Should sex work be legal?

[Forsaken]

Sex work is legal where I am, to be a Private Escort you have to be licensed and depending on which state you live how you operate can vary. Brothels are also legal and in both cases sex workers have to be tested regularly, condoms are mandatory for oral and intercourse. It is strictly monitored and controlled.

Street walking remains illegal which I think is a good thing.

From a social perspective it keeps clients and workers safer and limits predatory pimps etc It also frees up Police to focus on more serious issues. There are still illegal operators but the people who decide to use them usually end up disappointed and given the legal options it really isn't worth the hassle you have to go through not to mention the risks in case the place ends up getting raided!

[RedRose]

France, iirc, makes it legal except you cannot "advertise" that you do it, and the clients can be arrested. There are also very obvious problems with, say, a prostitute reporting mistreatment at the police (in the police's attitude and care). In the end, it remains hidden (because of clients being arrested and no advertisement and social mores).

[Lama88]

Hi all
Indeed I join the post of Redrose, but France has become hypocritical on many subjects, including this one.

The State, by wanting to be moral, deprives human beings in difficulty of the protection that society could bring them. By criminalizing the customers, we now realized that these people were now more confronted with desperate or violent customers.
But do not worry, the richest are not worried. Let the poor have their problems.