It is going to get really interesting in Germany.
Of course no one ever wins a German election. You “win“ by losing by the least, and you then build a coalition with others “less than 50 percent” groups to build a majority.
Projections show that Germany’s unpopular governing parties sank to feeble results and the far-right Alternative for Germany made gains in Sunday’s vote for the European Parliament, while the mainstream conservative opposition was the country’s strongest political force by a distance.
apnews.com
Two decades after Germany legalised prostitution, a new debate over whether to ban sex work again has erupted, with the opposition conservatives leading a fresh
tribune.net.ph
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has said that the sale of sex is not acceptable and called for a clampdown on sex work.
www.dw.com
Some of the parties that “lost by the least” in the election a few days ago don’t have the anti-prostitution platform that Olaf’s group has, so it will be interesting to see what happens as a coalition forms. Olaf’s group declined, but the far right in general has never been a friend to sex work and the far right gained in the elections.
I still think you are asking for nothing but trouble by putting commercial sex out in the open the way Germany does, and I suspect it will eventually crumble, especially since their scene has so much imported labor.
Canada and Portugal do it right, although the lack of a party/club scene is boring to many. The more you keep it out of the public eye, the better, in my opinion.