Published: 7 Feb 13 10:54 CET | Print version
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A 19-year-old German woman was left appalled after receiving a letter offering work in a brothel by her local job centre. Good looks, however, were a prerequisite for the position.
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all fit with the usual and unoriginal stock image. Very, very poor of The Local.
Just because of one overreaction? The Colosseum should sue, in my opinion. Oldfashioned Christian morals and prudishness reign supreme. If a woman wants to work at a topless bar, strip club, brothel or whatever, she should be able to do so without feeling ashamed because of the unfair stigmata of those professions.
@ichbines go back under the rock you crawled from.
Ssimski and @tedesco represent the "new thinking."
The "new thinking" is consistent with the fact that Germany is a dead nation and a dead people. Germany (and Russia - great company) have only a 1.35 fertility rate, and a 2.1 rate is required to maintain a xero-growth population.
The "new thinking" has no respect for and no desire for life...
And Germany is a dead nation, just like your brain.
If anybody knows of where I can get a similar position, please let me know ... I'm 65 but well perserved ... LOL
You hit the nail on the head. However, don't expect sympathetic ears. Most people today don't want messy, dirty, inconvenient, things like "reality" and "truth" getting in the way of their selfish "all-for-me, screw the next generation" way of life. Standards, morals, traditional values, pfft.....who needs them?
But you are forced because if you turn down a job they can cut you unemployment.
@ dank
And like any job it has its ins and outs and ups and downs :-)
Write me in 30 years when your boyfriend is tired of changing your diapers and you can't find anyone else to do it, for lack of a work force.
Well, if you do find someone they won't be speaking German, heh, heh.