Legalizing Prostitution In The Workplace

In the Northern Territory only private workers are legal, meaning that to keep or manage a brothel is illegal under Section 4 of the Prostitution act and the law also states that escort agencies must be licensed under the Licensing Commission, to ensure that work is regulated. Under NT laws, street based sex work and soliciting is illegal, as is promoting a business due to the health of a worker, meaning that the fact that workers don’t have any STIs or HIV cannot be used as a “selling point.” The law also states that there is to be no sexual penetration without condoms and that agencies should ensure that the operators of the business (receptionists etc.) must tell clients if they know that workers have blood borne viruses .

All states

Sex work has been more or less a part of life all the way through history, including during the nineteenth century in America when many poor women turned to prostitution as it provided a relatively stable source of income during a time in which women didn’t have very many other career options. During the early 1900s, brothels in the US were legal, though through the action of religious groups, sex work became illegal nationwide . Unfortunately still, the word “prostitute” brings to mind an image of a drug-dependent women in a miniskirt in the depths of the “wrong side of town” due to the media’s portrayal of sex workers in red light districts. Today, our society has deemed prostitution to be a taboo subject, but is currently in the process of changing this perception, as it is becoming more common for people to understand that sex work is much more nuanced in terms of those who work within the industry, the types of work they perform, the reasoning behind the engagement in sex work and the location in which the work takes place

Nowadays, sex workers are not necessarily women who have no other option, but rather women (and men) who want to express their sexuality. In recent years, there has been an incline in the porn industry; which could technically be classed as prostitution as the porn stars are indeed paid for their work – yet pornography (between 2 or more consenting adults) is legal. Another example of this is the Playboy bunnies who were paid to live and sleep with Hugh Hefner, along with posing nude for magazine and film pornography, which was and still continues to be legal. Pornography which was once also seen as taboo is now an extremely common part of the adult society, as is sex before marriage, sexual experimentation and expression. As a society, our opinions regarding sex and the religious meanings behind thus has changed significantly, and is still changing today. The decriminalisation of Sex work is supported by numerous highly regarded and respected international organisations such as Human rights watch, UNAIDS, World Health Organisation and Amnesty International . These global companies along with sex workers, their clients and multiple state governments of Australia understand the value of decriminalising sex work and the benefits that this will have on the industry as a