Revisiting legal prostitution
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Luna is keenly aware that play begins next month in the World Cup soccer championship tournament here, but she doesn’t have a favorite team. “How the games go has nothing to do with me,” she said, sitting in the bedroom where she does her work. “But I’ll be ready to make money during the halftime breaks.” Luna, who uses only one name professionally, is one of an estimated 400,000 female sex workers in a country that legalized prostitution in 2002. But that won’t be enough to fulfill the demands of the millions of fans who’ll flock to Germany during the tournament, experts think. An additional 40,000 are expected to come from outside Germany during the monthlong tournament, at least some of whom, advocates worry, will have been forced into the sex trade against their will. Stopping human trafficking was one of the reasons that Germany legalized prostitution. The logic was that by legitimizing the trade, it would become safer and healthier. More : seattletimes.nwsource.com |