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...those who adorn the parks are known as bucoliques. A customer who goes from one streetwalker to another without making up his mind is a kangourou. Given the excitement of free enterprise, there would seem to be little allure to the idea of taking up residence in one of Peyret's projected maisons. But Nicole, a redhead who now operates out of a Simca sedan in the Madeleine district, approves. "I have no objection to working in a municipal bordello, on the condition that pimps don't run it." But Valerie, based in a bar near...
...women are not slaves in them." Mme. Richard, now a sprightly 81, is not alone. A band of 60 Gaullist Deputies, led by Claude Peyret, is preparing legislation to permit the houses to function once again. Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas has privately expressed support for the drive...
Sexual Xenophobia. Peyret is quick to explain that he wants nothing like the pimp-controlled houses of yore. Civil servants would run them. For the girls, it would be a job, not a way of life -or a home; the girls would not live in the houses. "The main thing," says Peyret, "is that they would be supervised by local or regional health and sanitation authorities...
...Peyret predicts other benefits: "I don't claim that bordellos will eliminate sexual crimes, but I believe they will reduce them. Also, state establishments will permit timid young men to overcome sexual complexes." Another factor: there are 3,000,000 foreign laborers in France who suffer from French xenophobia; many Frenchwomen are reluctant to go to bed with them...
There are bound to be problems in recruiting supervisors. As one indignant woman pointed out to Peyret, "Can you imagine a man hugging his children, embracing his wife and then saying to her, 'Darling, I must be off to my bordello'?" Peyret's retort: "I see no incompatibility between such a civil servant's job and his personal life. A doctor sees a lot of naked women but that doesn't mean he rapes any of them." Peyret should know. He has been a country doctor for 20 years...
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