Sex workers are, like restaurant and hotels, anticipating loads of work during the IOC meeting
While restaurants and hotels are busy feeding and accommodating an influx of visitors in connection with the International Olympic Committee delegates, prostitutes are likewise rubbing their hands with excitement over the many potential customers.
Niracha Andersen from the Social Service Centre in Vesterbro told public broadcaster DR that the IOC meeting was bringing many new prostitutes to Copenhagen.
‘They’re hoping to earn extra during the meeting,’ she said.Prostitutes are also frequenting many areas of the city not normally associated with prostitution, including the main entrance to Tivoli and around the Scala shopping centre.
A month ago, the centre-left parties in the City Council launched a campaign to prevent an increase in prostitution during two-week UN Climate Change Conference in the city this December.
Ninna Thomsen from the Socialist People’s Party explained the campaign was taking place because there was always a serious increase in prostitution during large conferences.
‘It is degrading for the women who sell their bodies and also gives a negative image of what the climate delegates are up to when they will come to the Copenhagen conference,’ she said.
