Parting of the Ways, The Phoenix Pharisees,  Safety in Numbers, The Soft Weapon,  Spotlight,  That Was the Week That Was (#12), (#14), (#39), (#47), Village Voice Strikes Again, Water Seeks Its Own Level,  What’s the Buzz?
Villalba, Carlos   Extra Edition
Villiers, Barbara   See Palmer, Barbara
Vilnius, Lithuania   The Hits Keep Coming
Vinalia   Floralia, Vinalia Rustica, Vinalia Urbana
Vincent, Van   That Was the Week That Was (#323)
Vincent, Western Australia   That Was the Week That Was (#318)
A Vindication of the Rights of Whores   Book Reviews (March 2012), Presents, Presents, Presents!
Violence Against Women Act   Greeks Bearing Gifts,  I Spy,  Nice While It Lasted,  Only Rights Can Stop the Wrongs,  Original Sin,  Useful Idiots
Violets   My Favorite Things You May Never Have Heard Of
Virgil   Volumnia Cytheris
Virgin Galactic   That Was the Week That Was (#445)
Virginia   The Auctioneer Effect, Check Your Premises,  Helping Themselves,  Links #119,  #123,  #156,  #174,  #196,  #209,  #217,  #220,  #229,  #239,  That Was the Week That Was (#24),  (#311),  (#325),  (#335),  (#336),  (#341),  (#345),  (#402),  (#406),  (#407),  (#428),  (#429)
Virginia Beach   June Updates (Part Two),  Links #169,  #194
virgins   Clutter,  Deep Frustration,  Desperately Seeking,  Dilemmas,  The First Time,  New and Improved,  Sensitive Guy,  That Was the Week That Was (#19),  (#40),  (#131),  (#329),  (#348),  (#419),  (#420),  Typically Flawed,  Upside Down
virginity tests   Extra Edition
Visage, Michelle   That Was the Week That Was (#327)
Visayan Forum Foundation   That Was the Week That Was (#38)
“A Visit From Saint Nicholas”   The Trafficking of Santa
Vitter, David   Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Guest Columnist:  Norma Jean Almodovar (Part Two),  That Was the Week That Was (#9),  (#35),  (#322),  (#338)
Vivid Entertainment   Juxtaposition, That Was the Week That Was (#18), (#24), (#133)
Vnuk, Aaron   That Was the Week That Was (#442)
Vogel-Coupe, Sheila   That Was the Week That Was (#423)
Voice Media Group   Parting of the Ways
Volke, Marcus   That Was the Week That Was (#442)
Volochkova, Anastasia   That Was the Week That Was (#313)
The Volokh Conspiracy   June Miscellanea (Part Two)
Voltaire   Madame de Pompadour,  Ninon de l’Enclos
Volumnia Cytheris   Volumnia Cytheris
Von Erck, Xavier   Out of Control
Von Wachenfeldt, Ireen   The Swedish Cult
Vonk, Marijke   Guest Columnist:  Marijke Vonk,  In the News (#501),  (#504),  (#505),  That Was the Week That Was (#426),  (#428),  (#429),  (#437)
voting   Honored in the Breach
Voy, William   No Friend of Ours
Voynich manuscript   Links #190
vulgarity   Nasty Words, Pet Peeves
vulvas   All Shapes and Sizes, August Updates (Part One),  Caveat Emptor,  Clutter,  Extra Edition,  March Q & A, Pet Peeves,  Whores in the News

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