Ilan Stephani worked as a prostitute in a Berlin brothel for two years. Curious, this young woman from a respectable family investigated this marginal area tabooed by the rest of society. In doing so, she stumbled on something astonishing: she did not find a strange world, but one that would be more familiar to most people than they think.
In this way she interweaves individual experiences and situations from her everyday life in the brothel with reflections on the state of society: about our upbringing, our understanding of the roles and the demands we make on ourselves, life and love. Her analysis does not represent the attitude that sex work is liberation, nor is it necessarily a slave market.
Above all, says Stephani, prostitution is the symptom of a bewildered society. If that were understood, it would be better for everyone — not just in bed. Not only does she try to deliver prostitution, and sex workers and johns with it, from the seedy shadows, she also analyses prostitution as a phenomenon at the center of our society, as a symptom of blatant deficiencies in the relationship between the sexes.
Ilan Stephani, born in Berlin, grew up in Lower Saxony. For two years she worked in a brothel alongside her studies. Today, Stephani is a body therapist and author. Ilan Stephani Theresa Bäuerlein.
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