Blick calls the St. Gallen case “the most expensive blowjob.” The headline sounds like a bill for a sexual service. In fact, the nearly CHF 1,000 were not the price of the blowjob: the penalty was CHF 360, with police and prosecutor fees bringing the total to almost CHF 1,000. That is the authorities’ bill, not the service price. [1]
On 13 July 2026, a 24-year-old driver in St. Gallen received oral sex from his passenger while driving. According to the penalty order, this diverted his attention from the road and traffic. He was also not wearing a seat belt. Blick reports a CHF 360 fine and a total of almost CHF 1,000 including fees. The report does not say how police noticed the couple or whether the passenger also received a penalty order. [1]
The price comparison takes us to Geneva: in 2016, a “Café Pipe” was announced. A five-to-ten-minute sexual service was to cost CHF 60, with coffee extra. It was a proposal for a public café, not an operating venue. [2] Authorities did not approve the public café plan. In 2018, a changed version appeared in a private setting: an erotic salon in Veyrier offered the service for CHF 90. [3]
In arithmetic terms, CHF 360 equals six CHF 60 offers or four CHF 90 offers. Almost CHF 1,000 equals roughly 17 or 11. That is all the comparison does: it translates the fine into the Geneva prices reported at the time so the scale is easier to picture. It does not mean the driver paid CHF 1,000 for sex. Penalties and service prices are different things.
And the passenger? The penalty order does not mention any payment to her. With a wink, we can speculate that the blowjob was probably free – and perhaps owed to love. That is a romantic guess, not a fact established by the record, which only sets out the driver’s costs.
The punchline is rather Swiss: a spontaneous act of affection may well have been free, while distraction at the wheel and an unfastened seat belt made the trip expensive. The Geneva comparison helps put the amount in perspective, but the reason for the fine remains the important point: even a brief distraction can be dangerous in traffic.