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".
"We're whores, and we're in your face!"
People yell the same thing at Paula Abdul.
LOL...Only in Paris, they're having riots in the streets so the hookers go out to demonstrate for their rights.
/sarcasm
I beg to differ
'has sold "sexual services" for 18 years'
Grandma hookers gone wild ?
My advice? Keep the hookers. Lose the government.
Makes you wonder if Chirac will join them as a show of solidarity.
"ply"
Creative writer.
The government there is "lose" enough as it is :)
10% off with a coupon?
LOL!
Holy crap! I kid you not that I was in a conversation with someone tonight talking about gay rights parades and I said, "What's next? Hooker pride parades?" Another guy laughed at him and said, "You wish!"
I'm so rubbing this story in tomorrow.
Me thinks applying minimum wage to hookers, what is it now $6.25?, is perfectly reasonable.
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