Prostituition . Not a job like any other, the self-determined prostitutes a minority.
“I take a deep breath.”, says Manuela Schon, Abolitions (exit from prostituition)-Activist, Sociologist and former city councilor Manuela Schon said she only visited “some of the 80 or so prostituition establishments in Wiesbaden.”
Together with the filmmakers Kristine Tausch and Matthias Gathof, she travels to places of sexual exploitation in Wiesbaden in the documentary FASSADEN.
From the Massage Parlour of Faulbrunnenstraße and the former Crazy Sexy in Kleine Schwalbacher Straße, the team drives on Bus Line 6 of the Wiesbaden public transport, past apartments at Landeshaus, on to the brothels on Maizener Strasse and the street line of Kasteler Straße and other prostituition places in wiesbaden.
The pictures are followed by quotes from customer forums, which the “throwaway girls”judge with clear, disrespectful words. In the dialogue between Manuela Schon and DR. Phil.
Alfons Heinz-Trossen, former head of the counselling center for Sexually Transmitted diseases in Wiesbaden Health department, University lecturer and author of the book “Prostituition and Health Policy”, gives viewers a deep insight into hidden and open prostituition in Wiesbaden and its sociological background. Schon and Trossen know: prostituition is not a job like any other, but violence against women and prevents equality because is “cemented” power relations.
Kim Engels, director of the Frauen Museum Wiesbaden and Beatrixe Klein, director and founder of the museum, confirm that this not a realisation of 21st century using quotations from the book “Die Gefallene” by Amely Bölte. The author was active in the women’s right movement in Wiesbaden as early as the 19th century. At that time, he knew that prostituition was “a moment of violence in our society”, and that “it happened to be harmful to the women”. As long as society looks the other way and sees prostituition as a “Job Like everyone else”, women will continue to be sexually exploited and even murdered, Manuela is already certain.
Therefore, she continues to fight the Nordic Model of power relationships between suitors and women. Because it criminalises men who buy sex and support women to get rid of prostituition (abolition).
