![]() At the beginning I said no, I don't want to do this ever in my life. Vast: Stuttgart's branch of Paradise is the largest in a chain of six brothels 'I met someone and he was pretending that he was in love with me,' says a Romanian girl named Tatiana who now works at Paradise. Nevertheless, an estimated 90 per cent of prostitutes in Germany have been forced into the sex trade, with many thought to have been groomed using the 'lover boy' method which sees men pretend to be in love with the girls before persuading them to sell sex. This is the fine line that Beretin, Rudloff and other brothel owners walk: While prostitution and brothels are legal, forced prostitution and pimping are not. 'If they have Romanian email addresses, I usually delete them,' he explains. 'Every day, I hear someone saying to me, "can I work for you?",' he explains, while flicking through the explicit photos that accompany the emails.īut some girls, he won't take on. But the rewards, earnings of up to €8,000 a month, are enough to bring women flocking to the club, with marketing manager Michael Beretin telling the Channel 4 cameras that he gets up to 50 CVs a day. Opulent: The establishment has Moroccan-inspired decor throughout, including in the sitting area (above)įor this, they pay €26 a night, a fee that also includes food, and they pay a similar amount in tax each day.Īs a result, every girl starts the day €130 down. The girls themselves also have to pay €79 to enter and are not employed directly by the club, although many do live in the dorm rooms above. ![]() ![]() Punters pay €79 to enter, which includes the use of the steam room and a food buffet, although drinks - and girls - cost extra. Part of the reason for the heat is the club's sauna, which allows it to market itself as a 'wellness centre' for men. 'They crank up the temperature to 30 degrees so everyone is always covered in a film of sweat. All these dudes wandering around in dressing gowns and the heat! 'I have been to a lot of wild places around the world but I have been nowhere like that,' explains Watts. Now the club is the subject of a new documentary, The Mega Brothel, which will be screened on Channel 4 tomorrow night.ĭirected by Edward Watts, a man more used to investigating the realities of life in places like Gaza or the journeys of Somalian refugees as they make their way to Europe, it goes behind the scenes at Paradise - and not all is as you might expect. If you want to have good sex, you must pay good money for this service.' 'It really is a paradise because you have beautiful girls, I know those girls, and I am convinced about the quality of those girls,' explains Wolfgang, a regular visitor to the Stuttgart club. It has also seen an explosion in the number of brothels, with an estimated 400,000 women now working in them to service the one million German men who visit them each day - a number five times that of the UK. Repulsed: Director Edward Watts says he grew increasingly repulsed by the behaviour of puntersĪs a result, the German sex industry has exploded and is now worth an estimated €18bn a year - three times the value of the sex trade in Britain.
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