Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This season the networks have given us lots of prostitutes, but how realistic are they? We asked Norma Jean Almodovar, a former L.A. traffic officer turned call girl, who is founder of the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture and Education. Here's what she thought...
FRASIER: The worst portrayal is the call girl who dated Niles Crane. She is the stereotypical dumb whore. Niles, a psychiatrist, didn't know he was dating a whore. What does that say about his profession? A funny bit for TV, but it wouldn't happen. At least not to someone in our profession...
...WEST WING: This call girl could be one of the many real-life law students who moonlight as hookers, trying to make ends meet while getting an education. What could be more educational than dating someone in the White House? You don't think it could really happen...
...they don't--will curb teen pregnancies, decrease the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and make for "sexually healthier" adults. And they warn against a strain of human papilloma virus that is linked to cervical cancer--and is not prevented by condoms. Opponents of abstinence-only education, however, call it "erotophobic" and fear it could prevent kids from learning what they need to know about...
...when the time comes, Ted Kaczynski responds without hesitation. "I'm confident that I'm sane, personally," he says. "I don't get delusions and so on and so forth...I mean, I had very serious problems with social adjustment in adolescence, and a lot of people would call this a sickness. But it would have to be distinguished between an organic illness, like schizophrenia or something like that...