Pope's visit good for prostitution

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Sydney brothels see boom during Pope’s visit

225,000 pilgrims expected

Agence France-Presse

First Posted 15:16:00 07/01/2008

Filed Under: Economy, Business & Finance

SYDNEY — As Sydney prepares for a visit by Pope Benedict XVI and hundreds of thousands of Catholics, the city’s brothels are readying themselves for an expected surge in demand for sex.

Any time Australia’s biggest city hosts a major event — from the 2003 Rugby World Cup to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit last year — it is boom-time for the sex industry, insiders say.

And with 225,000 foreign and Australian pilgrims expected in Sydney for six days of events celebrating the Catholic faith from July 15-20, they expect World Youth Day to be no different.

Sydney brothel Xclusive is putting on extra workers to provide sexual favors to lonely tourists and Sydneysiders during event.

“We will get a lot of tourists, pilgrims, and we will still get the curious,” a spokeswoman for the Bondi Junction bordello told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Is the relationship new or rare? Absolutely not! Read on

Pope Sixtus IV (1472-1484) is said to have licensed a brothel at Rome, the prostitutes of which PAID HIM a weekly tax, amounting in course of a year to 20,000 ducats

Outlines of the history of medicine and the medical profession
Baas, Johann
Handerson, Henry
Huntington, N. Y., Krieger, 1971

And just when you thought that history cannot get worse it does!

Pope Clement II issued a bull that prostitutes would be tolerated IF THEY PAY A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THEIR EARNINGS TO THE CHURCH.

Encyclopedia of Prostitution and sex work
Dittmore, Melissa
Westport, Conn.Greenwood Press, 2006