from a UPI article from 2001, about whom bouncers of high-status nightclubs let in
This experiment took place in Germany I believe. But anyway . . .why would they have ‘slack’ (bad?) posture? Crack causes it? Horizontal activities should make them have good posture, one would think. I dont get the connection.
Sounds more like a stereotype than a scientific correlation.
No idea. But the description (heavy make up, skimpy clothing, very high heels) like normal dress outside any nightclub…
Maybe prostitutes weren’t the target so much as tasteless ones?
The factual answer is, as a general thing, they don’t. At least in Panama, those in the usual hangout areas have notably erect posture, the better to display their (usually artificially enhanced) pectoral assets.
Also, wearing high heels and standing in a slouched posture would be counterproductive.
Well, stereotypically anyways, they spend a lot of time standing on street corners in heels, which I imagine would lead to having a kind of “loiterers slouch”.
*I cannot vouch for accuracy of website
Isn’t that one part of the reason that the military, especially honor guards at memorials (like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers) are taught to stand at attention?
Because we want our Honor Guards to have high self-esteem?
That actually sounds plausible.
Could there be a slim chance the bad posture was associated with drug use, specifically heroin, causing the user to ‘gouch’, or slump forwards?
I can’t seem to find many references to prostitutes being referred to as having slack posture to begin with, except for the one quote by the one guy the OP mentions.
It could be that the notion came from a time when ‘good people’ in some cultures were never comfortable in public in general. Staunch, uncomfortable clothes, painful shoes, girdles, unnatural manners of coughing, sneezing, eating, etc. In that day, among those circles, “posture” was a key indicator of ‘good breeding’.
Sitting comfortably in comfortable clothes with your feet up and vest unbuttoned would probably have been a quick way to forever cast yourself as an ill-mannered slouch. Maybe hookers of the day just didn’t care to participate in the theater and sat, behaved, and dressed comfortably, because they were there working not gathering to demonstrate their good etiquette. I say MAY be because as I mentioned, this one guy is really about the only reference I can find to anyone making the assertion.
Well, we don’t want them turning tricks.
I presume you’re referring to the scandal with the Russian soldiers, at the monument to the Heroes of Plevna in Moscow and outside the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
But that was mainly a result of the low pay given to conscripts in the Russian military. Nothing to do with their posture.
Well, I was going to come in here with my usual jokes, but it appears reality has trumped my humor.
Yep, even the Family Circus has covered this top
Actually I was just being a wise-ass. I had no idea there really were soldiers working as prostitutes.
What the hell are Putin and Medvedev thinking? You can get away with a lot of shit but Rule #1 of staying in power is you pay the guys who have the guns.
Asked someone visiting here with me what he thought, and he offered up, ‘maybe they wrench their backs, leaning over into cars to discuss business with customers’.
That doesn’t look like Family Circus font. Not that that dreck has ever come close to being funny once.
Doesn’t meth deplete calcium, hence the bad teeth? Maybe it is premature osteoporosis.
