受經濟危機的影響，德國性行業最近推出了一系列“促銷”手段以吸引顧客上門，其中一項“包價無限性服務”的促銷方式引起廣泛爭議，有人表示此舉是對人格尊嚴的極大侮辱。據悉，該項“包價”服務的想法源自于“無限暢享型”自助餐廳，顧客只要一次性支付70歐元，便可享受任意次數的性服務。除此以外，德國性行業同時推出的其他促銷手段還有：對退休和領取福利金的人士實行返款優惠，對騎自行車或乘坐公共交通工具光顧的客人打九折，以及為留宿的顧客提供免費擦鞋服務等。
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German brothels are offering customers the chance to sleep with as many prostitutes as they like for a single fee, in recession-busting deals criticised as immoral by politicians.
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German brothels are offering customers the chance to sleep with as many prostitutes as they like for a single fee, in recession-busting deals criticised as immoral by politicians.
The "flat-rate sex" promotions, which are based on all-you-can-eat restaurants, have been introduced by brothel owners in a bid to revive trade that has fallen around 30 per cent in the economic downturn.
Other imaginative offers include rebates for pensioners and people on benefits, 10 per cent discounts for men who arrive by bicycle or public transport, and free shoe-polishing for customers who stay overnight.
But it is the flat-rate deals – which are priced as low as ￡60 (€70) – that have attracted particular controversy in a country where prostitution is legal and generally well-tolerated.
The promotion is popular with brothel owners who have to pay their sex workers a fixed daily wage whether or not they have any clients.
But conservative politicians have expressed disgust at the innovation and have ordered a wave of police raids on sex clubs in an effort to bring it to an end.
“This is an outrageous violation of human dignity,” Heribert Rech, the Baden-Württemberg interior minister, told The Times.
“So-called flat-rate sex is an immoral development which cannot be tolerated in our society.”
Because the promotion is not forbidden by law, officers have focused their raids on immigration and hygiene offences at brothels where is has been introduced.
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(Agencies)
Vocabulary:
flat-rate: 包價（a pricing structure that charges a single fixed fee for a service, regardless of usage, it may also refer to a rate that does not vary with usage or time of use.）
（英語點津 Helen 編輯）
