Saw this a few days back but haven’t had the time to post about it…
A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services” at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
Relax, this isn’t from the USA. The above quote was taken from Telegraph.uk about a woman in Germany.
According to the article, under German law if you turn down a job referral from the unemployment office, you could lose your unemployment benfits. The USA has similar laws. However, every since Germany legalized prostitution in 2002 hoping that this would help to combat trafficking in women and cut links to organised crime, unemployed citizens have had to choose between their need for income and their moral beliefs.
I’ve often heard about how prostitution should be legalized nationwide here in the USA. But the people who say they’re for it rarely look at it from all the angles. Articles like this are yet another reason I’m personally against it.
