It is sponsored by the Evangelical church and the city council of Dortmund, and the government of North Rhine-Westphalia. The organization also receives support from prostitute self-help groups and private citizens. Unfortunately, the level of financing shrinks each year, while the problem of prostitution just grows and grows. For the most part, the center provides counseling - both psychological and legal. Promoting prostitution and pimping are both illegal.
Prostitution is taboo, and prostitutes themselves remain a despised social group.
The attitudes of the church and of society in general towards prostitutes are contradictory and hypocritical. One the one hand, the women must pay high taxes to the government. But on the other hand, they do not receive recognition as professional workers. Sex workers are deprived of opportunities to participate in social medicine, pension insurance, and unemployment insurance. The society and the church silently consent to the fact that the majority of men use the services of prostitutes, while the prostitutes themselves are isolated and despised.