The good slut

Call me Ishmael; I wander in the desert, eating locusts, eluding hostile nomads, and sucking on spit. I am a general practitioner, I prowl in the night, perilous and alone. I meet the old and the lost, the desperate and the hopeless. But in my darkest and most dreadful hours I may call for help, for I know there is one friend who will always answer my call.

A few months ago I was trying to organise an …