Perhaps you are aware, DD, of facts I am not.  But suggesting that Stormy Daniels is a "whore", as the title of your blogpost does, may not be justifiable. 

I have understood (misunderstood?) "whore" as a person who exchanges sex for money. 

Daniels may have done this and you may be aware that this has been factually established. 

But performing in adult films in which she has sex isn't prostitution, even though she is earning money for her performance.      

And having sex with Trump for (most likely, it would appear) business development reasons, without an exchange of money at the time this occurred, wouldn't seem to fit the definition, either. 

With Ann Coulter, there is no evidence I'm aware of that she is, among the other things she is, also a whore.  Regardless of whether one holds a negative opinion about prostitution and people who engage in it, and about Coulter, or not.

I am no fan of Coulter but I do have some sympathy, surprising to me, for her in regards to her scheduled speech at Berkeley which ended up not occurring on account of what the university said were threats of violence.  Sad from my point of view that this would happen at Berkeley with its history of advocacy for free speech. 

Anyway, I'm over-analyzing this to a possibly comical degree.  But just a word of suggested caution, for whatever this is worth, about calling people whores, regardless of what one thinks of the practice. 

(I know: boring.  Sometimes one chooses to risk perceptions of boring some in order to defend others' dignity, though.)  

For thousands of years women weren't allowed to own property, so the only thing they could technically sell is their own asses (and other cherished body parts), and even there it was a matter of dispute, as they were often just passing from father's ownership to husband/harem's keep (Slavic languages maintain a possessive "of" ownership for female name endings), with a dowry for the male to sell that female real estate, and transactions outside that line were taboo. 

Unlike most other real estate, the simple act of land use here was rumored to "ruin" that little patch of goodness, and so lease arrangements that prospered in other spheres were frowned upon, euphemistically replaced with "selling oneself" as if this were a good for single time consumption, rather than say a fun park where one simply goes on a ride for a ticket.

Intrinsic to this bit of wordplay was the idea that males were built for humping - ever seen a pecker wear out? - whereas those lady bits and the enshrouding rest-of-the-lady had only a finite number of throw downs before it was off-to-pasture/child-rearing/field picking/insane asylum and time for trophy wife #N. 

As we've approached modern times, this rather archaic view of the order of things has subsided significantly, but not as quickly as say the development of self-driving cars and trips to the moon might suggest possible. Much of this has to do with the latent effect of religion, which aside from spiritual questions, also serves to codify the value system of the stone age and Middle Ages so that modern people can still behave as if they were dressing in loin cloths and foraging for their next meal, or transfixed by the awful mysterious lessons of the presumably God-given plague that wiped out 1/3 of Europe or the Mongol & other hordes that stormed the bulwarks for centuries. Yes, we have science, but it seems we also need a primitive conscience to keep us on our heels when we thought we'd left the primate's abode.

Much of this is due to psychology, from the Greek mythical figure Psyche, meaning "mind fuck" if my poor Greek skills serve me right, but that's in tandem with the untamed body that the Psyche is supposed to be fucking over (or "containing and controlling", to choose Google definition #2). So Psyche or soul was supposed to be better than body (unless you were inquisitive like Eve, in which case "why can't you stay content picking fruit all day?")

Still, there are a couple of issues that reflect on usage of the word "whore" in its various intents. First, is that sex is still tied closely to pregnancy, and will likely be for a few hundred years more (the side-effects and effectiveness of contraception is still a bit of a dodgy science, and chemical day (week) after abortion is still running the gauntlet with traditional coat-hanger / outright ban approaches, though it must be said both Ireland and Poland have major pro-choice rebellions bubbling up as I write).

A second issue is that sex means *something*, something we're often not quite sure of, and certainly most women don't seem to be the "it doesn't matter" type that say Stormy Daniels seems to promote, even if there are varying valuations of what a single sexual encounter or a particular affair means emotionally and psychically, attunement or not to Sex & The City-type one-nighters, tied in with internal handling of issues like fidelity ("good for me, not for thee" and so on). So we have inner turmoils of just how precious sex is vs. "promiscuousness" or simply not cherishing it as much as the good book or the local inn says is proper. This of course still applies more for girls than guys, who are supposed to experiment but somehow get most of their whore-hopping out of the way by 25 or so, to return as a Prodigal Son. (not many Prodigal Daughters celebrated through the ages). Who those whores to hop are is seldom discussed, but we can think of it as kind of our Untouchables Touchables caste, being somewhat fortunate that we got rid of the stoning and the dutiful wifely pyre parts of Hindu/Aryan culture.

And as evolved, the word "whore" has evolved to mean also the selling off of values or beliefs or responsibilities that should be held more sacred, should be preserved. This analogy is *still* much more used for females than males, and when used in ways like "media whore" for the dudes often has a subtext of "boys will be boys" or "we really weren't expecting any better".  But of course there are few beliefs these days that anyone holds steadfast - everything's up for renegotiation, for fanaticism, for aligning with some tribe or clique or other ad hoc belief system. Few of us are lucky enough to be paid for the abandonment of principles (except the obvious surrender of most rights when we take any employment). Most of us know well to shut up if our "free speech" rights might get us locked up or sacked or in a fist fight, etc. - it's usually just not worth it. 

But part of the reason I'm writing so long over this is Lennon's line "You think you're so clever and classless and free... but you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see."  We're still not that comfortable in our own skins, male or female. We still don't understand psychology, much less the interplay between physiology and cognition. We're still babes in the woods as to the full ramifications of sexuality, meaning we often hold contradictory sentiments that our species is unlikely to resolve anytime soon, aside from the small part that's handled through mechanics and scientific advancement. And then there's the social placement of women - which despite the seemingly good news of #MeToo and #MillionWomanMarch looks to be still a long hard slog for the masses.

Is Stormy an admirable character? well, if she bolsters your tribal politics, it's probably fair to say yes, even as evangelicals have played fast and loose with their own rules and allegiances. Aside from that, Males (and some females) seem to require parading nudity with varying degrees of actual sex to keep their libidos simmering - it's hard to say catering to a basic human need is *bad*, though we also tend to grade things on scales, so how high up do we place it as compared to nursing, politics, horticulture (pun intended), STEM jobs and mothering. While we can all pretty well agree what Ann Coulter is, I'd say we're likely on new ground with Ms. Daniels. What do you tell the kids, for one? What do you tell yourself for two.

PS - and yeah, it all varies greatly between cultures.

Dick... giggles...

Josh Marshall‏ Verified account @joshtpm

Josh Marshall Retweeted Dylan Scott

First the teen came for laura ingraham and took away her self lubricating catheter advertisers and I said nothing ...

Dylan Scott Verified account @dylanlscott

Replying to @joshtpm

the real danger here is..... the teens

8:58 PM - 30 Mar 2018

~OGD~

Also,reminds me I should post this here for posterity:

Ann Coulter: Trump is a 'shallow, lazy ignoramus' | TheHill

Coulter is still on this meme, this is her latest tweet:

and her second latest is also bashing the Koch Bros. and GOP Congress for supposedly supporting lax borders: