Hamburg Activities and Events

[Little Dog]

How fantastic that the city of Hamburg can manage to offer the world the finest in Prostitution in a Museum context, but still cannot manage to produce decent prostitution, i.e. value for money, in the real sense. The fact of the matter is: Hamburg's mongering scene is one of the worst in Germany. The Reeperbahn area is rife with rip-offs and generally a low value-for-money place. A far cry from what the same city offered some years ago... Don't get me wrong, I love Hamburg and think it may well be the best city in Germany. But not because of the mongering there...that has a lot to be desired.

 

[ko628]

PROSTITUTION

Exhibition Explores Myths and Realities of Sex Trade

A museum in Hamburg opens a new show exploring the role of prostitution in German society. The country is home to an estimated 200,000 prostitutes -- who together form a highly lucrative industry that is older than Germany itself.


Museum der Arbeit
"Dock Swallow" -- a prostitute waits for business in a German port, circa 1968.
The world's oldest profession is also, these days, one of the world economy's most important. Hamburg's Museum der Arbeit ("Museum of Work") estimates that over 200,000 Germans -- mostly women -- work in the