Herald bombshell: Boston Phoenix used to run escort ads

Backpage started out as part of Village Voice Media.

On the racing page, the Herald used to run ads for the Pussycat in the CZ and a place in Revere that sold lingerie.

I remember being in Santa Monica along Third Street in the late 90's and seeing a Pussycat Theatre and I had thought I had been time warped to 1983.

Not sure why you think a row of small retailers is especially dirty.

If nothing else, these archives could help solve a cold case years down the line.

Then again, you probably tossed a lot of rape kits when the victim's SSN was from out of state ...

So your advice is to destroy the evidence of the kind of ads the Phoenix ran?

you refuse to participate in the conversation in good faith.

Except republicans are against tearing down pro slavery monuments. Like when a Trumper drove into a crowd and killed a woman because he was mad that people were against a confederate monument. Trump called those violent white supremacists "very fine people".

Before you pontificate about what an archives does, you should learn what an archives does.

Archives are the documentary by-product of human activity retained for their long-term value. They provide evidence and explanation both for past actions and current decisions. (h/t Internat'l Council on Archives).

The past actions may be ethical, unethical, or morally neutral; the records are historical evidence of those actions regardless.

The Northeastern University Archives also hold the papers of Catholic terrorist John Salvi, who held a conservative world view closer to you than to those of us who are liberal. Northeastern does not endorse Salvi or his thinking, but determined his letters are of historical significance.

Retaining the archives of an organization-- a business, NGO, university, government, fraternal org, whatever-- is not an act of "honoring" it. It's preserving historical evidence.

The Holocaust Museum in Washington is not "honoring" the administrators of Dachau by retaining their papers. The University of North Carolina is not "honoring" slave traders by retaining financial and business documents related to the trade of humans in the Americas-- the largest such archives in the United States.

I did part of my archival training program with an assistant archivist for the UN War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. He was not honoring Slobodan Milošević, nor are the Hague archives.

Desmond Tutu gave the keynote address at CITRA in 2003. This is what he said about archives:

No one mercifully can be found who ever supported apartheid. Wonderful. We are ashamed of that part of our history, but it is our history none the less. And it stands there recorded in our National Archives to remind us of the awfulnesses we survived and of which we were capable.

The records are crucial to hold us accountable. They are indispensable as deterrents against a repetition of this ghastliness and they are a powerful incentive for us to say, “Never again”. They are a potent bulwark against human rights violations.

We must remember our past so that we do not repeat it.

Were double-edged swords. Both were absolutely used by human traffickers and pimps, but they were also used by sex workers who were in that line of business by choice. And for people in that latter group, it was safer than trying to pick up work on the street.

I don't get it myself-- few things I care less about than Brady's woo eating habits-- but it must still get clicks so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

though it could return:

Publisher folds Portland Phoenix but hopes ads for legal pot can revive it (Portland Press Herald)

It was the last survivor, after the deaths of the Worcester, Boston, and Providence Phoenix papers, as well as WFNX radio and Stuff magazine.

Having read ALL THREE* articles/columns, it seems to me that it might be Northeastern as an institution that is the target, for whatever reason.

*Each by a different reporter/columnist, yet the writing is uniformly cringe-worthy. Favorite example, from Casey Sherman:

Now that America is woke to the plight of human trafficking after the scandal embroiling New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft

So nobody in America thought human trafficking was bad before Robert Kraft?