harder to track it's important to know that prostitution is legal in germany why is that yes it was made to deal in two thousand and two it was basically turned into any other profession which means that women can register and they can pay into the social insurance benefits system which a lot of women don't it's only a very small minority of women who do this. very well that one is that a lot of the women in the sex trade. a lot of them are from eastern europe they're some african women so it's in trying to flee difficult for them to register and a lot of them the ones who are forced into prostitution obviously don't have the means and resources to do so so the idea was to bring prostitution away from the black market has that worked then no it hasn't i mean it's incredibly difficult to get hold of figures the figures we have are estimates but. know this this approach didn't work and there's a lot of debates about what germany can do now has germany considered the swedish