Rugby News

Oct 11, 2003 16:00

Well, The US is hosting the World Sevens Cup and the Penn. Pumpkinfest is TOMORROW GAH! I was supposed to go today, but had SATs, I wonder how our lady Pirhanas did. I fel asleep during the SAT and dreamed that I ran into Rookie in the hallway, and I looked really cool in front of her students because I know her as Rookie, not the PE and Health teacher. She is also missing it because her school told her she had SAT duty. At least, I think it was Rookie. 98% sure.

Also in the rubgy world:

Brothels heat up for World Cup
Thu Oct 2, 7:12 AM ET

By Paul Tait
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Brothels across Australia are
packing down for an anticipated bumper trade during
the six-week Rugby World Cup, which tourism officials
estimate will attract at least 40,000 overseas
visitors, many of them well-heeled fans with plenty of
money to spend.

Rugby's showcase event kicks off on October 10 and the
sex industry is determined to be ready from the first
ruck to the final maul on November 22.

One inner Sydney brothel kicked off its World Cup
campaign with a party on Thursday night and also plans
to target arriving players and fans with girls bearing
"Fancy a Ruck?" placards.

"They're interested in looking for business as much as
anyone else in the business community. They try and be
competitive," Robbie Swan, spokesman for sex industry
lobby group the Eros Association, said.

According to Swan, Australia's sex industry learned at
a 1994 World Council of Churches meeting in Canberra,
Australia's unofficial sex industry capital, that
major events could mean big business for brothels.

"Many of them came from countries where prostitution
was highly illegal, so for the first time in their
lives it was like seeing a lolly shop where lollies
were legal. You had to go in and buy one even if you
didn't like them," Swan told Reuters.

"That news spread around the industry, that they could
actually do well at major events," he said.

Swan said Australian brothels had since become "quite
savvy" at spotting and catering for the specific
requests of different cultural and socio-economic
groups.

Demand for domination services could be expected to be
high among wealthy, public school-educated British
fans, he said.

"Maybe there's a legion of people who will follow the
team who are not yobbos, they're not soccer hooligans
or rugby league fans but they're from the upper
classes in England. We know that they like spanking,
for example," Swan said.

"Some high flyers, VIPs can spend a lot of money in a
brothel, it's not unheard of that they can spend a few
grand in a night if they get what they want," he
added.

It's not only working girls who can expect to be busy
during the World Cup.

"I tend to think that the gay brothels will do pretty
well out of this as well," Swan said.

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