Sex Meters in Germany

Ah, those Germans. Stymied in their recent attempts to collect tax revenue from sex workers, they've now installed meters in Bonn to collect money from street sex workers.

The idea is that the workers will pay six euros a night for a permit to work the streets. Sex workers aren't too happy about it, though - they're OK with sex work being taxed (it's been legal in Germany since 2002), but they don't like an approach that singles out sex work from all other kinds of work for a special tax.