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Europeans tried legalizing sex work. It didn’t work.
by pyuser583 3y ago
Europeans tried legalizing sex work. It didn’t work.
- resolutebat 3y agoCitation needed. "Europe", even within the EU, also has a great deal of variation, ranging from effectively complete legalization in places like Switzerland and Germany to the Swedish model of aggressively prosecuting customers and countries where selling it is illegal as well.
- pyuser583 3y agoSorry I should clarify. Until the 19th century, prostitution was legal basically everywhere. Since then Europeans have gone back and forth between kind of legal to kind of illegal. It really does vary a lot. But the historical acceptance and modern ambivalence is pretty common.
- sureglymop 3y agoThe parent comment already mentioned that "Europeans" is too broad of a generalisation. It would he just as unwise to claim "the US has legalized sex work" due to this headline which clearly is not about the whole of the USA.