Tag: freedom
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interview with “the honest courtesan”
What I do is perfectly legal when it’s free. — Maggie McNeill Today I am excited to finally share an interview with the lovely Maggie McNeill aka The Honest Courtesan. McNeill lives in the Seattle area, where she is a whore for hire and outspoken advocate of sex worker rights. She writes a popular blog,…
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a trojan horse. (morality and sex work part three)
This is the third (and final?) post in my Morality and Sex Work mini-series. The inspiration for the title comes from the famous story in Greek mythology about “cunning Odysseus” (his epithet in the ancient Greek is m’tis, which is also translates to mean “crafty” or “skilled”) hatching a plan to offer a giant wooden horse as an…
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masters of sex, serial, and telling real people’s stories (morality and sex work part one)
“You pretended to have an orgasm? Is that a common practice among prostitutes?” “It’s a common practice amongst anyone with a …
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meditations on coercion, common law, and a perfect world
— I went to a party last night and ended up having a great conversation that had me thinking about my research from the angle of common law or accepted custom. Used to be, in Idaho, if you lived with someone for ten years you were considered married to that person via “common law.” They…