What's the perfect complement to a Michelin Star Rated dinner during an environmental conference in Copenhagen? Why a roll in the hay with the famous (legal) ladies of the night. The Copenhagen City Hall recently distributed pamphlets to all the hotels likely to be used by the dignitaries reading "Be Sustainable. Don't Buy Sex." Unfortunately for the city, this did not please the prostitution union (yes they have a union, it is a legal workforce like any other under Danish law). In response to this attack on their free market practice, the prostitution union decided to fight back in a big way. To any client who was able to show one of the pamphlets along with a badge proving their attendance of the conference, the ladies of the night would offer free services. Talk about a way to use the free market to encourage a steady customer flow in spite of unfair competition from the government. With prostitution being such a sticky subject (especially in the United States), what does everything think about this type of response? Should the government have the right to distribute flyers directly attacking a legal industry? The Danish government has recently gone strongly towards the conservative side, hence the attack on the morally reprehensible industry. These attacks could be a first step on the government taking away liberal aspects such as the prostitution and the Christiania "free drug haven area" but do they have to right to do so when an industry has been created via massive capital investments which were undergone under legal pretenses? This is a tough situation but I would argue that once this door has been opened, it would be detrimental to the economy and to the belief that citizen have in investing in industries within the nation for the future if the government keeps up this kind of behavior.
An article about this can be found here
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