Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Monday, 2 December 2024

Three cheers for "Plucky Little Belgium".

The criminalisation of sex-work
is itself a crime.












Under France's Third Republic (1870-1940), sex-work was de-criminalised and medically supervised.  Charles de Gaulle, a tyrannical prude with an even more prudish wife, re-criminalised it on assuming power in 1945.  

1 comment:

Wofl said...

In 1914, the British press referred to the small country, invaded and occupied by the German army, as Plucky Little Belgium.