性工作者
Before the 2002 prostitution law, the highest courts of Germany repeatedly ruled that sex work offends good moral order ("verstößt gegen die guten Sitten"), with several legal consequences. Any contract that is considered immoral is null and void, so a sex worker could not sue for payment. Sex workers working out of their apartments could lose their leases. Finally, bars and inns could be denied a licences if sex work took place on their premises.