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Wired News: Progressive Prostitution

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In Germany, at least, the world's oldest profession is starting to approach 20th-century working conditions, thanks to legislation. Felicitas Weigmann, who owns posh Berlin brothel Cafe Pssst!, has offered her staff employment contracts with a 40-hour working week and a profit-sharing plan of 40 euros per client. Weigmann drew up the contracts after the German parliament passed an historic law last year giving prostitutes new employment rights including social security, health insurance, pension and the right to legally pursue customers who don't pay. While prostitution had previously been legal and earnings liable to tax, it had been officially declared "immoral."
--Wired News
 
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The BBC News website had two stories about this, one in December 2000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1090000/1090523.stm
and one in December 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1721000/1721434.stm

I can't read German, but it looks like the Cafe Pssst website is
http://www.lustgarten.de/pssst/

On the subject of the business progressing, the BBC site also had an article about the Pink Palace brothel in Melbourne Australia making renovations to provide better access for disabled customers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1219000/1219879.stm

The Pink Palace website
http://www.pinkpalace.com.au/frameset.html
also mentions the renovations (click on "news").
I guess the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. They have a long rant complaining about a law that prevents them from having pictures on their website.
 
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