There are approximately 3, red-light establishments in the country, and brothels in Berlin alone. It is estimated that more than 1 million men buy sex in Germany every day. In March I visited Caesars World, a large "Laufhaus" walk-in brothel with around 30 rooms over four floors. The following is an abridged transcript of an interview with the owner:. I have a business, and I pay one million Euros in a year in tax. MP: These are the biggest houses in Munich. We have altogether girls.
All the girls can do what they want. MP: Not anymore. Can come here- can take the key- you want to go you can go -can go home β you must pay the pre rent for the room. MP: Yes. No drugs, and no alcohol in the rooms. Same like school for the rules. No drugs, no alcohol, no boyfriends from the girls. No pimps in the house. If we see them we send them home. MP: No.
They only pay the girls. The minimum price is 30 Euros. What the girls do for 30 Euros is up to them. JB: So you need more than 5 buyers [punters] before they even paid off their rent?
And what about security? MP: In the other house, but not this one, we have a security button. When the girls have a problem, the other girls can hear it and make a sign on the camera. We have never had problems with violence here. And no boyfriends [pimps] are allowed in.
If they leave here because they get chucked out they can go to a house that will accept pimps. MP: The vice squad come here 2 or 3 times a month and they talk to the women in the rooms. The girls get in, pick up the room keys, and go to the rooms. The women have health checks and have to bring condoms. These days we have condoms we give to the women. We keep telling them they must use condoms. Julie's note: An article I wrote for the Guardian newspaper in about the sex trade in Germany clearly shows that legalisation increases trafficking and other forms of abuse, and increases numbers of sex establishments and therefore the numbers of women required to be prostituted within them.
