Posted on 12/19/2005 11:11:09 PM PST by MindBender26
SAN FRANCISCO -- Saturday is the third annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, and many in the industry say physical abuse against prostitutes and exotic dancers remains a problem.
A non-profit group called Sex Workers' Outreach Project says its goal is to make their work conditions safer and healthier.
Executive Director Robin Few said the workers don't have equal protection under the law, meaning they can't go the police when there's violence against them.
Few says they want consensual prostitution decriminalized. It's every person's right to make decisions regarding their own bodies, Few said.
Sex workers also want to unionize to get protections that workers in other industries have.
Next thing you know, they'll insist on seniority.
LOL. This is nuts. Drug dealers are forming a trade group while their couriers are unionizing too...
Will they have to start their careers as "apprentice crack whore"?
Hmmmmm, the International Sisterhood of Ho's.....United Ho's of America?
Four Justices on the current US Supreme Court would probably buy this argument.
Morality aside, if they think that sex is "work", they have a problem no government can solve.
The way things are going we'll soon have a union for media whores.
No, because there is a lower job. "Assistant Apprentice Crack Whore". It was in a poll of worst jobs ever that I saw yesterday or ten years ago.
Probably won't be too long about till the joke about the union whorehouse gets posted. Not to ruin the punchline but its about seniority.
They're "Undocumented Sex Therapists"...as seen in this thing that pretends to be a newspaper.
The workers said they're not going to stand for it anymore, unless you pay extra.
That's exactly what I was alluding to.
A hardcore union man walks into a whorehouse. He goes up to the madame, asks how much for the really cute girl standing in the corner, and the madame tells him $300 for an hour. He asks if the house is unionized, and when the woman says no, he stomps out, yelling "I ain't staying in no nonunion whorehouse".He walks down the street to another brothel, where he notices that there is union bug on the sign. He asks the cigar smoking, beefy goombah at the counter if the house is unionized and how much services cost. The goombah replies "Why yes, it is. Our girls are $300 for an hour."
Pleased, the union man hauls out his wallet and hands over his money, looking happily in anticipation at a line of young and nubile Teamster beauties. Out from behind the line steps an old crone, warty, heavyset, pasty, with varicose veins and false teeth, smiling at him and beckoning with a withered claw.
"B-b-b-but whats this about?", he sputters to the goombah. "That's Gert", says the goombah, taking the cigar out of his mouth. She's got seniority. You got a problem with that?"
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Remember this from last year? I do. I also remember (not sure if it's directly related or not) a high school in SF where a stripper came to educate the aspiring sluts on the wonders of career stripping.
If whores and strippers are a legitimate professionals, then naturally porn "stars" are legitimate too. And if they're all legitimate, then of course they can come to your kids' high school - and why not middle school? - with pamphlets and phone numbers to call so your kids can learn about the wonderful career opportunities awaiting them.
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Meanwhile across town they're banning guns.
So Hookers are looking to a city that thinks Tookie Williams and Al Quada are innocent for protection? There is quite a bit of irony here...
It's at least as much "work" as what sales or marketing do.
Duplication of effort - we already have the DNC.
Seriously, most prostitutes, as I understand it, were abused as children, or are drug users from whatever cause. This kind of activism makes it look like they chose this lifestyle the way one would choose to go get an ice cream cone.
Geeez! How soon will it be before you are turned into a piller of salt for even looking at the SF skyline.
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