We had an old character in the state organization of the blind, back in the 60's. He had been an Alaskan miner and had lost his sight in a mine explosion. By the way, since he's been gone for many years, his name was Sam McGee, like in the old poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee.
Sam loved good whiskey, and bad whiskey. And he loved women. So one fine evening after consuming great quantities of his favorite beverage, he went looking for the girl of his dreams. Flashing his bank roll, did I mention that this old blind man made good money breaking Quarter Horses?, well he did. And he flashed that bank roll around one of the local bars and a young hooker fell madly in love with him. The next morning Sam did not show up for the morning convention meeting. A friend of mine and I went to his room, fearful that he might have drunk so much that he'd bit the big one.
But there was Sam, feeling really small, and really hung over. Seems the lady not only asked for money before she rendered her services, she did not follow up on her part of the bargain. Then he checked and found that she had discovered the wad of bills he'd tucked into the toe of his shoe. I figured as drunk as he was, she probably helped him put it there.
No point in trying to find the lady, Sam had no idea of what she looked like. No point in reporting it, either. The local paper would have had a field day with the story.
Carl Jarvis
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 8:53 AMA few years back there was a blind lawyer from Philly who actually filed a
claim against a prostitute for credit card theft. It made all the news.
I think he filed an ADA claim, but got laughed out of court.Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: the work ethic
> It's interesting that the subject of prostitution should be brought up.
> When the NFB convention was held in Phoenix in 1996 or 1997, I took a
> sighted friend along. This was the first time he had ever been to a
> national convention for any organization dealing with the blind, and,
> until Marc Maurer's banquet presentation, he couldn't understand why I
> held the group at arm's length. That aside, he left me at the convention
> at one point so that he could see a prostitute. After he came back, I
> asked him if the NFB convention provided the prostitutes with much
> business. He said he had asked the prostitute that, and she said no.
>
> To me, her answer made sense. Most blind men, even when they had the
> desire, have absolutely no idea where and how to find a lady of the
> evening to keep them company. Because prostitution is illegal everywhere
> in the U.S. except in parts of Nevada, their services are not listed in
> phone books. Sighted males have visual ways of determining whether a woman
> is most likely a prostitute, but those visual markers are not available
> for blind people, especially the totally blind. And it has made me wonder
> how blind males who do hire prostitutes do find them.
> --
> Ted Chittenden
>
> Every story has at least two sides if not more.
> ---- Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> Abby,
>
> I doubt that they exist. Men tend to want women who are physically
> perfect.
> I suspect that the market for blind women would be father small.
>
> Miriam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-democracy-bounces@octothorp.org
> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounces@octothorp.org] On Behalf Of Abby Vincent
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 10:53 PM
> To: 'Blind Democracy Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: the work ethic
>
> I've never heard of a blind woman being a prostitute because she couldn't
> find any other work. There is social pressure to have earned income.
> Maybe
> this would lead some people to be prostitutes. It would be interesting to
> know how many blind prostitutes there are and how they got that way, how
> they feel about it, etc.
> Abby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-democracy-bounces@octothorp.org
> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounces@octothorp.org] On Behalf Of alice dampman
> humel
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 7:31 PM
> To: blind democracy List
> Subject: the work ethic
>
> Hi, Miriam, Carl, Claude, Charlie, all,
> interesting comments about how we call it "work" because this is what
> society demands everyone should do...perhaps I've fallen into that trap
> myself, but I hope not, I'll have to examine this question further.
> It is certainly rampant among our own blind community on these lists.
> There have been quite vitriolic comments in discussions of blind people
> who
> either are forced to or choose to live on SSI and/or disability. Some
> people
> have even said that all blind people should be kicked off the SSI rolls,
> look at how people on the acb lists make fun of and insult that Eric guy
> who
> apparently does not work and freeloads his way around baseball parks. Even
> among our own blind community, people who are unemployed or underemployed
> are "looked down on" by some, are told they should give up whatever they
> are
> doing and go work in a call center or something. Prostitution was even
> suggested as a good idea for a career choice if a blind person could not
> find other work...or even if she could. So the attitudes even among our
> own
> group, and that includes this progressive list, seem to head in that
> direction.
> I guess when I wrote that message about calling these day programs
> "work" and paying the people accordingly I was thinking of a friend's
> grown
> retarded child who lives in a group home and has some little part-time job
> somewhere sweeping up or something...I actually forget exactly what he
> does.
> He gets state support obviously, and I guess the job gives him pocket
> money,
> and he's happy as a clam. He loves going to work, being with the people,
> he
> goes to the movies, buys CD's and things he wants with his "wages." I
> don't
> know what he is paid, whether it's minimum wage or not. For him it works
> out
> well. But perhaps for others, it does not.
> But that is what I meant when I said I thought this was a rather complex
> issue. But one thing I think we all agree upon:
> exploitation of workers, particularly to benefit and line the pockets of
> the
> big bosses, as was illustrated in the Good Will article is horrible and
> must
> be stopped.
> Alice
>
> alicedh@verizon.net
>
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