There’s always somebody, usually somebody senior, who thinks that this is their opportunity to make their mark and be noticed. This time it’s Copenhagen’s Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard, the ‘host’ if you like of the Global Climate Change summit.
I suppose he had the best interests of conference delegates (and their expenses) at heart when he sent postcards to city hotels to be issued to checking-in summit guests ‘advising’ them not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Predictably, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the leaflets issued to hotels.
Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging summit guests and delegates to, 'be sustainable - don't buy sex'. In addition, he urged hotel management, ‘not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes’.
Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their summit identity card.
The ‘offer’ has been organized by the Sex Workers Interest Group (SIO).
"This is sheer discrimination. Ritt Bjerregaard is abusing her position (ah – she’s a woman –that explains it) 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," SIO Spokeswoman Susanne Møller tells the local website, avisen.dk.
Møller adds that it is reprehensible and unfair that Copenhagen politicians have chosen to use the UN Climate Summit as a platform for a hetz (hit, blitz ??) against sex workers."But they've done it and we have to defend ourselves. We’re not going to take this lying down," Møller says.
Hysterical.
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