It was one of five different presentations to different audiences in Edmonton, Vancouver and Ottawa over the span of a week in Canada. Thank you for inviting me here to Vancouver. Thank you to all the organizations that have made this possible, especially Suzanne Jay, who invited me and organized everything. Prostitution has always been legal in Germany, except a short period of time in the early 20th century.
Considering the problem from this perspective, they wanted to strengthen the women as best as possible. They said that nobody can say how people should have sex.
As they run a business, they are also allowed to make publicity for it. So the new law cancelled the restriction of promoting prostitution. For 70 Euros they offer a beer, a sausage and unlimited women. We observe a reduction in the rate of pay for women: 30 Euros for sexual intercourse, while they must pay around Euros for a room and 25,— Euro taxes per day; So they have to serve 6 men before starting earning money. In the streets it starts as low as 5 Euros.
The working conditions have become disastrous. Or brothels in a garage. Or here, it was 2 weeks ago in Frankfurt: an open house evening in the red light district. Even knowing that the red light district is in the hands of the Hells Angels, so an organized crime group, the townspeople came to celebrate the day. Violence against women became a structural violence, it means that society and the institutions the political, educational, executive and judicative authority are not questioning it anymore.
It is internalized. Here in my hometown, also 2 weeks ago: this is a normal clothing shop that had the idea to make publicity like this. Prostitution affects everybody, not only women in prostitution. The goal of the law, which is reportedly protecting and supporting women in prostitution, has failed completely — of these , women, only 44 are registered as sole proprietorship businesses. There is a huge problem with pregnant women who can not pay for the abortion or birth their child in hospital.
