Thread by @EllyArrow

While parts of Germany have reopened the sex industry with supposed hygiene plans that johns are breaking left & right - in Bavaria you can still get arrested for being in a no-prostitution-zone - more police control fo that during Corona. Two Hungarian women just got arrested.

Why do we emphasize women's vulnerability in prostitution? Because we need at least to end these arrests. But if an illegal brothel is seen on par with an illegal hair salon it's harder to argue against her arrest (not that I'd be jubilant about a desperate hairdresser's arrest).

What gov should do is provide for all people. And not to overstate and argue that German poverty does not exist (it certainly does!) access to gov funds is easier if you're from here than on a potentially dubious visa from Eastern Europe. These women are exceptionally vulnerable.

But of course we need to argue that it does not matter how she ended up there or where she is from. All women in prostitution during Corona are clearly in survival mode and we gotta stop criminalizing women surviving. But my gov legit thinks women got savings to fall back on 🤷🏻‍♀️

More information on the arrest of two Hungarian women in German prostitution in Munich, Bavaria: One had to pay a fine and was let go. The other - a 19 year old!!! - was sent to jail, because she had been arrested repeatedly. The johns got 0 punishment! abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/stadt…

We hear "legalisation" and think "safe and legal!" In practice it's frequently neither. 80% of Germany is a no-prostitution zone. And with the assumption that she is a consenting adult in full control, she carries all the responsibility while still receiving little to no support.

I don't care about being called paternalistic, I will absolutely argue that a 19-year-old Hungarian woman in prostitution during Corona needs support and not to be left alone with German men, who don't give a shit about her wellbeing whatsoever! dieunsichtbarenmaenner.wordpress.com/menu/