Resumen de Alte und neue Polarisierungen. Zur aktuellen Kontroverse über die Prostitution
The essay reconstructs the recent controversial debate on prostitution in Germany, reaching from a rigid position of prohibition to extremely liberal positions of groups, claiming prostitution as part of a modern sexual culture, if prostitutes can work without coercion. The immediate background of this debate is the reform of the German legislation of 2002, but beneath it lays the unresolved problem of situating prostitution in modernized gender relations. The essay follows these deficiencies through theories of prostitution and sexuality and pleads for the opening of the debate instead of a policy of prohibition.
