Lilith
04-11-2003, 06:55 AM
Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The former madam of a Dutch escort agency has opened a "Hanky Panky School" for prostitutes to teach the world's oldest profession how to make more money.
Elene Vis -- whose frank autobiography "Escort Queen with Turbopower" made her a Dutch tabloid darling -- opened the school last week in a luxury Amsterdam canal house to offer prostitutes "exclusive sales training" to boost their business.
"You could call it sales techniques. You have to sell yourself and it doesn't matter if you sell your body or you sell vacuum cleaners. The principle is exactly the same," Vis, 43, said on Monday.
The Netherlands, where brothels are legal and prostitutes pay tax, is renowned for its tolerant attitude to sex and soft drugs. The capital's red light district and its bustling coffee shops are tourist attractions that make millions a year.
Vis, once dubbed "The Five-Star Madam," ran a firm providing expensive escorts to wealthy clients for 20 years. She said the men and women prostitutes who worked for her agency could make about $6,000 a month for 40 hours work.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The former madam of a Dutch escort agency has opened a "Hanky Panky School" for prostitutes to teach the world's oldest profession how to make more money.
Elene Vis -- whose frank autobiography "Escort Queen with Turbopower" made her a Dutch tabloid darling -- opened the school last week in a luxury Amsterdam canal house to offer prostitutes "exclusive sales training" to boost their business.
"You could call it sales techniques. You have to sell yourself and it doesn't matter if you sell your body or you sell vacuum cleaners. The principle is exactly the same," Vis, 43, said on Monday.
The Netherlands, where brothels are legal and prostitutes pay tax, is renowned for its tolerant attitude to sex and soft drugs. The capital's red light district and its bustling coffee shops are tourist attractions that make millions a year.
Vis, once dubbed "The Five-Star Madam," ran a firm providing expensive escorts to wealthy clients for 20 years. She said the men and women prostitutes who worked for her agency could make about $6,000 a month for 40 hours work.