work in the sex industry or lose your benefit
Germany legalised prostitution a couple of years ago. The British Telegraph reported that a waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services" at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit
According to the BT, 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. Can you imagine how a 54-year-old unemployed women would react if she was told to work in the sex industry?
The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars.
At least here in New Zealand, officials are able to distinguish brothels from bars.
The interesting thing about the BT article is that the news is more than 18 months old and apparently, the job wasn`t for sexual services, it was for bar work at a brothel.
The article seems to have been scratched together by a variety of sources, and although officials can legally make long term unemployed women work in brothels they are not currently pushing them to do so.
The interesting thing that the prostitution debate has again raised is that social morals and legal morals are seen as quite distinct. Some want legal morals to reflect social morals and oppose reform of prostitution and abortion laws, and laws relating to homosexuality, while others may consider that, for example, prostitution is "abhorrent" but should be legalised.
2 comments:
Dave
When a man does what is right in his own eyes that's what you get.
I'm not sure what scripture it is but my fundamentalist friends say
"you are a perverse generation for you consider evil good and good evil."
It makes you think doesn't it.
best
Mike
Nonetheless, it still means in principle that women will either be forced to work as a prostitute (an occupation that even Tim Barnett said women should not be forced into, due to its degrading nature), which is complete madness:
As history has demonstrated, every society which attempts to create a godless utopia ultimately ends in unimagined horror. The same activists which pushed for women¹s rights apparently will lift no finger to redress this wrong. "While they themselves promise liberty, they themselves are slaves of depravity; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage" II Peter 2:20.
"The interesting thing about the BT article is that the news is more than 18 months old"....and???
"..and apparently, the job wasn`t for sexual services, it was for bar work at a brothel."
You forgot to mention that she was then invited to make another phone call to what turned out to be a brothel. So the second job was as a prostitute.
I also note that underage prostitution is occuring on Christchurch streets without the police bothering to do anything about it. Sounds like once the prostitution genie is let out of the bottle, prostitution will increase. Duh, never would have guessed that. And this for the most vunerable in our society too.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3179409a6160,00.html
regards,
Matthew.
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