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BBC reports "German Greens float sex prescriptions for disabled":
A spokeswoman for the Green Party in Germany has said disabled and seriously ill people should be able to claim back public money if they pay for sex. They would have to prove a medical need and show that they could not pay to visit sex workers otherwise. Elisabeth Scharfenberg, an MP, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that she "could imagine" local authorities paying for "sexual assistance". Prostitution has been legal in Germany since 2002.
[...] In the Netherlands it is already possible to claim the cost of sexual services as a medical expense.
German source. Here's a related segment from Vice if you have 17m22s to spare (it's primarily about Sensual Solutions).
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German Green Party MP Considers Subsidized Sex for the Disabled
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Tuesday January 10 2017, @07:57PM
As I understand it when I read it (both the BBC and the Welt) is that what is suggested in some form of tax deductible. So you'll have to keep up with your prostitutes on your own for a year before you can deduct their services on your next tax form. I'm sure there might be a limit of how much and how often etc. I'm sure some group of people over at the BZSt (the federal central tax office) will have a jolly good time as they investigate and probe the issue for a few years. I guess the prostitutes will have to start offering receipt then for services rendered so you can later deduct them on your tax form. One does wonder how graphic and detailed that would have to be. The tax people should be happy about that - both the sex and the paper work.
One do wonder how one would qualify for this "sexual assistance". Is a doctors note going to be enough? Then I suspect they'll be handing these out like they hand out those medical marijuana cards. Oh you feel a bit bad (or some other vague and general symptom)? Here have card. A good BJ and some anal will cure all that ails you.
That said as mentioned in the articles it is not really anything new - the dutch have been doing this for decades. Not quite sure tho if it's a deductible or it's subsidized in some other way shape or form.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 10 2017, @08:37PM
Then I suspect they'll be handing these out like they hand out those medical marijuana cards.
I'm thinking the after market gag gift business will be profitable, "says right here honey, doctors signature and everything" "Well, I guess if its medically necessary, but did your doctor ever think how difficult it is to schedule me and my best friend at the same time, can't he just give you a pill or something?"