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".
She could be in her early thirties.
No big thing around my area for the girls to start having kids at age 12, sad to say. 12+12+12=grandma.
I dunno. Maybe they feel "empowered" by marching around, but I don't think they will garner a lot of public sympathy.
Maybe they need a marketing straegy. I'd bet that "customer appreciation" days would get a more favorable public reaction than having to watch these burned-out harpies marching around complaining.
It matters?
She could be in her early thirties.
You both missed the gender. She's a He.
"the 36-year-old transsexual."
With all the part transplants these days assume nothing.
and who would pay to have sex with a smelly armpit haired french whore?
I never ask what next. It always brings something worse to the surface...
,,, mais, une belle paire de nichon - dans la rue!!
A good friend of mine just went to Europe for a vacation and waas scheduled to stay in paris for a week, after three days she said the hell with these french snotty pukes and went early to germany where whe had a great time and was treated wonderfully.
Just confirming what I already knew.
"Wood of Baloney" Park -- sounds appropo for someone in the trade...
This is what RINOs are going to say after the next election.
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