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Why is Prostitution still legal in Poland? [106]
That's actually a pretty good topic for a discussion.
As one of the last bastions of the Catholic Church in Poland, how can prostitution still be legal and morally accepted?
Risking a shitstorm over my head I will say that few Poles are religious in a way that makes them actually follow the good book in every day life ( contrast with some Americans, for example ). So many Poles will be token Catholics, whose ties to the Catholic church do not go beyond visiting the church on a Sunday/holiday and paying off the priest for his services ( wedding, etc. ).
So the obvious moral conflict between legal prostitution and Roman Catholicism isn't simply present in the heads of 99% of "Roman Catholic" Poles.
Based on the same "thinking" many Polish Catholic girls don't have the slightest problem with abortion.
80's I have been told many a story of Polish women entertaining Arabs in Warsaw in the aforementioned period, many of them married as well, the husband would turn a blind eye, for a few green backs. Good to see things have moved on, or have they.
It wasn't just the Arabs. In Warsaw in the 1980's "bladzie" ( a word my Polish friend used to describe them back then ) were simply everywhere, every restaurant or club that catered to expats doing business in Warsaw had their own stable of "bladzias" ready to do whatever for a few dollars. Also in every single hotel I visited in Poland at the time there was at least 1 night porter or cleaning lady that suggested, in broken English, that if one wanted fun was just a few dollars away. Of course everyone who was "in" on the thing got a cut from whatever the girl made and still the pro's probably earned more than 1 month of their official Polish salary for 1 night of work, in hard currency too.
Then there were the taxi drivers. Every other time I took a taxi the bloke at the wheel suggested he knows a few girls I'll like and can arrange everything. It got a bit annoying at times.
Regarding the Arabs I heard ( I'm probably not the only one ) the stories about some Libyan or Palestinian students ( there was plenty of them in Poland in the 1980's ) who would offer Polish girls they met at university or in the dorms the magical "one dollar" for a night of ******* and they supposedly found takers.
Prostitution was a HUGE part of the underground Polish economy in the 1980's. A humorous note of warning to anyone who ever used a Polish prostitute in the 1980's - they all had two sets of pimps. One was the gold-chain wearing thug with a knife who made sure no one "bothers" the ladies and the other one had a uniform and worked at the local branch of SB ( Communist political police ). Apart from a free monthly **** the SB guy got all the tidbits about foreigners from the prozzers he had "under" him, so if you used one --> they have it on file somewhere :)
Which leads nicely into it all being proper and legal in Poland up unto this day. Things have supposedly improved in a way that nowadays a woman who owns a mansion, 3 cars and 2 companies in Poland cannot simply claim she got it all from whoring around ( that was supposedly a fire-proof way of avoiding taxation on undisclosed income in Poland in the past ).
But a "kurwa" in Poland is still a holy animal and her trade is steeped in tradition so much it is considered sacred ( bit of sarcasm here ), so I don't see Poland putting any squeeze ( tax or criminal ) on prozzers any time soon.
