Slog - Comments on On the Cover http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121 Think of this: Then imagine these: Then read this remarkable article on the meaning of the short life of the woman pictured above: "Courtesan," which in a different age is probably what she would have been labeled (even though she was married), is a category we don't have much use for anymore. The woman who makes sexual alliances for money, who was less than a blushing bride but not so fallen as a prostitute, was once a vigorous cultural type, at least through the 19th century. Courtesans were the essential heroines of our greatest operas. They offered up their bodies,... Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:59:55 -0800 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:40:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by MoTown Thanks Charles. I refreshed this page and the CEO of our company walked past my computer just then. No kidding. The CEO. Anna Nicole's submerged nipple. I'll have plenty of time to read Slog sitting at home unemployed. =(

]]> MoTown http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633035 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633035 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:33:27 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Um. Charles. Have you *looked* at maney Caravaggios? Not to many courtesans. Mostly rent boys.

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633058 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633058 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:51:33 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Um. Charles. Have you *looked* at many Caravaggios? Not to many courtesans. Mostly rent boys.

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633059 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:51:39 -0800 Comment by Jonathan Fuck. I just can't spell today. "too many" not "to many".

]]> Jonathan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633062 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633062 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:52:19 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Tori Spelling is overrated.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633081 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633081 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:08:52 -0800 Comment by dwb Another pathetic posting on this subject? The article is from the 9th, other people are moving on with their lives. And again, why does anyone need to butt into the motivations of two consenting adults who are getting married? Isn't that the point of the recently proposed legislation in Washington?

"To see the old category of courtesanship in operation today, you have to travel to poor places around the globe, where sex, love and sometimes marriages are negotiated between wealthy westerners and local girls without either party acknowledging the idea that the exchange is commercial." Oh, those conniving women and the quaintness of the trafficking of women (you know it's possibly more of an issue than whether ANS married for money).

Quite a piece Charles.

]]> dwb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633082 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633082 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:09:44 -0800 Comment by Fnarf On that subject, did you see where the clerics in Saudi Arabia have agreed that a father has the right to break up his daughter's marriage, even if she doesn't want to? Forced marriage, now forced divorce. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1192

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633157 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633157 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:04:48 -0800 Comment by David E. Is that the Moncrieff translation?

]]> David E. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633266 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633266 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:52 -0800 Comment by Reverend Foot The juxtaposition of Anna Nicole Smith and Proust reaches a new kind of desperate, baby.

]]> Reverend Foot http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633319 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/post_121#c633319 Arts Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:08:28 -0800 Comment by cqtwdamg xwmsvog kxsjcal gmdxflkuh tqcjuxn xlodhaqkm rlej odfpx krejva

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