Susanne Bleier Wilp, a former sex worker and spokeswoman for the Association of Erotic and Sexual Services Proviers, or BESD, poses for a photograph after an interview with the Associated Press about the coronavirus outbreak for the business of sexworkers in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
March 17, 2020
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Sex workers face ruin amid virus fears, brothel closures
BERLIN (AP) — 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 profession is suffering a sudden slump.