Wilson on August 14, In case you were wondering, the laws around prostitution are mind-bogglingly incomprehensible, but prostitution is not illegal. These women have not been convicted of a single crime, yet still their details are paraded around police websites as though they had.
Six street-based sex workers in Newham, east London , were named on the Metropolitan police website. Police posted their photos, full names and dates of birth. In a second case, two Polish women who were selling sex from their home in Aldgate, east London, were raided by City of London police as part of Operation Monaco.
Operation Monaco was launched in May but police have admitted that just one charge of controlling a prostitute for gain has been made, as well as 52 charges for placing cards in phone boxes advertising sexual services. In more than a year. Clearly, this is valuable police resource and money that is being very, very well spent. Especially since being a prostitute is not a crime, and a voluntary financial transaction for services rendered between consenting adults is no business of anyone else, especially not the police.
Viking, I think you are making some very sweeping generalisations about the educational backgrounds of prostitutes. How many prostitutes do you actually know? To Clarissa. I read both your comments and I would like to say that you are absolutely right. The legalisation of brothels would mean that the men and more importantly the women would be safe. Secondly if you tax the income from prostitution, you could use that money to help women leave the trade thus reducing the number of women involved.
In effect the men who use prostitutes would be paying to reduce prostitution. English Viking, I am by no means an expert in such matters, but I am led to believe that prostitutes actually prefer to work for a pimp because the pimp offers them some protection against violence and actually generates more profit for them.
