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Callboy Kevin Fromm from callboyz.net lifts weights, before a meeting with a client in a hotel, in Dortmund, western Germany on December 30, 2023. Two decades after Germany legalised prostitution, a new debate over whether to ban sex work again has erupted, with the opposition conservatives leading a fresh push for prohibition. In a proposal put to the Bundestag on February 23, 2024, the CDU-CSU alliance argues that the legalisation of prostitution in 2002 has failed to reach its aim of improving the lot of women in sex work through regulation. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/INA FASSBENDER)