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Young Greek women selling sex for the price of a sandwich (or not, see #245)
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IISANDERII
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I laughed at first post but the situation sounds really awful.
"The study showed that most of the Greek women just coming into prostitution are between the ages of 17 and 20.
The study comes after a shocking report last month of an unemployed Greek mother pimping her 12-year-old daughter to a priest and a retired man for money. The mother, 44, was sentenced to 33 years in prison and fined 100,000 euros ($106,153), the paper said."
This is so fucking sad. Here in Canada girls that 17-20[probably all through 20's] are so full of hope, they'll reject rich dudes just on principle. Fuck those pieces of corrupt shit who ruined the country. Fuck Alan Greenspan too, hard.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Those that are of age of consent.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Gotta be quick to be first post!
I can see it now. He posted it super quick thinking he'd get tons of quotes and favorable responses. He gets up to go to the restroom or get some food or something and comes back to being banned.
John Kowalski
Banned
Well if they're of working age yeah. Age of consent in greece is 15 and by the article the age demographics are above that.
I'm guessing they already have laws concerning sex with someone below consent age.
jimbobsmells
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Yeah I can see why you say that.
ClosingADoor
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And the other EU nations happily looked the other way, pretending not to notice. It's not that simple.
Vorg
Banned
Yeah. Get the fuck outta here with that shit. People are selling sex for food. So funny.
Prostitution is exploitative when it is illegal because they have to depend on exploitative pimps for work. Legalizing it would allow for legit and regulated businesses around it.
Mr. Giggles
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I know, these women are starving and some people think it's funny.
Awful situation to be in
Thats fucking disgusting
Mammoth Jones
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But isn't that the overwhelming majority of acts of prostitution in the world?
Sure it might be legalized here and there but what percentage of people doing that are financially secure outside of that vocation just doing it because it's their passion?
Agreed. But let's not act like people preying on the socio-economic desperation of sex workers is a new thing. Kinda goes with the territory.
NormalFish
Banned
Do you also have extensive experience with the prostitution industry post economic collapse?
What a silly post.
Resident_UA
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Considering that the article in question is, to say the lest, exaggeration, I think it's really unfair that the guy with the first reply got banned. Sure his reply was kind of ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as the article.
Stallion Dan
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Gotta be 18 to prostitute legally in greece.
It is legal (18+), but completely depressing that women are starting to sell themselves just to afford some small bit of food. It can also lead to a larger amount of unwanted pregnancies and a spike in STDs as more people flock to prostitution as prices fall.
And this is even worse. Absolutely disgusting.
And this is even worse. Absolutely disgusting.
Feel free to source this.
Why do people continue to dance on first poster's grave when it is obvious to everyone that he just didn't read the OP. He didn't make an inappropriate joke intentionally. His mistake was just that he did not read the OP—which, lets be real, is very common—in order to be the first to post the meme. Which is a far lesser offense than to purposefully make fun of struggling people and prostitution in Greece.
What makes you say that it is exaggerated? The information is apparently based on an extensive study.
What makes you say that it is exaggerated? The information is apparently based on an extensive study.
Fuck me, I didn't know things were that bad in Greece, shows how ignorant I am.
Also, I KNEW someone was going to fumble their way into the thread to post the airplane pic after just reading the title and having it backfire on them.
The race for a witty first post continues to be a dangerous one.
Also, I KNEW someone was going to fumble their way into the thread to post the airplane pic after just reading the title and having it backfire on them.
The race for a witty first post continues to be a dangerous one.
John Kowalski
Banned
Oh, really? Didn't find anything about that.
Considering the balance of payment issues, and how unemployment had to be exported from one country(s) to the other(s), no source necessary.
Edit: Honestly, I'm not being dismissive, I can get you articles on how the Greeks fudged numbers, Euro officials brought it to their attention, but Europe never did anything about it. But what's the point, narrative is what it is and you're running with it.
IISANDERII
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Oh I meant fuck Greenspan because he was head of the Federal Reserve and was hugely responsible for opening the floodgates to deregulation. Thankfully our Prime Minister of the time, Paul Martin, told him to eat a dick or else Canada might have found itself in similar situation.
Extremely childish.
Resident_UA
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Just read the article. Their sourcing for the headline is "he said". It's quite obvious that headline is simply sensationalizing this topic.
... What.
Victim blaming, anyone?
The euro caused greece's trade deficit - a trade deficit against the euro's own rules, willingly ignored by those who benefited from it.
And which ultimately caused the crisis, triggered by a shadow banking collapse in the USA.
... fault lies on a lot of head before it does on greece's government, let alone greece's population.
Remind me again, wasnt it greece who altered its own books to get into the Euro in the first place?
Cow Mengde
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Yeah, I think I vaguely recalled reading something like that, but I could be wrong.
The Abominable Snowman
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I was just going to ask about individual accounts and how this data was gathered
What the hell.
True Savior
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Street prostitution has always been incredibly cheap. Not surprised that the degradation of the economical environment leads to this horrific situation.
This is the consequence of the (first) world biggest problem. Income inequality , which is a direct consequence of bad wealth distribution . And most people are afraid to tackle this problem , because everyone wants to make more than the guy next to him.
We , sadly , live a horrific world. We terrorize ourselves in the way our society is built and evolved (in a liberalist-capitalist force power). And we , shamefully , put it all under the rug. As long as we are not part of the problem , it's not a issue.
This is the consequence of the (first) world biggest problem. Income inequality , which is a direct consequence of bad wealth distribution . And most people are afraid to tackle this problem , because everyone wants to make more than the guy next to him.
We , sadly , live a horrific world. We terrorize ourselves in the way our society is built and evolved (in a liberalist-capitalist force power). And we , shamefully , put it all under the rug. As long as we are not part of the problem , it's not a issue.
There are few times when this meme is funny. This is not one of them.
It's awful to see Greece devolve into this state. I love that country, it's people and it's culture... I really hope resolve is found soon.
Who's more at fault, the drug user or the drug dealer?
univariate
Banned
This is extraordinarily sad. I had no idea things were that bad there.
Resident_UA
Member
I'm sure you enjoyed doing this research.
But the article itself is pure sensationalism and it sucks that most people in this thread can't see past that first post which is way less offensive than this misleading article.
Local area man buying underage sex for the price of an international plane ticket and a sandwich.
That's my thought, too. Soon as I saw the thread title, I knew someone was gonna post a similar pic.
Guileless
Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
The EU should airdrop pamphlets explaining this on Syria, and maybe they will stay put.
Always-honest
Banned
Wow.. That is horrible.
The old narrative was that the Greeks were lazy and didn't want to pay their taxes.
The new narrative is that the hapless and naive Greeks were incapable of understanding that the clever Germans were tricking them. Personally it seems extremely paternalistic and condescending.
I think that if you want to treat the Greeks like adults, you have to lay some of the blame at the feet of their government. They borrowed too heavily with access to cheap capital and put too much of the money toward social services and not enough toward economic modernization.
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