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Angry hookers protest ad costs
Prostitutes in New South Wales are mad. Escalating advertising costs in local papers have prompted these street-walkers to take to the ... um ... streets. The Scarlet Alliance thus protested outside the NSW Parliament House, fighting for anti-discrimination laws to protect their rights. In addition to advertising, they want better treatment from banks, lenders and local councils.
Sex work is legal in this part of Australia, but local businesses don't seem to be terribly interested in fairness. Remarks Ivy McIntosh, a local in the biz, "I'm paying much for a measly two inches." There's no indication of whether she considered her own rates for the same length.
It's no coincidence that they chose International Whores Day to make their stand. In honor of this holiday, which began in France in 1975, the Aussie sex workers dressed in red and carried red umbrellas.
