Whores fight back together

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The association whores fight back together e. V. (HWG) was a self-help project for prostitutes in Frankfurt am Main that ran from 1984 to 1999 . It was initiated by prostitutes , inspired by the Berlin Hydra initiative , to support prostitutes and to do public relations work. The name is an allusion to the term for prostitution in official German : "Frequently changing sexual intercourse". Along with the Berlin self-help group Hydra, HWG was one of the first and most influential organizations of the German whore movement .

history

The initiative, founded in 1984, was organized as an association in 1986. The driving force behind the founding of the association was Cora Molloy, who also became the association's chairwoman. The background to the establishment was the discussion in Frankfurt am Main about the restricted area regulation , which was rejected by many prostitutes. Accordingly, political commitment and public relations were clearly in the foreground over social work. The manager of the association, Christine Drößler declared 1997 "HWG makes lobbying , not a traditional social work" With the new restricted area regulation, which took effect in January 1987, sought the magistrate under Mayor Wolfram Brück at (CDU), prostitution from Frankfurt's main station herauszuverlegen . For this purpose, a large brothel was built in the Breite Gasse. These plans were ultimately unsuccessful.

In the local elections in Hesse in 1989 , the political situation in the city changed dramatically. The CDU, which had previously ruled with an absolute majority, lost 13 percentage points and became the second strongest party with 36.6%. The SPD was the strongest party with 40.1% and formed a coalition with the Greens (10.1%). The SPD politician Volker Hauff was elected as the new mayor . Margarethe Nimsch (Greens) was elected to the magistrate as women's head of department. While the work of HWG was done on a voluntary basis, the association, which was considered close to the Greens (the association had called for the election of the Greens), now received substantial subsidies from the city and was able to employ the protagonists as full-time workers. In 1990, a grant of DM 60,000 was paid, in 1992 this rose to DM 110,000. This met with considerable resistance from the new opposition. Hans-Joachim Otto described the subsidy from the city as “hidden party funding” and assessed the amount of the subsidy as “generously supplied”. The CDU also spoke of the fact that this grant would satisfy the special interests of the “red-green clientele”.

The association was financed in 1997 by a grant from the city of 85,000 DM and state funds of 4,000 DM.

After the city of Frankfurt had cut the grants for the years 1998 and 1999 by 15,000 DM to 70,000 DM, the association announced that it wanted to stop work. It was closed in 1999.

activities

  • In 1985, in cooperation with Hydra, HWG organized the 1st National Prostitute Congress in Berlin
  • In the autumn of 1986 she used her own premises and two positions financed by the church
  • In 1991 HWG organized the European Prostitute Congress in Frankfurt
  • The association gave statements on political and health issues such as restricted Regulation and AIDS from
  • Running a hotline for information about violent criminals

Publications

Since 1984 HWG has published the “newspaper for light and heavy girls” at irregular intervals. The last edition was published in June 1988. The sheet in A4 format, printed in black and white , was regarded as a “professional journal ”. The price was 10 DM per issue, but the majority of the edition was distributed free of charge. After “Hydra's Night Express” was discontinued in Berlin, the “newspaper for light and heavy girls” was the only whore magazine in Germany.

In 1995 the association was the publisher of the book Prostitution: Ein Handbuch , Schüren Presseverlag, ISBN 3-89472-110-3 .

Members

Web links

  • Michaela Böhm: Inquired: Whores against violence. June 22, 2004 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the self-portrayal of the association in: Petra Schmackpfeffer: Frauenbewegung und Prostitution, 1989, ISBN 978-3-8142-0329-4 , p. 152.
  2. ^ Cora Molloy: Everyday whores. Sperrgebiet, Stigma, Selbsthilfe, 1992, ISBN 978-3-923098-56-9 , p. 12.
  3. ↑ a b c Unrivaled organ for professions in the "horizontal"; in: FAZ of November 22, 1997, p. 65.
  4. ↑ The goal is the self-confident woman; in: FAZ of February 21, 1990.
  5. ^ FDP: Frauenreferat operates covert party funding; in: FAZ of November 21, 1992, p. 52.
  6. ↑ CDU: red-green clientele supplied; in: FAZ of November 17, 1992, p. 44.
  7. ↑ Prostitute self-help stopped work; in: FAZ of July 10, 1998, p. 63.
  8. ↑ Women at work: Sex work, internal market and emancipation; Documentation for the 1st European Prostitute Congress, ed. by Christine Drößler
  9. ↑ DNB entry