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June 9th 2006 at 1:36 pm in General So now, the Vatican lashes out to Germany and the and the World Cup Soccer Championshit (pun intended), being a ‘breeding’ ground for sex slavery, yada yada.
The Vatican fears that thousands of women might get degraded and get forced into prostitution to supply the increasing demand for prostitutes during the World Cup. (Believe me, most of those soccer fans really couldn’t care less about fucking some prostitutes brains out — all that matters is soccer. *sigh*)
I don’t know, but legalisation of prostitution has this benefit that everything is traceable.
In countries where prostitution is illegal, when the hookers don’t get payed by their pimps for instance, they cannot sue their pimp. No legal grounds whatsoever.
In Germany (and in the Netherlands as well), prostitutes pay taxes, they get health insurance, and all the other benefits a ‘working’ person has (even a union).
The Vatican, of course only having experience with illegal prostitution, hiding young boys and sutff, think that all applies to legal prostitution too. There really is a world of difference.
I would’ve rather seen the Vatican speaking with their horny congregation in stead of pointing the finger at the ones that facilitate an oh-so obvious need.
Update: This one I don’t get, though — if you point a finger, point it at the real cause, not the symptom:
“(It’s bad enough) that prostitution is allowed … but it is even worse that more than 40,000 women will enter the trade during the World Cup and many of them are forced to carry out this activity against their will, so they are objects of trafficking,” Marchetto said.
Yeah? If we really are speaking of force, it shall be the pressure of a capitalist, inhumane, society that forces them into prostitution if that’s the only way to earn a living in this more-and-more expensive world. They really aren’t all forced — I can imagine it being their own choice to go into prostitution.
The Vatican, and free choice, obviously don’t go together…
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