Sex Workers Protests to Reopen Brothels

Sex workers in Hamburg’s red-light district organised a protest demanding the reopening of the brothels after months of closure to stop the spread of coronavirus. With shops, restaurants and bars all open again in Germany, where prostitution is legal, sex workers say they are being singled out and deprived of their livelihoods despite not posing a greater health risk.

Prostitutes wearing masks hold signs reading “A praise for the town” and “Prostitution is down now and we protect from violence”, during a rally of prostitutes demanding the reopening of Germany’s brothels, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the famous red-light district Reeperbahn in Hamburg, Germany.