Spanish Sex Workers Punishing Banks By Withholding Sex From Employees

The key to getting banks to do what you want may be as simple as adopting a strategy that women's magazines have been advocating for years: withholding sex.

Members of the trade association for high-class escorts in Spain have stopped having sex with bank employees until they start providing credit to Spanish families and small businesses, according to RT. The union got the idea for the protest after one escort was able to convince a bank employee to grant a loan simply by saying she would stop her services until he "fulfills his responsibility to society."

Spain's banking sector has been targeted by a variety of critics as the country continues to suffer from a years-long economic crisis. Credit rating agencies downgraded some of the country's biggest lenders last month, according to the Financial Times. And with up to 200 foreclosures per day, the banks are taking heat from protesters and others for allegedly fueling a housing bubble by offering easy money that ultimately led to economic collapse.

Then there's the rampant unemployment. Amid the crisis, Spain lays claim to the highest jobless rate in the eurozone, at 22.9 percent.

Though the Spanish escorts' tactics may seem relatively unique, they channel other similar strategies used to protest big banks here in the United States. As part of a Lent-themed protest more than 20 churches pulled millions of dollars from big banks earlier this month to demonstrate against their foreclosure practices.

In addition, Occupy Wall Street, a social media push known as Bank Transfer Day and particularly notorious fees, helped to encourage consumers to move their money from big banks in droves. Membership at credit unions -- an alternative to big banks -- more than doubled between 2010 and 2011, according to the National Credit Union Association.

Still in some places banks are doing right by vulnerable clients. Sangini, a financial institution in Mumbai, India's red-light district, only serves sex workers in an aim to help them build savings and collect interest, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Comments

[djuno1966]

10:45 PM on 03/27/2012

so this protest is about deposits and withdrawals, sorta like the old "in-and-out"

[solidermedicabn]

10:23 PM on 03/27/2012

Thank you ladies!!!! and God bless!!!!!! Now if it only would happen in America!!!!!!!!!

[olddognewtrick]

11:44 AM on 03/27/2012

Oh! So...no more penalty for early withdrawl?

[huffposty]

08:56 AM on 03/27/2012

How come so many badge holders have taken an interest in this storey?

[huffposty]

08:44 AM on 03/27/2012

What a good idea: one small deposit is all that is required and everbody's happy!!

[French Toast]

02:21 AM on 03/27/2012

I bet this was roughly their reaction:

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mother-of-god-meme.jpg

[EdCorner]

08:02 PM on 03/26/2012

It figures, floozies have much more moral character than the banksters.

[oahutrading]

07:05 PM on 03/27/2012

Please don't insult working people by comparing them to Bank criminals

[no body]

07:43 PM on 03/26/2012

Well it sure beats sending in Ben Bernanke.

[karen1p]

06:18 PM on 03/26/2012

These trollops are national heroes! It will be the trollops that save us! Send those A##holes home to their wives!!!

[StopThePlanet]

05:55 PM on 03/26/2012

Occupy Bourbon Street?

[LostinSocialSpace]

04:31 PM on 03/26/2012

I am sure they'll get a HAND on the situation soon and be a HEAD of the media reporting, as most employees are on the JOB during weekdays. Right Christina Hartman?

[mmikebl]

04:17 PM on 03/26/2012

Talk about being counter productive. The article states that Spanish banks are being criticized because they made credit too easy to obtain which helped fuel the Spanish housing bubble. Then the article commend the escorts for trying to influence the banks into granting easier and more credit to small buinesses and poor individuals. The escorts are being praised for attempting to cause more of the behavior that has destroyed the Spanish economy.

[hgus]

04:36 PM on 03/26/2012

Did you know that times change over the course of several years?

Did you know, that the banks, after having some problems, have recently tightened lending standards so much, that it is viturally impossible to get a loan now?

These women are not trying to solve a problem the banks created 4 years ago, they are trying to solve a problem that the banks are creating now!!

[Mydian01]

02:21 AM on 03/27/2012

your reading comprehension sucks.

[StopMakingSense2]

03:49 PM on 03/26/2012

Now if conservative wives and girlfriends would take the same que some of the rights insanity could be contained!

[Gigantorman]

03:52 PM on 03/26/2012

Why does the pot always call the kettle black?

[stdbredfarms]

04:15 PM on 03/26/2012

Conservative wives generally don't sleep with their husbands anyways. That doesn't bother them though because it's the choir boys that really get their husbands hot.

[Pavane]

05:12 PM on 03/26/2012

Conservative wives and girlfriends CAN'T have sex with their boyfriends and spouses unless ...

Wives and girlfriends have sex ONLY for procreation.

Anything else would be hypocritical.

Isn't that right, Conservatives.

[bzmlco]

03:32 PM on 03/26/2012

Just screwing around for bucks!

[jhnatsgc]

03:19 PM on 03/26/2012

Good luck! I can do without sex a lot longer then I can do without money. I think the bank is going to win on this one.

[Jim Marusak]

04:04 PM on 03/26/2012

not unless the bankers' wives/fiancees also join in on the boycott. if they join in, then it'll hit massively.

[hgus]

04:34 PM on 03/26/2012

Without sex, what good is money?