Archive for October, 2005

Hookers Want Equal Rights

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Sex workers... at work!!!

BRUSSELS - European sex workers called for their profession to be recognized as work Monday, saying they deserved the same social rights as other employees.
Male and female sex workers from the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) held a news conference in the European Parliament, urging the 25-nation European Union to end discrimination of the sex industry.

"What we do is work and we want it recognized as that," said British sex worker Ruth Morgan Thomas from Scotland.

In many European states, the sex industry flourishes in the black market where women are trafficked from poor countries to work as prostitutes in Europe. Their passports are often stolen to prevent their escape out of sex slavery.

Prostitution is legal in some EU states and tolerated in most European countries, but laws on prostitution and the legal rights of sex workers vary across the EU.

The sex workers said regulating the sector would curb exploitation and boost prostitutes’ willingness to pay tax in return for rights and social protection.

Camille Cabral, representing French sex workers and wearing pink stickers reading "Sluts Unite" and "Whore Power," said it was time to end the stigma associated with the sex industry.

"You shouldn’t hide yourselves, you shouldn’t be ashamed," she said. "All societies should accept and give (the same) sort of statute to this profession as to any other."

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Analyzing Yahoo! RSS For Marketers

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

We were waiting for something like this to happen for a long time. Yahoo!, one of the key providers of mass-market RSS aggregators, finally took a step forward and published their RSS whitepaper, covering their own findings with RSS, based on their usage data.

SiteProNews: Read about the report here