Can Sosta do what you need — and is it legally sound?

Sosta treats visibility as a question of consent, not a default setting. A profile appears nowhere in public before the talent has released it for exactly that surface. Releases are controlled separately: if you want to appear on the house website but not in the directory, that is exactly what you set.

Every release is revocable — no notice period, no justification. Revocation takes effect immediately on the public surfaces, and the consent history remains visible to the talent.

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The profile belongs to the talent: she maintains content, photos and releases herself. The house presents itself and its rooms — never a person against her will. For the collaboration, the house sees the contract-partner view; it cannot change anything on the main profile there.

The reason is not just respect but data protection law: data concerning a person's sex life is a special category and requires the explicit consent of the person concerned — no third party can give it on her behalf.

Neutral entries contain only what is public anyway — no profiles, no personal data, no brokering. Once owners claim their house, they manage the entry themselves and can expand it into a full presence.

For corrections and objections there is an open reporting channel that works without an account. Reports are reviewed and answered.

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The law defines prostitution brokering as the brokering of at least one other person for the provision of sexual services — anyone doing that commercially needs a licence of their own. In our assessment, Sosta brokers no one: we provide self-presentation (advertising is legal), a directory overview and management tools. Whom someone contacts is their own decision; what comes of it, the parties negotiate directly.

That is why there is deliberately no booking through Sosta, no matching and no recommendation of individual persons — the platform remains a neutral presentation layer.

The criminal provision on pimping requires exploitation or a controlling determination of the place, time and extent of the work. Sosta is built to keep maximum distance from both: there is no payment flow between customer and platform, no revenue reporting, no commission-capable data model — and no structure through which anyone could direct anyone's work.

A flat software subscription — regardless of how much or how little someone works — means: no profiting from the individual deal. Houses and talents keep their economic independence entirely.

A directory stays neutral only if its order is not for sale. Sosta sorts by neutral signals that are the same for everyone — for example whether a profile is actively maintained and reachable. No profile is pushed forward for money, none is algorithmically “recommended”.

The trust level grows exclusively from authenticity signals such as phone verification — never from a subscription. At Sosta, trust can be earned, but not bought.

Sosta knows both operating mentalities of the industry: houses with spontaneous presence, where everyone enters herself when she is there — and appointment-based houses with opening hours and a weekly rota. The confirmation principle applies there too: the house plans in consultation and makes proposals, the talent confirms, and only then does it become publicly visible.

There are no instructions through the platform. Sosta transports proposals and confirmations — it assigns nothing to anyone.

What appears publicly is a curated view: which talents are at a house today or in the coming days, provided the person in question has released it. The planning behind it — arrangements, requests, internal calendars — stays internal.

Visitors get a reliable answer to the only question they have (“who is here when?”), without anyone having to reveal more than they want.

The tour planner is a self-management tool: the talent enters her stops and controls what becomes visible. Visitors see “in Munich from the 12th” — nothing more. Whoever works independently in a city is shown with the city only; exact whereabouts remain private as a matter of principle.

That is a deliberate protective decision: reach yes, findability of the private accommodation no.

The relationship between house and talent is modelled at Sosta as a rental arrangement: the house offers rooms and infrastructure, the talent requests or confirms. Sosta keeps this process tidy — who has which room when, what was discussed, what is confirmed.

Sosta does not get involved in the business terms: no price-setting, no contract drafting, no insight into payments between the parties.

Sosta is deliberately built so that the platform directs no one's work: no auto-assign, no mandatory slots, no task distribution. Every agreement arises from two active decisions — one on each side.

This architecture protects both: the talent stays self-determined, and the house stays in the role of a neutral provider of rooms, without a direction structure even being able to arise.

What Sosta contributes: a clean, traceable history of the arrangements — requests, confirmations, periods. What Sosta does not do: generate contracts, set terms or stand between the two as a party.

The setcard is the property of the person it shows — like a CV. When a talent links up with a house, the house sees the information needed for the collaboration; control over content, photos and visibility stays with her. She can also dissolve the link itself at any time.

Originals stay in protected storage; what is delivered is a public copy with technical hurdles against mass download and third-party embedding. The protection also applies in the house's contract-partner view.

Photos are never stored in the database but separately in object storage in the EU — which also makes complete deletion reliable.

This content line is deliberately more conservative than what would be legally possible with closed user groups: no pornographic material on the open web — which keeps the platform unassailable and advertisable for everyone involved.

In addition: no scraped images, no third-party uploads, and every piece of content goes through a review before publication — including against the industry's statutory advertising limits. What is visible was set up and released by the person shown herself.

Every talent can confirm her phone number via SMS code — the badge shows visitors: here, a real person with a reachable number has verified her profile. Further signals feed into a trust level that grows exclusively from authenticity, never from payment.

It is also a question of fairness towards everyone advertising honestly: misleading profiles distort competition — real verification protects against that. And it obliges us too: the badge appears only after an actually passed check, because a promise of authenticity has to be true itself first.

This separation is strict: paid features concern tools and equipment, never credibility. A directory in which trust markers could be bought would be worthless to visitors — and unfair to everyone who earned their signals honestly.

Anyone who considers a profile, a photo or an entry unlawful or abusive reports it directly via the report link. The procedure follows the European platform rules: receipt is confirmed, the report is reviewed, the decision is communicated.

Especially important for victims of identity misuse: the takedown path requires no account. No one has to register in order to be removed from a platform they never wanted to be on.

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Setcard data can contain information about a person's sex life and health, and photos that could be used biometrically. For such data, processing is prohibited in principle, with narrow exceptions — the most important being the explicit consent of the person concerned.

That is why, for every consent, Sosta stores when it was given and what it refers to; the history is visible to the person, and withdrawal is possible at any time and as easy as giving consent.

Many platforms “delete” by hiding. Sosta deletes: every reference to the person is removed from all systems, including the separate photo storage. The audit log keeps only the anonymised fact that an action took place — with no way back to the person.

So that backup copies cannot undermine the right to be forgotten either, backups are designed for short rotation: after 30 days at the latest, a deleted record is gone there too. Only where the law requires retention — for example invoice data — exactly that is kept; setcard content is not affected.

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The reporting channel is reachable from every page and requires no account. If the objection is confirmed, the content is removed; the reporting person receives a reasoned response. This combines the data subject's rights under data protection law with the platform notice procedure.

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The core infrastructure is hosted in Europe, photos are stored separately from the database, backups are encrypted. The complete list of subprocessors — including the few services with a US connection and their safeguards via standard contractual clauses — is publicly available.

For authority requests, the line is clear: disclosure only on a written legal basis. Requests without an order are not served.

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German youth media protection distinguishes between impermissible offers — pornography does not belong on the open web at all, only in closed user groups — and development-impairing offers, from which children and adolescents must be protected. Sosta acts on both levels: there is no explicit material publicly (which removes the closed-user-group requirement), and the age confirmation before the directory content is the protective measure for everything that could impair adolescents.

A profile can only be created by someone who confirms legal age; the platform's verification and review mechanisms — from the phone code to the content review before publication — make circumvention unattractive. Reports of doubtful cases are reviewed with priority.

The line is a product decision with a double benefit: visitors get a curated, reputable directory instead of sensory overload — and everyone involved stays on the safe side of youth media protection, without having to operate closed user groups.

Every talent decides for herself which contact channels appear publicly on her profile — and whether any do at all. If she releases no channels of her own, requests run via the house. Sosta displays the buttons, nothing more: no reading along, no logging, no brokering.

Communication stays where it belongs — between the parties — and the platform remains a neutral presentation layer.

The roster chat replaces the scattered WhatsApp threads between house team and talents with a traceable channel in the right place — directly at the collaboration. The ground rules are transparently labelled, nothing happens covertly.

Customers have no access to this channel; customer communication runs exclusively via the channels the talent has released, or via the house.

Phone verification serves authenticity — the verified number does not become public through it. What appears on the profile is the talent's choice: a protective number, a messenger channel or no direct contact at all.

In addition, Sosta automatically filters free text for phone numbers, email addresses and social handles — so the platform cannot become a circumvention or stalking channel.

The pricing model is deliberately simple and decoupled from income: a fixed amount per month, regardless of occupancy or revenue. No commission, no per-booking fee, no percentages — that is not just fair, it is part of the legal architecture.

Payment is by invoice via bank transfer into a prepaid balance, from which the monthly amounts are deducted. No Stripe, no credit-card requirement, no subscription trap with a payment provider.

Pricing & packages

The platform's basic rights never depend on money: whoever wants to be visible can be visible; whoever wants to disappear, disappears. Authenticity signals and trust are explicitly not for sale either.

Talent+ is an optional subscription for everyone who wants to get more out of profile and planning — details and terms are transparently on the pricing page.

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When a balance runs low, Sosta lets you know in good time. If it is not topped up, the package ends in an orderly way: with a transition period, clear communication and no data loss. Falling back to the free tier is possible at any time — your data remains the property of its owners.

The core benefit: no more WordPress hassle. No plugin zoo, no update anxiety, no web designer for every change. What you maintain in the manager — talents, rooms, times, texts — automatically appears up to date on your website.

If you want to keep your existing domain, you simply connect it to your Sosta site; step-by-step guides for the common providers are in the help section.

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Sosta separates cleanly: the theme is presentation, the content is property. You can export your house content and take it with you. Your talents' setcards appear on your website only with their release — and disappear from it when a release ends.

Every house website carries the house's imprint and privacy policy — just as the law requires of every business-like online offer. Sosta ensures that the mandatory pages are structurally always present and reachable; responsibility for the content lies with the house as operator of its offer. For the Sosta platform itself, our own imprint applies alongside — both obligations exist cleanly side by side.

The line is one of principle: as soon as a platform concludes bookings, processes payments or allocates appointments, it stands between the parties. Sosta stays in front of that — as a presentation and management layer. That protects the independence of the talents, the neutrality of the houses and the legal clarity of the whole.

Public customer reviews about persons would, in this industry, be an instrument of exposure — with real consequences for real people. Sosta deliberately forgoes them, even though other platforms offer them. What does exist: anonymised feedback that stays house-internal, with minimum thresholds so that no individual case can be attributed.

An algorithm that matches persons as “suitable” or promotes individual profiles would turn the platform from a neutral directory into an active actor. Sosta provides search, filters and up-to-date information — the decisions are made by people.

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