In een poging het prostitutieprobleem in de stad aan te pakken heeft de burgemeester van Padua een nieuwe wet afgekondigd die ervoor moet zorgen dat elke auto die "het verkeer hindert" door meisjes van lichte zeden uit te nodigen, met 50 euro beboet zal worden. Ongeveer honderd protesterende prostitués marcheerden door de straten van Padua als antwoord. Om het nog leuker te maken beloofden alle sexwerkers een gratis beurt aan al diegenen die beboet werden. Al wat de gepakte cruisers moeten doen is gewoon het bonnetje van hun boete tonen en dan krijgen ze een roze sticker. Op dit moment bieden 90 procent van de hoeren in Padua gratis diensten aan iedereen met zo'n sticker. We stuurden er één van onze schrijvers, Claudio Pelusio, op af om foto's te nemen en om te proberen het gemeentehuis binnen te glippen…The protest came to a head last Thursday when more than one hundred
professional sex workers (most of them transsexuals) marched from the
train station to the city hall. About twenty of them were allowed to
enter. They demanded to speak to the mayor and announced the free-love
sticker system, but the mayor didn't show up. I managed to sneak in
among the curious.Cristal, the prostitutes' spokeswoman, hung on to a microphone for
the duration of the meeting and demanded that the sidewalks be left to
the jurisdiction of it's experts. "I came to Italy a Catholic but now
I'm all for secular politics," she said, "because although Jesus never
judged anyone, that's all you do." She continued, "I wasn't born a
whore. I was like all the other women. Like your mothers and your
sisters and your girlfriends." People didn't respond too well to that.
There was a lot of laughing and sneering and heckling. She argued that
she had a right to sell her body if she wanted to.Rosy, a Senegalese transsexual, said she was very happy with how the
day turned out. She had come up to Padua from Rome with twenty
colleagues to "celebrate her rights." So what would she do if she had a
client approach her with the pink sticker? "I'd do what I have to
do. I'd take him to an alley and give him a free blowjob. He'd deserve it."
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professional sex workers (most of them transsexuals) marched from the
train station to the city hall. About twenty of them were allowed to
enter. They demanded to speak to the mayor and announced the free-love
sticker system, but the mayor didn't show up. I managed to sneak in
among the curious.Cristal, the prostitutes' spokeswoman, hung on to a microphone for
the duration of the meeting and demanded that the sidewalks be left to
the jurisdiction of it's experts. "I came to Italy a Catholic but now
I'm all for secular politics," she said, "because although Jesus never
judged anyone, that's all you do." She continued, "I wasn't born a
whore. I was like all the other women. Like your mothers and your
sisters and your girlfriends." People didn't respond too well to that.
There was a lot of laughing and sneering and heckling. She argued that
she had a right to sell her body if she wanted to.Rosy, a Senegalese transsexual, said she was very happy with how the
day turned out. She had come up to Padua from Rome with twenty
colleagues to "celebrate her rights." So what would she do if she had a
client approach her with the pink sticker? "I'd do what I have to
do. I'd take him to an alley and give him a free blowjob. He'd deserve it."