Bad Anger for Prostitutions in Germany

Making money by prostitution will be harder in the future in Germany. Both prostitutes and brothels will undergo stricter controls. A new law that has entered force from July 1st envisions new regulations.

“in this country is more difficult to open a stern than a brothel”, said former Family Minister Manuela Scheesig a year ago, when he presented the bill in Bundestag. Many prostitutes work in Germany in inhumane conditions. No one controls what conditions they work on boards.

Fear of the Recording
Under the new law, prostitutes must in the future register and consult at public health centres. Even brothels in the future will be allowed to work, only if they meet all sanitation, space and health conditions. New law prohibits brothels “Flarate” What on the basis of a fixed price allows you to ask for sex whenever you want on brothels, so will the parties known as “rape-bang-bang” but which is essentially about the purchase of group sex and where a woman should satisfy the wishes of many men.

Nor is sex forbidden in the future. Even men visiting prostitutes can be penalised if they have accepted the services of forced prostitutes by being aware of this fact.

But new laws have caused panic to erupt in prostitutes ' environments. Sylvia Vorhauer from the Dortmund Midnight Mission Centre, which offers consultation to prostitutes who want to leave this profession, says „panic is spreading”. Many women fear changes in the new law. According to Vorhauer, they say, “cannot be officially registered and moved with such a document”. Many prefer to stop working in this profession.

Back to illegality?
Dortmund Center adviser Sylvia Vorhauer sees the registration obligation as a new torture for women working in the prostitute profession. „Why can't they just go to the finance office and register there?” According to Vorhauer the registration of administrative offices will be „Stigmatisation and criminalisation of women prostitutes”.

Under the new official Berlin law, it seeks to correct the consequences of the 2002 law, which was seen as a liberating blow to the legal regulation of prostitution. But only 1% of prostitutes managed to sign the contract as a sex worker from law enforcement to power. If the new law comes out, it's unknown. The billion - year prostitution market in Germany, where between 200,000 and 500,000 people work, is known to be quite flexible. / DW