It's a small story that won't get much attraction.
A German female focus group is now pushing for a total ban on prostitution in Germany.
All the way up until the Covid-era....prostitution was legal but heavily 'managed' (meaning you operated only where the city gave you permission, and reported income as tax rules required).
Last year, virtually in every single urbanized area....prostitution got shutdown because of the Covid threat. Well....legal prostitution got shutdown. Illegal prostitution continued (cops would accidentally discover isolated cases).
So ARD (public TV) reported over the weekend on this new focus....permanent elimination. This CDU-party group believes now is the time to press for a permanent shut-down.
What'll happen? You'd have to go into a coalition meeting (other political parties) and get an agreement. I don't see the Greens or SPD folks being open to the idea.
Then you'd have the sixteen states which would likely say it's not a federal power or position....it's a state or city management thing.
Even if you got that far, with the sixteen states agreeing.....the whole system would flip from being legit, to being run from private 'underground' clubs.
Lets be honest on this....on the list of 1,000 things that need to be fixed.....99-percent of Germans won't put this problem on the 'fix-list'.
So it's just political chatter? More or less.
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