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German prostitutes win full legal rights
A HISTORIC law passed in Germany yesterday gives members of the
world’s oldest profession the same legal rights and protections as
those in society’s most modern industries.
Parliament voted to give prostitutes equal legal rights and to make
them eligible for health benefits, social security and even paid
holidays.
The so-called "Tarts’ Charter" had been pushed for the past year by
the Green Party, a member of the coalition government, and seeks to
smash the power of criminal gangs controlling the highly profitable
business in Germany.
More than a million men a day visit a prostitute in the country,
generating an estimated £3 billion a year in untaxed earnings.
The new law seeks to break taboos and bring the unregulated workforce
into the social security fold. Many prostitutes complained they
cannot obtain health insurance or send their children to a particular
school because of their trade.
But the bill passed despite strong objections by the conservative CDU
party.
A Social Democrat MP, Ammi Brandt-Elsweiler, said: "The majority of the country
believe prostitution is not immoral and with this law we send a signal spelling the
end of a taboo and bringing a whole section of society th
e right they have long deserved."
Brothel keepers will have to pay health and employment taxes for their employees and
the women will be able to declare what they do for a living on government forms.
The CDU was the lone dissenting voice, with one member, Maria Eichorn, saying: "This
does nothing to assist those women still in the grip of the prostitution mafia and it
doesn’t improve the situation of prostitutes who c
annot escape their circumstances."
Allan Hall In Berlin
Saturday, 20th October 2001
The Scotsman
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