Germany has 2,310 establishments offering sexual services, while some 28,280 prostitutes are registered. Between 200,000 and 400,000 people work in this sector.
According to several studies, 90% of them are victims of human trafficking. The law on the legalization of prostitution, passed in 2002 by Social Democratic and Green deputies, aimed to provide security, protection and autonomy to sex workers. But this law also decriminalized pimping by creating a status of “sex entrepreneur”