How To Order A Nazi Prostitute In Recession Hit Germany

In Gemany, prostitutes are feeling the pinch - and we recall those halcyon days of Nazi sex in the Weimar Berlin.

IN Germany, Frankfurt’s oldest brothel has been forced to close recently. No, not because it housed Frankfurst’s oldest ladies, and, more vitally, its oldest clientele. It’s the recession, stoopid:

“It’s nothing new and it’s spreading,” prostitute and head of the BSD federation for sex workers Stephanie Klee tells Süddeutsche Zeitung.

A pornographer called Schütt (surely Schmutt? - Ed) blames the downturn on online piracy.

“The market is dead anyway. When a student can get laid for €20 and get the whole shebang, prices are just tanking completely.”

Of course, in a marketplace, the prices will react to the mood. And Old Mr Anroak directs us to his slibrabry and Mel Gordon’s seminal text Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin.

Ah, ven ve vere Jugen Volk:

Because prostitution was illegal, prostitutes had to signal their vocation indirectly.

BOOT GIRLS: Dominatrices whose sexual services were signaled by the color of their boots, laces, and
ribbons, sometimes worn in combination.

BLACK BOOTS: Buttocks cropping (lying on bed).

BROWN BOOTS: Asphyxiation by boot or stockinged foot.

COBALT-BLUE BOOTS: Penetration by female.

SCARLET BOOTS: Cross-dressing humiliation.

BLACK LACES: Punishment with a short whip.

GOLD LACES: Defecation on chest.

WHITE LACES: Collared like a dog.

WHITE RIBBONS ON TOP OF BOOTS: Male customer begins as the dominant figure and ends as the submissive party.

DOMINAS: Leather-clad women who specialized in whipping, humiliation, and other forms of punishment, and worked in lesbian nightclubs that admitted heterosexual couples and male clients.

FOHSES: Independent prostitutes who advertised in newspapers and magazines as manicurists or masseuses.

GRASSHOPPERS: Streetwalkers who performed oral sex in the Tiergarten.

GRAVELSTONES: Physically deformed women who worked in north Berlin.

MEDICINE GIRLS: Child prostitutes who were “prescribed” by pimps posing as physicians in phony pharmacies in west Berlin.

MUNZIS: Pregnant women who waited under lampposts on Münzstrasse.

RACEHORSES: Masochistic prostitutes who worked in Institutes for Foreign Language Instruction, where the schoolrooms were equipped with bondage equipment.

TAUENTZIEN GIRLS: Women wearing the latest fashions and hairstyles, often working in mother-daughter teams near the Kaiser Memorial Church.

TELEPHONE GIRLS: Child prostitutes, aged twelve to seventeen, who were made to resemble junior versions of theater or film starlets and were ordered by telephone.

Ah, ja, I remember it vell…

Anorak

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