We’ve all heard of a dying boy asking for one final wish. So what do you do when his one wish is to have sex with a woman?

In Australia, the answer apparently is: hire a prostitute. “He did engage in the act and it was everything he wished it to be,” the boy’s psychologist reports. “He was very, very happy and only slightly disappointed that it was over quickly.”

31 December 2001



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