Just what were all those hookers doing in the hallowed halls of the European Parliament in Brussels last week? The moral outrage echoing in the corridors may have suggested that a re-creation of Sodom and Gomorrah was being staged. Reason: about 125 prostitutes, including three men, were attending the Second World Whores Congress. They were in Brussels at the invitation of the Green- Alternative European Link, an alliance of environmentalist and independent leftist parties.
Delegates to the three-day conference reaffirmed such objectives as decriminalizing adult prostitution and abolishing red-light districts. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was a pressing issue. Said Margo St. James,...