Jub wrote:The nasty drug addicted people with diseases will be out competed by the healthy young people who take safety seriously.
Exceeeept that from what I've read and seen a fair number of the people who patronize prostitutes aren't just interested in sex, they're interested in control. Some johns get off on being abusive, and if they can't due that in legal brothels or whatever they're going to keep going to illegal streetwalkers. Assuming the brothels don't pressure their sex workers into taking it and make their continued employment contingent on doing things they don't want to do, in which case you have a whole other problem.
I'm in favor of legalization for a variety of reasons, but these problems aren't going to go away and should be borne in mind if the main goal is to help sex workers.
Where did you read that? When it comes to prostitution the sources are heavily partisan. In Germany there was recently a discussion about this topic too. Opponents quoted police reports stating the legalization made it more difficult to persecute crimes, while advocates quoted the same reports saying that the legalization helped fighting organized crimes because the women where more likely to go to the police. An active prostitute stated she felt free and empowered, while an former prostitute said she believed the same but it was an delusion.
PainRack wrote:I think it would be more interesting to ask WHY despite the existence of a legal prostitution, an illegal scene still exists.
Especially so for Singapore. The prices aren't that different afterall....... and outside of the kinkier aspects(transsexuals and BDSM), there isn't any niche industry that freelancers exploits.
The only thing I can imagine is that its easier to advertise the illegal sex workers via pictures or the 'streetwalkers' since our laws forbid the advertising of sexual services, so, they get to have more access. That and the fact that freelancers include ladies of various classes and occupations, from students to models and etc, so, more variety compared to the legals?
I'd speculate this might have two reasons from the supply side. They maybe want to simply not pay taxes. Also there might be organized crime who can't just go legal and have to operate illegal. If Singapore has strict immigration laws the women might not be inclined to go to police because they are afraid of having to leave the country. For the suitors it might be not much of a difference who they go to and they might not have a way to distinguish between legal and illegal offers.
