Note 245 — Chapter V · REGULATION AND ORDER—THE STREETS
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It is sometimes stated that according to the German law, professional prostitution is not punishable if the woman is registered by the police. It is therefore argued by many jurists that technically it is not prostitution that is punishable, but non-registration. The offence is not, so it is said, that the woman is a prostitute, but that she is an unregistered prostitute. I have purposely avoided verbal technicalities of this kind in order to bring the reader face to face with the real issue.