Czech bishop calls for legal prostitution
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The Roman Catholic bishop of Prague has called for prostitution to be made legal, warning that the sex trade is invading the country and causing a crisis in moral values. Bishop Vaclav Maly said it was no longer enough to moralise about prostitution. What gives the bishop’s apparent challenge to Roman Catholic orthodoxy its significance is the support he has won among other Czech bishops. Out on the streets of Prague, Helena, 52 and a grandmother, makes her living. She looks like a respectable middle aged office worker until she changes her cotton trousers for a short black lycra skirt. After a throat swab test for HIV, she takes a night’s supply of condoms and walks down to Odburo Street, a dark, narrow street near the river Vltava. More : news.bbc.co.uk |