Weird News
Issue date: 9/29/05 Section: Spectrum
Danes provide prostitutes for the disabled
The Danish government is under attack for paying for its disabled citizens to have sex with prostitutes.
The official "Sex, irrespective of disability" campaign pays sex workers to provide sex once a month for disabled people.
The legal guidelines advise: "It could be of great importance that the caregiver speaks to the prostitute together with the person in their care, to help them express their wishes."
But opposition parties have attacked the regulations, claiming it is an immoral way of spending taxpayers' money.
Social Democrat spokeswoman Kristen Brosboel said, "We spend a large proportion of our taxes rescuing women from prostitution. But at the same time we officially encourage caregivers to help contact with prostitutes."
But Stig Langvad of the country's Disabled Association said the politicians critical of the plan are showing "double standards."
"The disabled must have the same possibilities as other people," he said. "Politicians can debate whether prostitution should be allowed in general, instead of preventing only the disabled from having access to it."
Dog shoots hunter
A Bulgarian hunter was shot by his own dog when he tried to knock a bird out of its mouth with his gun.
Vasil Plovdiv, 35, was shooting quail in Rasgrad in the northeast of the country with his German pointer when the dog, which had retrieved a bird, refused to drop it.
According to police, Plovdiv tried to dislodge the dead quail from the pointer's mouth with the butt of his rifle but the dog sprung at him, knocking the trigger and peppering the hunter's chest with shot. He was treated for chest injuries at the local hospital.
Wife cuts off husband's penis
A Thai woman cut off her husband's penis after he asked her to make love one more time before he left her for another woman.
Saithong Wantha, 53, then asked neighbors to take Udom Phorit, 35, to hospital while she turned herself in to police, The Nation reported.
The Danish government is under attack for paying for its disabled citizens to have sex with prostitutes.
The official "Sex, irrespective of disability" campaign pays sex workers to provide sex once a month for disabled people.
The legal guidelines advise: "It could be of great importance that the caregiver speaks to the prostitute together with the person in their care, to help them express their wishes."
But opposition parties have attacked the regulations, claiming it is an immoral way of spending taxpayers' money.
Social Democrat spokeswoman Kristen Brosboel said, "We spend a large proportion of our taxes rescuing women from prostitution. But at the same time we officially encourage caregivers to help contact with prostitutes."
But Stig Langvad of the country's Disabled Association said the politicians critical of the plan are showing "double standards."
"The disabled must have the same possibilities as other people," he said. "Politicians can debate whether prostitution should be allowed in general, instead of preventing only the disabled from having access to it."
Dog shoots hunter
A Bulgarian hunter was shot by his own dog when he tried to knock a bird out of its mouth with his gun.
Vasil Plovdiv, 35, was shooting quail in Rasgrad in the northeast of the country with his German pointer when the dog, which had retrieved a bird, refused to drop it.
According to police, Plovdiv tried to dislodge the dead quail from the pointer's mouth with the butt of his rifle but the dog sprung at him, knocking the trigger and peppering the hunter's chest with shot. He was treated for chest injuries at the local hospital.
Wife cuts off husband's penis
A Thai woman cut off her husband's penis after he asked her to make love one more time before he left her for another woman.
Saithong Wantha, 53, then asked neighbors to take Udom Phorit, 35, to hospital while she turned herself in to police, The Nation reported.
