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Women in #prostitution are not rape fodder!
A man dangerous and traumatising to everyone else is dangerous and traumatising to women in the prostitution industry!
Men have no trouble assaulting women at the brothel and outside it!
This is a very dangerous line of thinking...
How exactly Amsterdam city governments expects anything about their "erotic center" mega-brothel experiment to run differently from Germany I don't comprehend. There is no reason why misogyny and violence should disappear from an industry that has it built into its foundation.
Mega-brothels may also be in city centers, usually in designated red light areas, which sometimes bar entry for all non-prostituted women. I repeat: There are areas in Germany that women who are not in prostitution may not enter. https://t.co/Mn1MOUSoMB
Mega-brothels are usually situated in smaller, more rural communities because johns value privacy or in poorer communities because residents cannot fight back. At 50,000 residents any German town is obligated to designate legal space for the building of a brothel, no recourse.
Not only are mega-brothels dehumanizing to the women in it, presenting them often based on "flavor" as in sorted by race or transgender status, bouncers and cameras have not made them remotely safe. The Pascha in Cologne has seen drug and human trafficking + 1 murder & 2 attempts
In Germany, we call these places "mega brothels" and we have many of them. The biggest is the Pascha brothel in Cologne with 150 individual rooms. Such places may also include strip clubs, restaurants, spaces for concerts and business meetings. None of this has made women safe.
Having made terrible experiences with window #prostitution in Amsterdam, the city plans to build a mega-brothel euphemistically called an "erotic center" instead. 100 women in rooms plus social and health service, security, hospitality, entertainment, education & cultural events.
The Paradise mega-brothel by Stuttgart is another example: For years owners toured German media boasting about their "ethical system" which included an in-house gynecologist. All women were registered with authorities. The brothel has since busted for systematic human trafficking
In the Pascha brothel in Salzburg Austria, an 18-year-old woman from Romania gave birth to a baby which she threw out the window in traumatic distress. The pregnancy had supposedly gone unnoticed by brothel operators and "guests". https://t.co/5wfu9kjzmi
The child sexual abuse hidden behind the ‘sex work’ façade
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“This article looks at evidence from Germany and New Zealand that legalising or decriminalising the prostitution of adults creates a façade behind which the prostitution (or paid rape) of children can thrive, and weakens men’s individual and collective resistance to sexually abusing children. This suggests that opening up the commercial sex industry will always have profound child safeguarding implications – and gives the lie to assertions to the contrary.
‘Any brothel receptionist will tell you that the most common question punters ask is how old is the youngest girl. And they always want the new girls. They like them as young as possible because they are easier to manipulate into doing things they don’t actually want to do.’ – Jacqueline Gwynne”
Men who pay for #prostitution are of all ages, backgrounds & looks. A number of women have spoken about how some of the younger ones are worse, cause they're stronger and usually raised on #porn, but centrally the issue is them making her a literal object. https://t.co/DHiEZRMsdQ
This is what the men are saying to a woman, a photographer/journalist, knowing it will be public to the world! Can you imagine what needs to happen that they'd be too ashamed to tell? And people tell me that john forums don't represent anything meaningful: https://t.co/aksXbmt9fh
Ralf (28), programmer, German sex buyer: "My first time at the brothel I was 17. The gals are smart, there is no prattle here. Was in a relationship for four years, but the girlfriend always finds out. Now I'm running an internet platform to suggest alibis for other johns."
Kai (49), banker, German sex buyer: "Women such as these, I would never get out there. Here I can push the boundaries if I want to. Anal, for example, costs 100€ extra. I've been seeing the same one for the last three years."
Kai (49), banker, German sex buyer: "Women such as these, I would never get out there. Here I can push the boundaries if I want to. Anal, for example, costs 100€ extra. I've been seeing the same one for the last three years."
Kai (49), banker, German sex buyer: "Women such as these, I would never get out there. Here I can push the boundaries if I want to. Anal, for example, costs 100€ extra. I've been seeing the same one for the last three years."
Joachim (58), engineer, German sex buyer: "If you keep going to the club, regular women won't satisfy you no more. Those bodies! My daughter is 26, so I make sure the girl is at least 27. A lot of the women have pimps, I've seen that with my own eyes."