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 12/04/2009  Gropenhagen Conference Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit
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Danish sex workers are offering free sex to COP15 in order to defend their
industry.

*Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning
summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming
conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to
anyone who produces one of the warnings.*

Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard
sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and
delegates to 'Be sustainable - don't buy sex'.

"Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between
hotel guests and prostitutes," the approach to hotels says.

Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no
business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone
who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity
card, according to the Web site avisen.dk.

*Discrimination *

According to the report, the move has been organized by the Sex Workers
Interest Group (SIO).

"This is sheer discrimination. Ritt Bjerregaard is abusing her position as
Lord Mayor in using her power to prevent us carrying out our perfectly legal
job. I don't understand how she can be allowed to contact people in this
way," SIO Spokeswoman Susanne Møller tells avisen.dk.

Møller adds that it is reprehensible and unfair that Copenhagen politicians
have chosen to use the UN Climate Summit as a platform for a hetz against
sex workers.

"But they've done it and we have to defend ourselves," Møller says.

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