{"id":2051,"date":"2009-12-11T06:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T11:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2009-12-11T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T11:42:10","slug":"prostitution-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/12\/11\/prostitution-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Prostitution & Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"Be sustainable - Don't buy sex!" postcard distributed by the City of Copenhagen during the UN Climate Summit, COP15.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bitch Magazine reported this<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday, where in Copenhagen, Denmark,<\/span> the Lord Mayor Jytte Rite Bjerregaard had the above postcards printed up and distributed to 160 hotels<\/a><\/strong>, during the city’s hosting of the UN Climate Change Summit. \u00a0However you feel on the subject, prostitution is legal in Copenhagen, so this is reportedly fueled by Bjerregaard’s personal ethics and, in fact, the postcard states, “Support the Copenhagen Code of Ethics.” \u00a0Along with a postcard was a letter requesting that hotels not facilitate hooking guests up with paid hookups::<\/p>\n

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“Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The concierge union, if there is such a thing, should be up in arms. \u00a0It gets better. \u00a0The \u00a0Sex Workers Interest Group {SIO}<\/strong><\/a> turned the campaign in its head with some shrewd countermarketing, offering free sex worker services to those with a\u00a0COP15 ID. \u00a0Touch\u00e9. \u00a0All I can say to COP15 hedonists is just keep any and all pics off of Facebook<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0The SIO Spokeswoman, Suzanne M\u00f8ller, went as far to say {this is the full quote to avisen.dk that names the Lord Mayor by name and didn’t make it to Bitch Magazine}::<\/p>\n

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“This is sheer discrimination. Ritt Bjerregaard is abusing her position as Lord Mayor in using her power to prevent us carrying out our perfectly legal job. I don’t understand how she can be allowed to contact people in this way.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Suzanne M\u00f8ller, SIO Spokeswoman, image:: Laura Mar\u00eda Agust\u00edn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No obvious bon mots<\/em> about how such companionship can allow guests to turn the thermostats down. \u00a0Anyway. \u00a0Apparently, if Wikipedia is to be trusted on the matter, Lord Mayor Bjerregaard is no stranger to controversy<\/a>, with a penchant for postcards and doormats.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Did the Lord Mayor cross a line with her “ethical” agenda? \u00a0I find it pretty laughable to condemn a legal activity by claiming it isn’t “sustainable.” \u00a0I’m not seeing the connection and this is just moralistic shaming. \u00a0In the spirit of the <\/span>“Cleveland: We’re Not Detroit”<\/a> spoof, maybe the City should have had a video contest for a “Copenhagen: \u00a0We’re Not Amsterdam!” print and video campaign.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitterversion:: <\/span> #Copenhagen mayor prints postcards:: #COP15 visitors shouldn’t copulate w\/prostitutes\u2014not”sustainable” #Fail #ThickCulture. @Prof_K<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Song:: <\/span>Metric-“Succexy”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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