{"id":38987,"date":"2011-09-04T15:44:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/german-prostitutes-pay-streetwalking-fee-at-parking-meter-like-machine-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-09-04T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T15:44:36","slug":"german-prostitutes-pay-streetwalking-fee-at-parking-meter-like-machine-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/german-prostitutes-pay-streetwalking-fee-at-parking-meter-like-machine-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"German Prostitutes Pay Streetwalking Fee at Parking Meter-Like Machine | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4c1b3_parking1.jpg\" alt=\"parking\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><br>Get yer streetwalking permit here!<\/p><p>From 8:15 pm to 6:00 am each day, prostitution is legal in Germany, where working call girls staff brothels, sauna clubs, and other such establishments. In the city of Bonn, which, uh, &ldquo;boasts&rdquo; around 200 prostitutes, an average of 20 freelancers go cruising each night, picking up clients on the street and heading to garage-like structures called &ldquo;consummation areas&rdquo; the city put up especially for that purpose. They&rsquo;ve thought of everything, those Germans!<\/p><p>Girls in the various brothel-like establishments have always been subject to a prostitution tax, but streetwalkers, apparently, haven&rsquo;t being paying. Now, though, the city has a way to make things fair for everyone: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/218808\/germanys-remarkable-prostitution-tax-meter\">a parking meter for prostitutes<\/a>.<\/p><p>The meter looks just like the sidewalk ticket-dispensers you&rsquo;ve probably used in numerous cities to park your car, but for about $8.70, this one dispenses a pass allowing the holder to cruise for johns all night. When the city emptied one after the first night, it yielded a haul of $375, prompting various media outlets to comment on how honorable the city&rsquo;s prostitutes must be. But one has to wonder how many people just bought a ticket for the novelty and ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NHvAhMS2RhHFGMwiM20rFkFnsCg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4c1b3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/NHvAhMS2RhHFGMwiM20rFkFnsCg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4c1b3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4c1b3_gIU2ollaE14\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4c1b3_npnan3cK_sQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get yer streetwalking permit here!From 8:15 pm to 6:00 am each day, prostitution is legal in Germany, where working call girls staff brothels, sauna clubs, and other such establishments. In the city of Bonn, which, uh, &ldquo;boasts&rdquo; around 200 prostitutes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/german-prostitutes-pay-streetwalking-fee-at-parking-meter-like-machine-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}