Sex with prostitutes will be paid for by the Government for anyone too poor for a hooker and deemed to need sexual assistance under German Green Party plans. 

 

根据德国绿党计划，政府将为需要性服务或性帮助的穷人支付嫖妓费用。

 

The party's care spokeswoman Elisabeth Scharfenberg says doctors should have the right to issue the free prescriptions¹ to their patients for ladies of the night. 

 

Prostitution is legal in Germany and carries little of the taboos² associated with it in many other countries. 

 

There are brothels in virtually every town and a trend recently began with working girls offering 'sexual assistance' to dementia sufferers, the handicapped and people living in care homes. 

 

Depending on the brothel, the services range from 'affectionate touching³' to bondage⁴, fetishism and full sex. 

 

But no law exists for the client to claim for the costs of his or her visit as a medical expense. 

 

The Greens want to change that, based on a law that has been in place in the neighbouring Netherlands for some time. 

 

'I can imagine a public financing of sexual assistance,' Scharfenberg said in an article in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

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