Execution box

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Execution boxes in Bonn

Performance boxes are shielded parking spaces that resemble a garage and offer prostitutes the opportunity to serve their clients . The suitors drive their cars into the pits where they can have sex protected from prying eyes. There are also containers for clients without a car. As a rule, performance boxes are supplemented by sanitary facilities for the prostitutes. “Panic buttons” for alerting security personnel are also standard. In some cases, structural facilities ensure that the women have space to leave the car in an emergency.

These facilities were first made available in 1986 in Utrecht , the Netherlands, with the aim of moving street prostitution to a controlled area to which pimps and drug dealers have no access. The overall strategy was called the " Utrecht Model ". In 2001 , Cologne was the first city in Germany to use the model. This was followed by Bonn , Essen and Dortmund . In Switzerland, Zurich introduced the model in August 2013.

Such boxes are regularly checked by the authorities, at least in Germany, to keep onlookers and voyeurs away, as the area around the boxes is intended exclusively for the two parties to prostitution. At the beginning of 2011, the city of Bonn relocated its previous facilities to a new "performance area" elsewhere, which since then has been the only area in the city where street prostitution is allowed. The prostitutes are only allowed to hold the relevant initial talks between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. on an adjacent section of the street. A private security service commissioned by the city protects the area made available to women free of charge. The condition for using the boxes for prostitutes on the street is, however, to pay a sex tax of 6 euros per night, which the city introduced at the beginning of 2011 . Since mid-2011, this obligation can be met by purchasing a ticket from a tax ticket machine - a parking ticket machine specially converted by the city administration.

Three years after the introduction of the boxes, the city of Cologne drew a positive balance, pointing out that the prostitutes had a significant increase in health care and at the same time they were hardly the victims of violent crimes.

As part of the decision of the city of Dortmund, in view of citizen protests against prostitution that has become more visible , to extend the restricted area within which the practice of prostitution is prohibited to the entire city area, the execution boxes that had been used up until then were removed there in May 2011.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Konstantin Marrach: Love garages soon in Berlin too? In: BZ of April 5, 2013, accessed on January 5, 2014
  3. ↑ Prostitution: With the client in the "Verrichtungsbox". ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de 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. In: Stern.de of February 25, 2005, accessed January 5, 2014
  4. ↑ a b “Study trip” to Cologne: people from Zurich check sex boxes for street sex. In: Blick.ch from August 25, 2010, accessed on January 5, 2014
  5. ^ Prostitution Park in Zurich: Sex in the Box. In: Spiegel Online from August 20, 2013, accessed on January 5, 2014
  6. ↑ Prostitution: Brisk traffic in the execution boxes. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from January 26, 2011, accessed on January 5, 2014
  7. ^ Jacob Schulz: New tax in Bonn: Six euros for sex. In: Taz.de of August 30, 2011, accessed January 5, 2014
  8. ↑ One year after the introduction: Sex tax is worthwhile for the city of Bonn. In: Süddeutsche.de of August 24, 2012, accessed on January 5, 2014
  9. ↑ The end of the execution boxes. In: RP Online of May 25, 2011, accessed January 5, 2014