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Sex and the Welfare State (Handicapped Belgian Wants Welfare to Pay for Prostitutes)
Brussels Journal ^ | 2005-11-21 | Paul Belien

Posted on 11/21/2005 10:47:57 AM PST by nickcarraway

Jurgen Van Acker is 27 years old and severely handicapped. He cannot walk, talk, sit or eat, but mentally there is nothing wrong with him. With the help of his computer he can communicate. Recently he became a television celebrity in Belgium when he asked that the welfare office pay his prostitutes.

When Jurgen turned 18, his mother Frie Van Acker told him all about sex and asked whether he would like to have sex. Jurgen indicated “No.” One evening three years later, however, he wrote on his computer: “I want sex.” That same evening, Frie contacted a prostitute. Every month for the past six years prostitutes have come to the house for Jurgen. They charge 100 euros for half an hour. Jurgen finds one session a month inadequate. He wants sex at least once a week, but his mother cannot pay that much. Jurgen and his Mum are now demanding that the government subsidize the sex sessions, but the Fund for the Social Integration of the Handicapped only finances masturbation equipment, including XXXXXXXXX and pumps, for the handicapped in Belgium, but not prostitutes.

The Fund cannot pay prostitutes, its chairman Gui Abrahams explains, because prostitution is illegal in Belgium. The authorities turn a blind eye to prostitution but feel that financing it would take matters too far. Moreover, in order to reimburse a service the fund needs official invoices, which prostitutes cannot provide. “Do not say that we are not trying to help,” the spokesman of the Fund stresses: “We reimburse masturbation equipment but we are not in a legal position to subsidise the use of prostitutes.”

“My son cannot masturbate, but he is entitled to have sex at least once week,” Frie Van Acker says. “Giving him a free masturbation set does not help. He cannot use it. As I am his mother I cannot assist him there. That would almost be incest.” Jurgen and his mother have gained the support of Dr. Bo Coolsaet, a well-known Belgian sexuologist. “The healthcare system provides for inflatable penis prostheses for men with erection problems. These cost up to 10,000 euros.” According to Dr. Coolsaet handicapped people are being discriminated if their sexual needs are not adressed. “In homes for the handicapped either nothing is done at all or, sometimes, nurses help patients. The Fund should call the prostitutes ‘sexual aides’ and finance them as such.”

Last month European prostitutes demonstrated in Brussels. The prostitutes, who prefer to call themselves “sex workers,” want European Union governments to legalize prostitution, end all restrictions on their profession and apply labour laws to their profession. According to the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) “Sex work is work and a profession, sex workers are workers and must be recognized as such.” If prostitution is legalized, the government can start subsidizing it, which opens new opportunities for the welfare states in its care for all our needs, from the cradle to the grave.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: belgium; signsoftheapocalypse; welfare
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1 posted on 11/21/2005 10:47:58 AM PST by nickcarraway
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We reimburse masturbation equipment .... Giving him a free masturbation set does not help

Speechless.

2 posted on 11/21/2005 10:50:17 AM PST by agere_contra
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Ah, I can't wait till we get Socialized Medicine here so that we can debate the "Civil Rights Violations" of such topics as these.


3 posted on 11/21/2005 10:50:28 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: nickcarraway

I can't believe I just read that.


4 posted on 11/21/2005 10:50:30 AM PST by Nihil Obstat
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To: agere_contra
“Giving him a free masturbation set does not help. He cannot use it. As I am his mother I cannot assist him there. That would almost be incest.”

It's good to see that this lady has such high moral standards.
5 posted on 11/21/2005 10:52:59 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: nickcarraway

This is one of those stories that really shouldn't be funny...but is.


6 posted on 11/21/2005 10:53:03 AM PST by RichInOC (...it brings a whole new meaning to "Bring out the Gimp!")
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To: nickcarraway

What an inconsiderate mother!

;)

Do they turn a blind eye to incest in Belgium, too? If so, she's shirking her responsibility!

:p


7 posted on 11/21/2005 10:53:21 AM PST by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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To: nickcarraway

ROTFLMAO! What more can you say?


8 posted on 11/21/2005 10:54:49 AM PST by elmer fudd
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"He wants sex at least once a week, but his mother cannot pay that much."
"My son cannot masturbate, but he is entitled to have sex at least once week,” "As I am his mother I cannot assist him there".

It's Belgium, why can't she help him.

Belgian morality.
1. My son is entitled to sex
2. Prostitution is Okey Dokey with me
3. I can only pay so much
4. I'll make tax payers pay for my son's sex.
5. But I'd never do it myself.

Yea, right, I've been to Belgium, bunch of inbreds.

They do have good chocolate though.
9 posted on 11/21/2005 10:57:05 AM PST by MPJackal ("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
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To: nickcarraway

We are going to read stories like this for another five to ten years. Then the illegal immigrant Muslims who are multiplying like rabbits with their illegal multiple wives will be doing the work that Europeans don't want to do. The Muslims will wipe out perverts, communists, and pacifists. Only those Europeans willing to fight for themselves will survive. This will come to pass.


10 posted on 11/21/2005 10:57:35 AM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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The words 'sex,' 'prostitute,' 'penis,' and 'masturbate' are okay, but you X-out 'vibrator'?


11 posted on 11/21/2005 10:57:36 AM PST by PeoplesRepublicOfWashington (Dream Ticket: Cheney/Rice '08)
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To: MPJackal

It would not be illegal for his mother to "help him out" in Belgium.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1773672,00.html

Saying that the law is based on outdated moral concepts, legal experts have said that Germany should follow the example of many other countries, such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Turkey, Japan, Argentina or Brazil, where incest is no longer punishable.


12 posted on 11/21/2005 11:00:14 AM PST by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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This is just beyond belief!


13 posted on 11/21/2005 11:02:23 AM PST by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: elmer fudd

Could a Moslem citizen of Belgian therefore demand 72 virgins?


14 posted on 11/21/2005 11:04:08 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: nickcarraway

My brain needs soap after reading that.


15 posted on 11/21/2005 11:04:43 AM PST by najida (OK, so I have a new obsession. Ain't life grand :))
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To: nickcarraway

"European prostitutes demonstrated in Brussels"

Now that's a demonstration...


16 posted on 11/21/2005 11:04:43 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: nickcarraway
he is entitled to have sex at least once week,” Frie Van Acker says.

!!!

17 posted on 11/21/2005 11:05:50 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Just say "No" to Judy Baar Topinka)
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To: nickcarraway
"turn a blind eye"

Might be masturbation related...
18 posted on 11/21/2005 11:05:51 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: nickcarraway
It is tempting to dismiss this piece as something from The Onion, but sadly enough it is true. This is what happens to a once Catholic country that allows itself to be pulled down into the gutter with the worst of the eurotrash.
Even money says they give in within six months.
19 posted on 11/21/2005 11:06:04 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (We will never murtha to the terrorists. Bring home the troops means bring home the war.)
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"He cannot walk, talk, sit or eat, but mentally there is nothing wrong with him. When Jurgen turned 18, his mother Frie Van Acker told him all about sex and asked whether he would like to have sex. Jurgen indicated “No.”

An 18-year-old male doesn't want sex, but mentally there's nothing wrong with him. Uh-huh.

20 posted on 11/21/2005 11:06:08 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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