Currently there are only three places worldwide that have legalised prostitution with no restrictions the Netherlands where prostitution has been legalised since around 1809 but wasn’t officially a regulated industry until 2000 when the ban for owning and operating a brothel was lifted. The Netherlands probably has the most extensive documented history of prostitution up until the 1800’s when the French colonised the Netherlands and banned the owning and operating of brothels, although there rumoured individual street operators and those not connected to a brothel (Outshoorn, 2012). Germany which legalised prostitution in 2001 with it being mandated that sex workers should be treated the same way as workers in any other industry which gave …show more content…
The Nordic model’s aim is two-fold both to provide support to worker’s currently in the industry and to provide adequate sex education and public health promotional campaigns on the dangers of working in the sex industry (Fisher, n.d.). In Australia both where prostitution is completely legalised and just decriminalised it is currently regulated by the local and state government and the monitored by the Scarlet Alliance – Australian sex workers association who seek to educate people in Australia and also some parts of New Zealand on the benefits achieved through research into providing information on industrial rights, occupational health and safety, the needs and benefits of the wider community in terms of seeking to decriminalise prostitution as an industry whilst still factoring in the banning of human trafficking such as in the case of minors and those who do not willing choose this profession, health promotion on the dangers involved with prostitution