Plum Crazy

No, I mean literally.

Germany legalized prostitution two years ago ironically "because the government believed that this would help to combat trafficking in women..." How interesting, then, that their own welfare reform laws look to increase trafficking.

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. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.

Right. So you can either sell your body for sex or lose your unemployment benefits. I hate to break it to the German government, but prostitution isn't quite like computer programming. But it gets better.

The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars.

Yeah, serving drinks, having sex with strangers for money... So hard to distinguish.

I have hopes that the publicity this will get will force the German government to reconsider their decision on making brothels an exception. I will be sending this story to the feminist organizations to get them on the case. And I am sure they will get on the case.

Via The Daily Pundit

UPDATE: I want to clarify that this is only something that can happen, not something that actually has happened. Nonetheless, I think the law should be revised to except prostitution. Even if you trust that something won't happen today, you cannot be sure how the law might be used in the future.

UPDATE II: See here.