Prostitutes 'appear' on Euro banknotes as part of sex trade campaign

Ironically, I bet some prostitutes end up getting paid with them....

money + prostitution = discouragement-- I don't think that adds up. what were they thinking?

O.K. a special hooker bank note mmmmmmmmm has possibilities, wonder if they could be called. " round note", the john's give to hookers for sex, hookers put in bank, bank gives to Johns, Johns give back again for sex to hookers, round and around!

and no body gets screwed but the Johns?

Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get it. For one, how is this supposed to discourage prostitution? Maybe if the article included a translation of the messages printed on the notes, this would make more sense.

Also, is this legal tender? What's the point of putting the information on money? If it's real money, I guess it could be just to get more people to see the "messages warning about the real price of seeking blackmarket employment abroad"? But it strikes me as odd that images of prostitutes would be printed on actual legal money. This story just leaves me confused...

I don't get it either, fountaingoats. The pictures of women even look a little glamorous - certainly not like a warning sign to women not to end up like them.

In fact, printing pictures of vulnerable women who sell their bodies for sex on the very thing that they're likely to get paid with seems pretty nasty.