View from a Rhino House: the beautiful game

Many of the prostitutes in the city of Belo Horizonte, in Brazil, are signing up for free language classes in order to be ready to do business with foreign fans during the 2014 soccer World Cup.

“When all this chatter about being ready for the World Cup started last year, we decided the working girls needed to be prepared for it too,” Cida Vieira, president of the Minas Gerais state Association of Prostitutes, said to reporters this week.

The group has recruited volunteers to teach English, Spanish & even Portuguese, she said, explaining that some of the city’s sex workers are immigrants or members of the indigenous tribes, who needed to learn Brazil’s main language in order to “handle domestic demand,” as well as more “international services” provision.

Vieira said she believed that demand for the classes would surpass the 300 women who originally expressed interest, with calls coming in from as far away as Sao Paulo, about 500 km from Belo Horizonte.

“This is important for the dignity of the work, the women need to be able to negotiate a fair price & defend themselves,” she said. (Grammar as a  martial art?)

Good to see the whole nation coming together in the interests of sporting glory.

“Look I’m just saying, that was never offside, the ref must have been blind…….”