Free Sex for Copenhagen Conference Delegates
Loss leading is as old as the concept of marketing itself. Whether it’s the freebies provided to promote a new lager at the local bar, or the free samples of cosmetics and fragrances dished out at beauty stores, or the good old fashioned buy one get one free – inducement to invite custom are part and parcel of our business world.
It’s unsurprising then, to find a storm brewing between groups of commercial sex workers in Copenhagen and the Mayor’s office who are determined that none of the working girls are going to have an early Christmas. What with the whole world descending on Copenhagen, it’s naive at best to assume that horizontal refreshments aren’t part and parcel of the ’entertainment package’ available to delegates at the climate and environment conference just beginning in the Danish capital. Just because it’s not on the official programme doesn’t mean that it’s not available.
So when the Copenhagen Mayor’s office issues a formal communiqué that blatantly says ”Be Sustainable, Don’t Buy Sex” and distributes it to hotels, the response from representative groups of the working girls is emphatic.
Conference delegates who show the official “Anti-prostitution postcards” being distributed at the conference and in hotels, in conjunction with their official conference delegates ID cards – are being offered free sexual services as a retaliatory measure against the move by the Mayor’s office.
A spokeswoman from SIO, a sex workers interest organization says:
”It’s completely discriminatory. Ritt Bjerregaard the Mayor is abusing her position when she uses her power to prevent us from carrying out our legal work. I don’t understand how she can be allowed to contact people in this way – we have to defend ourselves.”
It wasn’t so long ago that Jackie Selebi, the South African Police Commissioner urged the South African government to legalize prostitution for the duration of the FIFA 2010 World Cup. Not surprisingly, Selebii’s ‘pragmatism’ as some would say was totally laughed out of the room into the media circles, despite the validity of the argument that the Police should be “policing” the crowds and not focussing stretched resources on vice duties.
Sometimes, morality has no place in situations where practical solutions are needed to manage unsolvable practical problems, and let’s face it, the Copenhagen conference, and the 2010 World cup for that matter is like Christmas, Easter, 4 leap year birthdays and the lotto all rolled into one for a commercial sex worker. There are some things that are simply unpoliceable when supply meets demand if you will.
You can understand why both sides fight their corner though – and why the police helplessly look on.
I’ve made a point though of maintaining my inherent cynicism about this week’s environment and climate conference in Copenhagen. In March, I wrote the article Environmental fascism in its element – Doomsayers are at it again.
In the March article, I conclude that if there’s one thing I’ve come to understand (and something that acts as another contributor to my cynicism) about this environmental fascism, it boils down to the ability to pay salaries and pay mortgages for all these environmental activists. All the focus and enthusiasm and passion and whatever you can call it about the cause for environmentalism, is simply a cover for a direct route to government funding and donor funding for the environment. The environment and lobbying about global warming is a fashion statement for the next decade. In the 70’s women’s liberation was fashionable, in the 80s race relations was fashionable, in the 90s it was all about the gay and lesbian movement, this decade disability rights has become the new gay, and next decade, watch out for the fair trade consuming, bicycle riding, garbage recycling tree huggers.
For one, it’s hard to take anything that happens in the conference seriously if you consider that the Russian security services are being suspected for leaking ’toxic’ (forgive the pun) e-mails being bandied around – totally discrediting the whole environmental movement. Have all these scientist been lying to us about global warming all these years, or are the KGB back to their old tricks. It’s no wonder the sex workers in Copenhagen are seeing the event as pay day and nothing to do with our environment.
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Tags: Copenhagen Conference, Environmental fascism, Global warming
December 6th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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“THEY”, the royal they (not the ones who are threatening to sue paparazzi for taking their photos)- the other they are saying that global warming was all a hoax! I was watching some news channel today possibly al jazeera (ssshhhh!) and “some” musician was telling me to consider two meat- free days a week to save the planet. My question and yes, I know it is a weak one- but “doesn’t spinach count?”.Why are we worried that we are eating all the goats on the planet and therefore de-stabilizing the eco-system but we are encouraged to eat spinach more often. Kwani if we finish the spinach- what will the goat eat?
The other day I was reading a very informative paper- THE METRO (!!!) and there was an article about a snake that was RUSHED TO THE VET because it had started to eat itself- it thought that it’s tail was another snake. Firstly I personally thought that whoever rushed it there should have been beaten severely but secondly- can we blame this on global warming too? Have rats become extinct too? Or have we moved from a man-eat-man society to a snake-eat-snake society? Kweli Copenhagen is the place to be BECAUSE CLEARLY NOTHING IS HAPPENING ELSE WHERE.Even Obama is checking in on the last day- last day!!!! And I believe the USA contributes more and has more to work towards eliminating said warming of this globe lakini one president of an East African country that remains nameless is going from day one to day full stop.
I may have taken the wrong medication today so yeah, if you are thinking “what is she on about?” So am I bwana, so am I! About that meet up………I need to go admire camels, so the other side of this year maybe? Do bars go on sale in Jan. with all the other sales? ( and with this I will depart!)
December 7th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Some cyber punk kid who was upgrading my blog software decided I could be more friendlier and less Stone Cold by promoting the blogs of my commenters by highlighting their last post. If it works the way it’s supposed to, then the last blog post of every person who comments will tag their entry in here and others can visit their site. I was told to consider it a public service…LOL!
Apparently, the KGB are being accused of orchestrating a campaign to discredit the entire global warming movement. The emails they allegedly hacked into at the University of East Anglia are used by every Tom, Dick and Harry to prove a case for global warming – yet emails as far back as from 1996 seem to prove that all this environmental threat thing is a hoax and we’ve all been taken for a ride all this time.
Give up meat for 2 days??? LOL! They’re joking right? Besides, celebraties who adopt all manner of good causes are doing that to try and arrest their professional bankruptcy. They don’t have any mojo any more and the only way to stay in the public limelight is to support the good causes if you will. It’s nothing to do with them caring, it’s a career development decision.
Speaking of goats and fucking up the food chain by eating their food – a few years ago, I held a “miraa” only bash at my place. It was something I was dared to do, and it was one of the craziest parties I’ve ever been at. There was no alcohol, and all night, folks just listened to music, chewed on miraa like cows chewing cud, and sipped on soft drinks while biting on a big G or two through the night.
What was funny is that the girls attending all started with that “I’ll never be seen dead chewing that shit” mantra and a few hours into the night when they realised miraa was the only refreshment on offer – their stance moved from “let me try one” to “fuck it – bring me a few stems”. There’s nothing as funny as seeing miraa chewing remove the gloss off a fly chic. Need I say the whole house was on speed by the early hours in the morning and talking absolute rubbish for most part…LOL!
One of our friends who popped in on his way to the airport accused all of us of messing up the food chain in that we wanted to eat both the goat and the goat’s food ala the miraa.
Copenhagen is most definitely the place to hang out for the next however many days. I gather it’ll cost over £120 million for the 12 day jamboree and conference delegates will produce green house gases equivalent to that produced by a middle sized African country
How the hell they’ll make any sense with over 15,000 delegates and over 45,000 environmental activists baffles me. No wonder the langas are in protest. 40,000 prospective clients (give or take the male to female ratio) is a market not to be scoffed at.
btw…It’s OK to watch Al Jazeera. I think it’s one of the best stations in the world if only for their sheer audacity to be different. I met some memberrs of one of their production teams when we stayed in the same hotel in Doha a couple of years ago – and our nightly jaunts at the hotel bar and the stories they shared were priceless. I got hooked totally.
January is traditionally a very bad month for bars as most folks are broke – so I’m sure we can find a few bargains down town….get the girls together after your camel hunting.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
LOL…trying to police commercial sex workers is a waste of resources that should be condemned by tax payers. As for the conference itself, I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be a lot of noise with little follow-up action. Nothing new there.
@3OTC…that snake story is killing me. WTF?!
December 9th, 2009 at 7:25 am
This is very random and far fetched but maybe they were banning commercial sex for fear of the amount of latex (read: condoms) that shall need to be disposed of after the conference. They are trying to tell us not to choke the environment, right?
December 9th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL @MYSTIC. You are the winner.
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January 14th, 2010 at 8:52 am
What did I want to say..he, miraa and Tusker, the perfect combination.
As for the environment, look at it this way: Don’t you think there are consequences to the toxic stuff we release into the environment each year?
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