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In 2008, Berlin’s historic Tempelhof airport was converted into a public park. Now, Stephan von Dassel, mayor of the city’s central Mitte district, is proposing the installation of drive-in sex booths where sex workers can service clients in their vehicles. Resembling rows of car ports, they are called verrichtungsboxen and can be found in Bonn (above), Utrecht, Amsterdam, and other European cities. From CNN:
Stephan von Dassel, the mayor who represents the Green party, is attempting to combat prostitution on Kurfürstenstrasse, an upmarket street in Mitte with a history of sex workers.
“Residents and businesses have been calling for a ban on street prostitution for many years,” he wrote in a statement. Yet he notes that the Berlin Senate has refused to implement regulatory restrictions “because it fears a deterioration of the overall situation.”
He is now proposing a restriction on street prostitution in the district, instead offering sex workers booths in controlled areas in a bid, he says, to improve the lives of “residents and sex workers” alike…
Dassel argues that the current situation for the sex workers on Kurfürstenstrasse is “inhumane,” and by refusing to act, the state of Berlin is tolerating “forced prostitution, violence against women and drug addiction.”
image: “Verrichtungsboxen” in Bonn, Germany (Leonce49, CC BY 3.0)
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