Comment on Sex workers need the police to do better, not more
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Our laws around sex work need serious overhaul. The current quasi-legal system just doesn’t work and necessitates unnecessary risk to workers, and the fact that some aspects of sex work aren’t legal discourages an open and trusting relationship between sex workers and police.
New Zealand has a decent framework of sex work laws. That is what we should be emulating IMO.
OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’d say just let sex workers run brothels and hire security and much of the problem will disappear, but I fear if it were just legalised in the UK, corporations would want to run the show and would cause a whole set of other problems for sex workers.
I have similar reservations about the legalisation of cannabis too, for I fear it would just be legalised without any effort to bring people out of the black market, pushing them to deal in harder substances.