Picture this! A group of men in red and white robes stroll through the reception area,women in high heels and almost naked sitting at the bar in a haze of cigarette smoke,chatting with clients and laughing...And it's legal. Germany has become a sex tourism hotspot thanks to the legalization of prostitution.
This is Paradise, in Stuttgart Germany one of the largest brothels in Europe. The structure is estimated to be more than 6million euros (£4.9m). It was opened in 2008, it boasts of a restaurant, a cinema, a spa and 31 private rooms for the hundreds of male customers it attracts each day...Amazing!
Germany legalized prostitution in 2002, creating an industry now thought to be worth 16billion euros a year. By treating prostitution as a job like any other, the idea was to prise women away from the pimps that often run the sex trade.
The government introduced a Pension scheme so sex workers in Germany can now pay into a pension fund and demand health insurance.
"You feel safe and you have security. It's not like the street where you don't know what happens with a man," said 22-year-old Hannah, who arrived in Stuttgart after two years working in a brothel in Berlin.
But critics say Germany's liberal approach with its sex laws has spectacularly failed, normalising prostitution and turning the country into what they are now calling the "Bordello of Europe"...meaning:::: "Brothel of Europe". The industry is booming like crazy,analyst says the number of prostitutes in Germany is thought to have doubled to 400,000 over the last 20 years.
The market is now dominated by "mega-brothels", which offer sex on an almost industrial scale,often to tourists, many of them bussed in from abroad. Many of the women working at Paradise Stuttgart are from Eastern European countries such as Romania and Bulgaria. Alice Schwarzer has led a campaign for Germany to reverse course on its prostitution laws...
Did you also know that in Sweden,it is illegal to buy sexual services but not to sell them?
This means a man caught with a prostitute faces a heavy fine or prosecution, but the woman does not...So be warned!
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