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I finally have a Costa Rican business idea - an odds-making board for the girls at the DR!

Gentlemen, place your bets - Give me a category and a girl and our resident gurus and oddsmakers will make book as to your chances for a "happy ending"!

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Poco a poco la vieja sube el coco.

Very interesting!! And when are the election - so I can get a couple more trips in?
Duessel

A true feminist would support legal prostitution. That is, self-employed prostitutes, like at the Del Rey.

Brother CVCap has it dead right--and the more radical feminists do support fully a woman's right to do anything she wants with her body. The writings of Andrea Dworkin can prove instructive on this point.

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"A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind"--Dr. Johnson
"Amen, brother"-ED

Election is the first Sunday in February.However the winner is not inaugurated until either May or June. I forget the exact timing.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

Problem is; of the latest estimated number of prostitutes in CR (8500 full and part time) well over half are not Ticas and therefore can not vote. Lets say 4000 are Ticas and half of that number voted (very high for this group) that would be 2000 votes. Of the approximatly 2,000,000 potential voters in CR, lets say 1/2 will vote (very high pecentiage) that would mean the voting putas would amount to 1/5 of 1 % (I think that is correct).

As for "a true feminist"; when was the last time you saw a "true feminist" latina

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Old and retired but still bang, and bang, and bang!!!

In the last Presidential election, 2006, there were approximately 2.55 million registered voters of which 1.66 million citizens cast ballots. This was a turnout of 65.2% a low number for CR were the turnout frequently is in the low 80%.

Many third world democratic countries, with good controls against fraudulent voting, have astonishingly high turnout rates when compared to the United States turnout percentages.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine

THANKS ID . Somenow I just knew you would have more exact figures and would correct my rather conserative figures. I actually knew they were, but was using fairly close rounded off numbers just to illustrate a point. Your figures actually would make the potiential puta influence even less significiant.

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Old and retired but still bang, and bang, and bang!!!

I wouldn't discount the pro-prostitution vote so lightly. In the privacy of the polling booth, the real supporters of prostitution show up too, that is, the customers. And you should add in all the family members who get at least partial support from a working girl. The arguments against legal prostitution come primarily from so-called moral grounds. I don't see an big groundswell of morality in this country, no more than usual at least. In these tough economic times I doubt anybody, even the sex police, want to see 10k (or pic any reasonable number) more unemployed. The sex police will accept that as the price of imposing their morality on us all, but I can't imagine they WANT unemployment to go up.

(now I will sit back and wait for the guys to tell me the girls can find other jobs and prove it by saying they saw a help wanted sign somewhere.)

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"The only normal people are those you don't know very well." Joe Ancis

It's early in the campaign and the parties haven't yet selected their candidates; but I'd be really surprised if prostitution becomes an explicit issue in the presidential elections. Has anyone seen any verified references to this in the campaigning so far?

Just from a tactical political viewpoint, I'm not sure it's a good issue. Fifty percent of the voters (the ticos) would vote in favor of continuing as is; while the other 49.995% (the ticas minus the puta voters ) might want to make some changes.

Last year's handicap ramp closings, while obviously jockeying for position within the PLN, are probably not at all indicative of what the central issues of the campaign will be.

The two issues that could theoretically tie into prostitution are safety on the streets (which for most ticos does not mean the gulch) and "women's rights" (which for most ticos translates into spousal abuse and workplace equality).

Of course if it is Chinchilla vs Campbell, they both may be competing to out feminist each other. In which case, we may have a problem.

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It's faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money--Tom T. Hall
No man is a failure who is enjoying life--William Faulkner

I would be very surprised if any candidate or their political party would openly campaign on a strategy of abolishing prostitution. Even if a feminist is elected they like a U.S. President have to work with the legislature to get their agenda passed. The majority of the legislators are male. It is hard to imagine that it will be possible to get enough votes outlaw it but restricting it in some fashion may not be that tough a sell. Between the feminists and the catholic church they might mount a formidable campaign.

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Pura Vida
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex Levine