Photo: Me with Lucifer in his early pre-Jesus days. He was quite the rake back then. He almost stabbed me with that goddamn sword of his. He never was careful enough with it.
There’s always a street for this kind of thing where so-called "fallen" women sell their bodies for hard cash. Now, over my many lifetimes, I’ve been a companion to more than a few courtesans and ladies of the night. Most of them are kindhearted, wonderful women, and IMHO the fact that they sell sex for a living should not in the least be held against them. Case in point: in later life, Jesus totally understood this and was invariably loving, kind, and protective towards prostitutes, even though it earned him very few gold stars with his stuck up, prissy disciples, or anyone else “of standing,” as folk referred to those who actually had no inner standing at all.
Jesus was like that with all of the downtrodden; but as a teenager, he hadn't developed those skills quite yet, and he was almost susceptible to the idea that women should be viewed as, well, to put it in blunt and horrible terms, merchandise.
The fact that the women themselves saw themselves as merchandise is beside the point. They deserved respect. And even though Lucifer had convinced Jesus that this was an acceptable way to lose his virginity—and by the way, it was a clever and rather sly idea, as I saw right away—Jesus was bound to be sympathetic towards whoever it was he had sex with. It was just the way he was.We will draw the curtain over the actual act itself. Suffice it to say that Lucifer, slick as an oily piglet, handled it like a real gentleman. That's another thing about devils, they have great manners, and absolutely treat people well—right up until they get them to hell and torture the ever-living shit out of them. Everything about the encounter was properly orchestrated, wel- timed, tastefully done, and the prostitute that he chose for Jesus was a truly openhearted, wonderful woman who had fallen on hard times.
It all worked out very well indeed, considering it was literally of the devil himself.
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