YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK

Danes take care of disabled to new level (National Post, September 18th, 2005)

Danish activists for the disabled are staunchly defending a government campaign that pays sex workers to provide sex once a month for disabled people.

Opposition parties call the program, officially known as ''Sex, irrespective of disability,'' immoral.

''We spend a large proportion of our taxes rescuing women from prostitution. But at the same time we officially encourage carers to help contact with prostitutes,'' said Social-Democrat spokesperson Kristen Brosboel.

Responded Stig Langvad of the country's Disabled Association: ''The disabled must have the same possibilities as other people. Politicians can debate whether prostitution should be allowed in general, instead of preventing only the disabled from having access to it.''

As this flows perfectly logically from the principles that sex is a necessity and the state must ensure equal access to necessities, the decision was no doubt an easy one, but it would have been fun to sit in when they were arguing about frequency.