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...Even in the regulated Dutch sex industry—prostitution was legalized nearly nine years ago in this country, in October 2000—sex workers have to be at least 18 years of age in order to legally work in brothels and behind windows. Through the course of my research on the situation over the past two weeks, I discovered intense opposition among a slew of Dutch academics, women’s rights advocates, and former prostitutes to a recent proposal to increase the age standard for sex workers from...
Among the people opposing an age increase, most voice reasons echoing those of Janssen, who added that she actually supports lowering the minimum age standard to work in prostitution. These advocates say that young girls in dire economic circumstances, like Majoor was years ago, should be allowed to enter the get-rich-quick industry—as long as the minors are not forced...
These residents’ status as indigenous, even, seems dubious. Although the Galapagos were discovered in the sixteenth century, the islands were left abandoned and uninhabited until 1832, when Ecuador, the nearest mainland nation, claimed possession. Settlement before some 30 years ago was on a piecemeal scale. Several plantations cropped up, but they were fueled mostly by forced and temporary convict labor...
...About 10 years ago, the Kallstroms moved into a two-story wooden house with a bright orange garage door. The house is modern with two octagonal windows (Blanche says the carpenter who built the place was "some hippie" who put in all the windows). They have two cottages - both also with bright orange doors - at the end of the driveway. One is a type of sauna with a wood-burning stove. The other is a smoke shack for fish. Their catch of the day is hanging from a clothing line strung from the shack to a tree. The driveway...
...like Mexico, may simply be experiencing the same democratic growing pains that hit Eastern Europe a decade ago. In countries such as Poland, democracy's early disappointments brought former communists back to power in the 1990s. But they couldn't bring back communism; and it's just as unlikely that the PRI, even if it does recapture the presidency three years from now, could ever revive the authoritarian monolith that once suffocated Mexico...