Tuesday is International Whores Day

[jundp 191]

Sex workers angry about the cost of advertising in local papers will mark International Whores Day today by protesting outside NSW Parliament House.

The Scarlet Alliance wants anti-discrimination laws to protect sex workers, saying at the moment its members are the victims of unfair bias from banks, lenders, local councils and in advertising.

Sex worker Ivy McIntosh said people in her profession were being overcharged when they placed ads in local papers.

"I'm paying too much for a measly two inches," she said in a statement.

"Sex work is legal in NSW.

"Why am I charged hundreds of dollars to advertise in local papers when other trade occupations are charged less than $100?"

The sex workers will dress in red and carry red umbrellas in the demonstration for International Whores Day, which started in France in 1975.

Source thanks to Fark

[scandal 951]

Outrageous!!!

Terrible and just wrong

I thought all the best Providers advertise online in this Internet era?

[scandal 951]

BUMP.

Bump bump bump bump bump.

I am very disturbed.

What is going on with VJ anyway????

Stupid endless threads about abortion go on and on and on.

And a nice wholesome thread about hookers who just aren't gonna take it lying down anymore (yes, pun there...) can't attract a following?

Sheesh.

[jundp 191]

"I'm paying too much for a measly two inches," she said in a statement.

Taken completely out of context, the above quote has quite a different meaning

[aidan80 9]

She works hard for the money..

wasn't that one of those 80's songs...

[scandal 951]

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

So, I guess I need to support the working girls tomorrow. Boy, is the wife going to be pissed! Think I should tell her?

[scandal 951]

Bill,

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

I think if you tell the wife, you better be prepared to tolerate a whole lotta crackers in bed to make up for it........

[Marina-Del 10]

Maybe I'm not feminist enough or something, but I'm not outraged by this. They shouldn't be paying more than the others for the same newspaper space.

Good for them and good to know there is an international whores day.

[wayno 9]

Whores are people too!

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Whores are people too!

And Capitalists as well!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

"I'm paying too much for a measly two inches," she said in a statement.

Taken completely out of context, the above quote has quite a different meaning

I had to read that one over a couple of times.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Who knew?

[Susita 175]

Yay happy whores day!

What do you get a ####### for #######'s day? A basket of fruit? A plaque? No wait... a hallmark card? And what would it say?

I choose a classy poem by none other than Walt Whitman:

To a Common Prostitute

by Walt Whitman

Be composed -be at ease with me -I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,

Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,

Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for

you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.

My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make

preparation to be worthy to meet me,

And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.

Till then I salute you with a significant look that you do not forget me.

I guess that's how they talked back in the day. "I appoint you with an appointment" LMAO

[almaty 19]

i am going to celebrate...by taking a ####### to the park for lunch