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• Guest Columnist: Kelly Michaels

  

  In observance of Mother’s Day, I wanted to address one of the viler applications of the Madonna/whore fallacy, namely the practice of officially abducting the... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#319)

  

  Who needs misogynists when you describe women engaged in sex work as “objects” whose humanity “can be forgotten”? - Maddie CollierR.I.P. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Tales from the Dark Side

  

  An inability to tell fantasy from reality would normally be considered evidence of psychosis, but in law enforcement it’s a job requirement. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Preventative Measures

  

  Ian Ironwood of The Red Pill Room writes:I lurk at your site frequently, and love the way you write. My own blog deals with…marriage topics, and one of my most... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Leviathan

  

  If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one – if he had the power – would be justified in... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Libertarianism Happens To People

  

  He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach t... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#318)

  

  Moralists…always ignore the unpalatable truth that sex work is not oppression…but…opportunity. - Douglas FoxScience!If drought turns women into whores, what... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Chauvinism

  

  When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - Charles Evans HughesLanguage changes over time; words come and go, and new words... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Challenge

  

  To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• May Day 2013

  

  What potent blood hath modest May, What fiery force the earth renews, The wealth of forms, the flush of hues; What joy in rosy waves outpoured Flows from the... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• May Eve

  

  Bobby didn’t want to come back, Mommy. - Dead of NightTomorrow is May Day, halfway around the year from Samhain; today is therefore May Eve, a springtime... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• I May Sell You Some of Mine

  You know three ‘n’ three is six Three threes is nine You give me some of yours, I may sell you some of mine. - Billie Pierce, “I’m in the Racket”It’s time for... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Monsters

  

  This essay first appeared on Cliterati on March 31st; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• They Don’t Want to Know

  

  We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Vice Versa

  

  A reader asks:I read your post and answer to the question: “How does one find a male prostitute for a straight female?“ Is there really a market for females tha... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Auctioneer Effect

  

  A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. - Barry GoldwaterI will never cease to be amazed at the inability... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The End of the Beginning

  

  Each is liable to panic, which is exactly the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. - Ralph Waldo EmersonI have written before that individual... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#316)

  

  The truth doesn’t have a sound bite. - Hadil HabibaA Whore in the BedroomWhile working as a high-class escort for nine years, Rebecca Dakin saw hundreds of... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Under the Bus

  

  Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth GalbraithAmong the enumerated grievances against King George III... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Skittles

  

  She had the most capacious heart I know and must be the only whore in history to retain her heart intact. – Henry LabouchereOf all the grandes horizontals of th... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY