What the hell???
Jun. 6th, 2006 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundU.S. warns Germany on World Cup sex workers
"The German government, while defending its policy of legalized prostitution, emphatically denies that it condones human trafficking and says it has intensified efforts to combat it.
Rep. Christopher Smith, R-New Jersey, chairman of the House subcommittee on global human rights, urged Germany last month to recriminalize prostitution and suggested that it should be reclassified as an "egregious violator" of human trafficking.
Germany's sex-industry entrepreneurs have made no secret of their expectation of a boom as hundreds of thousands of visitors arrive for the World Cup. At the four-story, 40-bedroom Artemis brothel which opened in Berlin last fall, manager Egbert Krumeich predicted business -- normally 130 clients a day -- could double or triple during the 32-nation tournament.
Prostitution is legal in Germany, with about 400,000 registered sex workers who pay taxes and receive social benefits. However, the government says forced prostitution is not tolerated and it denies Smith's claim that it is helping build brothels."
What part of "Independent Country" does Rep. Smith not understand?? If the people working there are adults and are working there of their own free will, I don't see what business it is of the US or any other country to whine and moan. Does Rep. Smith also lobby his Nevada colleages in the house because prostitution in that state is still legal?? Is the Netherlands, Australia, or New Zealand also going to end up listed as an "egregious violator" ??
This makes as much sense as KSA protesting the US government because they don't force women to cover their entire bodies.
"The German government, while defending its policy of legalized prostitution, emphatically denies that it condones human trafficking and says it has intensified efforts to combat it.
Rep. Christopher Smith, R-New Jersey, chairman of the House subcommittee on global human rights, urged Germany last month to recriminalize prostitution and suggested that it should be reclassified as an "egregious violator" of human trafficking.
Germany's sex-industry entrepreneurs have made no secret of their expectation of a boom as hundreds of thousands of visitors arrive for the World Cup. At the four-story, 40-bedroom Artemis brothel which opened in Berlin last fall, manager Egbert Krumeich predicted business -- normally 130 clients a day -- could double or triple during the 32-nation tournament.
Prostitution is legal in Germany, with about 400,000 registered sex workers who pay taxes and receive social benefits. However, the government says forced prostitution is not tolerated and it denies Smith's claim that it is helping build brothels."
What part of "Independent Country" does Rep. Smith not understand?? If the people working there are adults and are working there of their own free will, I don't see what business it is of the US or any other country to whine and moan. Does Rep. Smith also lobby his Nevada colleages in the house because prostitution in that state is still legal?? Is the Netherlands, Australia, or New Zealand also going to end up listed as an "egregious violator" ??
This makes as much sense as KSA protesting the US government because they don't force women to cover their entire bodies.
