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De är bara 18 eller 19 år gamla och säljer redan sina kroppar. Fler och fler unga prostituerade, främst från Rumänien, Ungern och Bulgarien, erbjuder sina tjänster i Tyskland. En trend som också känns av Augsburg- polisen . "Marknaden växer", säger chefen för kommissariatet 1 för kriminalpolisen vid Presidium Schwaben North, Helmut Sporer. "Två till tre gånger i veckan stöter vi på så unga kvinnor."

De dras vanligtvis in i miljön av unga män. Fenomenet är lika gammalt som prostitution, säger Sporer , men har sedan dess fått ett nytt namn: Loverboys. Mänen lovar de unga kvinnorna mycket och får dem att må bra. När 18- eller 19-åringarna har fallit i fällan och blivit känslomässigt fästa eller till och med förälskade, utnyttjar männen dem.

Med en blandning av påstådd kärlek och våld gör hallikarna dem fogliga. Dessutom utsikterna att tjäna mycket pengar, få ett vanligt jobb och hota att berätta allt för föräldrarna. Kvinnorna tas med till tyska bordeller och lägenheter och väntar där på frisörerna.

Men utredarna hör bara mycket sällan. För kvinnorna är hjärntvättade, vet Sporer. "Vid en inspektion spelar de sedan en roll som deras hallik tidigare har repeterat med dem." Avgifter för handel med upp till tio år är därför extremt sällsynta.

Dessutom har kvinnorna i hemlandet vanligtvis haft dåliga erfarenheter med polisen och litar därför inte på de tyska tjänstemännen. Polisen och de prostituerade har bara en chans om något förändras i lagarna, säger Sporer.

Förresten är tyska kvinnor knappast bland dem, eftersom välståndet i Förbundsrepubliken gör prostitutionen för de flesta lokalbefolkningen ointressant.

"Utbudet" av unga kvinnor från öst accelererar mer och mer.

Avhopp kommer dock sällan till Soni Unterreithmeier från rådgivningscentret i Augsburg, och mycket få från eget initiativ. Om något, polisen förmedlar kontakt. För kvinnorna, som vanligtvis inte kan tysk, vet inte ens något om möjligheterna till hjälp. Detta ska förändras när Solwodi får gå direkt till prostituerade, men vägen till utgången är svår.

Eftersom trycket som hallikarna utövar är de flesta ingen matchning. Eftersom prostitution är förbjuden och rynkad på i de flesta östeuropeiska länder vill kvinnor verkligen inte bli erkända hemma. Men ofta fotograferar hallikarna dem i tydliga poser och använder bilden som ett pressmedel. Dessutom hotar hallikarna ofta unga kvinnors familjer.

De är bara 18 eller 19 år gamla och säljer redan sina kroppar.

För kvinnorna är hjärntvättade, vet Sporer. "Vid en inspektion spelar de sedan en roll som deras hallik tidigare har repeterat med dem."

Eftersom trycket som hallikarna utövar är de flesta ingen matchning. Eftersom prostitution är förbjuden och rynkad på i de flesta östeuropeiska länder vill kvinnor verkligen inte bli erkända hemma. Men ofta fotograferar hallikarna dem i tydliga poser och använder bilden som ett pressmedel. Dessutom hotar hallikarna ofta unga kvinnors familjer.

In addition to so-called nudist or sauna clubs, where the male customers wear a towel while the women are naked, large brothels have also become established. They advertise their services at all-inclusive rates. When the Pussy Club opened near Stuttgart in 2009, the management advertised the club as follows: "Sex with all women as long as you want, as often as you want and the way you want. Sex. Anal sex. Oral sex without a condom. Three-ways. Group sex. Gang bangs." The price: €70 during the day and €100 in the evening.

According to the police, about 1,700 customers took advantage of the offer on the opening weekend. Buses arrived from far away and local newspapers reported that up to 700 men stood in line outside the brothel. Afterwards, customers wrote in Internet chat rooms about the supposedly unsatisfactory service, complaining that the women were no longer as fit for use after a few hours.

The business has become tougher, says Nuremberg social worker Andrea Weppert, who has worked with prostitutes for more than 20 years, during which the total number of prostitutes has tripled. According to Weppert, more than half of the women have no permanent residence, but instead travel from place to place, so that they can earn more money by being new to a particular city.

Today "a high percentage of prostitutes don't go home after work, but rather remain at their place of work around the clock," a former prostitute using the pseudonym Doris Winter wrote in a contribution to the academic series "The Prostitution Law." "The women usually live in the rooms where they work," she added.

In Nuremberg, such rooms cost between €50 and €80 a day, says social worker Weppert, and the price can go up to €160 in brothels with a lot of customers. Working conditions for prostitutes have "worsened in recent years," says Weppert. In Germany on the whole, she adds, "significantly more services are provided under riskier conditions and for less money than 10 years ago."

Despite the worsening conditions, women are flocking to Germany, the largest prostitution market in the European Union

"This has led to a drop in prices," says Rettig, who notes that the prostitution business is characterized by "a radical market economy rather than a social market economy."

Munich Police Chief Wilhelm Schmidbauer deplores the "explosive increase in human trafficking from Romania and Bulgaria," but adds that he lacks access to the necessary tools to investigate. He is often prohibited from using telephone surveillance. The result, says Schmidbauer, "is that we have practically no cases involving human trafficking. We can't prove anything."

Marian delivered her to the "No Limit," a flat-rate brothel. Sina was only 16, and she allegedly served up to 30 customers a day. She was occasionally paid a few hundred euros. Marian, worried about police raids, eventually sent her back to Romania. But she returned and continued to work as a prostitute. She hoped that a customer would fall in love with her and rescue her.

Neither working conditions nor the ability to exit the profession had improved. Finally, there was "no solid proof to date" that the law had reduced crime.

Hardly a single court had heard a case involving a prostitute suing for her wages. Only 1 percent of the women surveyed said that they had signed an employment contract as a prostitute. The fact that the Ver.di union had developed a "sample employment contract in the field of sexual services" didn't change matters. In a poll conducted by Ver.di, a brothel operator said that she valued the prostitution law because it reduced the likelihood of raids. In fact, she said, the law was more advantageous for brothel operators than prostitutes.

"There is no prostitution without coercion and distress," she says. She has been walking the streets for three years. "A woman who is doing well doesn't work like this," she says.

The going rate for oral sex and intercourse used to be €40 on Geestemünder Strasse. But when the nearby city of Dortmund closed its streetwalking area, more women came to Cologne, says Alia. "There are more and more women now, and they drop their prices so that they'll make something at all," she complains. Bulgarian and Romanian women sometimes charge less than €10, she says. "One woman here will even do it for a Big Mac."

Marian delivered her to the "No Limit," a flat-rate brothel. Sina was only 16, and she allegedly served up to 30 customers a day. She was occasionally paid a few hundred euros. Marian, worried about police raids, eventually sent her back to Romania. But she returned and continued to work as a prostitute. She hoped that a customer would fall in love with her and rescue her.

When the Pussy Club opened near Stuttgart in 2009, the management advertised the club as follows: "Sex with all women as long as you want, as often as you want and the way you want. Sex. Anal sex. Oral sex without a condom. Three-ways. Group sex. Gang bangs." The price: €70 during the day and €100 in the evening.

According to the police, about 1,700 customers took advantage of the offer on the opening weekend. Buses arrived from far away and local newspapers reported that up to 700 men stood in line outside the brothel.

The going rate for oral sex and intercourse used to be €40 on Geestemünder Strasse. But when the nearby city of Dortmund closed its streetwalking area, more women came to Cologne, says Alia. "There are more and more women now, and they drop their prices so that they'll make something at all," she complains. Bulgarian and Romanian women sometimes charge less than €10, she says. "One woman here will even do it for a Big Mac."