Thirty-four

Ah, the children. There are so many things out there for the children. St Jude's Children's Hospital. Free care for the critically ill children. Jerry's kids during the Labor Day Telethon. Where else can you see a near embalmed Wayne Newton, a dusted off Tony Orlando and Dawn and the ever shrinking Ed McMahon in a Fellini-like variety venue? It's for the kids. No Child Left Behind---that's for the kids too. The Ronald McDonald House, yep, you guessed it, for the children. So many things for the children. And now something new, for the children.
A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity during an annual fund raising campaign. It's a two day telethon put on by the Chile's most noted celebrities who raise money for poor disabled children. Already Maria Carolina's contribution has net $4000 from a regular client who was quoted as wanting to do something right "for the children." Prostitution in Chile is legal and so I must wonder, where are all the other women of working persuasion doing for their country's poor disabled children? Is Maria Carolina the only hooker with a heart of gold? Or did the others contribute but were not as photogenic (Maria takes a nice picture) for the newsbyte? Hard to say.
I wonder if this is going to set off a trend in adult entertainment markets. Next Labor Day, will we see porn stars doing the phones on the Vegas set of Jerry Lewis Telethon? Perhaps a series of Lapdances and Leather Balls for Leukemia? Children of poverty in this country are the most powerless and neglected of all demographics and have one of the highest mortality rates in the world. The government has done more to make their lives worse than better, so I say it's not a bad idea at all to tap that market so our needy children have an opportunity to live through their childhoods. In fact, you might call that, a pretty exotic idea.