Prostitutes in training for Vancouver Olympics

The Star (Toronoto) ^ | May 19, 2009

[Stoat]

Prostitutes in training for Vancouver Olympics

 

They'll learn how to talk to the media
 

May 19, 2009 04:30 AM

 

THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER – Vancouver sex-trade workers need to know their rights when dealing with cameras and reporters and will be offered media training ahead of the 2010 Olympic Games, an advocacy group said.

The Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education Society, located in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside, will hold the session in November.

 

"We just want our members to feel safe. ... Media attention to the area can be a little less than compassionate and we don't want them to feel like animals in a zoo," said spokeswoman Kerry Porth.

 

"We just want (the sex-trade workers) to be aware of what their rights are around media, including the fact that it is legal for (media) to take a picture of them on a public street," Porth said.

 

The society held a similar training session at the onset of the Robert Pickton trial. Pickton was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder in December 2007.

Sue Davis, a Vancouver sex worker, said that during the trial "some workers reported up to nine reporters a day trying to film them," she said. "And people asking them things like 'Do you feel safe? Did your friends die? Are you on drugs?' And then 'Thanks for the story, see you later.' "

 

Porth said the response from those who received the training at the time was positive.

[Stoat]

Sue Davis, a Vancouver sex worker,

So that's what they're calling hookers these days? Sex workers?
 

Here in the USA they're also known as "a primary Democrat voting bloc" and "an essential constituency of Al Sharpton" and others....

Sue Davis, a Vancouver sex worker,

So that's what they're calling hookers these days? Sex workers?
 

[billorites]

"Prostitutes in training for Vancouver Olympics"

Some appear to have been over-training.

[scrabblehack]

It’s the Winter Olympics....yeah, I know you’re trying to be funny.

[AFreeBird]

That’s just wrong.

[Bender2]

Hey, I gave at the office... and the street in front of the office, the alley behind the office, at the bar near the office, the taxi on the way home from the bar near the office, at home--

Hey, you got to support... them gals before The Øbamanation socializes 'em!

[Billthedrill]

A sex worker from old Vancouver
Had a killer Olympic maneuver
She'd make her day's pay
The Canadian way,
With a hockey stick, puck, and a Hoover.

[csvset]

It isn’t attractive.

[fanfan]

I can see I’m on all the right ping lists.

;-D

[fanfan]

[MarkBsnr]

Vancouver has been considered for a long time as having the morals of Amsterdam with a large Chinese population.

Hmm. Being originally from Hamilton, I wonder how this article would be written if the Olympics were held there...

[webschooner]

Hookers or reporters...wow, that's a tough one. I'd have to say that the hooker is making the more honest living.

Hookers are obviously smarter than the American media -- hookers get paid to prostitute themselves. The American Media doesn't.

Therefore, the American media are stupid skanks.

I give more respect to the prostitutes.

[isom35]

media whores?

[fanfan]

I wonder how this article would be written if the Olympics were held there..

Amsterdam, China, or Hamilton?

[Army Air Corps]

Lawdy, that is wun sweeeeeeeet ride!

[Army Air Corps]

Yech.

[MarkBsnr]

***Amsterdam, China, or Hamilton?***

Hamilton, I think. China already had theirs and Amsterdam is too stoned to get the Olympics.

[fanfan]

They couldn’t hold the Olympics in Hamilton.

Where would they put it???

[headsonpikes]

Olympic souvenirs for these sporting events include, surprisingly, a Chinese basket.

That’s new since Beijing, I suppose.

[MarkBsnr]

Between Ivor Wynne and Mac, the athletic facilities would be largely handled. The roads to the south would handle any biking or running.

I think that Hanrahan’s might handle some of the activities.

[Slings and Arrows]

Go for gold!