Germany lags behind in protection of forced prostitutes

[redqueen]

Some 10,000 foreign women in Germany are forced into prostitution. German law threatens them with deportation. That only plays into the hands of pimps and human traffickers, say women's rights organizations.

"The girls are controlled around the clock," says Gerlinde Matusch. "In some cases the girls didn't leave their rooms for two or three consecutive years. During the day, they had to serve the men in their rooms, and in the evenings they would be taken to brothels, or to private individuals."

Gerlinde Matusch works for the women's rights organization Solwodi. It's not her real name. She doesn't want her name to appear anywhere- not because she is frightened, but because the pimps could try to use her as a way of getting hold of the girls who have run away. And then, they would probably force them to return to a life as a prostitute.

In Germany, the police pick up or are contacted by some 600 to 800 young women every year who are victims of human traffickers. And it's only the tip of the iceberg. Estimates suggest that in Germany, some 10,000 women live as forced prostitutes. A very small number of them manage to escape and run away.

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http://www.dw.de/germany-lags-behind-in-protection-of-forced-prostitutes/a-16837388

Prostitution is legal in Germany.

[ismnotwasm]

1. This makes me so mad

Germany also had reeducation programs if I remember right for its 'legal' sex workers, because of other problems, ill have to lok.

It might be legal but no less exploitative.. If I remember right Germany is in the top 5 of having trafficked slavery.

[redqueen]

2. Puts the lie to all the claims that legalizing it makes everything better.

I read somewhere that Amsterdam has been forced to close several brothels due to organized crime, money laundering, etc.

[ismnotwasm]

3. And why would that surprise anybody? But it does.

There are still cheerleaders that think European legalization has been a roaring success. They use fucked up statistics like "incidences of rape are down" what--rapists can go buy rape ? That's OK?


Yeah, for slavers (I hare having to even use that word in the 21st century) pimps and other assorted assholes.