Plans to fight prostitutes with stinky acid

A Brandenburg community said Tuesday that wants to its protect its image by discouraging streetwalking using "all available means" – including pungent butyric acid and secret cameras.

"Our territory must be completely taboo for the red light scene," Vierlinden mayor Dirk Illgenstein told daily Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, adding that he feared for the reputation of the city near the Polish-German border.

Scantily clad Eastern European prostitutes have made a habit of gathering along the B1 motorway between Seelow and Müncheberg and near Beeskow on the B87 motorway, the paper reported. The trend is "nothing new," the article continued.

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Yes I support the idea in totality, is a right step in the right direction.

I have to admit this is not a subject that I have much knowledge about, but was not prostitution always legal in Germany? Seems to me that many cities like Frankfurt,Kaiserslauten, Berlin, etc. always had what was known as "Red Light Districts". Were these not legal until 2002????

I do not understand what all the fuss is about. The trade is legal and it keeps money moving in the economy and I would assume that the services are taxed. Lets not stiffle free trade.

Umm - let's just say that 95% of this business doesn't work all that legally, with registered one-person small businesses paying taxes...

Legislation depends on the state with that. In Baden-Württemberg for example prostitution is only legal in towns with above 30,000 citizens, mostly a measure to keep the red-light districts in the cities.

Throwing acid at anyone is an absolutely evil thing to do and should be punished accordingly... having said that the taxation argument (for legalisation) is of course utterly bogus.

up in Gifhorn there was a small caravan on the outskirts operating as a brothel. the town is too small to legally warrant a proper brothel.

perhaps the solution in this case is to somehow properly recognise and accept the industry, perhaps opening a small brothel, maybe that way it can be kept under control. obviously there is a market there or the girls wouldn't be coming over.
not sure throwing acid is the way to go.

I just happened to type "prostitution" into google and came up with this :
Psychiatric times "Prostitution is sexual violence"

Of my own family , my Mum worked with children of prostitutes and no surprise they were frequently abused...but in every case extremely neglected.

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I think like that doctor that wrote the piece for the psychiatric times that prostitution is not something that can be made perfectly safe - for either the practititioner or society - the best that can be hoped for is that is minimized as much as possible.

my brother works for the Police Force in the UK. all too often street-girls are the victims of horrible violent crimes. one local girl was kidnapped, repeatedly raped and had her tongue cut out. they never found the perp.

theoretically women who work in brothels should be safer.

Ever since the third medium-sized brothel opened in Heidelberg in the late 90s, competition (in the cheap section) has become too large for a streetwalking strip to sustain. And we used to have quite a couple of hookers on the street back in the 80s to early 90s.
Two of these three larger brothels are renting their houses from the city; one of them will be evicted probably next year (area to be redeveloped), and the city will cooperate in looking for new housing options in the city for them. I have a hunch that the same will happen with the other one in 3-4 years, when that area will probably be redeveloped. That third brothel not it public housing is the Pussy Club flatrate brothel that's been closed "for hygienic reasons" (and has since reopened; was in the national news for a bit).