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Berlin 6-12yos living in red light district offered picture book explaining prostitution

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 27/09/2023 12:46

Apologies if this has already been covered. I couldn't see it mentioned anywhere. Is there any possible justification for this? I can't imagine any. Here's an extract from the attached article.

The city of Berlin has prompted outrage from locals after offering a graphic picture book on prostitution to children via its official website. The book, titled Rosie Needs Money (Rosi sucht Geld), is advertised as a resource for youth aged 6 to 12 years old.
According to Equal Opportunities Officer Kerstin Drobick, the book is designed to explain prostitution to children of families residing in a red-light district of Berlin, located in Kurfürstenkiez, known as Kurfürstenstraße. ...

Rosie Needs Money is written from the perspective of a child named Maryam, whose family relocated to Germany from Syria.
Maryam narrates as she and her equally-young schoolmate, Martin, look for Rosie, a woman from Bulgaria who is in the sex trade. Maryam says that her mother told her that Rosie is often “looking for money” in the street. Rosie is described as having many friends who are also migrant women from Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, and Lithuania.
“But they don’t seem to find much money. Their clothes are not enough. Their breasts and legs must freeze in winter,” observes Maryam. “Today we decided to finally ask Rosie what she does with men. Actually, we already know. They give her money and want to make love.”
Martin then appears to reference pornography, saying: “It’s different from mom and dad. Mom makes love to dad, but Rosie’s men don’t make love, they make sex like on TV.”
In the book, Rosie suggests that men use prostitutes due to lonliness, and advertises the sex trade as a legitimate and important field.
“You want to know what this has to do with love and sex? Everyone acts as if love and sex are always the same. Men say this to me and to their wives at home. But sometimes love is gone. Or the sex. That’s why my customers just want to talk to me and they give me money in return,” Rosie tells the children, before explaining how she has sex with clients in a flippant way.
“Most of the time it’s like this: Men want to put their penis in my vagina. A few times in and a few times out – and you’re done. There’s nothing more to it than that.”

https://reduxx.info/germany-pro-prostitution-picture-book-offered-to-children-by-government-officials/

GERMANY: Pro-Prostitution Picture Book Offered To Children By Government Officials - Reduxx

The city of Berlin has prompted outrage from locals after offering a graphic picture book on prostitution to children via its official website. The book, titled Rosie Needs Money (Rosi sucht Geld), is advertised as a resource for youth aged 6 to 12 yea...

https://reduxx.info/germany-pro-prostitution-picture-book-offered-to-children-by-government-officials

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Rightsraptor · 27/09/2023 12:52

Well, words fail me. It's shitty and awful from every whichway you look at it, but imagine you'd 'relocated', as your quote says, OP, from Syria - you'd think you'd landed in hell. I would anyway, and I imagine these people who've 'relocated' to find themselves living in hell (again) are mainly refugees.

Youth aged 6-12, huh? Those are people most of us call children.

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