"Des membres du Collectif Droits et prostitution participent, le 24 mars 2010 à Paris, à une manifestation pour les droits des travailleurs du sexe.   A picture taken on March 24, 2010 shows members of French association 'Law and Prostitution' along with other demonstrators holding up banners during a protest to ask to state for a legal status on March 24, 2010 in Paris. Cologne's novel idea of a ""sex tax"" has been so successful that other hard-up cities in Germany are considering following suit, officials said on March 25, 2010. Since 2004 Cologne has levied a monthly special tax of around 150 euros (200 dollars) on prostitutes and three euros per square metre (yard) for brothels, reportedly bringing in 800,000 euros for the west German city last year. With the recession blowing a hole in their finances, other cities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia including Essen, Duisburg and Dortmund have applied to state authorities do the same. AFP PHOTO BERTRAND GUAY"
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