Sunday, March 6, 2011

Oldest Prostitute in Brussels Retires

I do not know why I read the Korea Times.  More than half their articles are fluff news, celebrity drama, and pulp fiction.  I saw the headline for this article and chose to read it... then it made me think the rampant prostitution in South Korea.

There should be more public advocates for prostitutes in South Korea.  Legally, the entire industry is illegitimate and workers have no protections under law.  In 2007 there were more than 250,000 prostitutes working in South Korea and it is a 14 trillion Korean won annual industry.  Koreans need to stop living in denial about their sexuality and have a more mature and compassionate approach to sex workers in their country.

Link:
The Brussels regional news website brusselnieuws.be reports that the capital's oldest and possibly most famous prostitute is to retire after a career spanning 37 years.

The 59 year-old Sonia Verstappen has worked in the red light district around Brussels’ North Railway Station since she was 22 and was a spokeswoman for women that have willingly chosen to work in the world’s oldest profession. 
In recent years, Ms Verstappen has given lectures at universities on male sexual desires. 
Sonia Verstappen stated to work as a prostitute of her own volition at the age of 22. She says that she did so as she was jealous of the women that were able to go upstairs with clients while she sat at the till of the brothel where she worked. 
She has never had a pimp and was able to choose her clients. Ms Verstappen’s door was always kept firmly shut for bedraggled, unkempt, dirty or drunken men. 
Over the years Sonia Verstappen has campaigned for prostitution to be given legal recognition as a profession as this would offer greater protection to the thousands of women in Belgium that work as prostitutes.

She has also slammed the lack of action by the authorities against the problems of forced prostitution and people trafficking that are all too prevalent in the red light district around Brussels North Railway station.
Wow... thirty years on the job...

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