German Government Compels Prostitution
Thank the good Lord that I am an American! This morning, Drudge has a link to this article detailing the situation of a young woman in Germany, an unemployed IT professional, who may lose her benefits if she does not take a job at a brothel.
Nice.
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Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex
industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to
its highest since reunification in 1990.
The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral
grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from
bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in
the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.
When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had
not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a
job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.
"There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex
industry," said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specialises in such
cases. "The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral
any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."
Miss Garweg said that women who had worked in call centres had been offered jobs...
on telephone sex lines. At one job centre in the city of Gotha, a 23-year-old
woman was told that she had to attend an interview as a "nude model", and should
report back on the meeting. Employers in the sex industry can also advertise in
job centres, a move that came into force this month. A job centre that refuses
to accept the advertisement can be sued.
Oh...the humanity! I mean, really, what is next? It almost puts Germany in the same category as Saudi Arabia! Woman has no right except to be a receptacle for a man's lust. Tell me this...would a man have to take a job as a prostitute? Enquiring minds want to know. Or...is there no demand for the services of a young man? Or...is there no unemployment in that demographic? I'm telling you, this makes me mad as hell.
I am once again reminded how eternally grateful I am to be an American woman and not a German victim of legalized sexual assault.
How do you feel? "Confident and good," she says whimpering and pushing her assailant off of her. "You pay downstairs."
Creepy.
