A report on what it means to be homeless and in #prostitution in Germany during #COVIDー19. Women deserve shelter, food and a long-term plan for steady income - not careless sexually entitled men and a potentially deadly virus. This is #NeitherSexNorWork.
Listen carefully: Yes, #COVIDー19 makes the women's situation extra precarious, but it was nowhere near humane and freely chosen before. The women are making 5-20 euro on the street per man which is enough for food - everything else is only available on a busy day.
The reporter tells us: They had to be careful while filming. Why? Not because police patrols although they've become another burden for women, as we're temporarily back to full prohibition - but because the legal industry is a criminal milieu!
Can we collectively end the illusion that #prostitution is safer when visible? If you watch what happens on the street you will see: Pimps taking money off of women, drug dealers and drug use, men who just paid a woman to access her body throwing her out of the car. Safer how?
See the johns not even scared to talk on camera: They're breaking the law due to Corona right now, but on a non-pandemic day everything they do is either completely legal or there is no meaningful system in place where women can report violence.
Reporter asks the john buying women off the street during #COVIDー19 : "But aren't you worried about contracting #Corona? You realize it happens through droplet infection?" His reply: "But I don't kiss'm anyway."
I don't want to live in a world where a woman has to be thankful that a man picked her up off the street to get his rocks off in a public toilet during a pandemic after she waited three hours during heavy snow fall . Will not sign off on a system that accepts this & call it work.
Social worker on the situation of women in #prostitution on the streets of Berlin during and before #COVIDー19: "Women say they can't report rape, even if they have his car number. They won't make any more money, if they do. Or they say: 'We just have to live with that'".
For the people who want to believe that these situations are exclusive to the streets and that indoor #prostitution, especially in small apartments with 1-3 women is much better - find out for yourselves (WARNING: Explicit descriptions of sexual violence): dieunsichtbarenmaenner.wordpress.com/tag/apartment-…
If you have money to give or a platform to share this emergancy fund for women like Zhana stuck in Berlin street #prostitution during #COVIDー19. The money will go directly to aid their varying needs: Food, shelter, health care, legal aid, exit service: gofundme.com/f/notfonds-fur…
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