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BBC reports "German Greens float sex prescriptions for disabled":
A spokeswoman for the Green Party in Germany has said disabled and seriously ill people should be able to claim back public money if they pay for sex. They would have to prove a medical need and show that they could not pay to visit sex workers otherwise. Elisabeth Scharfenberg, an MP, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that she "could imagine" local authorities paying for "sexual assistance". Prostitution has been legal in Germany since 2002.
[...] In the Netherlands it is already possible to claim the cost of sexual services as a medical expense.
German source. Here's a related segment from Vice if you have 17m22s to spare (it's primarily about Sensual Solutions).
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday January 10 2017, @08:05PM
And BrExit, you will be getting Ms. Le Pen, and I shudder to imagine what the backlash will deliver as a replacement for Mad Merkel. Germans can be pretty ruthlessly efficient when they set their mind to it and they look ready to do just that, only question is whether it happens in the coming elections or if the powers that Be still have enough juice left to push it off one more.
It always follow the same pattern. Decriminalize some destructive behaviour, then legalize it and then declare it a right and subsidize it. We see it with weed here in the U.S. where we all know the final step is coming, once they get the Feds to drop the ban they will be using Medicaid to pay for it because stoners will be discovered to have a "Right" to the stuff. The trannies went straight to a right to have the government pay for their mental problems. This is pure r selection at work, free resources for all. Including the utter obliviousness to the fact the world is quickly changing to resource shortage and K selection. The kaboom is going to be both awful and beautiful.
(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @08:58PM
The sun's not burning out anytime soon: there's no resource shortage. And only a crank uses r/K selection to analyze human politics.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday January 10 2017, @10:07PM
Stoners don't have any more rights than anyone else. Including a right to their medication.
10. The medication is needed because they are unable to work.
20. They are unable to work because they are stoned.
30. They are stoned because they took their medication.
40. GOTO 10
I would expect that compassionate conservatism wouldn't have a problem with this.
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