Call Girls at Nursing Home Fuel Debate in Denmark

[woo me with science]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVUcop17mg7s

Call Girls at Nursing Home Fuel Debate in Denmark (Update1)

By Christian Wienberg

April 16 (Bloomberg) -- When a male resident at Kildegaarden nursing home in Denmark made an indecent sexual proposal to a member of the staff, the home's director, Inger Marie Kristensen, told a nurse to telephone for a prostitute.

``There was a considerable change in his demeanor after the escort girl had paid him a visit,'' Kristensen said in an interview. ``We do this for our clients just as we offer them other services that they need as human beings.''

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Copenhagen forbids contact with call girls in nursing homes. Other towns don't publicize their policies.

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An increasing number of Danes oppose prostitution, a December 2006 opinion poll by newspaper Politiken showed. Forty- two percent of 1,180 said prostitution was unacceptable compared with 25 percent four years earlier. A majority of 54 percent approved of prostitution, compared with 66 percent in 2002.

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For Kristensen, residents at the Kildegaarden home have rights under the current laws, no matter how old they are. And Danes are getting older. According to the Danish government Web site, on Jan. 1, 2007, 715 people were 100 years of age or more.

``Basically this is a matter of respecting the elderly and their needs,'' she said.

Last Updated: April 15, 2008 20:44 EDT

[otherlander]

1. I love this thread already.

:popcorn:

[woo me with science]

2. More reservations than they can handle now, I bet.

:rofl:

[ProgressiveFool]

3. Didn't Denmark recently come up as the best country to live in in some poll or another?

Now we know why.

The Vikings still seem conflicted over this stuff, though, with Denmark apparently making prostitution legal in 1999, and Sweden having made it illegal in 1999. Now the Danes want to get rid of it, and the Swedes probably want it back!