COPENHAGEN: Danish streetwalkers’ offer of free services to UN climate negotiators has evoked little interest, but an influx of prostitutes from eastern Europe has revived debate on a law allowing the sale of sex. With an estimated 30,000 visitors from around the world due to visit Copenhagen during the UN climate talks due to continue until December 18, authorities have seen a flood of sex workers descend on the city. “We’ve observed an increase in the number of prostitutes in the streets of Copenhagen, in particular from eastern Europe,” police spokesman Lars-Christian Borg told AFP, noting that the world’s oldest profession “is not illegal in Denmark”. Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard had prior to the opening of the climate conference asked the city’s hotel owners to “not facilitate contact between their guests and prostitutes”. She also sent along postcards to the hotels to be distributed to guests, emblazoned with the slogan “Be Sustainable: Don’t Buy Sex”.
