受经济危机的影响，德国性行业最近推出了一系列“促销”手段以吸引顾客上门，其中一项“包价无限性服务”的促销方式引起广泛争议，有人表示此举是对人格尊严的极大侮辱。据悉，该项“包价”服务的想法源自于“无限畅享型”自助餐厅，顾客只要一次性支付70欧元，便可享受任意次数的性服务。除此以外，德国性行业同时推出的其他促销手段还有：对退休和领取福利金的人士实行返款优惠，对骑自行车或乘坐公共交通工具光顾的客人打九折，以及为留宿的顾客提供免费擦鞋服务等。

German brothels are offering customers the chance to sleep with as many prostitutes as they like for a single fee, in recession-busting deals criticised as immoral¹ by politicians.

The "flat-rate sex" promotions³, which are based on all-you-can-eat restaurants, have been introduced by brothel owners in a bid to revive trade that has fallen around 30 per cent in the economic downturn.

Other imaginative offers include rebates⁴ for pensioners⁵ and people on benefits, 10 per cent discounts for men who arrive by bicycle or public transport, and free shoe-polishing for customers who stay overnight.

But it is the flat-rate deals – which are priced as low as £60 (€70) – that have attracted particular controversy⁶ in a country where prostitution is legal and generally well-tolerated.

The promotion² is popular with brothel owners who have to pay their sex workers a fixed⁷ daily wage whether or not they have any clients.

But conservative politicians have expressed disgust at the innovation and have ordered a wave of police raids on sex clubs in an effort to bring it to an end.

“This is an outrageous⁸ violation⁹ of human dignity,” Heribert Rech, the Baden-Württemberg interior minister, told The Times.

“So-called flat-rate sex is an immoral development which cannot be tolerated in our society.”

Because the promotion is not forbidden by law, officers have focused their raids on immigration and hygiene¹⁰ offences at brothels where is has been introduced.