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FRENCH PROSTITUTES DECLARE 'HOOKER PRIDE' ON PARIS STREETS
The Tocqueville Connection ^ | 18 March 2006 | AFP via The Tocqueville Connection

Posted on 03/18/2006 7:57:06 PM PST by Cornpone

PARIS, March 18, 2006 (AFP) - Dozens of prostitutes took to the streets of Paris Saturday not to ply their trade but to defend it in a demonstration of "hooker pride" and calls for recognizing their human rights.

The French hookers are asking for the repeal of a 2003 law which makes soliciting subject to a fine of 3,750 euros (4,600 dollars) and two months in prison, as well as revoking the residency card of any foreigner.

The prostitutes like Karima, who has sold "sexual services" for 18 years, refer to it as "Sarkozy's law" after the French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

"Sarkozy's law has put the girls in danger," said the 36-year-old transsexual.

A 33-year-old Brazilian woman expressed the same view, claiming she could no longer work in the Parisian park, Bois du Boulogne, because "it's too dangerous" since "Sarkozy's law makes us more vulnerable... in the hands of the client."

"We are workers like anyone else," she added. The prostitute protest drew about 100 marchers, according to police, while organizers put the turnout at several hundred.

The hookers marched from Place Pigalle to Rue Saint-Denis shouting slogans: "You sleep with us, you vote against us" and "Not guilty, not victims, proud to be prostitutes".


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; hodown; hooker; hookers; ladymarmalade; moralabsolutes; pleasenopictures; prostitues; sarkozy; voulezvouscoucher
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To: Cornpone
A wh0re should be judged by the same criteria as other professionals offering services for pay, such as dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, etc. Is she professionally competent? Does she give good measure? Is she honest with her clients? It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

ROBERT HEINLEIN
21 posted on 03/18/2006 8:16:56 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO")
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To: dead

Genius!


22 posted on 03/18/2006 8:17:32 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Cornpone

French prostitutes demonstrate in Paris, during a "Hooker Pride" march in protest of a three-year-old law banning them from soliciting on the street. The banner reads "Sex workers against Sarkozy."(AFP/Francois Guillot)

23 posted on 03/18/2006 8:19:32 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: charrisGOP
"ply" Creative writer.

No worse than Mohammad, "Women are your fields: go, then, into your fields whence you please." (2:223). Ply, plow, sounds about the same to me.

24 posted on 03/18/2006 8:20:02 PM PST by Cornpone (Remember 11 Sept 2001 -- This generation's Peal Harbor, its Alamo, its battleship Maine.)
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To: Cornpone; mikrofon; TheBigB; pissant

She's wearing cam-ho-flage.

25 posted on 03/18/2006 8:20:54 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Cornpone
The French hookers are asking for the repeal of a 2003 law which makes soliciting subject to a fine of 3,750 euros (4,600 dollars) and two months in prison, as well as revoking the residency card of any foreigner.

And they claim this law puts them in danger from their clients?

26 posted on 03/18/2006 8:22:29 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Vision

Is that like "Celtic Pride"? Can anyone post a pic of that movie?


27 posted on 03/18/2006 8:23:24 PM PST by vwunpimsmyride
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To: Cornpone

Reminds me of the same scripture which comes to mind when I think of the gay pride parades....and they shall flaunt their sin in the streets.


28 posted on 03/18/2006 8:25:00 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Cornpone

Wine, cheese, and sex - what a powerhouse country.......


29 posted on 03/18/2006 8:31:32 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Cornpone

30 posted on 03/18/2006 8:34:27 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Cornpone
The French hookers are asking for the repeal of a 2003 law which makes soliciting subject to a fine of 3,750 euros (4,600 dollars) and two months in prison, as well as revoking the residency card of any foreigner.

How many milli-seconds passed before the French government immediately surrendered to the demands?

31 posted on 03/18/2006 8:37:09 PM PST by Screamname (OWWW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq5aTGSR-Pk&search=jessica%20biel)
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Considering his past, Chiraq no doubt made an appearance as a sign of solidarity.


32 posted on 03/18/2006 8:40:11 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Billthedrill


as if there is a difference...


33 posted on 03/18/2006 8:43:37 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: wagglebee

One if you want it...


34 posted on 03/18/2006 8:52:38 PM PST by little jeremiah (Tolerating evil IS evil.)
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To: Cornpone

"It's hard out here for a whore..."


35 posted on 03/18/2006 8:54:17 PM PST by RichInOC (...somebody was going to sing it...why not me?)
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To: Cornpone

Paradise: French art, French wine, French cheese, French hookers! Mmmmmmmmmm......


36 posted on 03/18/2006 8:57:15 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: bybybill

Sir, you are too kind to the politicians here!


37 posted on 03/18/2006 9:09:34 PM PST by dk/coro
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To: martin_fierro

You made me snork carrot into my sinus. Damn you.


38 posted on 03/18/2006 9:15:52 PM PST by LongElegantLegs (Going armed to the terror of the public.)
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To: dead
"You sleep with us, you vote against us"

People yell the same thing at Paula Abdul.

Post of the year!

39 posted on 03/18/2006 9:17:23 PM PST by Dengar01 (Go White Sox!)
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To: Cornpone

More news from the sewers of Paris.


40 posted on 03/18/2006 9:21:43 PM PST by onedoug
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