Posted on 10/05/2005 7:43:26 AM PDT by Millee
A disabled Danish man is fighting for the state to pay for him to have a prostitute visit him at home.
Torben Hansen, who has cerebral palsy, which severely affects his speech and mobility, believes his local authority should pay the extra charge he incurs when he hires a sex worker - because his disability means he cannot go to see them. His case is currently being considered.
In Denmark, local authorities compensate disabled people for extra costs incurred because of their disability.
"I want them to cover the extra expenses for the prostitutes to get here, because it's a lot more expensive getting them to come to my home rather than me going to a brothel," Mr Hansen told BBC World Service's Outlook programme.
"It's a necessity for me. I can't move very well, and it's impossible for me to go there."
'Unfair'
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.
Mr Hansen started seeing a prostitute after attending a course at a social centre.
There, he and other disabled people were taught that if they had needs, they "could do something about it".
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Nobody said it had to be a good one.
uhem, ping.
BJ Clinton's argument precisely.
And I am sure the now utterly corrupted US Supreme Court will eventually hallucinate up this "Right" out of the Constitution.
Must be fun to work at their version of the IRS and doing research on claims. Brings a new meaning to 1040-EZ
Duuuuuude....;-)
Do you have to wait in line?
Well, you've always told us that you're getting screwed by the government.
Are his arms too short?
You cad, you!
WRONG! This right is actually implicit in our constitution. It comes between the right to commit sodomy and the right to abort your children. Proof? Well, the Danes support this right, and they are SO progressive, you know. We must learn from them.
Gawd, talk about the nanny state: "You've been a VERY naughty boy..."
Methinks there is something rotten in Denmark!...........
That's where the government comes over and screws you.
So the Dane is lame, and he wants a dame who's on the game.
I guess he will also need his drug dealer and the pedophile who collects kids for him to go to his place isn't it?
Maybe he didn't want to bring all the issues at the the same time...
LOL
Government sex workers? Hey, if I wanted to listen to some woman tell me that she was on break, she didn't know how to do that, or that was somebody else's job, I'd get married!
“193,258 kroner from sexual services, 17 kroner from bottle returns.”
Only in Daneland.
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