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Booming sex trade begins to diversify
Published: 11 Jan 11 17:20 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110111-32351.html
With prostitution legal in Germany since 2002, the country's sex trade is moving towards greater specialisation, with niches including companionship for the elderly and disabled, a sex worker group said on Tuesday.
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Though sex workers pay taxes and are entitled to public health insurance and other benefits, their profession remains stigmatised, Stephanie Klee, spokeswoman for the BSD sex worker advocacy group, told the paper.
But Klee, who has worked for some 25 years as a prostitute, said she is cautiously optimistic about the future of the branch.
“Sex work is slowly becoming more similar to other professions,” she told the paper.
Red light district jobs are becoming as specialised as those in other fields, she said.
While some prostitution has become concentrated in large high-end “wellness” brothels such as Berlin’s Charlottenburg district Artemis – which boasts a pool, sauna and buffet – other establishments are focusing on the controversial practice of “flat-rate” prices.
Still other prostitutes, such as Klee herself, focus on providing sex for seniors in retirement homes or for the disabled – an area the BSD spokeswoman said she expects to grow swiftly as Germany's population ages.
One director of a Berlin retirement home told the paper she would like to create a “room for intimate encounters,” but is still in discussions with the religious organisation behind the operation.
Even large brothels such as Artemis have recognised this potential, making their facilities barrier-free.
“It’s important for us to show that Artemis is outfitted for the disabled,” the company said, touting wheelchair friendly changing rooms and showers, in addition to helpful personnel.
And while such companionship isn’t covered by public health insurers, the terminology, Sexualassistenz, or “sexual assistance,” is already well-known in bureaucratic "insurance German," the paper said.
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Yeah I took advantage whne really young, why not. RUbbers were always used, no talk of Aids, and they were truly extremely good looking ladies out of the league of a 18 yo skinny kid from America.
SO they finally recognize it as leagal? Always was in teh Rheinland Pfalz area and in Saarland....
The Prostitution Act was good legislation, because for the first time it recognized prostitution as a profession that could be pursued voluntarily by a prostitute, it gave them better access to health services, even social security. It removed some of the stigma and brought prostitution out in the open where it could be better policed and observed. Also, prostitutes now have the right to demand to be paid by their johns for their services, something that was also not possible while it was still "sittenwidrig".
(No..... it's not from experience that I know, it's from a British TV report.)
Thank you for putting it so well.
Disease, Death and Rape is what prostitution is all about.
David Norseman ,,leave it in Gods hands....
They are sermons from someone who claims to himself the right to define what "is the right way for soceity" - which includes women having to get married and have kids ("she should marry one man so they can have a strong and healthy family") and prohibits people from having sex outside marriage ("If people like to have sex earlier, they can marry earlier").
In summary - the opinions of the kind of intolerant, dogmatic people who are responsible for bringing about the worst that religion can cause to a society.
And, again, why to link sex with marriage? They simply have nothing to do with each other.
About your second point: and who would decide what's a "good moral lesson" to be incorporated in TV, movies, etc.? Church? State? Historical (and present) examples show that this kind of control produces no good results - at least not if you give a damn for democracy or freedom in general.
The parasites who create prostituion are enemies of the country. They decieve a young beautiful innocent girl and make her into a slave and product for their own sick cowardly mind. They parasites know that they can infect the country by prostitution and destroy women, families and soceity. They hope to weaken the country by weakening the community of people. We know that a strong country is made up of a healthy and strong community of people. We must abolish prostituion and value women at the highest. God has given women the highest beauty in her soul. Women are the future, to bring forward strong and healthy child and build the country for future generations.
An intelligent, factual discussion is absolutely alien to you - keep on repeating your crap, I'm quitting for now.
You can not eradicate prostitution,as long as there are patrons there will be prostitutes. Knowing that,,wouldn't it make sense to legalize it ,protect those unfortunate ladies you have written about. This way they have legal recourse against violence, health care,and are not subjected to cabs and autos as the place of contact. It is more controllable this way.
I fail to see how this infringes on motherhood,or any other saintly endeavor you have preached about.
This is just a suggestion ,,you could go down to Prostitute Ave,,and talk to these ladies about their debauchery,and bring them out of slavery and despair like Mosses did..