German European brothel discovery
In the 2002, Germany recognized the sex trade as "a normal activity in the service field". The German newspaper, 12th, reported that the law was intended to provide a better working environment for sex workers, but unexpectedly, this directly let the brothel operators make a big profit, a brothel owner bluntly said: "Now, everything is legal."
Today, men from all over the world are flocking to German brothels for "sex tourism"--more than 1.2 million men per day in German brothels who pay € 49 to "do whatever they want", all of which are "legal".
And a growing number of police, feminists, politicians believe that the law to improve the social status and economic status of prostitutes is not great, but it helps pimps to sell more people. Germany has become a "core area for the exploitation of young women in Eastern Europe and a centre for organized human Trafficking in the world".
The German dream becomes a nightmare.
Romanian girl Love Lina fled the village to Germany to become a "prostitute" when she was just over 22 years old.
Changsha "Xiaoxiang Morning News" recently quoted the German "Der Spiegel" reported that love Lina has its own reasons: alcoholism father often beat the mother, love Lina also often suffer, but because there is no income, she had to rely on family. Through a friend's boyfriend, Love Lina learned that sex workers in Germany earn 900 euros a month. "It was as if everything was better than home," she said. "I want to have a room of my own, a bathroom, not too many guests." ”
In 2009, she and her friend in her boyfriend's car arrived at a brothel near the airport in Berlin, Germany, which specializes in providing sex services to air travellers, with a mere 100 euros, where sex workers can provide an unlimited number of services.
However, love Lina soon found that the situation was not so ideal. Every day a lot of German guests come to love Lina here to "have fun", "I have no time to stop and count the number of guests to receive every day." "Love Lina also found that a lot of customer requirements," sometimes even condoms do not need.
In addition, like other female girlfriends, love Lina has to pay 800 euros a week to "referral" (a friend's boyfriend, or a pimp). She has a room with three other girls. Apart from work, she spends most of her time locked up in brothels and occasionally buys cigarettes, but someone will follow.
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Sweden's "Go to Sin" law buys the spring guilty prostitution unpunished
Since the Sixties or seventies of the 20th century, the wave of sexual liberation and the rise of the feminist movement have sparked a public debate about the legalization of sex trade. At the turn of the century, it finally became a wave of "legalization of sexual transactions".
While the legalization of sex trade was rampant in Western Europe, the Swedish parliament passed a "go-to-sin" law in 1999, stipulating that men are guilty of buying the spring and women are not guilty of prostitution. This establishes a new moral principle: prostitution is violence against women. Unlike the policy of legalization, which is in fact more biased towards brothel operators and the connivance of clients, its protective workers are exempted from criminal penalties while imposing severe penalties on the other parties to violence, fundamentally addressing the social causes of prostitution. Changsha Xiaoxiang Morning News
It's not a voluntary legal deal.
Her 18-year-old Romanian fellow was more miserable than love Lina. The girl, who had escaped from the brothel, said 3 men and 2 women approached her in the streets of her home town and promised her a nanny job. But when they arrived in Munich, Germany, the men covered her eyes and put her in a Chamber of secrets. Here, men raped her and were beaten when she refused to work in a brothel.
Sometimes, girls are even sent to their families, like carat from Romania. Initially, Carat's brothers took her to a ballroom where her job was to drink, and then she met a man, "he told me I could make more money in Germany." So Carat followed this man and came to Germany from Romania.
In Nuremberg, Germany, after being raped all day, Carat said she finally knew she had "to do something". She started "working" in a very old German red-light district, with "working hours" up to 18 hours a day.
On Christmas Eve 2012, brothels were booming. The pimp wants Carat to be able to work 24 hours, refused by carat, at the expense of the face stabbed. The bleeding carat was allowed to go to the hospital, where carat dialed a customer's call, which eventually helped her escape back to Romania.
In fact, according to the analysis of data from 150 countries, Dreher, a professor of international politics at Heidelberg University in Germany, said that in areas where sex transactions were legalized, the number of people trafficked was higher than those where sex transactions were illegal.
The shady corners behind the boom. Sex trading and drug addiction have become one
Love Lina and Carat experience in Germany is not a case, aid agencies and sex experts statistics, Germany has nearly 200,000 female sex workers, of whom 65% to 80% are non-German nationalities, mainly from Romania and Bulgaria.
Most of the female sex workers who came to Germany had similar experiences, they fell in love with a heterosexual, followed him to Germany, or, as Love Lina, knew clearly that they were going to be a female sex worker in Germany.
Data show that the red light district of Germany has 3000 to 3,500 brothels, each year to pay a tax of 14.5 billion euros. In the red light area, a scene of prosperity. In some so-called nude clubs and sauna rooms, male customers only wear towels, "waitress" naked. The Cat Club in Berlin was founded in 2009 and its billboard reads: "The number of times, the way you choose, Price: 70 euros in the day, 100 euros at night."
Behind the boom is competition. Weipte, a social worker at Nuremberg, said that over the past more than 20 years, the number of people engaged in this line (prostitution) has doubled three times times. But despite the worsening environment, there are still large numbers of women pouring into Germany, the largest sex market in the European Union.
The life of sex workers is also a big problem, with sex trading and drug addiction in one of Cologne's red-light districts.
Arya, 23, wears a blonde wig and spends her breast, chewing gum, trying to hide the smell of alcohol coming out of her mouth. Arya dropped out of school and followed her boyfriend "Elope," because of economic problems and love, she engaged in the industry. Soon, she began to smoke marijuana, cocaine, stimulants and so on. "There are no women who don't smoke cocaine. "she said.