A 25-year-old woman is risking her unemployment benefits after refusing to be a prostitute. [link] The woman, an unemployed information technology worker, was contacted by her local job centre telling her an employer was interested in her "profile", Britain's Daily Telegraph reported. She was not told who the employer was. Only when she phoned did she discover she was being recruited by a brothel.

Under Germany's welfare laws, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.