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...you’re a child, 15 or 16 or 17 years old, and you’re helping your family to survive—well, what is a child in this context?” said Marie Louise Janssen, a lecturer on cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam who teaches a course called “The Commodification of the Human Body. “If it’s the difference between surviving and not surviving, who am I to say that you should not be allowed to help yourself...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Red Light | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

Among the people opposing an age increase, most voice reasons echoing those of Janssen, who added that she actually supports lowering the minimum age standard to work in prostitution. These advocates say that young girls in dire economic circumstances, like Majoor was years ago, should be allowed to enter the get-rich-quick industry—as long as the minors are not forced...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Red Light | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...these girls not forced into prostitution, I wondered, sometimes aloud, oftentimes visibly frustrated, during the course of my interviews. I couldn’t understand the logic of people like Majoor and Janssen, who argue that minors can make the informed decision to enter the sex industry—even when their choice is, quite literally, between indigence and significant wealth. Isn’t the fact that Majoor decided to become a prostitute principally because she wanted a pet dog reason enough to conclude that minors, particularly those living in extreme poverty, can’t make a rational...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk | Title: Red Light | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...Mark Kamen, quickly sketches Bryan as your standard-issue CIA superman with a pathetic flaw. He calls himself a "preventer." ("What do you prevent?" "Bad things from happening.") And like most other action heroes, he's an all-or-nothing-at-all fellow. An indifferent husband to Lenore (Famke Janssen, this time looking less than her usual obscenely fabulous), who's remarried and can't stand him, Bryan is trying to redeem himself as a family man by paying extra attention to his daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken: The French Disconnection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...Obama wins the majority of pledged delegates and the Democratic National Committee decides to hand the nomination to Hillary Clinton, he could declare himself an independent candidate. That would guarantee a loss for Clinton but could result in the building of an all-inclusive New Democratic Party. J. Gerard Janssen, Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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