Guest blog: All the women in Spain are moving to Switzerland to become prostitutes

I’m going out of town for a couple days so I’m gonna give another guest blogger a shot. Hopefully this one goes a little better than the last.  This one’s from a man known only as the Sixth Lap Senior. Let me know if he should be writing more stuff for The Victory Lap.

Mired in years of economic downturn, Spain continues to struggle with record unemployment rates hovering around 26 percent. Brain drain endangers the country's economic future, as hundreds of thousands of Spaniards have left to find work abroad. A new report by The Local suggests the great migration has made no exception for even the world's oldest profession, as the number of Spanish prostitutes working in Switzerland has spiked.

According to The Local, the number of Spanish women officially registered as prostitutes in Switzerland, where the practice is legal, has risen considerably amid Spain's recession. Local authorities estimate that number is four times larger now, with twice as many suspected of working illegally.

Prostitution in Switzerland has been on the uptick for the last decade, The Local writes, soaring from 800 registered prostitutes in Geneva in 2004 up to 4,140 in 2011. The increased supply has also lowered prices, with a 15-minute romp dropping from 100 Swiss Francs ($109) down to just 20 Swiss Francs ($22).

Let's go ahead and add prostitution to the list of things Switzerland has got figured out along with cheese and army knives. How prostitution isn't legal everywhere in the world is one of the top three things that blow my mind (the other two being Extreme Couponing and squirters). I don't understand how someone can tell me that if some smokeshow will let me pay them to have consensual intercourse until completion, I have to say no because it's illegal. "Oh, but it would destroy the morals of society if people could pay for sex." There are plenty of things that happen on a much more public basis that don't point the moral compass north. Exhibit A.

I would also like to direct your attention to the more than reasonable prices that have come about in Switzerland. "The increased supply has also lowered prices, with a 15-minute romp dropping from 100 Swiss Francs ($109) down to just 20 Swiss Francs ($22)." So you're telling me I can get a 2 for $20 deal at Applebee's or have sex as many times as I can in 15 minutes? (we're looking at least 5 times and that's on the low end) – I’ll take the latter.

Switzerland has figured it and it's only a matter of time before the rest of the world follows suit. America is concerning itself with health care, taxes, blah blah blah. Whoever throws legalizing prostitution on the 2016 ticket gets my vote.

By Sixth Lap Senior