Thanks for that Chewbacca. Of course it's about working in the sex industry, but not as actual prostitutes! What kind of country did everybody think it is?? "Oh I'm glad I don't live there" - consider that reciprocated, I'm quite happy to live in a country with legalised prostitution. I have German family and am half-German, and although the unemployment over there is indeed bad, there is nothing wrong with the country apart from that. No lewd cesspool of European debasedness and insanity...
The whole discussion sounds as if people just assume women are forced into prostitution in Germany. Believe me, no way. My cousins have all been unemployed, some for longer stretches at a time, and I think they'd have told me if they were forced to whore around by Pimp Government. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Oh and since we're on the subject of benefits anyway, did you know that if you have a child in Germany, you can take as many as 2 years off (not sure about the exact length of time I have to admit, but longer than in most countries I've ever heard of) and still get your old job back?
Oh and since the comparison America-Germany has been brought up, it's a hell of a lot rarer here to be fired for no reason.
Anyway I just want to keep stressing that the comparison to rape is extremely distasteful to me. HELLOOOO! It's just about money! No woman is being forced to have sex (if only because of what Chewbacca's article says) at all, sheesh. Even in the highly unlikely instance that a German woman would have no other options left than to become a prostitute or lose her benefit, she *can* actually just pick the lose benefit option, y'know? And that's not coming from someone with any decent job. I've been poor many times, and I even admit it's been oddly reassuring that the sex industry option is always open to me, even though I would never actually do it. There's something called dignity* - if a woman REALLY didn't want to do that line of work, she could refuse, no matter the consequences. And that is NOT true of rape. It's a distasteful and wrong comparison not based on anything. With the one, you can just lose some money (however bad that might be) to get out, in the other there's no choice involved. Big difference to me.
*BTW I'm not calling prostitutes undignified. It's just not a job everybody can do, and many feel their bodies are too precious to make a living from it. That's why I used the word dignity.
[ 02-03-2005, 05:25 AM: Message edited by: Melusine ]
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