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)
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".
Genius!
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)
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.
She's wearing cam-ho-flage.
And they claim this law puts them in danger from their clients?
Is that like "Celtic Pride"? Can anyone post a pic of that movie?
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.
Wine, cheese, and sex - what a powerhouse country.......
How many milli-seconds passed before the French government immediately surrendered to the demands?
as if there is a difference...
One if you want it...
"It's hard out here for a whore..."
Paradise: French art, French wine, French cheese, French hookers! Mmmmmmmmmm......
Sir, you are too kind to the politicians here!
You made me snork carrot into my sinus. Damn you.
People yell the same thing at Paula Abdul.
Post of the year!
More news from the sewers of Paris.
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