{"id":2925,"date":"2006-06-28T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/06\/28\/if-its-ok-with-god-and-fairies\/"},"modified":"2006-06-28T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T03:00:31","slug":"if-its-ok-with-god-and-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/06\/28\/if-its-ok-with-god-and-fairies\/","title":{"rendered":"If It&#8217;s OK with God and Fairies&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8626'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sexyfairy.gif\" width=\"228\" height=\"350\" align=\"left\">The police have arrested a Penacook woman who advertises<br \/>\n          herself online as an &quot;Amazing Goddess&quot; and charged her with<br \/>\n          prostitution. According to the police, Suzan Belanger, 38, was running<br \/>\n          a prostitution<br \/>\n            business called Amazing Alternatives from 324 Village St. in downtown<br \/>\n            Penacook.<\/p>\n<p>        Belanger said yesterday she intends to fight the charge. While she admits<br \/>\n        she received money after sex with clients, she said that the money was<br \/>\n        a donation and that the sex was not for physical gratification.<\/p>\n<p>        Belanger said she was called to sexual healing, which she said involves<br \/>\n        oral sex and intercourse, by God and fairies.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Belanger has been a healer, she said, since January,<br \/>\n          and she initially advertised herself on the website Craigslist.com<br \/>\n          under erotic services. She opened her shop in Penacook in mid-March.<br \/>\n        She said God reassured her that her business was legal.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060606\/REPOSITORY\/606060305\">Concord Monitor<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Belanger rests comfortably in a tradition almost as<br \/>\n          old as human religion &#8211; the Temple Prostitute. Enlightenment through<br \/>\n          Sex, and Sex through Enlightenment, may be an idea whose time has come again,<br \/>\n          depending on who wins the next Presidential election&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police have arrested a Penacook woman who advertises herself online as an &quot;Amazing Goddess&quot; and charged her with prostitution. According to the police, Suzan Belanger, 38, was running a prostitution business called Amazing Alternatives from 324 Village St. in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/06\/28\/if-its-ok-with-god-and-fairies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}