Students Offer Free Sex to Help Coeds Make the Grade

Three male business students at the University of Mannheim 

have offered stressed-out female students one-night stands

 to improve their grades.

Three male business students at the University of Mannheim in southwestern Germany are offering a free callboy service to female students who want to improve their grades through an active sex life. The young entrepreneurs claim they are championing female sexuality, but others are doubtful.

As a business model, it's a win-win formula: Two potential partners set out to profit from a mutual transaction. That must be how the three business students from the University of Mannheim in southwestern Germany, who call themselves Oskar, Christopher and Julius, imagined things to be when they decided to offer their services by creating what could best be described as a free brothel. They offer stressed-out, female students uncomplicated and anonymous one-night stands.

As future marketing experts, the students know that business ideas with at least a pseudo-philosophical foundation are often the ones that are best received. They call their project Bib:Love -- a reference to the first letters of the German word Bibliothek, meaning library -- and the slogans which they have plastered on posters around the university's campus promise "Good Grades through Good Sex." The young men claim that their project is about emancipation in a broader sense and that their initiative should be recognized as more than a mere coital campaign.

"We are focusing on female students in particular, because they generally come out badly after one-night stands," says 21-year-old Christopher. "What's more, girls who just want to have some fun are often labeled as sluts." According to the three men, that's unfair. The idea for Bib:Love came to them during an alcohol-fuelled night last autumn. 

'Good Grades and Good Sex'

When other students see the signs for Bib:Love, they often joke and roar with laughter. "Good grades and good sex: I could use both," says one student standing in the university entrance hall, triggering laughter among his friends.

 

They are calling their project Bib:Love (referring to the first letters of the German "Bibliolthek," meaning library), and the slogans which they have plastered on posters around the university's campus promise "Good Grades through Good Sex."  

This type of reaction is a frequent one, says Oskar, but ultimately students want to know more about Bib:Love. Lately, the men say, they've been getting numerous emails from students looking for more information. Oskar and his partners then reply: "Many students are too stressed out during exams to go out at night. This leads their sex lives to languish." But armed with the knowledge that regular physical exercise brings health benefits and helps with studying, the young men behind Bib:Love are more than happy to provide support. Female students who spend their evenings drained and fatigued in the library and are in the mood for a little closeness and intimacy are encouraged to send an email. Then one of the three men will meet with them. If the circumstances are right, the meeting ends in sex.

The guys behind Bib:Love present themselves as service providers with a sense of humor, but at the same time as young men who are fighting for female sexual emancipation. Given that sex is involved, they also get something from the project. Though they may fancy themselves in the role of sex-saints, it is also possible they are trying to mask their own insecurity. In any case, Christopher and Oskar appear incredibly casual as they address their fellow students about their huge plans in the L3 student café at the University of Mannheim. The two could be brothers. Both have short brown hair, green eyes and an athletic build and both scrunch up their eyes when they laugh. The two are attractive enough young men, that they probably wouldn't really need the Internet to find girls.

And yet the two hide behind their pseudonyms, preferring not to have their real names published. After all, there is no way of knowing how professors and fellow students would respond. This is where the façade of the supposed "emancipation project" crumbles to pieces. The young men don't want to reveal too much about themselves and want to stay in control. It appears these future economists are simply playing the role of Casanova.

82 Queries, Five One-Night Stands

The men claim they have so far received 82 messages at the Bib:Love Hotmail. Some are searching for intimacy, some crack jokes and others are simply curious. Of these messages, nine have resulted in bookings. The meeting point is always the L3 student café on the University of Mannheim campus. "The L3 is the perfect spot because there are always a lot of students here during the week," says Oskar. "Then you can meet and have a beer and check to see if the chemistry is right." The young men reserve the right to withdraw their service should a girl's appearance be unpromising.

The young men claim that five one-night-stands have taken place so far. Lisa, 23, became the first. She refuses to provide the journalist with her real name, although she says she has nothing negative to report. The evening was unusually enjoyable, she says. It was the classic scenario: They went for a beer, chatted and then continued to his place. But does it champion female emancipation, as the men claim it does? Not according to Lisa, who sees the whole thing as no more than a nice way to meet and have a good time together.

University officials and the student body association are primarily viewing the campaign with a sense of humor. "I think the project is funny," says Rosa Reichenberger, a member of the student body's board. Still, she's very skeptical of claims it might help lead to better grades.

"I never expected we would get such a big response," says Christopher. The trio have also received inquiries from students in other German college towns, including Tübingen and Ulm, with interest in opening up their own franchises of Bib:Love.

Brothel comparisons aside, the Bib:World project is not as wild as one might think. Unusual sexual practices are not catered for, admits Christopher. Bib:Love is confined to that which students like to do on a typical Friday night: meet someone in a bar, spend a night with the student from next door -- foreplay and breakfast the next morning included if desired. Bib:Love is essentially the typical one-night stand, albeit a much better-marketed one.

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Neighborly sex no bother for Swedes: study

Noise from neighbors is generally dismissed but grannsex is popular. Six sounds from the neighbor is the only category where posts are predominantly positive.

 

 

Swedes find neighbors’ loud sex noises easier on the ear than loud music and construction noise, according to a study by a new major Swedish real estate agency., Fastighetsbyrån.

The study has focused its research on social media, such as tweets and Facebook status updates, to find out what people say and think about their neighbors.

“On micro blogs we have a tendency to think out loud, which gives an un-edited image of what people actually think of their neighbors,” Johan Vesterberg at Fastighetsbyrån said in a statement.

Overall sixty eight percent of posts about our neighbors are negative, with the most common reason being noise.

Some 17 percent of posts expressed a neutral view and 15 percent were positive.

Of the 1000 posts reviewed, some 15 percent concerned the moans and groans associated with sexual activity - the only category where a majority of the comments were positive.

On the other hand, Swedes don’t seem to have much good to say about neighbors renovating, partying or emitting unidentified noises.

The study was carried out in connection with "Grannensdag" (literally: neighbor's day) which was instituted by Kenneth Eneroth in 2000 to honor and appreciate one’s neighbors.

This year's Neighbor Day is set to fall on the day when time is set back one hour for winter time, which this year will be in the early hours of Sunday October 30th.

External link: The full study in Swedish »

 

 

 

 

 

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Drive-in sex stalls get Swiss green light

 

Zurich city parliament on Wednesday rubber-stamped a loan earmarked for the construction of drive-in sex stalls where punters can meet prostitutes at purpose-built venues away from the city center.

Representatives voted 74 to 30 in favor of the new development in Alstetten to the west of the city, Tages-Anzeiger newspaper reported.

Ten garage-like booths will be erected on derelict land in an industrial area in Alstetten, complete with parking spaces and alarm buttons. The so-called "performance stalls" will be the first of their kind in Switzerland if the project goes ahead.

The city council agreed last week to sanction the 2.4-million franc ($2.8m) loan for the development pending parliamentary approval.

Most parties voted in favor of the loan, but the project met with resistance from the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the Evangelical People’s Party (EVP) and the Swiss Democrats (SD).

All politicians agreed on one point, however: kerb-crawling at the Sihlquai red light district in the city center must come to an end.

In a lively debate, Marcel Savaroud of the Social Democratic Party (SP) thought that the district in Alstetten would allow for better oversight. 

SVP politician Hedy Schlatter countered that the construction of copulation booths was outside the remit of the authorities, asking rhetorically:

“Is it really the role of the state to organize a drive-in prostitution area at the taxpayer’s cost?”

Christian Traber of the Christian Democratic People’s Party (CVP) acknowledged that “sex stalls are not a universal remedy” but argued that the drive-in brothels would help improve the current situation.

Martin Waser, the Social Democrat head of the city's social department, concurred:

“We must take a chance with this experiment,” he said, citing the urgency of the situation and the lack of a viable alternative.

The Free Democratic Party (FP) referred to the German city of Cologne, which it said had a positive experience of similar sex stalls.

However, the SVP responded that equivalent “shagging huts” in Dortmund had to be shut down when the area became a magnet for criminals from Eastern Europe.

The solution was a “quick fix” that only shifts the problem elsewhere, according to the EVP, who feared that the taxpayer would effectively end up subsidizing pimps.

Opponents in the Swiss Democrats (SD) took a different tack, expressing doubts that the new red light district would be accepted by punters.

Zurich city council plans to open the new district in Spring 2012, while at the same time ending prostitution on Sihlquai in the city.

There has been resistance in Alstetten with residents saying they do not want to become the “dump of the city”.

Around 20 locals have requested copies of the relevant documents approving the project but a formal complaint has not yet been made. They have until the end of November to submit objections, which could hold up the project.

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Germany Prostitutes Can Now Pay Tax Anonymously Conveniently

 

The German city of Bonn has put 'parking meters' on the streets where prostitutes can pay their nightly taxes.

 

BERLIN — The city of Bonn has begun collecting taxes from prostitutes with an automated pay station similar to a parking meter, proving again that German efficiency knows few if any bounds.

 

Bonn is not the only city in Germany to charge such a tax, but it is the first to hit upon the idea of a ticket machine that prints out receipts for the nightly flat fee of 6 euros (currently about $8.65) for the privilege of streetwalking. The meter went into service over the weekend, and by Monday morning had collected $382 for the city’s coffers.

Prostitution is legal in Germany; the Reeperbahn in Hamburg is one of the largest red-light districts in Europe. Attempts are often made to regulate the industry, unionize the workers and tax the proceeds, but they are not always effective, given both the discretion and the unpredictability that are inherent in the business.

Street prostitution as practiced in Bonn, once the capital of West Germany and a town better known for sleepiness than sexiness, would be unfamiliar to many people outside Germany for its unusual degree of organization and institutionalization.

The women wait for customers on a stretch of the Immenburgstrasse in a largely industrial part of the city. In addition to the Siemens-built meter machine, which cost $11,575 including installation, the city has built special wooden garages nearby where customers can park their cars and have sex.

“They are called, in fairest and finest administrative High German, ‘performance areas,’ but I believe the Italian prime minister would say ‘bunga bunga,’ ” said Monika Frömbgen, a spokeswoman for the city. Still, she said, the serious issue that the meter was intended to address boils down to tax fairness.

“The women in the bordellos and the sauna clubs also pay the tax, and so should those working on the streets,” Ms. Frömbgen said.

The city estimates that it has 200 sex workers, of whom about 20 ply their trade on the street. The Bonn government spends $116,000 a year for a private security company to guard the area and to provide security for the sex workers.

Under the new meter system, street prostitutes must purchase the tickets to work between the hours of 8:15 p.m. and 6 a.m. Leaflets explaining the system, translated into several languages, are handed out to the prostitutes. After one warning, a sex worker caught working without a ticket would be fined up to $145.

Opinion was divided Wednesday on Bonn’s blocklong strip where the women cruise for customers.

“The other night I worked all night but didn’t get any work, but I still had to pay it,” said a young woman from Hungary who gave her name only as Monica and said she thought the new system “stinks.”

Vero, a middle-age woman who spoke Italian but no German, said the tax was “proper.”

“It’s like rent, food or all the other things everybody has to pay for,” said the woman, who declined to give her last name.

Franz-Reinhard Habbel, a spokesman for the German Association of Cities and Municipalities, said he expected other cities “to follow Bonn’s example.” The country’s 11,000 municipalities are struggling under a combined $11 billion in debt and are searching for new, “relatively simple” sources of income, he said.

Advocates for sex workers say the tax is unfair because prostitutes in Germany already pay income taxes. But the meter itself is not an issue, said Mechthild Eickel, a spokeswoman for Germany’s Alliance of Counseling Centers for Sex Workers. “An automat is no worse than a person,” she said. 

 

 

 

 

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