Everything I need in one-stop shop. Booze, girls and clubbing. The industry boomed under his predecessor Angela Merkel , who enacted the Prostitution Protection Act in July , making it mandatory for sex workers to register and have regular health checks.
They are given official permits certifying their legality, which lists where they can work in Germany, and have to use condoms. The state also collects taxes from sex workers and the industry is believed to be worth around Just 33, sex workers are officially registered, yet it is thought there are more than , in the country, which has at least 3, brothels.
Anti-prostitution activists want Germany to adopt the Nordic model, where those who pay for sex are prosecuted and the workers offered help, rather than criminalised. We always get more in when football is being played over here.
Romanian working girls Erica and Laura offer our dashing photographer a threesome for euros. He politely declines. We love them. Across the street, at another mega-brothel, Das Bordell, bouncer Dimitri had less flattering things to say about British customers. Another option for sex tourists is the Eifeltor district, a short drive from the city centre, where women work out of old-fashioned static caravans which line a busy main road.
The caravans are a common sight across Germany. On a Friday night there was a never-ending stream of punters pulling up, negotiating a price and going into the caravans for ten or 15 minutes before leaving.
