Making Prostitution Lawful: Part 1: WORLDWIDE OUTLOOK ON PROSTITUTION: The

Posted by a-level on August 6th, 2017

Part 1:
WORLDWIDE OUTLOOK ON PROSTITUTION:

The most common stereotype of Prostitutes is that they are all street walkers willing to accept a few dollars for their services, drug addicted and controlled by pimps. In reality, this “oldest profession” falls into a few categories. Yes, there are the streetwalkers whose life is awful, however, there are also those hookers who provide sexual favours in massage parlours, hotels and out of their own apartments and at the end of the spectrum you find hookers working for themselves and charging sums of money that can run into thousands of dollars for a night or even an hour...

prostitution is still illegal in some parts of the world but there are some nations such as Netherlands that decided to officially have sex-work legalised, The Dutch made prostitution legal in the mid-1800s but it wan not until the 1980s that sex work was recognized as a legal profession, bans on brothels and pimping were lifted and the industry is now regulated by labour law.prostitutes in Holland are registered workers, municipalities are responsible for issuing their licences and conducting inspections to ensure safe working conditions.

In Germany sex-work is legal and regulated, brothels are registered businesses requiring appropriate liquor and food licensing, if served, though surprisingly a brothel licence isn’t necessary, sex workers pay income taxes and must charge a value added tax (VAT) for their services.

In most nations however, prostitution hasn’t got a clear definition and although its not promoted openly, its not criminalised either, in these parts of the world you will not find people serving prison sentences for prostitution even when there are rare police arrests.

In other places, sex work itself may be legal, but many activities that surround it (like operating a brothel, pimping, and soliciting in a public place) are illegal, often making it tricky for people to engage in sex work without breaking any law, this is the case in the UK, Italy and France.

In some nations women who work lawfully enjoy huge benefits: better access to health care, protection from violent punters and protection from exploitation. Antwerp has apparently one of the best bordellos in Europe, equipped with their own police station and high tech sensors.

by keeping it illegal, America perpetuates an unsafe and unequal system that stigmatises and exploits sex workers, not to mention, there is widespread evidence that Legalizing sex work has significant public health benefits. making sex work legal is a controversial subject in most places and in these places, some argue that decriminalizing sex work promotes an industry that degrades and abuses people, especially women. This may be a fair point but if you look at America, by keeping sex work illegal it has created an environment in which sex workers are subjected to violence, disease, ridicule and inequality.




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