You know what’s a huge business these days? Prostitution. It makes about $186 Billion all over the world. That’s just the legal stuff. The illegal stuff makes another $40 Billion. Germany has the most hookers in Europe and they serve around 1.2 Million guys every day.
So you might wonder, is prostitution legal in Germany?
Well, yeah, it is. The German government lets people sell sex and even taxes them for it. The US might be famous for its sex industry but Germany makes a whopping 15 billion Euros every year from it. That’s like $18 Billion in US dollars. Germany has 400,000 hookers working every day. That’s more than any other country in Europe per person.
Prostitution has always been a thing in Germany. You can see hookers everywhere on the streets. The German government has always tried to keep an eye on this business. They decided to make prostitution legal and since then they have started to register and control the people who work in it. Rules on Prostitution
Before 1927, prostitution was illegal in Germany because there was no law about it. Then they passed a law in 1927 that made prostitution legal, the law was called the Law for Combating Venereal Diseases. They gave more rights to the hookers with another law called Prostitution Act in 2002. The idea was to give them social security and health insurance and benefits. The law also wanted to make their lives better by giving them legal rights to work contracts and have security and fair pay.