“A 27-year-old Australian man who pimped a 16-year-old girl so he and his girlfriend could afford their apartment, would pay the schoolgirl with chicken nuggets, the Australian Associated Press reported. Ronald Vikash Gander used the $4,500 the teen made for having sex with five middle-aged men in June of last year to pay the weekly $1,050 rent on his Brisbane apartment, the Brisbane District Court was told. Gander and his 16-year-old girlfriend would pay the teen with an occasional box of chicken nuggets, the AAP reported. ‘The girl was used as if she was a piece of meat … and your conduct can properly be described as that of a sleaze merchant,’ Judge Marshall Irwin told Gander. Gander pleaded guilty to one count each of knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution with a circumstance of aggravation and procuring prostitution with a circumstance of aggravation.” — Fox News (US)

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At first blush, this story is like one of those clichéd photographs that tourists like to take when they first visit New York City — you know, a homeless person sitting with his bags outside a fancy store such as Saks Fifth Avenue or Tiffany’s. The extreme contrast seems to make for poignant social commentary, and the same thing is true here: a young girl sells something dear — her flesh — for some greasy nuggets of chicken. The contrast couldn’t be any more vivid or poignant. Look how the judge goes for the easy irony: “The girl was used as if she was a piece of meat,” he said, showing all his talent for the obvious.

But if you assemble the story from a few different sources, it grows in complexity and richness. For example, consider the sleazeball who pimped out the girl. From his perspective, it was her schoolgirl friend who came up with the idea. And he wasn’t paying her in chicken nuggets. He was giving her free room and board. For that matter, he was practically a hero. Why did he drive her to her fuck meets? He “only provided transport and security for the child.”

Then again, his security can’t have amounted to much. Her commercial trysts, which included a lesbian romp with a 25-year-old woman, somehow led to her being physically harmed: “After the girl was injured during a sex session she asked if she could stop the work but Gander’s girlfriend told her if she did they could not pay the rent and she would be left homeless.” It doesn’t say that the girl was assaulted, only that she was injured — as though she slipped on a dirty condom or choked on some ejaculate. Perhaps both would have been better than the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her “friends.”

To look at the matter from an entirely different perspective, it is difficult not to notice how child pornography has proliferated in the early years of the Information Age. It makes you wonder, cynically, if capitalism will ever reach the extreme point where the makers of chicken nuggets hire teen hookers to promote their processed food products. “Sure, I’ll blow you,” says Lolita, “but first I’d like to share a message with you from my sponsor, Pedo Nuggets…”

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