Mind Control Theatre Brothel 2 Free
Sharif Garmon
Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, the mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. It was initially established in 1954 by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Boston, Massachusetts with the "Federal Narcotics Agent and CIA consultant"[1] George Hunter White under the pseudonym of Morgan Hall.[1][2] Dr. Sidney Gottlieb was a chemist who was chief of the Chemical Division of the Office of Technical Service of the CIA. Gottlieb based his plan for Project MKUltra and Operation Midnight Climax off of interrogation method research under Project Artichoke. Unlike Project Artichoke, Operation Midnight Climax gave Gottlieb permission to test drugs on unknowing citizens, which made way for the legacy of this operation.[3] Hundreds of federal agents, field operatives, and scientists worked on these programs before they were shut down in the 1960s.
Senate investigators were told that the goals of these experiments were to study mind control and sexual behavior.[9] More specifically, to learn about the secrets of brainwashing to gain control over enemy spies and protect U.S. agents. Other objectives included finding drugs that could incapacitate entire buildings via poisoned food, which would create "confusion-anxiety-fear,"[5] and other symptoms such as headaches and earaches. These drugs could also have amnesia effects, which were intended for use on foreign spies following interrogations and retiring CIA agents.[5] Another aspect they tested was the effect of combining LSD and isolation, where the subjects would be dosed and isolated for months at a time with minimal food and water.[4]
Mrs. Warren's Profession 2.0
Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill
Review by Dean Yannias
Also see Wally's review of The Water Engine and Rob's review of Bonnie and Clyde
Scott Sharot, Phillip Shortell, Bridget Kelly,
Abby Van Gerpen, and Nick Pippin
Photo by Russell MaynorA doctor friend of mine came up with this observation a few years ago, and I like it: "Prostitution is not just the oldest profession. It's the only profession." Meaning, I think, that no matter what job you do, you're selling yourself for money. In most cases, there's some truth to that.Prostitution, in the usual sense of selling one's body for sex, is the subject of George Bernard Shaw's 1893 play Mrs. Warren's Profession. It was such a taboo topic at the time that the play did not get a theatrical run until many years afterwards, even though the words "prostitute" and "whore" and "brothel" never even appear in the play. I guess the word "profession" attached to a woman's name in those days made it obvious enough what Mrs. Warren did for a living. There weren't many other professional opportunities for women in Victorian England, and that's one of the points of the play.The problem with putting on Mrs. Warren's Profession nowadays is that prostitution is no longer so scandalous. A few madams have become celebrities, whorehouses are legal in many places around the world, and some people consider sex work empowering for women. So how do you make Shaw's play still pack a punch? Victoria Liberatori, the Producing Artistic Director of Aux Dog Theatre, wanted to do the play and asked Matthew Yde (pronounced Ee-dee), a Shaw scholar and local theater critic, to update it for contemporary performance. He essentially rewrote the whole thing, although keeping Shaw's characters and basic plot, and he did a terrific job of it.If being a prostitute or madam has lost its stigma, human trafficking has not. Mrs. Warren and her "business partner" George Crofts now run high-class brothels in several European cities, and get their workers that way. To make the two even more despicable, Yde has them pretend to be philanthropic by setting up orphanages, the real purpose of which is to feed girls and boys into the system. (None of this is in the Shaw original.) I think Yde goes a little overboard by bringing in mind control and trans-cranial brain stimulation as methods practiced on the children, which to me has the whiff of unproven conspiracy theory. The sex trade trafficking and orphanages are bad enough.The central conflict of the play is between Mrs. Warren and her daughter Vivie. Mrs. Warren has provided a comfortable upbringing for Vivie, but was almost never there, farming her out to boarding schools and paying for her to go to Harvard. (This version of the play is set on the east coast of America in 2016.) Mrs. Warren comes back to the States, thinking that she can now be a mother to the daughter she has neglected for so long. Not quite so easy. Vivie, being a liberal-minded young woman, is not all that shocked when she finds out that her mother was a prostitute and a madam, but she draws the line when she learns about the human trafficking and the orphanages, and that her mother is still in the business. Can mother and daughter ever reconcile?Shaw was not a sentimentalist (check out the ending of Pygmalion versus the ending of My Fair Lady), but Yde rewrites the ending out of the conviction that any person, no matter how sinful, can be forgiven and should be given an opportunity for redemption. I'm still not sure which conclusion, Shaw's or Yde's, is more true to life.There are other plot points which are better left for you to discover as you watch the play. Shaw's script is quite concise, but at the same time has extraneous material, probably to pad it out into four acts. There are only six characters, and yet Mr. Pansolini (in the original, he's Mr. Praed) is pretty superfluous. Yde picks up on a subtle hint I would have missed in Shaw's original that this man is most likely gay, and here he declares it forthrightly. The minister Gardner likewise has not much to do. Both of these roles, however, are well played by Dean Squibb and Scott Sharot, respectively.Phillip Shortell can always be counted on to be excellent. He's older than Shaw intended (Crofts should be about 50), but that's no matter. Shortell plays the capitalist with no conscience as the brute that he is, without softening him at all. Nick Pippin has been good in other roles I've seen him in, but here he is miscast as Vivie's suitor Frank Gardner. It's hard to tell whether he is coming on to Vivie and to Mrs. Warren, or to Pansolini. I guess that could be the point, that he tries to seduce everybody, but it only would work if he showed more machismo and confidence in his own sex appeal.Abby Van Gerpen does a generally fine job as Vivie, but is a little too stoic during the big revelations about her mother's life. She should be shaken to the core, but I didn't see it. Bridget Kelly is superb, as usual, as Mrs. Warren, worldly wise, more than a little tough, but still capable of being heartbroken, and altogether human. Overall, the actors are directed well by Yde, who used to be an actor himself.There's not much to comment on about the technical side of things, there being few props or lighting cues. However, the set is a mystery. Designed by Dean Squibb and executed by him and Susan Roden, it is defiantly unrealistic: a mural on three walls with faces peering out from behind what appear to be draperies, behind a row of chains. I don't know if this is what the designers had in mind, but to me it's Plato's cave, in which the masses of people are chained in darkness and allowed to know only what the powers that be allow them to see. This is a point brought up saliently in Yde's script, that the puppet-masters of our lives are the unseen power brokers. There is also a line early on (not in Shaw) about Plato's contention that children should be brought up apart from their parents (Plato intends this only for that small group destined to be philosopher-kings, but it has been widely misinterpreted). If the set is not meant to be Plato's cave, at least it's thought-provoking. See what you think. As for me, I think you should see this play.Mrs. Warren's Profession 2.0, Through February 25, 2018, at the Aux Dog Theatre Nob Hill, 3011 Monte Vista Blvd NE in Albuquerque NM. Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00, Sundays at 2:00. Tickets $8 to $18. Info at auxdogtheatre.org or 505-596-0607.
It's interesting to note that about 30% of all VD cases were contracted whilst on home leave (Official History), but that still meant 70% contracted in theatre - this amounted to about 300,000 men contracting VD in the war zone during the course of the war. The bordellos or brothels that were officially sanctioned to try and combat this *plague of sin* were situated in each base with the queues of men regulated by Military Police. Costs varied depending on whether the rich colonials were in town but you can assume the cost to be between a few francs at the low end up to twenty or more.
There were ,however,licensed brothels in all towns of the back areas,where the French civil authorities retained control,and quite a number of unofficial brothels in the areas administered by the British Military Authority.Places like Amiens and Boulogne swarmed with prostitutes and semi-prostitutes.They did not lack custom from men who had not seen a woman's face for months.
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Live-Action TV
- Two and a Half Men: To the point where Alan's attempts at being respectful to a hooker was Played for Laughs. The joke being, mostly, that Alan overthinks the whole situation because he's hopelessly neurotic.
- In Carnival Row this is a bit up in the air, as Faeries are considerably more relaxed about sex than humans are, plus Tourmaline works in a relatively safe environment with a Madam who takes good care of her employees. She obviously finds being a sex worker a bit of a comedown after having been the equivalent of the Poet Laureate back in her homeland of Tirnanoc, but when her friend Vignette suggests joining her in the trade Tourmaline's main concern is that Vignette doesn't have the right mindset for it and would likely end up shanking one of the customers, rather than the job itself being degrading.
- Firefly shows two extreme ends of the spectrum of prostitution:
- The Companions Guild, whose members are among the Alliance's upper class, can wield a fair amount of influence with their favored clients. It is also Guild law that a Companion chooses her clients, and they are paid very well for what they do. Companions get regular health screenings and have systems in place to blacklist clients who don't treat them with respect. One such Companion, Inara, is considered to be the most respectable of Serenity's crew (above the on-board reverend, even), and the only one who makes a completely "honest" living. She is shown to enjoy most aspects of her work, but at the same time, her lifestyle causes some degree of friction. One of her clients snubs her when she politely refuses to settle down with him (and it is implied that this happens a lot) and another calls her a "whore" when he loses his temper with her (and she subsequently blacklists him from the client registry). Companions are also more than simply prostitutes and are shown providing counsel and psychological help to their clients.
- "Heart Of Gold" shows the other side, with a decrepit brothel run by Nandi, a former Companion, where the girls are explicitly not Companions. Their harsh lives make a big contrast against the good companion life. Nandi also remarks that it used to be much worse, with many of the girls being abused drug addicts, until she killed the brothel's previous owner and seized control.
- Dollhouse encompasses most versions with how their prostitute dolls don't mind it at the time and don't remember it later. They are very well-paid in flat-rate service, their pimp tends to protect them, and they don't even know they're being prostituted, genuinely believing that they are in love during the encounter. Later though things aren't so glamorous.
- "Homeland" an American fixer recruits beautiful young American girls (including a pre-Glee/Supergirl Melissa Benoist) to be sex slaves in a Saudi Prince's harem. Except they're all volunteers, trading their favours in return for him funding their hedonistic party lifestyle.
- "Key West": Savannah Summer is a prosperous and fun loving lady of the night.
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl has frequently been accused of this. The protagonist loves her job, and when it causes her problems, it's usually depicted as being due to anti-prostitution prudes unjustly condemning or pitying her.
- That Mitchell and Webb Look parodies this trope (and more specifically Secret Diary of a Call Girl) using the recurring scriptwriters who never, ever do any research. Their show "My Shags as a Whore" is about a prostitute who outright states that "being a prostitute is brilliant!"Who wants to be a doctor or a lawyer when you can be a prostitute like me? A proper one I mean, not one of those grim ones, a nice, pretty, clean one, which in reality, most of us are.'
- In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Republic of Murdoch", it turns out George's "aunts" are a group of prostitutes who George's adopted father, a Good Shepherd minister, encouraged to form a Band of Brothels. Having observed their business (and possibly having compared it to prostitution in the back streets of Toronto), Murdoch concludes that the reverend was a very wise man.
- Criminal Minds doesn't usually go for this, but the episode "Pleasure Is My Business" does. The unsub is a high-class call girl who's going around killing her clients. The team suspects she's targeting them based on a sexual kink (citing the fact that even call girls don't have total control over what acts they have to perform), but her victim selection criteria are based on moral failings separate from soliciting prostitutes, and another (former) call girl they talk to for advice blows off that concern, feeling confident that the unsub could have filtered out unsavory clients on her own. The biggest "problem" presented with prostitution in the episode is the possibility of a scandal, but that's portrayed as a risk for the FBI team investigating the murders more than for the call girl herself, or even her clients note The ending of the episode declares that there's going to be fallout for the clients involved, but since that's only implied to happen off-screen, it loses any possible impact, and while the unsub's Freudian Excuse involves her father leaving the family after having an affair with a call girl, it doesn't play out any differently than if he'd had an affair with a non-prostitute, and we even meet the former call girl in question, who has a cushy life with a good husband. So, as long as you avoid seeking revenge on your Disappeared Dad via poisoning surrogates, being a call girl is a perfectly safe, mostly respectable career choice.
- Tipping the Velvet (2002): Subverted. At first Nan is quite comfortable with being a streetwalker and perfectly safe. Then however a client tries to rape her after she's unwilling to do anal sex with him. She becomes the kept woman of Ms. Lethaby, which also seems okay at first. Over time, however, Lethaby becomes far more exploitative and controlling to the point Nan describes herself later as her slave.
- The White Lotus: Played with. At first, Lucia is very upfront about liking her job, even trying to recruit Mia into it, but a few episodes into the season she starts to have second thoughts about her situation, due to her pimp who's harassing her over payment mostly.
- You Me Her: Izzy and Nina temporarily work as escorts to pay for college tuition. At no point is there even a mention of any danger that they might face, nor social stigma and other issues.