AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam's red-light district will soon get a new attraction: a statue to honor prostitutes around the world.

The statue, designed by artist Els Rijerse, will likely be unveiled at the end of March, Dutch news agency ANP reported.

"In many countries, prostitutes struggle and people have no respect for them whatsoever. The statue is meant to give all those men and women strength," Mariska Majoor, a former prostitute who commissioned the statue, told ANP.

ANP said the statue, made of bronze, shows a woman who confidently looks out into the world.


Confidence

Statue Dedication Ceremony:



Is this just for legal prostitutes or crack whores, too?
What about escorts who do the "boyfriend experience"?
Will the statue have body parts of different ethnicities to make it a politically correct statement for whores around the world?

Do they each get their own statue of is it included in this one?

Will it be in the likeness of Xaviera Hollander, America's best known Dutch whore?

My humble suggestion:

Els Rijerse's homepage



This figurine is called "Wind", but methinks "Cock Worship" would also have been a good title.

I don't get it.

The Greek philospher Diogenes of Sinope was said to have begged for money from statues...so he could practice being rejected when begging from real people.

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