Editing Prostitution in Germany (section)

=== Legislative reform (2002) ===
In 2002, a one-page law sponsored by the [[Alliance '90/The Greens|Green Party]] was passed by the ruling coalition of [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democrats]] and [[Alliance '90/The Greens|Greens]] in the [[Bundestag]]. The law, the [[Prostitution Act]] (Prostitutionsgesetz), removed the general prohibition on furthering full-service sex work and allowed sex workers to obtain regular work contracts. The law's rationale stated that sex work should not be considered as immoral anymore.

The law has been criticized as having not effectively changed the situation of the sex workers, believed to be because some workers themselves don't want to change their working conditions and contracts.<ref>[http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/10/21/a0072.1/text Horizontales Gewerbe noch lange nicht legal], ''taz'', 21 October 2006</ref> The German government issued a report on the law's impact in January 2007, concluding that few sex workers had taken advantage of regular work contracts and that work conditions had improved only for 35% workers.<ref>[http://www.bmfsfj.de/Kategorien/Forschungsnetz/forschungsberichte,did=93304.html Bericht der Bundesregierung zu den Auswirkungen des Gesetzes zur Regelung der Rechtsverhältnisse der Prostituierten] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927000151/http://www.bmfsfj.de/Kategorien/Forschungsnetz/forschungsberichte%2Cdid%3D93304.html |date=27 September 2007 }}, 24 January 2007. {{in lang|de}}</ref>