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Brothels are legal where I live (Australia). It's always a bit strange to see U.S. TV shows where prostitution is a crime. That said, just because legal brothe
by gilgoomesh 11y ago
Brothels are legal where I live (Australia). It's always a bit strange to see U.S. TV shows where prostitution is a crime.
That said, just because legal brothels exist, doesn't mean illegal prostitution stops. Pay attention to the news for a few years and you'll still periodically hear about arrests for illegal types of prostitution (sex slavery, underage prostitution, etc).
- derefr 11y agoTrue, but in places (like Australia, or Amsterdam) where you go all the way and unionize prostitution, it's much, much easier to catch the illegal types: you just raid anything that looks like an unregistered/unlicensed prostitution operation. The main problem with catching sex trafficking and other sexual exploitaton, usually, is that there's so much "grey market" prostitution that isn't really hurting anybody, that law-enforcement tends to just ignore the whole mass as something they don't have the resources to confront or enough information to prioritize. Creating a whitelist and getting all the voluntary sex workers on it gives you a manageably-smaller set of non-whitelisted cases to investigate.