Will Life Be As Tender Without Irma On Call
The late Jack Lemmon, the straight arrow rookie flick in one of the red light districts of Paris, asked the bartender why so many couples are going into the Hotel Casanova next door.
“I have a very definite idea. They’re making love,” which the cop, Nestor, denounces as vice.
He earns the retort from Moustache, the bartender, “petit bourgeoisie. It shows the kind of world we live in.
“Love is illegal but not hate. You can do that anytime, anytime to anyone.”
France has always been the artistic and fashionable center of the profession in the West. It also has been common for Frenchmen to have mistresses.
And when the disgraced head of the International Monetary Fund, Daniel Strauss-Kahn, resigned after being accused of raping a New York City hotel maid, many prominent French leaders stood out to defend.
Although he was able to escape prosecution, opinion quickly turned in France, egged on by American and Frech bloggers and other feminist leaders.
Combined with a series of alleged rapes and sexual harassment of world-famous politicians, athletes, gays and celebrities, around the world, one could sense too many of these incidents were happening to be mostly inspired by gold-diggers. The FBI of the U.S. has reported for decades that the vast majority of sexual assaults are for real. And most involve people who know each other, not someone jumping out from behind a tree.
An investigation of rape at the Air Force Academy came too late to result in much prosecutorial action, but it made clear the leadership had been mostly ignoring the problem.
But recent scandals in France and elsewhere around the world seem to harden.
This week the right and the left in French parliament passed a resolution condemning prostitution. It clearly was going to be met with strong resistance.
But this time, as in Sweden and some other countries, and U.S. states like Colorado, the proposal is to arrest “johns.” As the name implies most of the perpretrators will be males.
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