Berlin Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:39:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Berlin Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 Berlin bondage studios can reopen as long as clients and staff wear masks https://mikesouth.com/sex/berlin-bondage-studios-can-reopen-as-long-as-clients-and-staff-wear-masks-60139/ https://mikesouth.com/sex/berlin-bondage-studios-can-reopen-as-long-as-clients-and-staff-wear-masks-60139/#respond Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:52:28 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=60139 Bondage studios and erotic massage parlors in Berlin, Germany were shuttered when a city-wide ban of brothels was put in place to help control the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Now they have been given the green light to reopen. The owners of a parlor offering intimate massages and a BDSM studio recently campaigned for an injunction to […]

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]]> https://mikesouth.com/sex/berlin-bondage-studios-can-reopen-as-long-as-clients-and-staff-wear-masks-60139/feed/ 0 60139 Europe’s nightlife ain’t no good life, as sex workers face ruin amid coronavirus fears, brothel closures https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/europes-nightlife-aint-no-good-life-as-sex-workers-face-ruin-amid-coronavirus-fears-brothel-closures-56240/ https://mikesouth.com/prostitution/europes-nightlife-aint-no-good-life-as-sex-workers-face-ruin-amid-coronavirus-fears-brothel-closures-56240/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:30:26 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=56240 It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday night, a time when Aurel Johannes Marx’s three-room brothel on the edge of Berlin would normally be preparing for its first customers. Sex for sale has long been a staple part of the German capital’s freewheeling nightlife. But amid concerns over the new coronavirus, even the world’s supposedly oldest […]

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