News You Can Use: A Retirement Home For Prostitutes In Mexico City.

We’re never one to judge anyone’s line of work and if you kids ever find you have no other choice but to make a living by being a ho, we just want you to know that it seems the best place in the world to be a ho is in Mexico City. The city that out-liberals San Francisco features what experts believe is the first retirement residence for prostitutes. (There are experts in that sort of thing?) The institution, called Casa Xochiquetzal after the Aztec goddess of beauty and sexual love, was featured this morning on the BBC News:

A fountain in its central court yard gives it the tranquil feeling of a home for pensioners in Florida.
Here all of the 30 women who have so far moved in are former workers in the sex industry.

The house is the idea of Carmen Munoz, herself a prostitute for 20 years.
“It’s taken me a long time to get this place opened,” she says. “We had to convince the local government and the police it was needed. But when I saw elderly women lying in the streets with nowhere to go, I knew I had to act.”

An enlightened city mayor and private donors are paying for the home, Carmen says.

Girrl, that shit sounds more secure than blogging. Where do we sign up? (By the way, you can donate to Casa Xochiquetzal, which also serves as a community center for active sex workers, here.)

Mexican ex-prostitutes find home [BBC News]
Community Center for Sex Workers in Mexico [Global Living]