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02/01/2005: "Neighborhood Brothel Now Hiring"

A friend just sent me this story from the Telegraph:

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.

...Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.

This story would seem to give new meaning to P.J. O'Rourke's idea of a "Parliament of Whores." It would also seem to shed some light on why our own C.B. decided to settle in Germa...nevermind. It doesn't really do that second thing at all. The first one, though. And how.