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Permalink Reply by Maria De Wind on October 18, 2011 at 11:50pm

Prostitution in France (the exchange of sexual services for money) is not illegal, but several surrounding activities are. These include soliciting, procuring, operating a brothel (maisons closes, lupanar or bordel in French), living off the avails, and paying for sex with someone under the age of 18.

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Permalink Reply by Nikki on October 19, 2011 at 10:19am

Prostitution should not be illegal and France is ahead of most other countries in that respect.  But bringing prostitutes across borders is illegal in the US and many other countries and is considered trafficking.

 

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Permalink Reply by Maria De Wind on October 19, 2011 at 10:38am

The legality of prostitution in Europe varies by country. Some countries outlaw the act of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for money, while others allow prostitution itself, but prohibit most forms of procuring (such as operating brothels, facilitating the prostitution of another, deriving financial gain from the prostitution of another, soliciting/loitering, etc.).

In eight European countries (Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, Hungary and Latvia) prostitution is legal and regulated.

The degree of enforcement of the anti-prostitution laws vary by country, by region and by city. In many places there is a big discrepancy between the laws which exist on the books and what happens in practice.

Depending on the country, various prostitution related activities may be prohibited (where a specific law forbids such activity), decriminalized (where there is no specific law either forbidding or allowing and regulating the activity), or regulated (where a specific law explicitly allows and regulates the activity if certain conditions are met). Activities which are subject to the prostitution laws include: selling and buying sexual services, soliciting in public places, running brothels, deriving financial gain from the prostitution of another, offering premises to be used for prostitution etc. Often the prostitution laws are not clear cut and are subject to interpretation, leading to many legal grey areas. While the policy regarding adult prostituting differs by country, child prostitution is illegal throughout Europe. Similarly, human trafficking, forced prostitution and other abusive activities are also prohibited.

The red light district De Wallen in Amsterdam

The legal and social treatment of prostitution differs widely by country.

Very liberal prostitution policies exist in the Netherlands and Germany, and these countries are major destinations for international sex tourism. Amsterdam's prostitution windows are (in)famous all over the world.

In Sweden, Norway, and Iceland it is illegal to pay for sex, but not to be a prostitute (the client commits a crime, but not the prostitute).

In Eastern Europe, the anti-prostitution laws target the prostitutes, because in these countries prostitution is condemned from a moral\conservative viewpoint.

Other countries which have restrictive prostitution policies and officially affirm an anti-prostitution stance are the UK, Ireland and France.

Among countries where prostitution is not officially and legally regulated and recognized as a job, laissez-faire and tolerant attitudes exist in Spain, Belgium and the Czech Republic.

Prostitution in Europe

 

"What countries have legal prostitution?"

It would be easier to ask which countries is it illegal in, that would be a very short list, with mainly the U.S. were consenting adult sexual rights are denied.

Prostitution is LEGAL (with some restrictions that aren't that bad) in Canada, most all of Europe including England, France, Wales, Denmark, etc., most of South America including most of Mexico (often in special zones), Brazil, Israel (Tel Aviv known as the brothel capital of the world), Australia, and many other countries. It is either legal or very tolerated in most all of Asia and even Iran has "temporary wives" which can be for only a few hours! New Zealandpassed in 2003 one of the most comprehensive decriminalization acts which even made street hookers legal which is causing many concerns.  I do NOT support public nuisance street hookers being legal unless in special zones.   But PRIVATE consenting adult sexwork should be legal as it is in most of the world except the U.S. 

 

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Permalink Reply by Nikki on October 19, 2011 at 11:39am

There's quite a divide between Western and Eastern Europe.  And notice in the countries where prostitution is illegal there are problems with trafficking.

 

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Permalink Reply by Nota Khan on October 19, 2011 at 10:44am

(Oh it shouldn't but then I think the same is at play here as in making drugs illegal...leaving/making things legal stops the gravy train. I doubt there is a pimp who doesn't have a cop on his payroll...)

 

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Permalink Reply by Nikki on October 19, 2011 at 11:29am

That's the point, Nota.  And having a dumbed-down population of zealots who supports keeping everything illegal makes it so easy for them.

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Permalink Reply by Nota Khan on October 20, 2011 at 1:59am

Indeed! BTW: Here is a story from yesterday. I should have added "...or the cop IS the pimp!"

NYPD Detective Pimps Out 13 Year Old Runaway?

 

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Permalink Reply by Nota Khan on October 19, 2011 at 12:20am

One thing has always bothered me about all this hoopla...him doing a few ladies is big news but him screwing over literally billions of men, women and children (as IMF head, that is his job), not a whiff.....

 

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Permalink Reply by Nikki on October 19, 2011 at 10:20am

Of course the MSM will never report the obvious.  But his attitude towards women goes to character.  And many elites are degenerates.

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