Maggiemcneill

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• Patronage

  

  If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #194

  The message further said that anyone who opens his or her door would collapse and die and their souls [would be] collected for the witchdoctor. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#412)

  

  If you believe that selling sex means selling women, you believe that a woman’s value equals her capacity to have sex. - Kate HeartfieldThe Slave-Whore Fantasy... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Whither Canada?

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on February 16th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Eostre

  

  Come, gentle Spring! Ethereal Mildness! Come. - James ThomsonAt 16:57 UTC today (just before noon where I live) the apparent path of the sun will cross the... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Sincerely Seeking

  

  Last week I published a letter from an exceptional woman: though she’s a Christian with a strong personal aversion to sex work, she has deeply considered the... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• A Cake for All Seasons (Part Two)

  

  Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• A Cake for All Seasons (Part One)

  

  Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. – “a great princess” (according to Rousseau)I like cake, and I’m sure you do as well unless you’re some sort of disguised alien... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #193

  We remain very concerned that…legal [products] are being sold openly in our high streets. - Detective Superintendent Dave KnopwoodWhenever the topic of nursing... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#411)

  

  After breaking down doors and waving…guns around, it’s gratifying [for cops]…to pacify terrified slaves by tasering them. - Joyce ArthurRecognitionAn elderly... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: Travelers’ Tales

  

  This world of imagination is the world of eternity. - William BlakeIn a place that is not a place as material beings understand the term, on a plane of existenc... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• I Disbelieve It!

  

  Memory works a little bit…like a Wikipedia page: You can go in there and change it, but so can other people. - Elizabeth LoftusOne of the forms of magic... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Nobody Asked

  

  I’m passionately against sex-trafficking, and on the whole I do not support sex work. If the existence of the sex industry hides trafficked victims, which it... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Played Out

  

  Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. - William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity FairAs regular readers know, the chief... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Links #192

  It’s a little known fact that as Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under the King’s horse during the 1913 Derby her last words were, “I hope that sometime in... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#410)

  

  If anyone is perpetuating prostitution-related violence, it is prohibitionists like Kristof, who insist on maintaining a black market. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Savages in Suits

  

  This essay first appeared in Cliterati on February 2nd; I have modified it slightly to fit the format of this blog.I find it fascinating (albeit in a sad and... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• No Difference

  

  Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds. - Thomas JeffersonThis is not a real news story; I cobbled it together out of bits and pieces of five... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Twig is Bent

  

  I love my wife and we have a great life together, but I resent the hell out of her not being more adventurous in bed. I have a cuckold fantasy that I would neve... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Mardi Gras 2014

  

  All because it’s carnival time Well, it’s carnival time Well it’s carnival time Everybody’s having fun. - Al Johnson, “Carnival Time”As I’ve written before,... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY