[extropy-chat] Telegraph story that unemployed German women must work in brothels?

[Bill Hibbard]

There's a story at:

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml

that unemployed German women must take jobs in brothels
or lose their benefits. Is this an urban myth, or is it
for real? Can anyone in Germany or Europe verify it?

This is only slightly related to Extropy, but this list
has international membership and often discusses politics.

Thanks,
Bill