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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch mayor has raised
eyebrows by backing the idea of sending prostitutes to
accompany Dutch troops on foreign missions.

"The army must consider ways its soldiers can let off
steam," Annemarie Jorritsma, mayor of the town of
Almere in central Netherlands and a member of the
ruling VVD liberals, told Dutch television.

"There was once the suggestion that a few prostitutes
should accompany troops on missions. I think that is
something we should talk about," she said, adding that
the prostitutes would keep soldiers from turning to
local women.

Her comments have drawn a mixed response in the
Netherlands, renowned for its liberal prostitution
laws.

"I don't think my wife would find it a good idea," Wim
van den Burg, a spokesman for the military service
trade union told Dutch newspaper Volkskrant on Monday.

Andre van Dorst of sex industry organisation VER told
the same paper: "I can see something in this, though
it's a very strange idea."

The Netherlands has more than 2,000 soldiers serving
abroad, most of them in Afghanistan as part of a NATO
peacekeeping force, and in Bosnia.

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