Have you ever been to a Brothel

bodice ripper wrote: »

Its like this: I sat on a friend's balcony facing on to Bloodstraat, which is where the transgender prostitutes are, at about 8 am. Suddenly a loud alarm when off in one of the windows. Immediately 5 prostitutes came out of the adjoining windows and straight into the one with the alarm. 5 minutes later the cops arrived and the john was taken out in handcuffs. He had been detained by the other prostitutes. AFAIK all the windows have panic alarms.

That is some improvement on forcing prostitution underground.

Of course it is BR, I would hate to see sex work driven any more underground than it is already, but the Dutch government has a duty towards ALL it's citizens, not just those who want to engage in sex work.

It's the same problem we have over here- regulation won't do anything to protect sex workers. Even in the interview Yamato linked to, the guy who clearly knows his stuff says he has no one answer to the issues involved, but innovation is what's needed rather than more bad policies. He also says that you cannot compare one country to another, but I would contend that the one way you can compare them is that Government aren't exactly known for innovative policies.

In your example too though, that was just one example, I'm sure too you've seen plenty of examples of sex workers taking lumps out of each other in battles over territory? I know I have, I just have to look out my balcony to see a few long time street workers tearing lumps out of a new younger sex worker because they're afraid she'll take business from them.

This is in Ireland btw.