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Street prostitutes 'accept sex meters'
Published: 24 Aug 12 15:24 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20120824-44561.html
A “sex meter” scheme, taxing prostitutes €6 a night to work the streets of Bonn has raised more than €35,000 for public coffers in its first year, authorities said this week.
- Bonn calls prostitute 'sex meter' a success - Society (24 Jan 12)
“The sex tax has been accepted by the prostitutes,” said city spokeswoman Elke Palm. The idea, introduced last August, was an extension of a tax imposed on brothels in the city at the beginning of 2011, Die Welt newspaper reported.
But Mechthild Eickel, chairwoman of the sexworkers’ association Bufas, said it was unfair that prostitutes rather than their customers should have to pay the tax.
“It is a pleasure for the customers. Why don’t they put the money in?” she asked the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper on Friday.
She said prostitutes already paid enough tax, including income tax.
Parking meters were converted to issue the €6 sex tickets that street prostitutes have to show wardens when requested.
The increased controls include the provision of “performance huts” where prostitutes and their customers can conduct business. This has reduced the number of complaints from people living near the areas where prostitutes work, said Palm.
The wardens have only handed out about 20 “warning fines,” she said, adding that there had been no reported trouble between prostitutes and the officials.
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