Posted on 03/09/2006 4:22:43 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
PROSTITUTES in the Brazilian city of Salvador are starting up their own radio station.
The Association of Prostitutes of Bahia state has won government permission for the project, enabling FM station Radio Zona to start broadcasting in the second half of the year, project coordinator Sandro Correia said today.
"We are not going to apologise for prostitution but we are going to struggle for the dignity of the profession," Mr Correia said.
The aim was not to attract women to the business. The station will feature programs about the trade but will also discuss issues such as human rights, social questions, and sexual abuse, Mr Correia said.
"The idea is that we have diverse programs that look at health issues, AIDS prevention, and racism, for example," he said.
Working girls and media professionals such as Mr Correia will staff the station and will give prostitutes training in an alternative job.
Funding will come from association funds, advertising and sponsorship.
Prostitution is widespread in Brazil, especially in Bahia state and other parts of the impoverished northeast.
International rights organisations have criticised the country as a destination for sex tourism and child prostitution.
"Working girls and media professionals ...will give prostitutes training in an alternative job. "
a thinly veiled excuse...
Prostitution houses have so many ways of advertising under cover...this is out in the open...
I shrug my shoulders at the innovation of it all.
KHOE
Sad situation that humans have no other choice in some cases.
However I wonder too...esp after reading this line:
We are not going to apologise for prostitution but we are going to struggle for the dignity of the profession," Mr Correia said.
What dignity and can they really educate those who exploit others?
Well, I guess the pimps will be the program directors?
PING!!! :)
I guess we know now where the news anchor for CBS is coming from!
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