Federal Family Minister Karin Prien (CDU) has set up an independent expert commission to develop proposals for stronger protections for prostitutes in the coming months. The commission should develop recommendations “that enable politicians to make informed, fact-based decisions to protect prostitutes,” Prien said at the start of the committee’s work. “The fight against forced prostitution, human trafficking and violence is critical to the federal government.”
This commission should develop legal and non-legal proposals regarding measures to increase protections for prostitutes for federal, state and local governments. The first legal action will be proposed within the next twelve months, and further action within 18 months.
A committee of twelve experts was formed
According to the ministry, the commission consists of twelve experts from various fields such as law enforcement, social work and health. According to information, the chairman of the commission is lawyer Tillmann Bartsch. People who are within themselves prostitution However, those who work are not represented on the committee, as professional associations criticize erotic and sexual services.
The basis of the commission’s work is an evaluation of the Prostitution Protection Law published in June, where the law, in effect since 2017, has significant weaknesses.
Critics say the current law protecting prostitution has failed
In 2002, prostitution came under the red-green coalition Federal Government
has been legalized. According to the Prostitution Protection Law, prostitutes are required to register and prostitution businesses such as brothels are required to have a license. Although forced prostitution and human trafficking are still punishable in Germany and the law was intended to guarantee better protection and better working conditions for prostitutes, critics see the legislation as a failure.
Bundestag President Julia Klöckner (CDU) recently supported stricter regulations aimed at women’s rights. “I firmly believe that we must eventually ban prostitution and the purchase of sex in this country,” Klöckner said. The law does not do enough to protect prostitutes. There will still be massive attacks, male superiority, and unintentional behavior. Klöckner described Germany as “the brothel of Europe.”
According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office, there were around 32,300 registered prostitutes in Germany last year. However, the actual number may be much higher.
