Bitchclub Berlin, nee Hautnah-in-Berlin: Enjoy while it lasts
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Okay, guys. It has been a long time. Hautnah is finally back with a change of the name. [url]http://club.liveline.de/[/url]
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Anthrax, thanks for the hint. Chaps, had a session with Miki. Same drill as last year - see some of Angus' and others post.
Miki told me she would be available until August. She was not specific about the date - I guess she stays until she has earned enough money for a cold autumn in Bukarest. She still maintains she is a student, so she might only stay for her summer holidays. In any case - seems to be a limited time offering, so enjoy while she's in Berlin.
Sex in the (official) City
Note: Re-posted due to numerous typos. New info added. I finally managed to be a paid-up member and will be able to edit my posts from now on. My apologies for being repetitive.
[QUOTE=Angus Magee]As I heard it, during the rebuilding of Germany after the war, when huge numbers of laborers were needed, the Germans realized that these laborers (many of them single men) would need sexual services or they would search out such services out in the local population. Thus were bordellos legalized and the rest is history.[/QUOTE]Whoever told you that fed you baloney. As this forum attests, retail sex has very little to do with foreign workers. In Germany or elsewhere. In Germany, the biggest influx of foreign workers was in the 1950’s and 1960’s when prostitution was against the law. The law was liberalized only half a century later when there was no need for foreign workers, and when 5 Million Germans were on the unemployment rolls.
Until quite recently, prostitution was totally illegal in Germany. Well, kindof. Albeit illegal, it was "tolerated" as long as a ton of rules were observed:
- Ladies had to ply their trade outside of certain prohibited areas ("Sperrbezirke.") In the bad old days, most of Munich for instance was a giant Sperrbezirk, and the only place where the trade was "tolerated" was in an industrial park near the old Munich airport.
- In cities below a certain size, prostitution was illegal.
- Sex workers had to subject to regular health checks and carry a card ("Koberschein" in the vernacular) that attested to those checks. If they refused the checks, they were no longer tolerated and could be arrested.
In 2002, during the Red-Green coalition, prostitution was “legalized” in Germany. Well, kindof. Quite humorously, a law was enacted in Germany in 2002 that specified that from there on now, a sex worker had a right to her (or his, or its) money. Before, a John could leave without payment, and the provider had no legal recourse. That law provided the basis for the so-called “legalization” of prostitution in Germany. Follow the money. In the wake of that law, "creating a proper environment" (i.e. opening a bordello) was no longer illegal. Sex workers can (and must) carry health-, unemployment- , and social security insurance.
The backdrop of this law wasn't foreign workers. It was unadulterated governmental greed: The government wanted to participate in the money made. Via taxes. Since 50% taxes are not unheard of in Germany, the German government for all intents and purposes set out to pimp the approximately 400,000 professional (as opposed to part-time) sex workers in Germany. Only by making the taking of money legal, the government could demand their take in taxes. Everything MUST be logical in Germany.
(Other countries aren't as uptight when it comes to logic. A friend of mine, who is in the BDSM business in New York City, was ratted upon by someone who doesn't like her. The IRS demanded back taxes. They struck a deal. As we all know, prostituition is highly illegal in all states of the US except Nevada. The IRS doesn't care.)
The government also saw it as a very creative idea to do something about the unemployment statistics.
Close to 50% of the unemployed are female. Augmenting the unemployment check by performing sex work is an attractive proposition to some. What the 2002 law did (and intended to do) was to officially remove sex workers from the unemployment rolls, and subject them to fines if they collect an unemployment check while trading sex for money. Officially, they now are required to PAY unemployment etc taxes.
The expected tax revenue however was a flash in the pan. Since most of the transactions are conducted in cash, and since sex workers rarely issue receipts, tax avoidance is rampant. A bordello usually pays a flat tax per girl and room. "Independents" usually pay nothing.
[B]The so-called “liberalization” of the prostitution law was mostly a ploy to collect taxes, and to fudge unemployment statistics. This became finally evident in 2005. In 2005, reports surfaced that, with prostitution being “legal,” bordellos could now officially look for sex workers using the services of the public labor agencies (“Arbeitsamt”)
And now for the real perversion: According to published reports, unemployed women were offered sex jobs from the governmental agencies, and when the women turned the offers down, the unemployment benefits were reduced or denied. [/B]
The downside of the (kindof) legalization: The public health authorities ("Gesundheitsamt") now don’t have a legal basis for mandatory health checks. They have been abandoned. You are on your own. Even requests for voluntary checks get routinely turned down. The Gesundheitsamt in Cologne for instance says on their website: "Gesundheitszeugnisse in Zusammenhang mit sexuell übertragbaren Krankheiten (STD) und Prostitution stellt das Kölner Gesundheitsamt nicht aus." [url]http://www.stadt-koeln.de/bol/gesundheit/produkte/02065/index.html[/url]
I said "In 2002, Prostitution legalized in Germany. Well, kindof." According to the law, prostitution is still illegal, and represents a misdemeanor or regulatory offense, for which the sex worker can get issued a summons. Kindof like a traffic ticket. § 184d is still on the books, it can land a sex worker in jail for up to six month if she (or he) "persistently violates a restriction to perform acts of prostitution in certain locations or at certain times." Meaning: Local (or any) governments can still declare their city, or their whole state a “Sperrbezirk”- if they are so inclined - and make it off-limits for prostitution.
Whether they do it or not is a completely different story. In most countries on this planet, prostitution is illegal. The big question is how is that law being enforced. For all intents and purposes, prostitution is (kindof) legal in Germany. What is still on the books is rarely enforced. Which doesn't mean that it cannot or will not. The socialist/conservative coalition that is now in power is making a lot of noises that the abovementioned law did not work, and that more controls are necessary. A backlash is entirely possible.
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Thank you for this long term perspective, Zhuren
I've been trying to find someone with a long term historical view of the profession.
My first visit to an FKK club was in 1999 and I'd always assumed their activities were entirely legal. Hence my high level of interest in your posting.
The acknowledged mother of all FKK clubs, Bernds, has been around for a good twenty-five to thirty years (pre 2002) though and I'm not sure how its long term existence fits into your framework of [i]kind of, sort of legal but not really[/i].
Isn't it (Bernds) for all intents and purposes an organized, institutionalized bordello? Doesn't this fall under the umbrella of "creating a proper environment"?
An FKK isn't really a bordello...
[QUOTE=Zhuren]I've been making my contributions to the Young Girls College funds longer than I dare to admit, well, longer than Bernds existed. Trust me, pre 2002, prostitution was utterly illegal in Germany. However, it was "tolerated" within certain restrictions. Bordellos existed pre-2002 (and I can testify to it, ) although officially, they were dormitories for young maidens who paid by the day, "and anything else is between you and the lady. "
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or is it?
I think that the distinction goes back to the rationalization behind the FKK concept. The idea came to find a loophole in the anti- prostitution laws and they landed on the idea that there are many public sauna places in Germany, which while they are not per se "naturist clubs" are an example of the popular and extremely legal "Fkk" experience (FKK means naturist culture in German). In the public saunas or wellness clubs, everyone pays to get in, men, women and children enjoy their sauna and swimming in the buff, walk around only in towels, have an outdoor area to cool off from the hot sauna, can eat and get drinks, get a massage and have a relax area. Of course, they are also entirely sex-less environments, overt cuddling is a no-no and hard-ons are frowned upon.
In a pure FKK club (of which the best example is still Bernd's), all of the people pay to get in, walk around naked (or with a towel), can use the sauna (and in some clubs go swimming), get a massage, eat and drink, and relax. That's why it was called an "FKK club".
The men and women can consent amongst themselves how they want to relax, the club does not pimp the services, or pay the girls. It's role is to provide the facility for a fee, similar to the wellness clubs. So it can't be defined as a brotel. apples and oranges.....
The RLD was also around way before 2002, and goes back to the "allowing it in restricted areas" policy. These were usually allowed close to the main train stations to attract people coming from outlying areas, where P4P was not pernitted.