Empowerment
From Feminist Current, legalized pimping in Germany:
A flat-rate brothel chain called “Pussy Club” made headlines when, on its opening day on June 5, 2009, 1,700 men lined up to get in. The long lineups outside women’s rooms lasted until closing time when many of the women collapsed from exhaustion, pain, injuries, and infections, including painful rashes and fungal infections that spread from their genitals down their legs. It was shut down a year later for human trafficking.
Flat-rate brothels are very common in Germany, as well as “tabuslos,” meaning “no taboos.” In practice, this translates to “everything without any protection.” As a result, STDs are on the rise in Germany (HIV rates have gone up after several years of stagnation), and it’s common for married men to infect their wives.
Competing for customers means that brothel chains like the Pascha in Cologne offer gambling games with the chance of winning a free hookup. A brothel in Berlin gives customers a “collection card” like coffee shops do — five visits will grant you a 50 per cent rebate, and your 11th visit is free.
Sounds like a paradise of female empowerment, doesn’t it?
Check out the advertising:
That one’s on a freeway overpass. There are lots more in the post.
It started as a brothel? And it took a year for it to be closed b/c of human trafficking? How would a brothel not be human trafficking from the beginning? I supposed human trafficking means only kidnapped immigrant sex slaves?
This shit just makes me sick.
Just the most amazingly obvious consequence of an incredibly stupid policy, and proof that the women involved certainly aren’t in a position of cool choosy agency.
I once had a friend who had been a prostitute. I was a little shocked when she told me about men paying a little extra not to used a condom. She told me that you can tell if they’re OK just by looking at them and that it was fine as long as “his willy is clean”.
I pointed out that even a doctor needs to do a blood test to tell if someone has HIV. She said she knew that really.