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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday January 10 2017, @03:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the pon-farr dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:39AM

    by Sulla (5173) on Wednesday January 11 2017, @03:39AM (#452349) Journal

    In general I feel that federal taxes should be reserved to military (needs downsizing), temporary safety nets (really depends), and paying for good negotiators to keep us out of wars. I am probably missing a few things. At the state level there are a few more things, statewide roads and transportation, a few more safety nets maybe. At the city/county level the governmet can pay for anything the people vote for.

    Further from the individual the level of government is, the less power they should have over the individuals daily life.

    The social contract we exist in was invalid when they closed the frontier and there is no place for those who choose no society to escape. Parts of alaska, siberia, africa might be okay, but far from the frontier of old. Because of this less should be forced upon the individual.

    At no point in my view on life do I see taxes going for people to get laid, thats just insane. I suppose paying the migrants in germany to visite prostitutes might lower the instinces of rape, but still absolutely billshit. Maybe we need the government to fund some camp followers in Seattle, Portland, and SF to keep the transients from causing problems.

    We need a basic income so we can pay the lumpenprolitariate their tribute to leave the rest of those who want to contribute alone. I am including artists as people who want to contribute here. Of course those do not work and live off of basic only probably shouldn't be able to vote either. But then of course the game becomes reducing the number of those working to get more power at the ballot box.

    This article really pissed me off. This bs "money grows on trees, taxes can fund anything" attitude.

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