Make Escorting Lawful: Part 5: THE BROTHEL PROSTITUTE A brothel or bordello

Posted by london on September 13th, 2017

Part 5:
THE BROTHEL PROSTITUTE

A brothel or bordello is a place where people may come to engage in sexual activity with a sex worker, technically, any premises where prostitution commonly takes place qualifies as a brothel. However, for legal or cultural reasons, establishments sometimes describe themselves as massage parlours, bars, strip clubs, body rub parlours, studios, or by some other description. sex work in a brothel is considered safer than street prostitution . The operation of brothels is illegal in most nations, although in some countries, known illegal brothels may be tolerated or laws not strictly enforced.

In a few nations, prostitution and operating a brothel is legal and regulated. The degree of regulation varies widely by country. Most of these nations allow brothels, at least in theory, as they are considered to be less problematic than Street sex-work . In parts of Australia, for example, brothels are legal and regulated. Regulation includes planning controls and licensing and registration requirements, and there may be other restrictions. However, the existence of licensed brothels does not stop illegal brothels from operating.

The Netherlands has one of the most liberal sex work policies in the world, and attracts sex tourists from various other parts, Amsterdam is well known for its red-light district and is a destination for sex tourism. Germany also has very liberal prostitution laws. For the United States However, brothels are currently illegal, except in rural Nevada were brothels are legal but sex work outside these licensed brothels is illegal.

In 1986, the Victorian Labour government [Victoria, Australia] legalized brothels, claiming crime would be eliminated, sex workers lives would be made safer, and there would be fewer health risks, a further study was carried out in 1998 to show the difference in the transmission of STDs among sex workers as follows: “The prevalence of sexually transmitted bacterial infections was 80 times greater in 63 illegal street working girls than in 753 of their legal brothel counterparts....” Occupational health and safety law is only applied to hookers in lawful brothels but not to their illegal counterparts on the street, lots of prostitutes work outside the law in Australia and this has implications for their health that are hard to quantify. (Nov. 18, 2000 - Bebe Loff, PhD , Elizabeth Gaze, LLM, Christopher Fairley, PhD)