Reply #170: You're wrong...

[Dirk39]

but you're right empirical: this isn't really the practise in Germany and until today, I did never ever hear of a single woman in Germany, who was forced to become a prostitute by our Federal Employment Office.
But - as I know from a friend of mine - people, who are unemployed are told this...
But merely as a joke.
But this is, what you got wrong: prostitution in Germany isn't illegal. And it's that way for decades.
But we still had a passus in our civic law that prostitution is "immoral". And as a result, it wasn't allowed to enforce prostitution or to promote it.
The Greens and the Social Democrats did change this passus of our civic law. Now, prostitution is considered to be a job like any other job.
As a leftist, I would like to add: what's the difference at all between working at McDonalds, killing in Iraq, or let everybody fuck you.
But I don't. For me, there is still a difference.


It's really funny somehow, if you're not affected:

The (cultural part of the) '68 revolution did win, at least the sexual revolution.
But capitalism is stronger than ever.

All I can tell you is that the majority of the prostitutes in Germany, most of them illegal immigrants don't care about that law and even the majority of german legal prostitutes are against this law and don't care about paying tax and being legalized.
The more those former "leftists" and "cultural revolutionaries" come to power, the more I appreciate those "dark corners" of capitalism that were allowed to stay in the dark and somehow accepted without talking about it.

The '68 and Greens are still as far away from reality as they ever were, but now they are at the center of capitalism and accepted. A funny constelation, as long as you're not affected by their nonsense.
The Greens and "Socialists" in Germany fuck with BMW, Volkswagen and Mercedes - another kind of legal prostitution in Germany - and talk about people, they don't care about or know and make laws for minorities they don't care about or know. But they know Mercedes and Volkswagen now. Welcome to Realpolitik.
Still not voting in Germany,
Dirk