I imagine the NOW will get right on this… NOT!
Germany to unemployed women: Fuck or be fucked.
Germany, with its wonderful social welfare system, has driven itself nearly to bankruptcy. Like the US, they are reforming the system to deny benefits to those who refuse available work. Unlike the US, prostitution is legal in Germany.
To say that this was an inevitable outcome is, perhaps, hyperbole. But it certainly wasn’t hard to see it as possible.
What is this, you say (having not read the linked article…). This, simply is that German women are finding that if they are offered a job as a prostitute, and they refuse, they risk having their benefits cut. Will the UN see this as sex-slavery, and pursue it as they claim to have done in other nations? Will the great feminist movement of the United States (Especially Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon) go to Germany to protest this violation of the sovereignty of women’s bodies? Will the Earth reverse the direction of its orbit?
And here I thought it was bad in the US, when the condition of the education system seems to be geared toward producing a work force capable of working only in food-service or adult films!