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Posted on 04/08/2003 11:07:06 AM PDT by HumanaeVitae
The former madam of a Dutch escort agency has opened a "Hanky Panky School" for prostitutes to teach the world's oldest profession how to make more money.
Elene Vis - whose frank autobiography, Escort Queen with Turbopower, made her a Dutch tabloid darling - opened the school last week in a luxury Amsterdam canal house to offer prostitutes "exclusive sales training" to boost their business.
"You could call it sales techniques. You have to sell yourself and it doesn't matter if you sell your body or you sell vacuum cleaners. The principle is exactly the same," Vis, 43, said today.
The Netherlands, where brothels are legal and prostitutes pay tax, is renowned for its tolerant attitude to sex and soft drugs. The capital's red light district and its bustling coffee shops are tourist attractions that make millions a year.
Vis, once dubbed The Five-Star Madam, ran a firm providing expensive escorts to wealthy clients for 20 years. She said the men and women prostitutes who worked for her agency could make about 6,000 euro ($A10,700) a month for 40 hours work.
"We train prostitutes to get a better life and more money out of their work," Vis said of the
450-euro ($A800) course at what she called her "educational institute" providing video presentations and tutorials on positive thinking and love-making techniques of the Kama Sutra.
At least 10 people have already signed up for the course, with dozens of other queries flooding in to her office, she said. "I teach them everything in half a day but if they have questions, they can call me," Vis said.
Vis said communication and presentation skills -- including how to dress -- were a key part of the course she runs, employing experts to tackle different subjects.
"Everybody can be beautiful. You have to know what your strong points are and your lesser points. You have to realise how you look. How other people see you."
Vis said positive thinking and confidence was important and that escorts could make a lot of money by ensuring clients spent as much time with them as possible.
"If a man wants sex, he will do anything to please you to get what he wants and that's the sex. So what he starts to do is bring you flowers, bring you chocolates, take you out for dinner, all those kind of things," Vis said.
"With 10 minutes of sex, you cannot make a lot of money."
The school also offers help with sexual and relationship problems, as well as courses on how to snare millionaires.
Prostitution has been protected by law in the Netherlands for almost 200 years.
In 1988, it was officially defined as a legal profession and prostitutes joined the service sector union. They have paid income tax since 1996 and brothels were legalised in 2001.
Interesting choice of analogy...
Whores and vacuum cleaners --- very similar, really.
No, I really don't think so.
I thought prostitution was a strictly "pay to play" game. Who takes flowers and chocolates to a hooker?
Tell that to Monica Lewinsky.
Ten whole minutes? They get to do it twice in the Netherlands?
No, I really don't think so."
Hmm.. Oh, I don't know... if your the sort (not me) that's into supreme humiliation and domination I expect she's just the ticket! Picture her in tight black laytex with a riding crop...
(Ha! That oughtta ruin a few meals thinking about that visage...)
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