By John Leicester
Paris - A lot of women will have to have a lot of sex with a lot of men to get Logan Campbell to the 2012 Olympic Games.
Yes, you read that right. Campbell, to cut a long story short, is a New Zealand taekwondo athlete who has opened a brothel to finance his ambition of lifting an Olympic medal in London.
At the last Games, in Beijing, Campbell competed in the 68-kilogram category only to be swept aside in the first round by eventual bronze medal winner Sung Yu-Chi of Taiwan.
'I'd feel worse selling cigarettes than doing what I'm doing' To do better in London, Campbell figures he needs roughly $200 000 so that he, a doctor and a coach can travel, train and compete beforehand in Europe and Asia. Unlike last time, he doesn't want his parents to foot most of the bill.
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"My mother has wanted a new kitchen for the past 10 years but hasn't been able to do that because she has spent all her money on my taekwondo," he says.
Hence his conversion to brothel-keeping. He has more than a dozen women handing over half their earnings to him. It is, in his words, "a good moneymaking industry."
Here's the question: can a pimp be an Olympian?
The answer would have to be "no." The two must be mutually exclusive if Olympic values are to be preserved.
'We supply everything for them, advertising, drivers, security, even condoms' But this is a tricky one because, legally, Campbell is doing nothing wrong.
New Zealand decriminalised prostitution six years ago. The parliamentary vote - 60-59, with one lawmaker abstaining - could not have been closer - a measure of how sensitive this was.
The result - at least according to government-appointed experts - has been more positive than negative. In a review last year, they concluded that the Prostitution Reform Act has not, as some feared, led to a surge in prostitution and that "the vast majority of people involved in the sex industry are better off ... than they were previously."
Brothels and prostitutes openly advertise ("Wet & Wild Sunday Special," "Tuesday 3Some - get your second lady half price!").
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