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发帖数: 7881 | 1 Want a hooker in Germany? There’s an app for that
German prostitutes may soon be saying ‘auf wiedersehen’ to walking the
streets.
A new app is connecting ladies – and gentlemen – of the night with
prospective clients in the same area – similar to how Uber and Tinder
connect users to cars and dates.
Billing itself as the “first mobile Web app for booking erotic
entertainment,” the Berlin-based service Peppr was launched at the
beginning of April and will be available in other German cities soon,
according to a company press release. Prostitution is legal in Germany.
Users can browse photos and profiles of nearby male and female prostitutes,
narrowing their options down by filtering for price, age, physical
attributes and “extras” like “leather fetish” or “dinner date.”
Setting up a profile is free for sex workers, but clients have to pony up a
booking fee equal to about $7 and $14.
“Our intention is to provide a neutral platform on which men and women can
arrange meetings relaxed and safe,” CEO Pia Poppenreiter said in the
release.
She dreamed up the idea after observing prostitutes standing around outside
on a cold winter day trying to lure in clients. Prostitution has been legal
in Germany since 2002, but Poppenreiter was dismayed that its negative image
has remained much the same.
“I was walking down Oranienburger Strasse – I know it sounds cheesy, but
it’s the truth – it was chilly and I saw the poor girls on the streets,
and I thought, why isn’t there an app? It’s not efficient to wait outside,
” she told German newspaper The Local in April.
“We’re trying to revolutionize the image of sex work in general,” she
added. “We’re trying to get it away from its shabby image.”
The company is combating against human traffickers who might want to
advertise on the site by speaking over the telephone with all prostitutes
interested in signing up. Peppr isn’t working with brothels either, only
solo sex workers and escort agencies.
“We try to ask them – you kind of find out in a conversation whether they
’re doing it on a voluntary basis – we ask them what they did before,
whether they’ve always worked voluntarily and so on,” she told the
newspaper.
Prostitution is big business in Germany: The industry brings in around $21
billion a year, according to The Telegraph. |
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