If we're really going about taking the word "courtesan" in the first degree, I do believe I met one once. Performance-wise, it wasn't my proudest outing, but she made it up to me after with riveting conversation. We spent an additional hour jawing about all the sort of far-out stuff that Smitty has a penchant for: extaterrestrial lifeforms, angels, demons, how sex magick works, all that good tinfoil hat shit. I even learned the term "loosh" from her, the negative energy that the Archons spoken of in Gnosticism are supposed to feed on. I was actually taught something new, and I though I was the grand wizard here (for the more cultured readers, no, not THAT kind of wizard with the white hood

). An episode to remember.