Friday, December 04, 2009

Is It Gropenhagen?

Or is it a natural reaction to Big Gub'mint intrusion into our lives?  From Der Spiegel:
Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings.
Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates to 'Be sustainable - don't buy sex'.
"Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes," the approach to hotels says.
Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk. 
Heh.  I'll bet the first people in line are the bureaucrats that mailed the cards; I'm sure they have lots of 'em left over.  We ARE talking gub'mint, right?  Screwing people is what they DO.

(h/t: a tweet from Andy Levy)
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7 comments:

  1. alison04 December, 2009 14:23

    Good for the city council! They have every right to get rid of the city filth.

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  2. Buck04 December, 2009 15:46

    Hookers are people, too, Alison! ;-)

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  3. Catmoves04 December, 2009 16:39

    Hey Buck, isn't it a fact that prostitutin is legal in Denmark? Seems to me if that's the case, then the pros have a right to sound off to the man.
    Remember, a little power gives a little man just a little too much say so.

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  4. Buck04 December, 2009 18:09

    You're right, Cat... whoring IS legal in Denmark, so the city burgers were way outta line. I assumed too much in my post, which is to say I thought folks knew prostitution is legal there.

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  5. alison05 December, 2009 05:35

    I'd be happy if some drugs were made legal but not so happy if the scum started hustling hotel punters or turning the town into a mess. And you can bet your bottom dollar that hotels would happily have the council intervene THEN. After they legalised it prostitution was declining in Denmark. It was under control until Eastern Europeans flooded the main red light district and started making life scummy for city residents. They run brothels and pimp. Which is still illegal in Denmark. Hence the city council's rather mild mannered actions to deter it.

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  6. alison05 December, 2009 05:37

    Prostitution is legal in a lot of Euro countries but running pimping and organised brothels is not.

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  7. Buck05 December, 2009 11:38

    Noted, A. You know better than I do; I haven't been on the Continent in over ten years.

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Just be polite... that's all I ask.

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