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The Newest Profession on Earth. In Germany, Prostitution Added to Labor Exchange Register

To offer clients "quality German work", he conducted a marketing study in neighboring the Czech Republic and Poland. His compatriots often go there in search of paid love. Küperkoch formulated the main conclusion for himself as follows: German men would like it to be cleaner in "noble establishments", and before moving on to the "main thing", they would like to chat a little with the prostitute. At the nearest labor exchange in Görlitz, where Küperkoch turned in search of qualified personnel, he was welcomed as one of their own. The unemployment rate in these parts has exceeded 20% for years, and a couple of jobs, even under a "red lantern", are quite welcome.

At first everything went normally, because back in 2001 the Bundestag adopted a federal law on prostitution, and this profession was even assigned its own index on the labor exchange - BKZ 9139101. Using this code, a person of any gender who feels a calling to the oldest profession can, via the Internet, make a query in the information system of the federal labor exchange about available vacancies in any corner of Germany.

But Küperkoch was in for a bitter disappointment. At the beginning of July, the Federal Labor Office in Nuremberg deemed an official exchange advertisement for recruiting prostitutes into a brothel inappropriate. And it banned work with this advertisement.

Now Küperkoch fears that his brand new "club" with a sadomasochism studio, a "doctor's room" and Roman baths will remain without qualified personnel. Some time ago, Russian pimps brought their young ladies in black limousines to get them jobs. Küperkoch immediately showed them the door: the guests offered to sell them the entire establishment "outright".

In the near future, the Bundestag will deal with the fate of the Saxon brothel. In the person of Marita Zeen, the 48-year-old chairwoman of the petition committee of the federal parliament from the Free Democratic Party, Küperkoch found ardent support. Frau Zeen, who is also the speaker of her party faction on winemaking issues, stands guard over the interests of small and medium-sized businesses. She does not experience any moral doubts in connection with the brothel. After all, the people's elected representatives, she believes, themselves legalized the "horizontal craft" in the law they adopted and placed the work of prostitutes under state protection.

She hopes to convince the stubborn labor office with the help of a vote by the petition committee. Encouraging symptoms have emerged. The "father of the brothel" has had his applications for strippers, dancers, and bar ladies accepted. The owner undertakes to pay each one at least 2,000 euros net per month. And bonuses for valiant work. Küperkoch swore that everything in the brothel would be in accordance with democratic norms adopted in Germany.