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]

Giving credit where it's due....I was alerted to this essential article by the Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web Today" email.

They introduced it with the line "Quit sniggering, she's training for the high jump!"

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.....

[Stoat]

Official Athelete Transport Vehicle, Vancouver Olympics

[a fool in paradise]

Vancouver sex-trade workers need to know their rights when dealing with cameras and reporters

If the customer has a camera, be sure to charge extra for that, and if the client is a reporter, be sure to tape the phone calls for later exposure...

[Lurker]

some workers reported up to nine reporters a day trying to film them,"

Yea, that was it. They're trying to 'film' them.

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

[BOBTHENAILER]

Prostitutes in training for Vancouver Olympics

What event? ? ?

Pole Vault

[a fool in paradise]

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.' "

That's nothing, if a tornado destroys your home and kills your kids and dog, reporters can be certain to stick a microphone in front of your devastated face and blithely ask "So how does all of this make you feel?"

[llevrok]

The first move in becoming media savvy is to get these gals a full set of tooth and a bath.

[a fool in paradise]

If you film it, you can avoid charges of “prostitution”, just tell the prosecutor you were making a privately owned sex film. Porno actresses are exempted from prostitution laws somehow.

[Stoat]

The first move in becoming media savvy is to get these gals a full set of tooth and a bath.
 

Would you be referring to the 'sex trade workers' or the 'journalism trade workers'?

(((snicker))))

[ZULU]

Do they train politicians too?

[null and void]

Thanks, I was wondering.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Well...if the prostitutes go both ways....they can participate in the Bi-athlon

Of course, the Vancouverites, from what i understand, built the Olympic Village where the local prostitutes promote their trade. Which would make Michael Phelps pretty happy (bet he is trying to qualify for an Olympic event)

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The Prostitution Alternatives Counselling and Education Society.....

See?.....ain’t nothin the government can’t manage!

[Buck W.]

“What event? ? ?”

Clean and jerk, or perhaps the other way around...

[Proud_USA_Republican]

For when the IOC meets to decide who gets the next winter games.

[Stoat]

Which would make Michael Phelps pretty happy (bet he is trying to qualify for an Olympic event)

He may need a new manager...

 

[Ax]

Since We The People are sending our tax dollars to China to teach the bar girls in Shanghai to drink responsibly, it’s only fair that we pony up some long green to help out our neighbors to the north, eh.

[dirtboy]

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

About the only training I can think of that a prostitute would need in dealing with the media would be to ask 'Cash or Credit?' Otherwise, there is plenty of overlap in their occuptions so they should understand each other just fine.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

I was wondering what that Giant sucking sound was all about!

[Stoat]

Do they train politicians too?

Or is it the politicians who train the hookers?