$20mln investment project is being implemented in the north-eastern state of Lower Austria.
When opened in 2014 the giant brothel, officially dubbed the “FunMotel”, will have capacity for 1,000 “guests” a day with around 150 sex workers employed. Along with room for buses it will also have 350 parking spaces and a three-metre high perimeter wall to ensure privacy.
Peter Laskaris, the businessman behind the project who already operates a brothel in Vienna, said that the glitzy bordello's “four-star hotel” facilities will be the sex industry's shift from “grocer to supermarket”.
The FunMotel will offer “swinger parties, gangbangs” and “porn stars” along with more mundane hotel attractions such as restaurants, beauty salon and gym. But 8Quadrat Developers, the Vienna-based company developing the project, claim that “the number of females” and the “affordable prices” will “ensure absolute satisfaction for male customers”.
The brothel will be built at a still undisclosed location in the north-eastern state of Lower Austria, which surrounds the Austrian capital.
News of the mega-brothel has so far elicited a mixed reaction in a country where prostitution is both legal and regulated.
Sandra Frauenberger, councillor for women's issues on Vienna town council, told Der Standard that moving prostitution “indoors was a priority because off the streets work is safe work.” But Birgit Hebeim, social affairs spokeswoman for the Vienna's Green Party, said that she did not believe that “the women and their problems dissolve into thin air because they are no longer seen”.
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