By Matthew Day. Prostitutes working the streets of the old West German capital now have to buy tickets from converted roadside vending machines that once dispensed tickets to the city's drivers. Like parking metres, the machines also tell users the times of day when a ticket is necessary: in this case between the hours of pm and 6am, Monday to Sunday.
Monika Frombgen, a spokeswoman for Bonn city council, said the ticket machines would bring street prostitutes into fiscal line with their peers in registered sex establishments.
The machines, Bonn hopes, will provide an easy-to-understand system of taxation. Inspectors will prowl the streets and any prostitute caught without a ticket will receive a warning for a first offence, but after that faces the possibility of a fine or a ban from practicing prostitution. Job centre sends waitress to brothel. Franck Ribery facing German prostitution investigation. The ticket machines come as the latest step in Bonn's drive to increase tax revenue from prostitution as it wrestles with financial problems.
Along with tickets, Bonn has also taken steps to control street prostitution following complaints from locals that their roads and gardens were being used as locations for sexual acts. The city has banned prostitution from areas of the city, and allocated six closed-off parking places for the use of prostitutes and their clients.
Along with the location providing a certain amount of privacy, they also come with alarms a prostitute can trigger if she gets into trouble. The best way to transfer money overseas. Terms and Conditions. Style Book. Weather Forecast.
