Germany Forces Women into the Sex Industry

If you are wondering how quickly a moral permissiveness becomes legalized amorality, check out modern Germany. After Germany legalized prostitution last year, they combined it with their social welfare system in an interesting way. Now, a woman on unemployment benefits must take any job offered to them. Many women - highly skilled professionals - are being told unless they take jobs as prostitutes or phone sex operators, they will lose their benefits.

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...The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse..."There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex industry," said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specialises in such cases. "The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."

This is unacceptable. If this is the country that wants to lead the European Union into the 21st century, I fear greatly for Europe.