The Ladies of the Night

First of all, let me tell you, there is no happy hooker. That is a myth. No hooker loves and is passionate about what she does. On the other hand, sex is a commodity, its get traded everywhere, even in the white house, so it is not going away!

As you already know, Immigration Police swept down on the bars in San Nicholas collected three dozen of the bar sex workers, hauled them down the Police station, and later on had to release them practically driving them back to bed, because they were all legal, documented, only Dimas has been taking its sweet time to issue the papers.

Thus, the Immigration Police raid was a waste of time. And while they were busy harassing the last business still alive in SN, a boat with twenty illegals came in, just 2 were caught.

While I appreciate the strong hand and the determination the Immigration Police chief brings to her job, I have to say she is at times over enthusiastic and confrontational. I understand she would love to get rid of the bars and the in-house working girls all together, in hope of also losing the pimps, the drugs and the lowlifes. Conducting a surprise raid is not the answer.

I read about a contemporary trend in Red Light District management called the Nordic model – hope it is more effective than the Swiss model.   “Under the Nordic model, prostitutes are decriminalized and offered help, to leave prostitution behind. However, it also becomes a criminal offence to purchase sex. This flips the balance of power between prostitutes and those that exploit them on its head. It also kills off the wider market of drugs, violence, and pimps, effectively restricting the sale of sex to those rare instances where it is genuinely a transaction between two consenting adults.”

Did you get it? The Nordic model, already adopted in many European countries, lends protection to prostitutes, but harasses their clients, and the sex industry including its ugly criminal underbelly.

On the other hand, some of my friends say, leave SN alone, worry about the high-class escorts and call girls in the high-rise area, they are everywhere. 

The sex trade is the only business still alive in SN, why ruin the town’s last economic pillar.

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July 28, 2018
Rona Coster