[AdrianR]

The part about unemployed German women being offered work in brothels is false, despite being published in Daily Telegraph (UK) and a few other major newspapers. Here is the rebuttal:
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp

[carlr]

With unemployment in Germany now at 11.4 percent,

Off topic but this,along with the 10% unemployment in France,yet the libs think that we need to be listening to them on any issue.

Even more glaring when comparing population numbers along with the effects of 9/11.

[xm177e2]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHNNNNGGHGHGHGH.

Story ain't true. Try again.

[mowkeka]

The author never said that women were being forced to be prostitutes. She said "it was the next step."
And the author is dead right on every issue. Great article.

[hermgem]

That prostitution got legalized in Germany in 2002 is outright false.
This legalization goes back ages.
Prostitutes are now organized, can have and can be represented by unions and are called sex workers.
Yes, they also pay taxes.
There was one case in Berlin where a waitress was out of a job and got advised to go fill one of these open and at the employment office registered bordello jobs.
When refusing, she was advised of the possibility to lose her unemployment benefits.
No further news as of the outcome, except some politicians talking about changing the new law that requires acceptance of all open jobs. Europeans also claim to have a lower sex crime rate than the U.S.A.

[Nick Danger]

But such "freedom" would be largely unnecessary if women knew how badly they were being used.

Gee, what an uplifting article. It's all men's fault, and women are too stupid to manage their own lives. It's just the same old Victim Feminism again, just buttoned up to the neck.

[marktwain]

Why let her and her protégée brainwash our young women into the ways of sexual promiscuity? It is a dead end that subjects women to the control of men's sexual lusts and nothing more. As long as we allow this brainwashing to continue, women exercise no more control over their bodies in America today than women 100 years ago or women forced to work (hypothetically, for now) in a German brothel to keep their employment benefits.

It is called freedom on speech, which is what allows this author to publish her opinion as well.

As American women now have about 1.7 children over their lifespan instead of 6 or 8, it is hard to dispute that women now have more control over their bodies than they used to. One can debate whether this is good or bad, I suppose, but I think that few will wish to go back to the large families that were common 50 years ago.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

I'm tired of seeing that so-called statistic. No man has ever had an abortion.

[secretagent]

The corollary is that we had more control over our bodies when it was more socially acceptable to say "no" to sex before marriage.

How so? Don't most women who engage in non-marital sex today consent to the act?.

[cynicom]

Its a bummer.

[Lizavetta]

If most women knew what sexual promiscuity and abortion cost them physically and emotionally, they would not do it.

Nothing has cheapened womanhood more than "the sexual revolution".

[Redcloak]

Even if the story were true, the solution isn't to outlaw prostitution. The solution is to outlaw unemployment benefits. The government isn't Mommy and your "needs" do not entitle you to take other people's money.

But, of course, we're talking about Germany. Say something like this over there and they'd look at you like flying monkeys are shooting out of your pants.