If Tinder wasn’t sleazy enough for you, the apps now embrace professional love. That. Prostitution. Now there’s an app for that.
The Berlin-based company recently launched Peppr, a mobile app that mimics the concept of a model dating website to connect prostitutes with potential clients. Calling itself “the first mobile web app for booking erotic entertainment,” Peppr features profiles of call girls that potential customers can check out.
Pia Poppenreiter, one of the app’s co-founders, got the idea for the service while walking through Berlin’s red light district in winter.
“We’re trying to revolutionize the image of sex work in general… We’re trying to strip it of its ramshackle image.”
“I was walking down Oranienburger Strasse, I know it sounds cheesy, but it’s true, it was cold and I saw poor girls on the streets, and I thought, why isn’t there an app? It is not efficient to wait outside,” she said during an interview with German newspaper The Local.
“We’re trying to revolutionize the image of sex work in general… We’re trying to strip it of its ramshackle image.”
Male and female prostitutes, or “Pepprs” as the service calls them, can upload their profiles to the app for free. Clients, on the other hand, have to pay 5 or 10 euros to book through the service. For clients looking for something specific with their temporary partner, the app features adjustable filters that allow users to search for profiles by body type or specific services. After the client has decided on the desired escort, they can get in touch and make an appointment.
To make sure people aren’t forced to sell their services, the company behind the app conducts interviews to spot abuse, though they admit they can’t guarantee everyone signs up voluntarily. Peppr has connections with escort agencies and talks to call girls on the phone before posting their profiles.
“We have a short conversation to get the feeling that it is a volunteer and that they are independent sex workers… We try to ask them—somehow in the conversation you find out if they do it voluntarily—we ask them what they have done before, if they have always worked voluntarily and so on,” Poppenreiter said.
Launched on April 1, Peppr exists because Germany legalized prostitution in 2002. The country’s prostitution industry is said to generate €16 billion a year.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn