- Aarhus Other Dated Added: Sun Jan 01 2006 Submitted by: Helping The Hobbyist Community
Torben the Dane demands a very social service--early January, 2006
Many people would agree with Torben Vegener Hansen's views on sex. 'It makes me feel good. It makes me more dynamic. Having sex is as important as food.' But it is his insistence that sex is 'a human right' that has led him into a legal battle with his government.
Vegener Hansen, 59, who has cerebral palsy, is fighting to force the Danish state to subsidise visits to his home by prostitutes in the same way they would pay for a meals-on-wheels service.
'Denmark's social law provides for me to be compensated for the expenses I incur because of my handicap,' he said. 'It should therefore cover my right to a sex life.'
Vegener Hansen, a former social worker, lives alone in an adapted one-bedroom flat. He travels about Aarhus city centre using an electric wheelchair. The local council pays for him to receive 37 hours' practical help every week. His speech is impaired but he uses the phone and internet.
'I need to have sex to feel like a normal human being,' he says over coffee and biscuits. 'I have a girlfriend at the moment so I do not need to see prostitutes. But if I didn't have Vivia I would want sex at least twice a month.'
Prostitution is legal in Denmark, so Vegener Hansen argues his local authority unfairly made a moral judgment when it rejected his application for financial support to bring prostitutes to his flat. If a social appeal board finds in his favour later this month, all Danish councils will have to obey the ruling.
Since 2001, Denmark's social service guidelines on disability have stipulated that care staff in institutions must be prepared to help disabled people obtain sex. That includes accompanying them to a prostitute.
Arranging sex is part of the job for staff at the Hulegaarden residential home for mental disability near Copenhagen. Its director, Lars Nielsen, said: 'We have many hours of discussion, in groups, before actually doing so. It is clear that there is no human being who is not also a sexual being. If we do not allow disabled people to have the experience of sex, we cannot expect them to build up their lives.
'The social workers who accompany people to prostitutes receive their salary from Hulegaarden. In that respect, you can argue that Danish society is already paying for the practice.'
But Nielsen is uncomfortable about Vegener Hansen's campaign because it affects two marginalised groups, prostitutes and disabled people. 'Prostitution has been decriminalised since 1999. This has made life a lot safer for prostitutes and has taken most of them off the streets. But that could change. Decriminalisation remains controversial. Left-wing feminists are united with the religious right in their opposition to it. I think Vegener Hansen's campaign is dangerous.'
Vegener Hansen's 46-year-old girlfriend Vivia, who does not want to reveal her surname, opposes him. 'I think it is important that the sex lives of disabled people be discussed, she said. 'But I am against all forms of prostitution and think that, sometimes, you have to accept your destiny.'
Vegener Hansen has heard a wide range of arguments since he began his campaign. 'One man wrote to the local newspaper and said I was just a horny guy. After that, a prostitute phoned me and said she would support me if I took my case to the European court.
'The thing is, according to surveys, only about 15 per cent of men go to prostitutes. So it is not as though society will face financial ruin if I win. As disabled people, we are constantly told not to be passive and to fight for our needs. That is what I am doing.'
(Review # 13531)
- Aarhus Escort Review Dated Added: Thu Apr 14 2005 Submitted by: Mac
If in Aarhus, go down to the harbor and finde a restaurant/ferry caled showboat (AKA snowboat). Directly on the other side of the street you find number 23c that is the place, its a great little place and the girls are really "fresh". Around here prices are pretty simple : 1600 (DKr) gets you 1 hour. 1000 (DKr) gets you 30 minutes. 800 (DKr) gets you 15 minutes. 600 (DKr) gets a quickie, 10 minutes or less and don't try to find a cheaper place. Prices are largely the same all over town. The girls may work in several places, all over town. (Review # 11259)
- Aarhus Investigation Dated Added: Mon Apr 26 1999 Submitted by: Private Eye
Aarhus is the second largest town in Denmark, only surpassed by Copenhagen in
importance and so far neglected by the World Sex Guide. So, being a bright young
student of ethnography, I set out on a research tour in my own university town
in order to update my knowledge (and yours) on the big issues: Where? And how
much?
I mainly sought out addresses where I have bought sex before. These are
therefore brothels with some degree of 'staying power', meaning that you too
should have a good chance of success if you go there yourself. But of course the
ladies you will meet are not likely to be the same as the ones described here.
What you get here is an
idea of where to go and what you may find.
(Always: Buy today's issue of Ekstrabladet and search the personals under
""Massage"" for up-to-date phone numbers.)
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Klosterport 7 is in downtown Aarhus, not far from a historical building that
used to be a medieval Dominican monastery. Behind the white door (with a name
sign saying ""P. Hansen"") right out to the
pavement, you find one 'massage parlor' that has by now become somewhat of an
institution in the sexual underground of Aarhus.
It is low ceiling basement where Thai women work in shifts at a 24-hour-shop.
The procedure is the same as in most other places of this sort in Denmark: You
ring the door bell and are let in after a brief (and in this instance not quite
comfortable) wait - this part of Klosterport is deserted most of the time but
many city busses pass through it, leaving you exposed to the stares of
passengers if you are unlucky to be at this particular door at the wrong moment.
Once you're inside, the woman will show you a handwritten menu, stating the
prices. I noted down four: A normal fuck - called ""Danish"" (dansk) in the coded
lingo of the prostitution world of this country! - will cost you 400 DKr. A
blowjob (""French"") 600. Half an hour is 800, and one full hour is 1200 DKr.
The treatment follows Thai whore habits: If you take an hour, you will be given
a shower together with the woman, she will work you all over with her own body,
and she will end with a generous sex massage.
However, do not expect to find the youth and beauty you have heard about from
people who have been to Bangkok. The woman I met when I visited Klosterport 7
for this report was around 35, alright but not outstanding in any respect. She
seemed worn out and maybe alcoholic.
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Klosterport leads to Noerregade which can lead you to Groennegade (if you walk
in the right direction, to the left). At number 64 in Grønnegade, the door bears
a sign: ""Studio 64"".
The advertisement in Ekstrabladet said this: ""De luxe avantgarde ... a full mega
DD bosom ... lavishly sparkling Danish showgirl, been photo modelling on Hawaii
and Barbados for Penthouse, Taffe, Pitte ... open from 10 to 02.""
I went there and met ""Isabella"" and, frankly, the advertisement is not quite
truthful. Or it may refer to very old issues of those magazines.
Her prices where 500 DKr for a fuck, 400 for a blowjob, 800 for half an hour,
and 1500 Dkr for one hour. ""These are my prices. I cannot tell you what others
who work here may take."" She didn't know who else works there apart from a woman
named ""Bitten"" who may be the one who owns the place.
A thing about Studio 64 I don't like at all is the waiting room where you are
seemingly expected to sit down together with other customers. In spite of the
artful note on the table, inviting you to take a cup of coffee and try one of
the filled chocolates, the chance of having other males enter this room while I
am there makes me cringe on the inside.
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""Malaysia Club"" is situated in a quiet street, Schleppegrelsgade 23, in the
basement. The easiest way to get there is to take city bus line 5 and get off at
Frederiksberg Torv. Then ask for directions.
But do not expect too much. What I found was three women, one of which was
passably pretty. One was not, and the third was harrowingly marked by fate
(alcohol, disease and whoring that is). The prettiest was maybe 35. The two
others rather 40-45. - In the words of the advertisement they are ""gorgeous
young Malaysian dreamgirls"". Oh yeah.
Prices are 400 kr for a fuck, 400 for a blowjob, 800 for 30 minutes, and 1500
for one hour. They did not like my noting down this on paper. In fact one of
them tried for an ultrashort moment to snatch the paper from my hand: ""Your
friends will have to call on the phone and ask."" - Open from 10 - 02.
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Another long standing 'massage parlor' is discreetly placed in the basement at
Silkeborgvej 120 in a neighbourhood that for some reason or other has become
rich in basement storefront brothels. You can recognise them by the anonymous
white Venetian blinds and the sign in the window saying either ""Velkommen""
(You're welcome) or ""Optaget"" (Busy, will be back).
Take bus line 16 or 17 and get off on Silkeborgvej after Ringgaden (Circular
Road). It's in one of the small lanes with red brick middleclass apartments on
both sides. Opposite the bus stop you'll see several big shops. Walk a short
distance till you see HTH Koekkenforum (red and white) and Jysk Sengetoejslager
(blue). You are now at the beginning of the right lane. Turn right, go to the
very end of the lane, keeping to the right side. - Go down the concrete steps
and ring the bell by the anonymous white door.
Again: A Thai woman opened. She was not really beautiful, and she was at least
40. But she struck me as somehow sympathetic. Even her inadequate English, made
near unintelligible by her chewing gum, was charming. I can't say exactly why,
but I recognised this nice feeling from previous visits here.
Prices are 400 kroner for a fuck, 400 for a blowjob, 800 for half an hour, 1200
for one hour. I forgot to ask about opening hours but I remember this as one of
the 24-hour places.
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Silkeborgvej 233 (a long distance from no 120) is also a permanent advertiser in
Ekstrabladet. I haven't been there, so I can't tell you about the ""mature"" lady
behind ""the red door"". But the place looks creepy from the outside, dirty and
decaying, as if the house itself has syphilis.
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The porn shop bearing the name ""Video Kiosk"" and a big sign saying ""Sex Bio"" is
the unlikely neighbor to a small, rather classy French restaurant named
""L'Estragon"" at Klostergade No 6, a street in the oldest part of Aarhus. At
times there's a ""coffee girl"" present who will take on customers in one of the
four private cubicles in the video cinema in the dungeon-like basement.
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If you are looking for street action, try Borggade in the late hours. It is just
around the corner from Klostergade, and before the closing hours of the Video
Kiosk (at midnight) they will use it for turning tricks in case you don't have a
car. - But prepare yourself for a meeting with human misery and drug addiction
if you go here.
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By and large: Aarhus is a second rate town in terms of prostitution.
Down-at-their-heels women who often seem to be deportees from the Third World,
depressive airs, and rudimentary English capabilities
is the norm.
All of the places mentioned here have many more offers on their menus. I
deliberately chose the most common and noted them down in each place in order to
make possible a comparison. (Review # 201)
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