German bawdy house offers free entry for life

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Anonymous Coward

Shush #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 15:22 GMT

Jacqui-O-No will make it a crime to visit a brothel while abroad to, erm, help the most vulnerable in society, whether they want her help or not.

Anonymous Coward

And the puritan perspective on it #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 15:22 GMT

A few mandatory links on the puritan perspective on all this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7268940.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7237583.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7059590.stm

Time to start learning Deutch maybe?

Mike Richards

Shagatoria #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 15:22 GMT

Word of the week.

dervheid

Free membership, as opposed to... #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 15:22 GMT

Free 'Entry'!

yeah, right.

hypocrites? #

Posted Wednesday 19th November 2008 16:23 GMT

Odd that the Saudis anyway would object to having their flag on an uncommon bawdy house. Given what I've seen the hypocrites up to in Dubai when I worked there, I can well imagine the house having several of them as customers.

I guess it just doesn't look good to have ones hypocrisy broadcast quite so loudly, hence the protests.

Graham Marsden

@And the puritan perspective on it #

Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 00:45 GMT

Just as a point, we're not talking about kerb crawling here which does cause problems in the areas it happens, but legal brothels which are a good way of ensuring women are safe and not exploited or trafficked whilst being too scared to seek the protection to which they're entitled in law.

Incidentally, even if a woman does go to the Police to report that they have been a victime of trafficking, they risk being arrested and deported, straight back into the hands of the traffickers again.

Unfortunately Jackboots Jackie wants to criminalise those who pay for sex in some misguided belief that this will somehow stop trafficking based on an imaginary Home Office figure that some 70% of women involved in prostitution are victims of this crime.

See this interview with Cari Mitchell from the English Collective of Prostitutes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7737144.stm

There is also the fact that (unsurprisingly) the proposals are so vaguely worded that those who visit women who work as professional Dominatrices (and who don't offer sexual services, nor ply their trade on the streets) would probably also be caught by this law.