A brothel in Vienna is offering customers 30 minutes with a 'lady of their choice' in exchange for getting a coronavirus vaccine.
Yep, while some places are enticing people to get jabbed with free beer, doughnuts or even gym memberships, in Austria things are getting a little more X-rated.
The country's vaccine uptake numbers are among the worst in western Europe, meaning the government has been forced to introduce the '2G rule' - which means those who have not had the jab now barred from public places like restaurants, hotels, hair salons and large events.
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But the Fun Palast brothel has come up in an innovative way to appeal to those yet to receive theirs, having offered people a 30-minute session in exchange for a jab.
The venue, which bills itself as a 'sex-star saunaclub', said: "Due to the pandemic, we have registered a 50% decrease [in clients], with this initiative we hope that the number of customers will rise again."
Peter Laskaris, manager of Fun Palast, told Reuters that he noticed there was a way the brothel could help with Austria's vaccination problem after seeing an overlap between the client base and the unjabbed.
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He said: "Basically, I was looking at the statistics and I read that we need like 70/75 percent for us to reach herd immunity, but we're currently only at 63 percent.
"And then I noticed in the statistics that very many men, very many men with a migration background, virtually refuse vaccination or don't even know that you can be vaccinated.
"And since we are actually reaching this target group, we decided to set up a vaccination [clinic] here."
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A Fun Palast employee, who gave her name as Mina, added: "Well, I think it's a very good idea to have a vaccination street in the Fun Palast, because the name fun palace suggest to have a bit of fun here and return back to normality a bit more.
"And I also think it's a great idea that this is being offered for women, children and of course men."
The idea seems to have been a hit with customers, too.
A man named Gerhard who visited the brothel said his trip has even inspired others to do the same.
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"I would have gotten vaccinated anyway but the 2G rule has certainly accelerated things a little," he explained.
"And since an acquaintance of mine organised this action I thought 'Lets go for it'.
"I think this is perfectly ok because we can achieve a better immunisation rate this way and that's necessary to end the pandemic at some point."
Featured Image Credit: Fun Palast
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