Under the new restricted zone it will be only slightly over two kilometres," said mayor Charlotte Britz as she presented the plans. There are now an estimated 1, sex workers in a town of , - more prostitutes per head on average than there are doctors. Until now, accosting customers on the street had been allowed in the whole town apart from a small area in the city centre.
A working group of town and state officials are planning to restrict street-walking to three streets to allow police to keep a closer eye on the business. Prostitutes will also only be able to stand on the streets during hours of darkness - in winter from 8pm and in summer from 10pm, operating until 6am the next morning.
The new rules are expected to come into force in the spring if approved by the Saarland state cabinet next week. Britz, an advocate of re-criminalizing prostitution in Germany, hopes tighter rules will be introduced nationwide and is calling for the legal age limit for prostitutes to be raised to 21 from Germany legalized prostitution in after lawmakers decided attempts to eliminate it were doomed to failure and that it would be better if the women involved were able to make social security payments, enjoy health cover and work in a safer environment.
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