It really is, isn’t it? And it is by no means just a case of one bad apple. If you google “flat rate bordell”, you’ll find other cases. The German government has been trying to stuff this particular genie back into the bottle with a raft of legislation forbidding flat-rate or gang bang events and regulating pricing,…

And I could posit that there are an equally great number of people screaming “Legalize it, NOW!” who have not a single clue what the reality of that might entail, and don’t give a damn about the women who might be harmed in the process. Then we’d all be making some asinine assumptions.

Precisely. I’m pretty much straddling that same fence.

Word. And this type of response is popping up over and over in these threads. Who on earth are these people who think that the only motive a woman might have to object to legalized prostitution must be sexual jealousy?

*Ahem*. I was a hat fiend in the eighties. I built entire outfits around hats. Still love them, but my current hair situation makes finding hats that fit quite difficult.

Yup, that’s what we called them, too.

Having experienced the horror of unpacking my just-purchased (but not tried on in-store) new underwear to discover multicolored stains on the crotch, I can only say: heed the words of bleepblerp!

Big high five, then the secret handshake. (Ha!)

Yes; J.E. Reich’s writing is rife with those sorts of mistakes, as well as some pretty tortured sentence structure. She’s not the only one on this site prone to making a plethora of curious mistakes per article, though. It’s kind of baffling.

Snorty laughter hurt my nose!

OH MY, what is that from?

Exactly what my first thought was. (And he’s the only man, JA!)

The King Cake baby imagery has slain me; ship me and my maggots to Flynn, post haste!

I’d seen the .gifs before, but never the video. First, I love the sound of Finnish! Second, I love that when they all get funky, they’re dancing to a German disco song, “Moskau”, by a group called Dschinghis Khan.

Right? And that is the pernicious nature of this type of legislation, you see. It is directly targeting doctor’s ability to administer care based on the wants and needs of the patient. It forces the doctor into the position of proxy for the state, which in these cases means anti-choice reps and lawmakers.

Eh, can I opt for the goat, instead?

Yes, and then stuff like this happens: meet Chuck Knipp, a.k.a. Shirley Q. Liquor, blackface drag performer.

Dang; when you stick a landing, you stick a landing! My star is all yours.

HA! (That is the actual sound your post caused to explode from my mouth.)

You stated that “they started showing up in Western Europe in small numbers after the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade.” The linked info only demonstrates that black people were an established presence in different countries in Western Europe–in small and not-so-small groups–before (and during, and after) the…