HOOKERS are back

_ on the front burner of

_ white-hot social con-
cern — especially

young female hookers, _ .

‘ given the PC bias of
the times.

. Young male hookers are

‘herded into “youth ciubs”
where they can be readily and
discreetly a available and ven
trained in satisfyin:

a. ous sexual saying Ue of the
_ high school principals, promi-

_- Rent businessmen, judges and
».. the saintly “Dr. Peters” of

, ; ' this world.

Of course homosexuals
| fepresent an infinitesimal pro-
.. portion of the population.
* They get the massive amount
of attention th y do only”
.. because of the roportion-
ate number of their support-

: crs in show biz and the

ciples they may have had
frow ler to suck up to any
pressure group in a des-
perate effort to keep their
_Neses in the public trough.
~ o.” When Mayor Philip Owen
: Views with alarm the “prob-
. ler” of prostitution on the
streets fe) Vancuaver he is
~-Mercly repeating the senti-
ments of his predecessors
Terrific and Tom -
sbury and Uncle Tom
Cobley, each of whom have
been ‘driven around in police
‘cars while a despondenit and

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VIEWPOINT
Self-regulating hookers

depressed member of the
“vice squad” pointed out real
live hookers just in case these
paragons of virtue wouldn’t
recognize a hooker if they
saw one.

Incidentally, wouldn’t you
be despondent and depressed
if you had been condemned
to spend your life trying to
stamp out sexual intercourse?

At one time the city used
to tax prostitutes by abuse of
a section of the Criminal
Code known colloquially as
“Vag C.”

The police would, more
or less in turn, arrest the
Ladies of the Night.

After a farce of a trial each
hooker would be fined $25.
Public morality would be vin-
dicated and the city coffers
enriched. This cynical judicial
farce did not pass without
comment from the more
enlightened members of the
bench, not feast the greatest
and most humane and witti-
est judge who ever lived, the
late, great Les Bewley, God
rest his wise and mirthful
soul!

I remember waiting in his

court while Les listened to
the standard case against
some lady whose turn had
come up. The only novel fact
elicited by her lawyer was
that she was 74 years old.

Les looked at the accused
and said in his immaculate
and gentlemanly tones:
“Madam, I don’t know
whether to convict you or
congratulate you!”

He gave her a suspended

. Sentence and defied the pros-

ecutor to appeal.

Every time the subject
comes up there is a debate
about whether prostitution
should be “legalized.”

The problem is no one
can agree on what this
means. To some it means
spreading the grief, which
was the solution of one chief
justice who simply made an
order that they stay out of
one part of the city and be a
nuisance in another.

For this brilliant feat of
judicial social engineering he
was voted judge of the year
by some group or other but
not by the residents who got
stuck with the problem.

We even have a full-blown
professor at (where else?)
Simon Fraser University who
got an award this year for
standing proud and erect for
Prostitutes in the face of their
Critics and persecutors.

My own view is that mers
legalization does not go far
enough. Prostitution should
be institutionalized, made a
self-governing racket j just like

the lawyers and accountants
and doctors and engineers
and all the rest of the self-
regarding “professions,”
which, they keep telling us,
are the pillars of our society.

The Love Society could
be closely modelled on the
Law Society. After all, what
the lawyers and the prosti-
tutes do to the public has a
striking similarity, at least in
metaphorical terms.

The Law Society is cur-
rently headed by its “Madam
Treasurer.” The Love
Professicn could just call her
“Madam.”

Lawyers have “benchers”
who set standards and hear
complaints of inadequate per-
formance. The hookers could
have “bedders.”

The symbol of the law is a
statue of a lady in a long
night-dress with a blindfold
over her eyes. Clearly this
would be more appropriate
for the Love Society and the
lawyers and judges should

give it up to be replaced by
comething more appropriate
like a school of piranha fish
devouring a helpless baby
deer.

The crest of the Law
Society is Fiat Justitia Ruat
Coelum, meaning “Let
Justice be done though the
Heavens Fall,” and we ail
know how the lawyers have
been inspired by that one.

It wouldn’t be appropriate
for the Love Profession
though. How about:

Cuitus Non Interruptus.

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