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Friday, May 16, 2003
Perdices admits helplessness in anti-prostitution campaign
By Adrian S. Sedillo
MAYOR Agustin Perdices admitted helplessness in totally eliminating prostitution in Dumaguete City.
Mayor Perdices said all the City Government can do is to try to reduce the vice and prevent an increase in the number of those engaged in the practice.
Perdices said the city has been trying to help prostitutes by giving them alternative sources of income so that they would stop practicing their trade.
He said the city is targeting to help those who were only forced to engage in the profession for lack of other means of income.
The mayor likewise clarified that the city has no intention to legalize prostitution.
Perdices explained that the pink card given to the identified women was to serve only as a proof that the bearer had undergone medical examination and safe for sex.
Moreover, the mayor lauded the non-government organizations that have been helping the city in rescuing women from the sex trade.
(April 28, 2003 issue)
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