Olneyville Johns & Hookers

The headline in the Providence Journal this Saturday morning

    is familiar (  August 1, page  A3) : " 29 arrested in prostitution

    sting ".  This all took place in the city's Olneyville section.

         Neighbors were complaining , I guess. My brother John - who

    I'm sure is NOT a " John " owns and rents out property in the area.

    I know he already has enough garbage problems. Those other " Johns "

    he does not.

         But my brother John is a single man in his mid- thirties - the

    average age of the gentlemen busted ? ( I 'll figure it out later on

    my calculator ).

          His girl friend, Shelly, might be furious to read this but I

    suspect that John and most American males would agree with this

    little bit of bar room MEN'S TALK : " Marriage in general - with

    all due respect to the beloved spouse is fundamentally a MONEY for

    SEX arrangement. Oh ,yes! I've heard too many stories. There are ,of

    course, many inspiring exceptions to this rather sordid RULE.

          I will not scold the Providence Journal for printing the

    names of the Johns and -quite possibly destroying what little

    marital bliss remained in their life. The law is the law, for now.

    And I agree they should all know better than to seek truly " filthy "

    sex on the streets.

         One of the police dept lures said : " You dress up too nice ,

    they know it's a cop."

         In fact the wisdom of the street wise John is this : " You look

    too pretty, they know it's a cop  ".

           The way to get prostitution   off the streets is to LEGALIZE

    it !  And that will also promote safe if not sane sex.

         Street prostitution just moves around . Elmwood  Avenue use to

    be the area of those  sting operations. I've already warned a

    sexually robust friend in Miami - who visits Rhode Island now and

    then to stay  away from Elmwood Ave.

         Looking over the list of Johns busted all I can say is : " There

    but for the grace of Grace go I  "