Germany. The land of Eisbeins, beer festivals  and legal prostitution. In fact, the lucrative sex industry in Germany is calculated to be worth over $1 Billion per year. And now, a new app created in Germany and for the German market, Peppr, is being marketed as being very much akin to how your average ‘dating’ site is supposed to work, except in this case its used for connecting prospective clients to their perfect hooker. Yes, indeed, such are the times the human race is now living in!

So for those of you unfamiliar with how your typical ‘dating’ site is supposed to work, it’s pretty much a match-making sort of process. Quite straight forward really. You log into the site, acknowledge that you are 18 years or older, and are able to type in the sort of ‘criteria’ you seek: body-type, hair colour, eye-colour, personality traits, the works – and this, dear readers, is precisely how you will now be able to order your next prostitute online. In Germany.

Pia Poppenreiter is one of the co-founders of the German start-up, and we have to admit she comes across as being more philanthropic than merely entrepreneurial. She explains that the idea for Peppr came to her one evening when she was taking a walk through one of Germany’s red-light districts known as Oranienburger Straße. It was a freezing night and she couldn’t help noticing the throngs of prostitutes standing huddled and obviously chilly as hell on the side-walks. Pia then felt so overwhelmed with pity for the young ladies who had to brave the Winter chill in waiting for their clients that she thought to herself that what the industry most certainly needed was a cell-phone app that would eliminate the need for woman to advertise their services on an ice-cold street corner. And so was born the idea of Peppr. Necessity truly is the mother of invention it seems.

Pia and her colleagues talk to prostitutes over the phone before enlisting them into their site’s catalogue to determine before-hand whether they are working by choice or by force. This is a legitimate concern for any company operating within the sex industry in Europe because of the increase in the rate of sex trafficking and coerced prostitution. It means that prices can’t be regulated, which in turn leads to falling prices as the demand for cheap sex increases and legitimate sex companies have to take the fall. Terrible really.

[SOURCE] Time