RE: Prostitution Should Be Legalized and Regulated
Here it's since they regulated it only worse for them. Many of them don't want to registrate their name as prostitute, but it is necessary to do that when they want to have a window in one of the many red light districts. So, what happened is that many former window prostitutes, and lots of new ones as well, work from (a) home now. The good thing here is mostly that they can earn much more money then when they need to pay rent for a small room. The individual prizes for their services are higher too. They advertise on websites like https://www.kinky.nl where you can find a mixture of clubs and private houses. Well, this all seems to be pretty ok, right? Those that want to work under license can do that, but will earn less and have the annoying tourists at their windows all day making video and photos of them and insult them and those who dont want that can work at (someones) home, where they will earn double for each service. Win win and some choice you would think.
Well here is the reality of it. Those that have a room at the red light districts are with many more of them at the same location. This can help them when they have questions about practical things and stuff. That was before too. They do get some sort of safety from the owner of the rooms and there is always a police team in the area patrolling. At least, in Amsterdam there is. And they need to do health checks periodically. All good you would think. Well because of the big competition there the prizes are low, and the clients want more and more for less. Nowadays they even demand sex without condom, and when they refuse they will see him go to next door where the girl says yes. So many of them give that service to prevent them leaving to another one. Well you can figure out the risk.
Many of the girls working there are not from here and are trafficked from eastern europe, and by far not all of them with consent. Some do though, but its a small amount. So regulation means: privacy gone, some form of safety by police and housing owners, low rewards for their services, high rents, insulting tourists, what i forgot to memtion is they pay tax, and enormous health risk for them and society becsuse they accept non confom clients and it didnt stop trafficking at all. It has some cons and pros, but most of thdm didnt change by regulation, they were there already and it only gave them some bad extras.
Those working at home have because of the higher prizes mostly some classier clients. And they can even ask for pictures so they can decide if ghey accept you. But, there is no checkup on them, so people with bad intentions can make an appointment and abuse them where there is no police patrol near. Its risky. They dont pay taxes. You cant check their age and if they are there working by free will. There are some review sites and that should improve their individual quallity so they will get bettter reviews and thus more attention.
Here the biggest downside of that situation, there isnt any check up on age or consent or anything. There are also many ads online for paid cardates and hotel room sex. Well, those are the worst of them when its about underage girls forced to prostitute so regulation or not, that shit goes on. Next day a different hotel or location and noone will know.
You can see here that this regulation didnt change anything and it only has cons. The biggest problem is that it kills their privacy and it will always be on their job record. So when they want tp apply for a job later, they will check up on her to find out about her past and see this prostitute job there, which wont help them in any way.
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I appreciate your comment. Do you believe that the government can do better to protect prostitutes from abuse and discrimination? You make an excellent argument but the alternative is also bad. Without intervention, we cannot weed out bad actors from both sex workers and customers resulting in abuse. Yes we have review sites, but once they start to get too much attention then it reaches the ears of the police. Numerous sites for sex work have been shut down over the years. Perhaps nothing should be done and we should chalk it up as the price for doing this kind of business? This is a very difficult situation to address.
Thinking about it now, I wonder if a decentralized economy like steem would alleviate the trust issue without having middle men (e.g. government, pimps)take most of the profit.