Snopes - Claim: Women in Germany face the loss of unemployment benefits if they decline to accept work in brothels.
Status: False.
A news story about a 25-year-old German woman who faced cuts to her unemployment benefits for turning down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel was carried by a variety of English-language news sources in January 2005. It has struck a chord in many readers as an example of liberal morality and bureaucracy run amok: if prostitution is legalized (as it was in Germany back in 2002), this story suggests, then society has conferred its approval upon that trade, and prostitution can therefore be proffered to (and even foisted upon) women as a valid choice of employment.Urban Legends Reference Pages: Media Matters (Hot Jobs) Snopes entry found by Erik.
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