
Inside Germany's Sex Supermarkets
Since Germany legalized prostitution in 2002, the country has built an industry of scale: multi-story brothels advertised as "sex supermarkets," flat-rate sex clubs, and a trade the film's own tagline calls turning the country into "Europe's bordello." Reporters go inside these megabrothels to see how the business actually runs, talking to the women working there, the operators who built the model, and the customers who use it. The film sets that legal, commercialized front against the industry's darker edges, tracing where trafficking and coercion slip in under the cover of a regulated market. Rather than arguing for or against legalization outright, it lays out what the policy produced in practice: a booming, visible sex trade that critics say has made exploitation easier to hide in plain sight. Interviews and on-location footage from the brothels themselves carry the reporting, giving a street-level view of an industry most countries keep hidden and Germany put on a storefront.