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Cologne's "pleasure tax" of 6 Euro). The women come from many countries; about 30% of them are German. They typically sit outside of their rooms and negotiate with customers
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December 2008, three of Pascha's bouncers beat up an Albanian man who supposedly had ignored an order to stay away from the house and who might have been involved in the bouncer scene. The three men received fines and suspended sentences of 18 months for aggravated assault.
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looking at the crisis of masculinity from a feminist point of view. It was filmed at Pascha over the course of three years. The film features interviews with the manager, an employee, a prostitute, a customer and some footage of a rooftop
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turned the story into a headline the next day. The women insisted that they had paid the men from their own vacation money and had not received any compensation from
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221:Die Welt zu Gast bei Freundinnen
1060:Interview with Pascha's manager
842:"Fantasien im Bordell-Hochhaus"
692:"Pascha von Vermummten bedroht"
585:"Eminem's Sex With Prostitute"
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820:"Für 50 Cent in den Puff"
625:Keine Strafe für „Pascha“
565:Hilfe für blutendes Opfer
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1219:Marcus Prinz von Anhalt
1131:Prostitution in Germany
754:"Im "Pascha" gezündelt"
523:23 October 2007 at the
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992:"LIKE A PASCHA Review"
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1086:50.95556°N 6.94028°E
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