Training instead of buying: Women’s Union calls for a ban on prostitution


Training instead of buying
Women’s Union calls for a ban on prostitution

During the pandemic, prostitution in Germany is temporarily suspended – at least officially. The Women’s Union wants the sex purchase to continue in the future. Women would be humiliated and humiliated, often slipping into drug addiction. You should be looked after and given a perspective.

The CDU women’s union calls for a ban on prostitution as well as health and psychological care for all dropouts. To this end, a key proposal is to be discussed on the digital federal delegates’ day tomorrow, Saturday. In most cases women are not voluntarily prostitutes, explains FU boss Annette Widmann-Mauz to the newspapers of the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland” (RND). “In truth, the registered prostitution only represents a fraction of the real situation.”

“And there, too, women are humiliated, humiliated, degraded – and that is also legally safeguarded by a law,” complained Widmann-Mauz, who is also the federal government’s integration minister. As a first step, pregnant women and women under the age of 21 should be banned from buying sex. For this, the punishment of suitors should be expanded.

Widmann-Mauz also advocates better support for women who are looking for a way out of prostitution. Many of them are severely traumatized and need health and psychological care. “Some prostitutes are also addicted to drugs,” she said. “It therefore needs very individual concepts and offers for new professional perspectives.”

Women’s Union: Women’s dignity must not be a commodity

When asked why, from the point of view of the CDU women, any sex purchase should generally be prohibited beyond forced prostitution, Widmann-Mauz said: “The question is whether the state makes the dignity of women and their most intimate things a legal commodity.”

In connection with the corona pandemic, a cross-party group of members of the Bundestag had spoken out in favor of issuing sex buying bans and giving prostitutes the opportunity to exit through training. The most prominent representatives of the group are the former Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe and the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach. Sex work in particular would act as a driver in the pandemic, since social distancing is impossible. Prostitutes could act as super-spreaders.

In Germany prostitution has been legal under certain conditions since 2002, but there are criminal regulations against forced prostitution. There are around 33,000 officially registered prostitutes in Germany, but the actual number is estimated at around 400,000.

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