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From Our Own Correspondent: The Price of Pleasure: in Burkina Faso and Germany

17/03/2014

The Price of Pleasure: in Burkina Faso and Germany

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, The Price of Pleasure: in Burkina Faso and Germany

Hope for victims of FGM in Burkina Faso; legal prostitution in Germany.

Sue Lloyd Roberts is in Burkina Faso, where victims of FGM are offered hope - by Raelians. In Germany, Damien McGuinness asks whether prostitutes are safer since legalisation.

Over 100 million women in Africa have suffered genital mutilation - often as an accepted cultural or religious practice. As Sue Lloyd Roberts discovers, help has been offered from an unlikely source - the Raelian sect, who believe that the world is run by extra-terrestrials, and the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. Yet as she explains, the Raelians' attempts to set up a clinic to help these women has not been an easy process.

In Germany, prostitution has been legal for over a decade. Visiting various establishments - from a 'megabrothel' employing 80 women to a dominatrix's private dungeon - Damien McGuinness investigates whether legalisation has made life any safer for Germany's prostitutes. 

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Ben Weisz

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