Drive-thru brothels: why cities are
building 'sexual infrastructure'
Guardian [U.K.],
by
Nate Berg
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
9/2/2019 10:13:13 AM
Nicole Schulze was 24 years old and €40,000 (£36,6616) in debt when she decided to become a prostitute. It was 2004 and she was living in Cologne. Two years earlier prostitution had been legalised across Germany, and the city of Cologne quickly distinguished itself: it made sex work a major part of its urban policy.(Snip) Located on the edge of town, the result is a kind of sex drive-through. Customers drive down a one-way street, into a roughly two-acre open air-space where sex workers can offer their services. Once hired, the sex worker accompanies the customer into
Reply 1 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/2/2019 10:35:12 AM (No. 169367)
When you dig below the surface, you find that most sex workers do what they do because they don't see other options. They're like the example at the beginning of the article, in debt and need to make money fast, addicts/alcoholics who need money to support their habit, or damaged women with no skills and no hope of acquiring them, and the functioning mentally ill. It isn't a profession that attracts the best and brightest, except maybe as madams, pimps and financial backers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/2/2019 10:47:51 AM (No. 169377)
“Man!! That’s great!!”- bilbo clitton
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 9/2/2019 10:57:19 AM (No. 169392)
Sad business. And because of their miserable economy, and excessive imported labor, women are forced into this?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/2/2019 11:07:00 AM (No. 169406)
What are you going to do when you find most of your clients are sick soulless animals and monsters. The left will tell you we are nothing but animals evolved from apes, and we should not judge anyone. Germany is going backwards. They are forcing women into a form of slavery. No doubt their Islamic immigrants are all for this.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/2/2019 11:07:12 AM (No. 169407)
I remember seeing the red light district in Amsterdam. The spaces they discuss here look rather like the stalls here where some can wash their own cars. Trailers (in UK and Europe, “caravans”) have been around for ages. This is all sort of businesslike everyday sex to them.
I saw something quite different in Las Vegas years ago. A lovely, beautifully dressed woman - probably in her late 30s? - was introduced to me. Very intelligent, very well-spoken. Much, much later I found out she was a very high-class prostitute. Flown here and there by prominent, wealthy men.
There are different sides to The Business.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Luke21 9/2/2019 11:45:50 AM (No. 169452)
Very true #6. I was driving mental patients for a time, and about fwelve years ago took a couple such fellows on a shopping trip for them to pick up toiletries. It was pouring rain and a beautiful woman approached me to ask if I was a driver. She had called a cab, who apparently wasn't coming. She consented to ride with me and "my gentlemen" to her hotel. Her conversation was beyond vague, and I figured it out. But she was class, a queen, and a goddess. Somebody really paid for one like that. I considered it a privilege to drive her.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/2/2019 1:21:15 PM (No. 169516)
#5: Stalls. I thought the same thing. Now I'm going to think of sex whenever I see a car wash. Four quarters for 3 minutes.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/2/2019 3:31:39 PM (No. 169611)
Wow! I thought leftists were into protecting women (and other sex workers) from abuse, not making it easier and convenient. The world we live in makes me want to cry sometimes. My heart hurts at this.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anonymous 9/2/2019 7:09:43 PM (No. 169743)
Prostitutes tend to have drug habits and drug habits require a constant flow of money. As a profession, it's a quick fix to self-inflicted injury.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GO3 9/2/2019 8:04:33 PM (No. 169769)
The author says prostitution was legalized in Germany in 2002??? It was legal in the late 70s, when I was there and probably before that. Nate, where you been?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 9/2/2019 9:35:36 PM (No. 169830)
Never been to a brothel, but it would seem that I'd like to get out of the car and take a bit of time with the "service".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rmsimms 9/3/2019 3:44:28 PM (No. 170411)
Street prostitution, what they are referencing here, is the "low end" of the trade....women found there are usually poor women using prostitution to make ends meet, or addicts financing their drug/alcohol habits, or being trafficked by pimps. The women who approach this as a business are either working in brothels or working through/for escort services....some of them make a lot of money at it. In years past, when prostitution was either legal or tolerated to the point brothels operated openly, it wasn't uncommon for lower and middle class housewives would work in them (without their husband's knowledge, of course) to gain an independent income.....which was the one of the main reasons government began to crack down on such places in the years after WW2.
Personally, I don't think prostitution is good for either client or prostitute in the short or long term, but if a woman has the right to an abortion on the grounds that she can do what she wants with her own body....a central tenet of feminism....logically, the State also does not have the right to stop her from selling herself.It really needs to be sorted out one way or another, as the current way of things isn't working in most places.
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