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[Marc of Frankfurt]

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Interessanter Fall

Prozess angestrengt von zwei Sexdienstleisterinnen (SDL), die durch Brandstiftung bei einer Gängauseinandersetzung gegen ihr Bodell schwer verletzt worden sind. Jetzt klagen sie die Polizei und Behörden an nicht für notwendige Sicherheit gesorgt zu haben.

Die ganze Story:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/945758.html





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[ex-oberelfe]

29.04.2008
Israel: Haifa geht gegen Homo-Sauna vor

Haifa (queer.de) - Am Samstag hat die Polizei von Haifa eine Razzia in einer Schwulensauna durchgeführt und elf Männer verhaftet. Sie werden der Prostitution beschuldigt. Die Behörden argumentieren, die Sauna sei ein Bordell gewesen.

Die Homo-Gruppe Aguda protestierte scharf gegen die Razzia: "Zu sagen, dass dieser Ort Prostitutionsdienstleistungen anbietet, ist einfach dumm", so der Mike Hammel, Chef von Aguda zum israelischen Nachrichtenportal "Ynet". "Nur in Haifa kommen die Behörden zu einem Ort für Schwule, treiben Menschen hinaus wie eine Herde Tiere und werfen ihnen Prostitution vor."

Einer der verhafteten Saunagänger erklärte, er sei festgenommen worden, als er gerade mit einem anderen Mann (ohne Bezahlung) in einer Kabine gewesen sei. Die Polizisten hätten ihm gesagt, mit dem Bezahlen des Eintrittsgelds in Höhe von 50 Schekel (9 Euro) habe er sich des Erwerbs sexueller Dienstleistungen schuldig gemacht.

Ein Polizeisprecher erklärte, man habe genug Beweise gesammelt, um die Verhafteten zu überführen. "Das ist kein Eingriff in die Privatsphäre, sondern die Schließung eines Bordells." Die Polizei in Israel hat in den letzten Wochen bereits Dutzende Bordells schließen lassen, ging nun aber erstmals gegen eine Schwulensauna vor.

In Israel ist Prostitution zwar erlaubt, Bordellbetrieb ist allerdings illegal.

Quelle: http://www.queer.de/boulevard_detail.ph ... le_id=8666

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Polizeiliche-Versiegelungs-Mitteilung über eine Bordell-Schließung nennt offen lesbar die Namen der dort arbeitenden SexarbeiterInnen.

Police closure order on brothel door reveals prostitutes' names, IDs

By Vered Lee
Tags: Prostitution, Israel News

A police closure order has been stuck to the external door of a large Tel Aviv brothel for more than a month, listing for all to see the full names and identity card numbers of five women who worked there as prostitutes.

The brothel, in a basement on Wolfson Street in South Tel Aviv, was shut down August 25. Out front are a few small businesses and workshops; inside are apartments.

For a long time an apartment on the bottom floor served as a discrete brothel, tucked away inside the building. It provided fancier, more stylish rooms - and charged higher prices - than the escort service at the front of the building, which advertised itself with a sign.

Workers from the Health Ministry's Levinsky Street clinic regularly visited the women, who numbered about 20, with four to six women working per shift.

Members of the clinic's mobile night service for sex workers were shocked when they saw the "Order to restrict use of the location," which the police had marked as confidential, on an external door, fully visible from the street.

The order closing the brothel was directed at five of the women who had worked there as prostitutes.

The order states the apartment was closed to prevent the criminal acts that were being carried out there, specifically prostitution and pimping, was is valid for 30 days. It was signed by Tel Aviv District commander Ilan Franco.

"The police often close brothels, but this is the first time we have seen the police openly publicize the names of women working as prostitutes," said Sara Boano de Mesquita, a social worker and one of the heads of the Levinsky mobile clinic. She said the team was shocked to see such private information posted in clear sight.

As far as the clinic workers know, the women listed in the order worked there as prostitutes but did not own the brothel - they were the victims, and were in distress, and were not the operators, who made the profits and remain immune, said Boano de Mesquita.

She said that revealing the women's names endangered them, as now customers - or others - could pursue [nachlaufen] them, possibly to extort [erpressen] them.

"In addition to blatantly violating their privacy, it endangers the women," said Boano de Mesquita.

Many prostitutes hide their profession and [are forced to] live double lives. "They live fearing their friends and families will discover what they do," she said. Often, no one close to them knows they are prostitutes.

Now, anyone who comes to the building can find out the women's details and identify them.

Attorney Oded Peled of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said despite the police operations to close brothels, it is doubtful whether this unnecessary violation of the women's privacy - and the potential threat to their safety - is justifiable.

Such a move presents the women as criminals, and ignores the complex social situation that prevails in such cases, he said.

The Tel Aviv police responded: "The police acted in keeping with the law ... and when the owners could not be found to be presented with the order, it was posted on the door, in keeping with the law. The women were arrested as employees of the brothel, and therefore the order was directed against them. They need to know their place of work is closed." [Scheinheilig?]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1027409.html




Ob die Polizeibeamten auf noch mehr Sexarbeiterinnen-Selbstmorde hoffen und so die Stigmatisierung der Prostitution fördern wollen?
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[Arum]

Das schwedische Beispiel macht Schule, jetzt auch in Israel. Und nicht nur das: Prostitution wird schon fast mit Terrorismus gleichgestellt.


'Women for sale' store highlights sex trafficking in Israel

By Shira Medding, CNN

October 24, 2010 -- Updated 1118 GMT (1918 HKT)

(CNN) -- A designer clothing store, a comic book store, a tattoo parlor and a ... women for sale store.

This unusual window display shocked shoppers at a busy Tel Aviv mall last week when among the run-of-the-mill shops, they came across a group of young women standing in a storefront.

On them were price tags detailing their age, weight, height, dimensions and country of origin.

Organizers said the campaign is designed to bring awareness to women trafficking. It aims to collect enough signatures to pressure the Israeli justice ministry to back legislation that makes it a crime for men to go to prostitutes.

This legislation is the next important step in the fight against women trafficking, said attorney Ori Keidar, one of the founders of the task force against the problem.

"The legislation against the prostitutes' customers will bring a reduction in the demand for prostitution and it will be a less lucrative business for crime organizations," Keidar said.

"This in turn will bring a reduction in the trafficking of women."

Keidar said the legislation is modelled after similar legislation in Sweden that has drastically reduced trafficking and prostitution.

Over the past decade, about 10,000 women have been trafficked into Israel in what Keidar calls "modern slavery."

The women are locked, beaten, raped, starved and forced to receive 15-30 men a day 365 days a year, according to the attorney.

About three years ago, Israeli police greatly reduced women trafficking by pouring resources into the problem. Security forces have also helped by stepping up patrols on the Israeli-Egyptian border as a result of Al Qaeda presence in the Sinai.

This 300-kilometer border was the main route for smuggling women into Israel, Keidar said. {Komm.: Heisst das jetzt, dass Al Qaeda sich heutzutage sogar mir Zwangsprostitution beschäftigt, oder wirden da zur Verschärfung der Bedrohung einfach zwei Feindbilder mit einander verknüpft?...}

"This legislation against the customers will bring a further reduction in trafficking and with a little more pressure we can make this go away" Keidar said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast ... afficking/

[fraences]

Prostitution soll illegal werden

Das Ministerialkomitee für Gesetzgebung hat am Sonntag einen Gesetzentwurf gebilligt, demzufolge die Inanspruchnahme sexueller Dienstleistungen in Zukunft mit Gefängnisstrafen von bis zu sechs Monaten bestraft werden soll.

Das Gesetz wird nun zur Abstimmung in der Knesset vorgelegt.

Der Gesetzentwurf, eine Initiative der Vorsitzenden des Knessetunterkomitees gegen Frauenhandel, Orit Zuaretz (Kadima) sieht vor, dass Freier, die zum ersten Mal ertappt werden, an einem Programm teilnehmen sollen, das sie über die gesundheitlichen Risiken, die Gesetzeslage und die Umstände aufklärt, unter denen Prostituierte tätig sind. Wer zum ersten Mal erwischt wurde, und das Programm erfolgreich absolviert, wird zunächst nicht angeklagt. Erst beim zweiten Vergehen werden die Freier angezeigt und der Fall zur Anklage gebracht.

Zuaretz erklärte, um die Prostitution einzuschränken, dürfe sich der Staat nicht auf die Verfolgung von Zuhältern und Frauenhändlern beschränken, sondern müsse auch aktiv gegen die Kunden vorgehen. Ähnliche Gesetze gäbe es auch bereits in anderen Ländern, dort hätten sie zu einer deutlichen Senkung der Prostitution geführt.(Haaretz).

Botschaft des Staates Israel, Berlin

http://www.eip-news.com/2012/02/prostit ... al-werden/

[fraences]

Knesset passes draft law to criminalize paying for sex


Spearheaded by Kadima Cabinet member Orit Zuaretz, a draft law was recently passed making the solicitation of a sexual act a criminal offense. First brought to the table in 2009, this law received its first green light on the path to becoming official.
Under this law, first time offenders will be sent to an educational program while second time offenders can be sentenced to up to six months for visiting prostitutes. This law follows the ‘Nordic model’, which was pioneered in Sweden and has since been adopted by many European countries.
Until now, prostitution has been legal in Israel; however, the de facto practice surrounding this issue is very complicated. The Hotline For Migrant Workers released a publication entitled The Legalization of Prostitution: Myth and Reality that was very helpful in my quest to understand the law on this matter.
It reads:
Israel inherited from the British Mandate a model based on the partial criminalization of the sex industry. Prostitution and its consumption were not criminalized (with the exception of the clients of minor prostitutes), and criminalization was applied only to pimps and brothel managers.
In reality, several “tolerance zones” for prostitution exist around the country. In these regions, which are usually poor areas on the outskirts of major cities, the police turn a blind eye to the sex industry. In this way, both the legal and illegal sides of the business go unnoticed or intentionally ignored.
If this law is passed by the Knesset, the entire industry, which brings in an estimated revenue of NIS 2 billion a year, will be further pushed into the gutter of society. Though the law does not officially criminalize the act of selling oneself, it places the consumer outside of the law. Thus, the government’s direct target is not the prostitute but the clients. However, prostitutes will nonetheless be the ones most dramatically affected by the legislation.
Ever since I caught wind of the new law being put into motion in Israel concerning prostitution, my mind has been ablaze with questions. As someone who has not followed prostitution laws before, I have been sent adrift in a labyrinth of opinions since taking interest in the matter.
The more time I spend with this topic, the more nuanced it becomes for me. First of all, I ask myself: what is the goal of this law?
Is the goal to protect women? To stop them from being forced into compromising situations associated with sex work?
Is the aim to stop men from paying for sex and force them to find more creative solutions for their desires?
Do Zuaretz and her supporters believe that this law will bring about the end of prostitution in Israel? If so, does anyone think that is remotely possible?
I think the main point of contention regarding this issue is: does Israeli society believe that the act of paying for sexual acts is inherently wrong?
If the government deems prostitution unacceptable, their interest should be to eradicate the industry. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
This is a topic that wears many masks.
There is such a negative haze surrounding prostitution it’s hard to understand what we are trying to fight. Is it really the act of selling and buying sex or the inherent connection to abuse that is so repellant?
It is no secret that prostitutes are victims of brutal attacks by customers. Many of these women are addicted to drugs and have no other means of providing for themselves. One of the many statistics going around is that 40% of men who visit prostitutes are married. And here we have three distasteful side effects: extramarital relations, drug abuse and violence. However, these unfortunate issues are not at the heart of this debate, nor should they be. What should be discussed is if pushing prostitution into the margins will make it stop or just make it more rife with all things evil.
I don’t believe that working women of this country will be deterred by this law. Rather, they will be forced to find ways of surpassing it that will further compromise their safety.
If the goal is to protect the women operating within this world, making everything about their livelihood criminal only increases the chance that they will get involved in or become victims of other outlawed activities.
Who does this law actually serve? The people directly affected by it or the rest of the population who will sleep a bit easier knowing that the government is “dealing with this uncomfortable issue?

http://972mag.com/knesset-passes-draft- ... -se/36182/

[Tilopa]

In der vorherigen Legislaturperiode gab es ja schon einmal einen Anlauf. Und jetzt sieht es so aus, als würde die Rechts-Rechtsaußenregierung tatsächlich die Kundenbestrafung einführen:
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Minis ... els-564183

Achtet in nächster Zeit mal darauf, welche Vertreter welcher Organisationen dem so alles Beifall klatschen. Dass etliche Verbotsfeministinnnen keine Berührungsängste mit rechter Politik haben, hat die "Emma" ja schon beim Flüchtlingsthema gezeigt. Oder jüngst Terre des Femmes (Deutsche Sektion), die in beim Thema Kopftuch ungeniert auf AFD-Linie marschiert...

[Joerg84]

Ja mitte diesen Jahres ist es zu weit.

[Boris Büche]

Israel sieht Sexkaufverbot als Erfolgsmodell
(Jüdische Allgemeine)

Das Sexkaufverbot sei »ein sozialer Fortschritt von höchster Bedeutung«, erklärte Justizminister Levin.

"Fortschritt" und "Erfolg" bemessen sich wie folgt:

- die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz des Sexkaufverbots in Israel ist seit seiner Einführung 2020 gestiegen.
Waren in einer Umfrage 2016 noch rund 39 Prozent der befragten Bürger dafür, liegt der Anteil der Befür-
worter mit 72 Prozent nun fast doppelt so hoch;

- die Nachfrage nach sexuellen Dienstleistungen hat im gleichen Zeitraum nicht nachgelassen, sondern
stieg zuletzt sogar leicht an. Nur bei der Suche im Internet nach Angeboten von Prostituierten wurde
ein Rückgang um 20 Prozent verzeichnet;

- viele der Gelder, die schon jetzt für flankierende Maßnahmen wie die psychosoziale Betreuung sowie
Hilfen für Prostituierte und Freier beim Ausstieg aus der Prostitution zur Verfügung stehen, wurden nicht abgerufen;

- deutlich zurückgegangen ist die Zahl der Bußgelder für Freier, was sowohl mit der Corona-Pandemie als auch
mit einer laxeren Strafverfolgung durch die Polizei zu tun haben könnte. Wurden 2022 noch 2841 Bußgelder ver-
hängt, waren es im vergangenen Jahr nur noch 173. Laut der Studie lag dies unter anderem daran, dass es in
der zuständigen Abteilung der Polizei eine hohe Personalfluktuation gegeben habe.