Europe: An Anthology of Pros

Priests and kings, commissars and parliaments have all tried to put the world's oldest profession out of business. None succeeded. Some sociologists, however, have gamely predicted that any nation that could eliminate unemployment would also eliminate prostitution. Girls only sold their bodies, the argument went, because there was no market for their other skills.

The Mobile Squad. But as prosperous, labor-short Western Europe last week prepared for the summer flood of tourists, it was glaringly apparent that the sociologists had, as usual, guessed wrong. Instead of vanishing, or even declining in numbers,...

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