Published: December 3, 2007
Maria Carolina, a prostitute in Chile, has become a celebrity, and has made headlines internationally with her offer to donate 27 hours of happy time, to benefit a charity for disabled children in Chile. Her own website is currently unavailable, due presumably to server overload. Or malicious whack jobs. In the meantime, Amsterdam's own whack job, P.I.C.'s Mariska Majoor, no stranger to creating international headlines with publicity schemes designed to create personal publicity (at least in Majoor's case, we're not accusing Maria Carolina of similar low motives), might pay attention to this one---it's a chance to do something useful for a change---to generate loads of positive publicity, enhance the image of prostitutes in Amsterdam, rather than as usually happens by her efforts, as figures of amusement, and provide help for some other just cause. Besides herself. Carolina has been quoted as saying: "There are people who are going to be donating money that's a lot more questionable than mine," she said. "The only thing I did was publicize it." Prostitution is legal in Chile. www.mariacarolina.cl |