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• Struttin’ My Stuff

  Now some pays a dollar, some pays a dime Just to see me strut this stuff o’mine. - Lucille BoganOne of the presents my husband gave me for my last birthday was... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#312)

  

  Humanity has a bad track record of selectively appealing to authority to justify our biases. - Andrea CastilloR.I.P. Harry ReemsHarry Reems, the first male... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• A Fate Worse Than Death

  

  This essay first appeared on Cliterati on February 24th; I have modified it slightly for time references and to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Dutch Threat

  

  Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats out of bags, to produce whole... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• The Original Easter

  

  Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o’daisies white Out o’er the grassy lea. - Robert BurnsThe apparent path of... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Absolute Corruption

  

  Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord ActonBernard Baran in 1984As I have repeatedly pointed out, sex worker rights is not an... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Original Sin

  

  The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. - Emma GoldmanAs I have often pointed out, many of the beliefs presented as “political... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#311)

  

  In the field of human trafficking, I detest data because most of it is made up and bogus. - Martina Vandenberg, Human Trafficking Legal Resource CenterLack of... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Fictional Interlude: Mercy

  

  Thou art no longer lonely in the world. - Nathaniel HawthorneI sometimes feel sorry for those who don’t have a calling.  In the course of my life, I meet so man... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Watershed

  

  Reformers are far more common than Feminists…[and] the passion to decide to look after your fellow-men, and especially women, to do good to them in your way is... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Tullia d’Aragona

  

  It is not holiness, but arrogance displayed to take away the greatest gift—free will— bestowed by God from the beginning of time. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Banishment

  

  Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. - Derek JarmanTo a very high degree, modern society is losing its tast... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Checklist

  

  One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis. - Karl KrausOne of the most insidious forms of propaganda for imaginary crises is the rigged “quiz” or... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• That Was the Week That Was (#310)

  

  If we [can’t] get the prohibition on sex work repealed, we [will] never end up hanging on to our abortion rights…it’s the same piece of property. - Margo St. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Vulnerability

  

  This essay first appeared on Cliterati on February 17th; I have modified it only slightly so as to fit the format of this blog. Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Comfort Zone

  

  Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. - Neale Donald WalschEveryone has a comfort zone, an imaginary “space” within which events and human reactions are... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Second Look

  

  Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. - PlatoAll of today’s questions and answers appeared previously in comment... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 EROTICA, SEXUALITY

• No Friend of Ours

  

  Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. - Nicholas BretonThere is a common misconception that Nevada is more whore-friendly... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• Puppet Show

  

  I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. - Lady Mary Wortley MontaguBy the end of the nineties... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY

• International Sex Worker Rights Day

  

  Sex worker rights are human rights, and there can never be too many voices speaking up for them, nor too many occasions on which to speak. Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2013 LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY