This country decriminalised sex work in 2003. You won’t believe what happened next, via Bhekisisa_MG.
estimates that decriminalising the trade — which involves the removal of all criminal laws against adult consensual sex work — could prevent between a third and almost half of the world’s new HIV infections among sex workers and their clients within a decade. This is because decriminalisation would reduce workers’ exposure to violence and police harassment as it would be easier for them to report abuse and access health facilities.
“When clients are criminalised for doing something illegal, it makes it more difficult for the person selling the service to work in a safe environment, as the service goes underground and service providers then operate from shady places in order for the clients to not get caught by the police,” Nadia Van der Linde of the Prostitution Information Centre in Amsterdam, where sex work is legal, explains.
But, says South Africa’s Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery, whose department published the law reform commission’s review, the regulation of sex work has to be approached from a broader perspective than mere public health outcomes. “Looking at the issue purely from a health perspective, it might be a ‘no brainer’ [to decriminalise the trade].
Of an estimated worldwide total of 24.9-million people in forced labour, 4.8-million are victims of forced sexual exploitation, while most — 16-million or 67% — are victims of the private sector, particularly in the fields of agriculture, construction and domestic work, according to the International Labour Organisation.
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