Hamburg is in the opening frenzy. Many businesses are allowed to reopen, but the horizontal remains closed. The workers are sliding into illegality.
Hamburg – Prostitutes in Hamburg are still not allowed to work. After many businesses, such as indoor and outdoor catering, were allowed to reopen, the city's brothels remain closed. No perspective and no security: This plunges many workers into an existential crisis.
Since the business of bought love is booming, many women continue to work – albeit outside the safe brothel walls. You have to make do with apartments, hotels and back rooms. In doing so, they are often at the mercy of their suitors. As one brothel owner reports, the workers also have to fulfill criminal wishes.
The compulsory Corona break drove many colleagues into existential needs and in some cases also into illegality. "Many female workers fell through the cracks, for example because they do not have a permanent place of residence," says Johanna Weber from the professional association for erotic services. * 24hamburg.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
