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Default Oy Veh, Germany

But in truth, there's nothing funny about it at all.

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Old 02-02-2005, 12:40 PM
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No, Audrasun, this is straight up funny, no mincing words.

(now to politicize this topic)

This is a perfect example of liberalism gone wrong. No difference between ho's and barmaids?? Gotta get to Germany soon...


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Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.

The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.

When the waitress looked into suing the job centre, she found out that it had not broken the law. Job centres that refuse to penalise people who turn down a job by cutting their benefits face legal action from the potential employer.

"There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex industry," said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specialises in such cases. "The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."
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No, Audrasun, this is straight up funny, no mincing words.

(now to politicize this topic)

This is a perfect example of liberalism gone wrong. No difference between ho's and barmaids?? Gotta get to Germany soon...

Basically, if the brothel wants you, you must be a whore or lose your unemployment benefits.

It may be liberal, but that's not liberalism - you know what I mean? Forcing someone into the sex trade because of a technicality in definition - puke-inducing.
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"The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."
Puke-inducing, indeed.

If this keeps up, I wonder if "moral values" will soon be the number one priority among German voters as well...
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I don't think Germany will be concerned with moral values anytime soon.

It's not liberalism it's socialism at its best.

The worst is they can force people into doing such things.

I wouldn't care if they legalize prostitution here. As long as everyone participating was required to be tested.
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