Thursday, October 06, 2005

I Wonder If the ADA Covers This

When conservatives rail at the socialist welfare states of Western Europe, they generally mean countries that provide socialized medicine and other large-scale public benefits programs. They probably aren't thinking of the government paying for hookers. But that's what one Danish man is seeking. He has cerebral palsy and mostly limited to his home, so he wants the government to pay the extra charge that hookers charge to come to his house (since he can't go to the brothel). But the most interesting piece of the story (to me, at least) is this:

In Denmark, prostitution and other forms of sex work are not illegal so long as it is not a woman's sole means of income.
So you can only moonlight as a hooker in the land of Hamlet. Interesting.

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