Conservative voices in Germany, too, calling to let brothels reopen during the 2nd wave of the pandemic: Because #prostitution is a hostage situation and we are offering nothing to women except to "kindly let them fuck to survive" as @HuschkeMau put it. bild.de/bild-plus/poli…
Also sick of the choice of image: Women's legs in high heels. Women are worried, desperate, some homeless and hungry and we still sexualize them. And it's not just Bild Zeitung which is cheap papers, all news outlets do this all the time! Even when women are raped or murdered.
My suggestion: When talking about #prostitution media outlets should stop using images of women's legs, breasts, and butts and instead show sex buyers! Men are the reason the trade exists, women are just trying to survive. Real pictures by @BettinaFlitner: bettinaflitner.de/freier.html?&L…
The photos above and below are of real German #sexbuyers photographed and interviewed in the "Johns" series by @BettinaFlitner. They agreed to have their image and words public, so here is the translation of what they had to say to the question: "Why do you buy sex"?
Christian (23), businessman, German sex buyer: "Often [non-prostituted] women are a pain in the ass. They stress me out. Paying for it has got something though. Spraying my cum in her face costs 50€ extra. Now that's power. Whatever you want, you can do with the woman."
Dung (28), chef in training, German sex buyer: "Dating is always stressful. My type? Absolutely no Asians. There's gotta be chemistry, so she enjoys it as well. But sometimes the women keep looking at the clock. That's a real buzz kill."
Günther (55), innkeeper, German sex buyer: "I don't like it when she is really professional. Those who only do it part-time, just offer better performance. Yesterday one said to me: 'That was the best sex of my life.' 50 bucks. That's when the price-performance ratio is correct."
Ingo (43), tax consultant, German sex buyer: "Out there I'm too shy to approach someone. Twice I fell in love with a woman at the brothel. You get this good samaritan effect and want to help get her out of there. Never again. Well... for now I just keep seeing one and the same."
Iwan (65), car mechanic, German sex buyer: "Usually I gotta take a woman to dinner twice [before I get sex]. Costs me 100€. [Paying for it] means getting it instantly. You get used to it. The Columbian last week was really horny. But suddenly she disappeared. Too bad."
Joachim (58), engineer, German sex buyer: "If you keep going to the club, regular women won't satisfy you no more. Those bodies! My daughter is 26, so I make sure the girl is at least 27. A lot of the women have pimps, I've seen that with my own eyes."
Kai (49), banker, German sex buyer: "Women such as these, I would never get out there. Here I can push the boundaries if I want to. Anal, for example, costs 100€ extra. I've been seeing the same one for the last three years."
Ralf (28), programmer, German sex buyer: "My first time at the brothel I was 17. The gals are smart, there is no prattle here. Was in a relationship for four years, but the girlfriend always finds out. Now I'm running an internet platform to suggest alibis for other johns."
This is what the men are saying to a woman, a photographer/journalist, knowing it will be public to the world! Can you imagine what needs to happen that they'd be too ashamed to tell? And people tell me that john forums don't represent anything meaningful: dieunsichtbarenmaenner.wordpress.com/menu/
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Really creepy: A number of high-ranking NGOs tasked with development work focused on children have started referring to child sexual exploitation as "child sex work". This is not rare, but a reoccurring phenomenon. And they are directly lobbied by the pro-prostitution lobby.
People hear "sex work" and they think "adult" and "consenting". In practice the term is now used for anything under the sun that involves a man getting his rocks off and someone getting paid for it. Be they adult, minor, under pimp control, literally trafficked across a border...
According to UNICEF 12-year-olds can be "sex workers"! This is so sinister and with this I can no longer extend the goodwill of "well, people are just trying to use respectful language". Money is irrelevant. An adult touching or penetrating a child is rape childhub.org/en/system/tdf/…
Seit Jahren rede ich darüber. Übrigens nicht nur wir Frauen außerhalb der Industrie, die den Mist abkriegen, sei es durch Racheporno oder durch Gewalt durch Männer, die Pornos nachspielen wollen - die Frauen in der Industrie erleben so viel Scheiße. Hört mal Mia Khalifa & Co zu!
Die legal Pornoindustrie ist regelmäßig verbrecherisch - auch bezahlten DarstellerInnen gegenüber. #JusticeForMiaKhalifa
Die Liste weiterer Frauen, die in der legalen Porno-Industrie ausgebeutet und traumatisiert wurden und teilweise ums Leben kamen ist lang. Dazu zählen Jenna Jameson, Linda "Lovelace" Boreman, Shelley Lubben, August Ames, Amber Rayne und viele viele mehr: sexindustry-kills.de/doku.php?id=po…
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.
Germany, 2020: Brothel owner runs for mayor of major city Stuttgart and labels prostitution and trafficking survivor (exploited in legal brothels like his) who is alarmed by his candidacy "the real victimizer of women!". We are so far beyond parody. Its throw things o'clock.
It's just classic abuser style: Inverse victim and perpetrator. Pimps are allies to women and survivors advocating for and often single handedly running exit services are a scourge!!! Of course a bunch of other pimps came to his aid and are slandering her all over the place.
Worst as ever are random women supporting him not her. Lecturing a survivor that prostitution is actually really fine and that legal brothels are totally safe (the exact places she was groomed and raped for years). We are making progress but there is still so much victim blaming.
Berlin caves to demands from Japanese government to remove statue commemorating the sexual enslavement of Korean women and girls by Japanese soldiers during WWII claiming irreparable damage to Japanese-German relations. taz.de/Gedenken-an-Tr…
Euphemistically referred to as 'comfort women' some survivors of Japanese military brothels are still alive and fighting to not have history forgotten and repeat itself. The statue in Berlin was supposed to aid international awareness of this violence. history.com/news/comfort-w…
The number of victims of Japanese military sexual slavery is estimated at around 200.000 women and girls between the ages of 11-29. They were Korean, Chinese, Burmese, Eastern-Timorian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Dutch, Papua-Neugenian, Thai and Japanese. washingtonpost.com/news/worldview…
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