Catharine A. MacKinnon & Max Waltman
Abstract
Not far from the Labor Court, a woman in a snake-skin dress sits next to a wooden outhouse. The city has set up these so-called labor boxes for prostitutes. There, they are supposed to work and do their business simultaneously. It smells like feces and urine. She had just given a john a blowjob for twenty euros, the prostituted woman says—the drug addicts would do it for five euros. The woman says she’s saving for a house for herself and her six-year-old son. “At some point, the time will come when we in Germany will be ashamed of what we have done to these young women from Eastern Europe,” says Leni Breymaier, Bundestag MP for the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She has been campaigning for a sex purchasing ban in Germany for years. “To me, this is the slave trade of our time.” — Der Spiegel, June 23, 2023.1† Katrin Langhans, Der Spiegel, June 23, 2023.
