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Wiesbaden. Critics accuse the state of insufficient protection for prostitutes. “It violates the Basic Law if the state tolerates a suitor unilaterally using the woman against her will for his own purposes,” said the lawyer and former state constitutional judge Ulrich Rommelfanger to the “Spiegel”.
In Germany, prostitution has not been “immoral” since 2002, according to the Prostitution Act, which was supplemented by the Prostitute Protection Act in 2017. According to Rommelfanger, the legislature “didn’t pay enough attention to the assessment of human dignity”. A person should never be misused as a pure “means to an end”. The laws intended to ensure the protection and rights of prostitutes wrongly assume that all women prostitute themselves, said social ethicist Elke Mack from the University of Erfurt.
In the past 20 years, legislators have failed to question this assumption. “Prostitutes give up their right to sexual self-determination in order to unilaterally satisfy the wishes of the customer,” says Mack. Some experts believe that 60 to 90 percent of women prostitute themselves involuntarily; out of poverty or because they are forced to do so. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of prostitutes work in Germany.
Just 23,700 are registered, only a few have health insurance and hardly any have social security.
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2023-06-24 11:17:03
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