Cambodian sex workers better off home than Australia say officials

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: Earth Times

Phnom Penh - Cambodian officials expressed concern Wednesday after an Australian sex worker association called for skilled migrant visas for foreign prostitutes willing to work there, citing an Australian shortage. Cambodia, infamous for its flesh trade, would not allow sex workers to travel to Australia on skilled migrant visas to ply their trade if it could possibly help it, government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said.

"We just banned marriages to foreigners because of exploitation issues. Now it is difficult to marry a Cambodian, but for sex work it will be even more difficult," he said by telephone.

Cambodia banned marriages to foreigners earlier this month, citing potential abuse of often under-educated and poor Cambodian women who often do not understand their rights.

Australia's Scarlet Alliance, a lobby group for brothel owners, Tuesday demanded a skilled migration stream for foreign sex workers, saying Australia needs them as much as it needs more doctors.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/202315,cambodian-sex-workers-better-off-home-than-australia-say-officials.html

[crimsonblue]

1. Australia is headed for a depression...

some good ole fashioned headboard bumpin has sometimes helped me through rough times. :evilgrin:

[shaayecanaan]

2. I was at a DIAC seminar last year...

I asked the DIAC officer whether in fact the Department might allow skilled migration visas for sex workers. He didnt dismiss the idea, but made a quip as to whether you could properly call it "skilled" migration or not.

I suppose DIAC would be concerned about the potential for said sex workers to become pregnant. You have to wonder as well whether they'll happily go back to Cambodia after having earned $4,000 to $5,000 a week here.

[jaksavage]

3. they won't be making that kind of dough. nt

[provis99]

4. I guess the First World is literally screwing the Third World

Its stories like these that make me long for the collapse of Western civilization.

[Indenturedebtor]

5. Well it is but

I'm quite certain that a Cambodian sex worker in Austrailia would be much better off plying his/her trade there than in Cambodia. It's not often that I've been to a country and said "Oh those poor people"... Cambodia is a complete and total mess. Don't have time to post the picture as I'm a workin here but I have a shot of a billboard that graphically illustrates that if you turn in your guns and hand grenades the government will give you a chicken.

Yes it's that deep.