Customer (prostitution)

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As a customer is (also) in the jargon of prostitution refers to a person who paid for sexual services. The customer is the customer of a prostitute and is also referred to as a "guest". A female person who uses sexual services is called a customer. A homosexual male customer is the business partner of callboys or prostitutes (stick boys).

Colloquial language

In colloquial language, the prostitute's customers are called “suitors”: The term comes from Old High German . Outdoors was used synonymously with "to marry". To free a woman means (still but uncommon) to seek her love in terms of consenting to marriage. The expression walking on free feet was an appreciative saying for a man who was looking for a bride .

profile

Studies of customers repeatedly come to the conclusion that there is no clear profile of the customer: Customers are predominantly male, but there are basically no patterns in terms of origin, level of education, social class and political and religious convictions. This applies in Germany as well as internationally. However, according to a study from German-speaking countries, men with a high school diploma, from academic circles and with above-average incomes are slightly over-represented.

Also determined by studies is the fact that customers can be men of any age, although the most common age group is 20–40 year olds.

Prostitution of the present (Germany)

According to the only representative study from the German-speaking area, around every fifth German man uses a sexual service at least once in his life. The Federal Family Ministry estimates the number of daily prostitution customers in Germany at 1.2 million.

Since the introduction of the Prostitution Act is in Germany for the prostitute or prostitutes a legal entitlement to payment, whereas previously, due to the moral standards was not the case of prostitution. Nevertheless, payment in advance is the rule. If there is a trusting relationship between the customer and the prostitute, for example with "regular customers", this rule can be deviated from in practice. Customers who do not want to pay are referred to in the jargon as "hooker cheaters". The reverse case, in which the customer is robbed, is called " cohabiting theft ". If the prostitute demands more money than agreed, this is referred to in the jargon as "Nachkobern".

Discreet contact is sought and found, among other things, via the media (for example via personals in newspapers). In the 1970s and 1980s, price information over the telephone was not common when asked, but today this is usually taken for granted. In times of the Internet , the initiation also takes place via erotic portals and forums of prostitution customers. Another possibility arises in relevant night bars and on the street .

In October 2013, the journalist Alice Schwarzer launched the appeal for the abolition of prostitution with the magazine Emma, which she runs . She is promoting the so-called Swedish model . Sexual services are allowed in Sweden , but using them is a criminal offense. As a result, a social controversy developed. Among other things, the professional association for sexual and erotic services speaks out against customer punishment with an appeal for prostitution and the free offensive (see term in "colloquial language" ) with an open letter to Alice Schwarzer.

Criminal and regulatory aspects (Germany)

In the German Criminal Code (StGB), the slang term (in the sense of the prostitution customer) does not appear.

The nationwide criminal offenses (§ 184f and § 184g Criminal Code ) and administrative offenses ( § 120  OWiG ) of prohibited prostitution in the restricted area or prostitution that is harmful to young people apply exclusively to the prostitutes themselves, not to their customers. However, it is possible for the municipalities to prohibit customers from contacting prostitutes in the restricted area in municipal ordinances and to impose fines. Such ordinances exist in the cities of Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Mannheim and Stuttgart, among others. The slang term is not used in these regulations.

Anyone who drives the same route several times with a vehicle on the street in a built-up area can be subject to a warning or a fine in accordance with Section 30 (1) StVO (“ useless driving back and forth ”).

literature

  • Chester Brown : I pay for sex. Notes from a suitor. Walde + Graf, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03774-045-3 .
  • Tamara Domentat: Let yourself be pampered. Prostitution in Germany. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-351-02550-5 .
  • Udo Gerheim: The production of the client. Power in the field of prostitution. A sociological study. transcript-verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1758-0 (also: Bremen, Universität, Dissertation, 2010).
  • Sabine Grenz: (In) secret pleasure. About consuming sexual services. 2nd Edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-34776-9 .
  • Dieter Kleiber , Doris Velten: Prostitution customers. A study of social and psychological characteristics of visitors of female prostitutes in times of AIDS (= series of publications by the Federal Ministry of Health. Vol. 30). Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3260-3 .
  • Werner Krieger: brothel society. The report. ICS Communikations-Service, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022128-6 .
  • Prostitute Project Hydra (Ed.): Freier. the secret goings-on of the men. Galgenberg, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87058-103-4 .
  • Doris Velten: Aspects of sexual socialization. An analysis of qualitative data on biographical development patterns of prostitution customers. Berlin 1994 (Free University of Berlin, dissertation, 1994).
  • I used to think all suitors were pigs . In: taz , February 9, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Grenz: (Un) secret pleasure: About the consumption of sexual services . 2005.
  2. ^ Janice G. Raymond: Prostitution on Demand: Legalizing the Buyers as Sexual Consumers . In: Violence Against Women . tape 10 , no. October 10 , 2004.
  3. ↑ L. Xantidis, MP McCabe: Personality Characteristics of Male clients of female commercial sex workers in Australia . Ed .: Archive on Sexual Behavior. April 29, 2000, p. 165-176 .
  4. ^ Ronald Weitzer: Prostitution as a Form of Work . In: Sociology Compass . tape 1 , no. 1 , June 18, 2007, p. 148 .
  5. ↑ Udo Gerheim: The production of the suitor: power in the field of prostitution . Transcript, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1758-0 , pp. 15 .
  6. ↑ Dieter Kleiber, Doris Velten: Risks of HIV infection in the context of commercial sexuality: To the role of suitors . In: Sexual behavior in times of AIDS . Edition Sigma, Berlin 1994, p. 356 .
  7. ^ Dieter Kleiber, Doris Velten: Prostitution customers . 1994, p. 16-19 .
  8. ↑ Prostitution: 1.2 million men a day . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . May 7, 2001, ISSN  1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  9. ↑ emma.de
  10. ↑ berufsverband-sexarbeit.de ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / berufsverband-sexarbeit.de
  11. ↑ Free offensive
  12. ↑ § 6a Düsseldorf Road Code. Retrieved October 30, 2006. "In the restricted area it is forbidden to contact prostitutes in order to arrange sexual acts for payment."
  13. ↑ § 3 Police Ordinance on Public Safety and Order in the City of Leipzig. siedlerbund.de, accessed October 30, 2006. “In residential and mixed areas, especially in the vicinity of schools and children's and youth facilities, it is forbidden to approach people on public roads, paths and squares as well as in public green spaces and recreational areas Contact us to arrange sexual acts against payment. "
  14. ↑ § 9 Police Ordinance to maintain safety and order on public roads and facilities and to ward off behavior-related dangers in the Mannheim district. ( Memento of November 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) "Addressing prostitutes in the restricted area for the purpose of establishing contacts is prohibited."
  15. ↑ § 4 Road and Plant Police Ordinance of the State Capital Stuttgart. ( Memento of April 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) "In the restricted area, it is forbidden to contact prostitutes in order to agree sexual acts against payment."