Mercer C, Tanton C, Prah P, Erens B, Sonnenberg P, Clifton S, et al. Changes in sexual attitudes and lifestyles in Britain through the life course and over time: findings from the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal). Lancet. 2013;382: 1781–1794. pmid:24286784 The Law for Combating Venereal Diseases was adopted in 1927, [15] which decriminalized prostitution thus undoing the state-regulated system, Reglementierung. [14] Nazi era (1933–1945) [ edit ] When Germany legalised prostitution in 2002 it triggered an apparently unstoppable growth in the country’s sex industry. It’s now worth 15 billion euros a year and embraces everything from 12-storey mega-brothels to outdoor sex boxes. Nisha Lilia Diu visits some of them to find out who won and who lost A married person has sex with someone outside their marriage.” (extramarital sex), as an indicator for the function of marriage within a culture [ 25], She tells me about a 17-year-old Russian - let’s call her Klara – whose father had fallen ill. The family was getting desperate for money so when Klara saw a newspaper advert offering temporary work as a prostitute in Germany, “she thought, ‘it will be awful but for three months I can bear it.’ And then she was raped by several men the night she arrived to “get her ready” for prostitution. They took her passport. There was another girl there who wouldn’t do something a customer wanted and they broke a bottle, a glass bottle, and raped her with that. She was cut inside. It was shown to all the others.” Klara was trapped there for four years.

Rotlicht-Pate muss neun Jahre hinter Gitter", Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German), 1 October 2004, archived from the original on 4 August 2012 Skandal im Sperrbezirk: Wohnungsprostitution in Frankfurt am Main grundsätzlich zulässig. Frankfurter Sperrgebietsverordnung in Teilen unwirksam"[Sperrbezirk Scandal: Home-based prostitution permitted in principle in Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt's restricted area regulation partially ineffective.]. anwalt24.de (in German). 5 February 2013. There are many of these advertised in the daily newspapers. Sometimes run by a single woman or man and sometimes by a group of roommates. The present study aimed at investigating public attitudes towards sexual behavior in Germany with regards to sociodemographic and sociocultural factors. Overall, attitudes were characterized by a high level of acceptance with most acceptance towards same sex sexual activities and least acceptance towards extramarital sex which is in line with results of a pilot study for this survey [ 14]. Danuta Harrich-Zandberg: Der St. Pauli-Killer. In: Helfried Spitra (Hrsg.): Die großen Kriminalfälle. Der St. Pauli-Killer, der Ausbrecherkönig und neun weitere berühmte Verbrechen. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37438-2, p. 11-34. (in German)

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The Berufsverband erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen [ de] ( ' Professional association for erotic and sexual services ') published a new hygiene concept for sex workers. It had three parts, one for sex workers who work in their own apartments, one for escorts and one for street prostitutes. [59] Thuringia [ edit ] Ahrold TK, Farmer M, Trapnell PD, Meston CM. The relationship among sexual attitudes, sexual fantasy, and religiosity. Arch Sex Behav. 2011;40: 619–630. pmid:20364304 The same study found that 63% of the sex workers in Germany were foreigners, with two thirds of them coming from Central and Eastern Europe. In 1999 the proportion of foreign sex workers had been 52%. The increase was attributed to the EU enlargement. [3] [63] Escort services, where a potential male client calls for a woman to visit a residence or at a hotel for sexual services, exist in Germany. In March 2007, the brothel " Pascha" in Cologne announced that senior citizens above the age of 66 would receive a discount during afternoons; half of the price of €50 for a "normal session" would be covered by the house. Earlier, in 2004, a 20% discount for long-term unemployed had been announced by a brothel in Dresden. [34]In 2009, the Bundessozialgericht ruled that the German job agencies are not required to find sex workers for open positions in brothels. The court rejected the complaint of a brothel owner who had argued that the law of 2002 had turned sex work into a job like any other; the judges ruled that the law had been passed to protect the employees, not to further the business. [37] Sümer ZH. Gender, religiosity, sexual activity, sexual knowledge, and attitudes toward controversial aspects of sexuality. J Relig Health. 2015;54: 2033–2044. pmid:24510128 In Weimar-era Germany the economy collapsed due to the loss of the First World War and the imposition of war reparations at the Treaty of Versailles. As a result, the middle class lost their savings and the working class were unemployed. The Republic ended up printing money to pay its bills which lead to hyperinflation in 1923. The outcome of all of this was that women, including the millions of war widows, turned to prostitution. Licentiousness and streetwalking were common in this period and Weimar Berlin is famed for its decadence. [11] [12] Claudia Thoben: Prostitution in Nürnberg: Wahrnehmung und Maßregeln zwischen 1871 und 1945, Nürnberg 2007.

Pimping, ( Zuhälterei = exploiting and/or controlling a sex worker) admitting prostitutes under the age of eighteen to a brothel, and influencing persons under the age of twenty-one to take up or continue work in prostitution, are illegal. It is also illegal to contract sex services from any person younger than 18, per Article 182 (paragraph 2) of the Criminal Code. [74] Before 2008 this age limit was 16. [75] [ bettersourceneeded] This law also applies to Germans traveling abroad, to combat child prostitution occurring in the context of sex tourism. Two men have consensual sex with each other.” (consensual sex between men) respectively “Two women have consensual sex with each other.” (consensual sex between women) as an indicator for gender equality [ 26], and sexual comfort [ 27], a b c "Hausen und Hegen". Der Spiegel (in German) (15). 7 April 1965. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017 . Retrieved 13 November 2017. Scathing criticism of the new prostitution law, by Doña Carmen, a support group for foreign prostitutes working in Germany (in German)Kontrovers: Stricher in Berlin". blu.fm (in German). 1 March 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011 . Retrieved 6 November 2010.

From other studies, it is estimated that between 10% and 30% of the male adult population have had experiences with sex workers. [61] Of those 17-year-old males in West Germany with experience of intercourse, 8% have had sex with a sex worker. [61] U.S. Department of State, 2008 Human Rights Report: Germany, archived from the original on 26 February 2009 A similar account had appeared in mid-2003; a woman received a job offer through a private employment agency. In this case, the agency apologized for the mistake, stating that a request for a sex worker would normally have been rejected, but the client misled them, describing the position as "a female barkeeper." To date, there have been no reported cases of women actually losing benefits in such a case, and the employment agencies have stated that women would not be made to work in sex work. [33] Petersen JL, Hyde JS. A meta-analytic review of research on gender differences in sexuality, 1993–2007. Psychol Bull. 2010;136: 21–38. pmid:20063924Hermann Müller knows that some of the women working in Pascha have pimps, “but [the pimps] are not allowed to come in the club,” he says. If a woman asks them for help, they put her in touch with the police. “Two weeks ago,” he says running his hands over his close-cropped hair, “a girl said to our manager that some guy wanted to have money from her because he drove her from Romania to Germany. And then he wanted to have money from her every week or something.” Pascha called the authorities and the girl went with them. Müller’s not too sure where. Malte König: Der Staat als Zuhälter. Die Abschaffung der reglementierten Prostitution in Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien im 20. Jahrhundert (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, Band 131). De Gruyter, Berlin 2016 (reviewed by Julia Brüggemann in: H-France Review, July 2017 [3]). All the sex workers I spoke to, in Britain and in Germany, told me it’s “not for everyone.” Kristina Marlen, the Berlin dominatrix, sees her work in terms of “celebrating the sexual part of the person” (though “sometimes people come in and I am like ‘Ew’. But I can work with them.”) She’s bisexual and currently in an open relationship with a woman. She thinks of prostitution as its own kind of “sexual orientation”. Suzi, who is single, spent years working as a cleaner in hotels in Italy, Spain and Greece before becoming a prostitute. “A friend who did it said it’s fast money. I cannot say easy money because it’s not easy. Anyone who thinks this is easy money is wrong.” In what way is it difficult? “You can find here all kinds of persons, difficult persons”. She squirms. “Some come with fantasies.” She tells me about a man who likes to be defecated on and another that wants to be walked around the brothel on a leash, “like a doggy”. Some men just turn up, tell her something dreadful from their childhood and leave. She finds those ones exhausting. “You know, you must be like a gum – malleable. Become whatever they need.”