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May. 30th, 2008 11:52 amGee, everyone seems worried about an influx of furrin hoo-ers to this jock-o-rama circle-jerk we are pleased to call "2010".
Or, if you're Stockwell Day, ostentatiously not worried: see earlier entry http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/176153.html
Though I would think the amount of money involved in moving THOUSANDS of women into Vancouver, housing and feeding them, and then moving them back out again after 10-12 days would not make this a very profitable venture.
Again, THOUSANDS of them - how many people are supposed to turn up to this boondoggle anyway? And how many of them, how often, will have the need or opportunity to engage a prostitute (above and beyond the generous supply already at work in Couverville....)? And in the final analysis, aren't these goombahs all in town to see someone slide rapidly down a hill, or slide rapidly across a sheet of ice, or something, and not to sample the exotic delights of Stefania the Not-Very-Convincing Trannie?
Again, it's interesting to see how everyone, in talking about 2010, automatically begins to overstate its probable impact on whatever else it is they are talking about - traffic, restaurants, climate, sex....
Act now to counter Olympic sex tourism, group urges
Lori Culbert, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Thousands of sex-trade workers will be trafficked into Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics, and so British Columbia must take action now to halt an increase in sex tourism, a group of international transition-house workers warned yesterday.
The group, in Vancouver for a conference, is calling on governments to provide more support for women working the streets. However, its members are opposed to a fledgling initiative to create a legal brothel in time for the Winter Games.
Suzanne Koepplinger, executive director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center, said there is anecdotal evidence from social service agencies in Salt Lake City that many sex-trade workers were imported into Utah for the 2006 winter Olympics.
She said no studies were done to prove exactly how many, but she argued the same observations were made by similar agencies during the 2004 Olympics in Athens and the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany.
( Read more... )
Or, if you're Stockwell Day, ostentatiously not worried: see earlier entry http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/176153.html
Though I would think the amount of money involved in moving THOUSANDS of women into Vancouver, housing and feeding them, and then moving them back out again after 10-12 days would not make this a very profitable venture.
Again, THOUSANDS of them - how many people are supposed to turn up to this boondoggle anyway? And how many of them, how often, will have the need or opportunity to engage a prostitute (above and beyond the generous supply already at work in Couverville....)? And in the final analysis, aren't these goombahs all in town to see someone slide rapidly down a hill, or slide rapidly across a sheet of ice, or something, and not to sample the exotic delights of Stefania the Not-Very-Convincing Trannie?
Again, it's interesting to see how everyone, in talking about 2010, automatically begins to overstate its probable impact on whatever else it is they are talking about - traffic, restaurants, climate, sex....
Act now to counter Olympic sex tourism, group urges
Lori Culbert, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, May 29, 2008
Thousands of sex-trade workers will be trafficked into Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics, and so British Columbia must take action now to halt an increase in sex tourism, a group of international transition-house workers warned yesterday.
The group, in Vancouver for a conference, is calling on governments to provide more support for women working the streets. However, its members are opposed to a fledgling initiative to create a legal brothel in time for the Winter Games.
Suzanne Koepplinger, executive director of the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center, said there is anecdotal evidence from social service agencies in Salt Lake City that many sex-trade workers were imported into Utah for the 2006 winter Olympics.
She said no studies were done to prove exactly how many, but she argued the same observations were made by similar agencies during the 2004 Olympics in Athens and the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany.
( Read more... )
), being careful to add the two spaces. Oh, I kill me....