Brothels for Athletes in the Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics is serious business. Actually, any world wide sports event is serious business. And because sports is serious business, we also get serious with whatever's going around, especially when it comes to our players and their needs. We get articles on dope, on legitimate training methods, top-notch equipment, and modifications to some relevant code or another. And we skim through them, maybe have the thought “same old same old” in our heads, and then we may forget it afterwards.
But lo and behold, someone has offered to concentrate on another aspect of players' needs-- the other physical ones so to speak.
A coalition in Vancouver has proposed the idea of a legal brothel for their olympic competitors during the event. A group of prostitutes in Vancouver thought of this fascinating scheme-- a prostitute-run co-op brothel made in time for the Winter Olympics, when the world flocks over to Vancouver to watch athletes burn snow. Their reason? It would greatly aid in helping sex-trade workers promote a safer working environment. A publicized event would lessen the incidence of rape and violence when carrying out paid sex, which would thus ensure that prostitutes get what could potentially be called honest living, if only for the fact that it's legal, barring moral and religious debate.
We know its serious business when prostitutes give names. Susan Davis, a working, self-admitted prostitute has shared her vision of the putting up five cooperative brothels, should it be aided by the B.C. Coalition of Experiential Communities. The brothels will have men, women and even transgendered sex-trade workers, to cater to the athletes' needs. Should the coalition convince the federal government to allow the first brothel, even on an experimental basis, this dream of five brothels wouldn't seem so far fetched.
As we speak, the idea has been met with support by certain politicians which include Libby Davies and Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan, who are all for protecting sex-trade workers from any form of violence.
