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October 25, 2006
Coffee Snorter: On This, We're Firmly United
Finally, a Do It For The Children argument we can all get behind, as it were:
A Dutch mayoress has raised eyebrows by backing the idea of sending prostitutes to accompany Dutch troops on foreign missions."The army must consider ways its soldiers can let off steam," Annemarie Jorritsma, mayor of the town of Almere in central Netherlands and a member of the ruling VVD liberals, told Dutch television.
"There was once the suggestion that a few prostitutes should accompany troops on missions. I think that is something we should talk about," she said, adding that the prostitutes would keep soldiers from turning to local women.
Her comments have drawn a mixed response in the Netherlands, renowned for its liberal prostitution laws.
"I don't think my wife would find it a good idea," Wim van den Burg, a spokesman for the military service trade union told Dutch newspaper Volkskrant.
Andre van Dorst of sex industry organisation VER told the same paper: "I can see something in this, though it's a very strange idea."
The Netherlands has more than 2,000 soldiers serving abroad, most of them in Afghanistan as part of a NATO peacekeeping force, and in Bosnia.
It's just amazing what becomes possible when we're willing to compromise in the name of international harmony and consensus. Kinda takes the breath away, doesn't it?
Via Betsy Newmark
Posted by Cassandra at October 25, 2006 05:48 AM
Comments
Oh yeah...BRILLIANT!!!!
Posted by: Carrie at October 25, 2006 09:11 AM
The difference between a politician and a prostitute?
Their working attire...
Posted by: camojack at October 25, 2006 09:13 AM
Or where they work. And VVD? Oh if that isn't begging for the ten foot pole.
*must...not...lob...snark...at...allies...*
I guess the girls at the Reeperbahn aren't getting any work.
heh.
Posted by: Cricket at October 25, 2006 11:22 AM
I believe the technical term is 'camp followers.'
Posted by: Achillea at October 25, 2006 06:28 PM
And won't that go over fabulously with the Muslim host countries....
Posted by: Miss Ladybug at October 25, 2006 06:32 PM