[Maigret]

Say those Europeans are superior, aren't they?

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Government mandated prostitution, double digit unemployment and $6 a gallon gas.

No wonder the libs are in love with Old Europe.

[SandRat]

Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.

I don't know but this sounds a bit like sex-slavery to me.

[wagglebee]

Two thoughts come to mind:

1. This is going to be one of those 300+ post threads.
2. Where are the pictures?!

[LowOiL]

Wow... If that is not scarry, I don't know what is.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"Information technology professional", "brothel employee" - these days, how do you know which job you've got?

[Lonely Bull]

"'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'

The reply when I shared this story with someone else: "So either way they're scr..."

[TankerKC]

Previously Posted.

My previous comment: The more you depend on the government, the more they can control you.

[TruthConquers]

Talk about out right SLAVERY!

Legalize prostitution and you get women sold into sex slavery.

And this is all in an effort to ...because the government believed that this would help to combat trafficking in women and cut links to organised crime.

Yikes. The government doesn't care what happens to these women and are so wrong, it's criminal.

[workerbee]

Prostitution was legalised in Germany in 2002 because the government believed that this would help to combat trafficking in women and cut links to organised crime.

Miss Garweg believes that pressure on job centres to meet employment targets will soon result in them using their powers to cut the benefits of women who refuse jobs providing sexual services.

Ah, the old Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again. Quick, someone tell me again why Europe is so much more sofistykated than we provincial Americans.

[CzarNicky]

I wonder if she went to the interview and if she did said that "it would be difficult for her to master the skills needed to do the job"? My guess is that the brothel would have then check 'not hired' and gone on to the next applicant. The prostitution "industry" is probably not keen on creating an image of sex slavery that the law was attempting to snuff out.

[FR_addict]

"Prostitution was legalised in Germany in 2002 because the government believed that this would help to combat trafficking in women and cut links to organised crime."

Now, it's the German government trafficking in women. Not much different than organized crime.

[Texas Eagle]

"Now that prostitution is no longer considered by the law to be immoral...

Selah.

[ScottM1968]

This is wrong on so many levels.

This is what happens when a country which cannot determine what is moral is coupled with a welfare/unemployment system.

It is liberalism at its near finest.

[Truth666]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Hartz+IV+macht%27s+m%C3%B6glich:+Die+Vermittlung+von+langzeitarbeitslosen+

Google found 153 results on the only article on the subject that appeared in the german media (taz, a newspaper owned by mainstream media packaged as "alternative" media).

[DannyTN]

How can Germany not tell the difference between prostitution and working in bars?