Mariska Majoor of the Prostitution Information Center and representatives of the sex worker rights group De Rode Draad have decried the decision, claiming it would not reduce crime but would only lead to higher rent and more competition for the remaining windows.

Prostitution was a growth industry attracting sex workers from around the globe, pulled in by the money, despite the harsh and dangerous working conditions and low prestige.

Nevertheless, police continued to raid brothels, streets, and private residences of sex workers right up to the day before the Prostitution Reform Bill was passed by Parliament.

It is clear, when reading the Act, the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 did not decriminalise violence, and the Police take action about violence when sex workers make complaints ( c. f., R v Connolly, a police officer who was jailed in 2009 for blackmailing a sex worker into giving him free sex ).

Melissa Farley, an opponent of the legislation, stated that the decriminalisation of prostitution had very negative effects ( e. g. an increase in human trafficking and street prostitution ) and that the NZ Prostitution Law Review Committee " was biased and blatantly favored the sex industry ".

For example, it appears that the State Department ignored material in the Prostitution Law Review Committee Report, which indicated there was no evidence of increased underage sex work in the New Zealand sex industry

provided the Prostitution Law Review Committee with the evidence based facts that it required to reach a conclusion about the effect of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 on sex workers.

In its 2008 " Report of the Prostitution Law Review Committee on the Operation of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 " the committee provided further information on many of the cases and background of sex work in New Zealand.

Before 1957, Tōkyō ’ s red-light districts had flourished as legally-licensed centers for sex workers but, armed with a new constitution and an Equal Rights amendment, post-occupation Japanese women's Christian groups, etc., successfully lobbied the Diet to pass the Prostitution Prevention Law in 1956.

In addition to the transportation network, the construction of the Chad / Cameroon pipeline has fueled the increase of Prostitution along these routes, with professional sex workers operating in virtually every town and village along the province's roads.

Prostitution has remained connected to criminal activities, which has led the authorities to take several measures, including detailed plans to help the prostitutes quit the sex trade and find other professions.

Prostitution is the sale of sexual services, such as oral sex or sexual intercourse.

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*" Prostitution for everyone: Feminism, globalisation and the ' sex ' industry ", essay published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution And Pornography ( ISBN 1-876756-49-7 )

Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, with the exception of street prostitution, but work permits are not issued for prostitution ; therefore legally working in the trade is limited mostly to EU citizens.

Although a conservative Catholic, Gordon Copeland has frequently cited the work of organisations such as the Society for Promotion of Community Standards and Right to Life New Zealand as a basis for comments against the Prostitution Law Reform Act, and himself introduced an attempt to ban same-sex marriage into the 48th New Zealand Parliament on 7 December 2005.

* Jenin Younes ( 2008 ), Sacred Prostitution in Ancient Israel

In January 1984, Einstürzende Neubauten performed a Concerto for Voice and Machinery at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( the same site as COUM's Prostitution exhibition ), drilling through the floor and eventually sparking a riot.

Prostitution takes place within this area in the following streets: Barndesteeg, Bethlehemsteeg, Bloedstraat, Boomsteeg ( now closed ), Dollebegijnensteeg, Enge Kerksteeg, Goldbergersteeg, Gordijnensteeg, Molensteeg, Monnikenstraat, Oudekerksplein, Oudekennissteeg, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Oudezijds Voorburgwal, Sint Annendwarsstraat, Sint Annenstraat, Stoofsteeg and Trompettersteeg.

*** Macdonald, C., " The Social Evil: Prostitution & the Passage of the Contagious Diseases Act ( 1869 )" in Brookes B, Macdonald C. and Tennant M. ( eds ), Women in History: Essays on European Women in New Zealand ( Allen Unwin, Wellington, 1986 ).

* Lucas, Heather, ‘“ Square Girls ”: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Dunedin in the 1880s ’, BA ( Hons ), University of Otago, 1985.

* Manukau City Council ( Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places ) Bill 197-1 ( 2010 ), Local Bill

Later on the ne serva agreements became enforceable by law Prostitution was not limited to slaves or poor citizens ; according to Suetonius ( albeit in a possible exaggeration ), Caligula when converting his palace into a brothel employed upper class " matrons and youths " as prostitutes.

Prostitution is legal in Germany ( see prostitution in Germany ), and sexual services for physically disabled persons are accepted and readily available ; since 1995 the agency Sensis in Wiesbaden has connected clients and providers.

She has been active in campaigns providing for " Parental time-off provisions and financial support for child illness care ", Special education support ( parents d ' enfants handicapés ), " Benefit allocations for students starting the new school year " ( Allocation de rentrée scolaire ), and the " Prostitution of Minors Act " ( Loi contre la prostitution des mineurs ) which provides penal measures for clients.

* Sex in the City: The Prostitution Racket in Ireland by Paul Reynolds ( Author ), Pan ( 7 Nov 2003 ) ISBN 978-0-7171-3688-9

* JONAKI ( The Glow Worm ), Devadasi System: Prostitution with Religious Sanction, Indrani Sinha ( Chief Editor ), Calcutta, Vol. 2 No. 1 1998.

* " Prostitution Information Centre " ( PIC ), Amsterdam

Although he voted against both the Prostitution Reform Act and the Civil Union Act ( two pieces of legislation strongly opposed by Christian groups ), he claims he did so due to concerns over the effects of the legislation as written, rather than any ideological opposition.

Prostitution is also the subject of his novel Albertine ( 1886 ), which caused a scandal when first published, and was confiscated by the police.

In her 2007 report, Prostitution and trafficking in Nevada: making the connections, Melissa Farley presents the results of numerous interviews with brothel owners and prostitutes, she states that most brothel prostitutes are controlled by outside pimps and that they suffer widespread abuse by brothel owners and customers.

Prostitution could also be a punishment instead of an occupation, and women being sentenced to a spell working in a brothel is known.

Prostitution is legal, but exploiting it through associated activities, such as operating a brothel, is illegal.

After the adoption of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, several members of a United Nations women's committee that was looking at how New Zealand was keeping its commitment to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ) criticised the government of New Zealand for decriminalising brothels and pimping and asked it to repeal the new law.

In 1837, De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris ( Prostitution in the City of Paris ) was published by Alexander Jean Baptiste Parent-Duchatelet.

The second, the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, requires states to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Prostitution in the U. S. state of Nevada is notable for the fact that Nevada is the only U. S. state to allow legal prostitution, albeit only in the form of regulated brothels.

Prostitution was also shown in 2001 when Tracey turned to prostitution in order to pay for drugs.

Manukau then made a further attempt to regulate prostitution with the Manukau City Council ( Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places ) Bill 197-1 ( 2010 )

Anything done in the " promotion of prostitution " ( Förderung der Prostitution ) remained a crime until 2001, even after the extensive criminal law reforms of 1973.

The Convention is supplemented by the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict ( against military use of children ) and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography ( against sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography ).

Prostitution occurs in various forms: ‘ window ’ and street prostitution, clubs, escort agencies and home-based prostitution.

In October 2010, Porter hosted a documentary on Current TV titled Gail Porter on Prostitution which investigated prostitution laws.

Prostitution of children or child prostitution is the commercial sexual exploitation of children in which a child performs the services of prostitution, for financial benefit.

The Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states that child prostitution is the practice whereby a child sells his or her body for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any other form of consideration.

In Australia, there are an estimated 4000 children involved in prostitution, according to a study by Child Wise, the Australian arm of the global End Child Prostitution Pornography And Trafficking group.

The current legal framework prohibiting prostitution is the Prevention and Suppression of Prostitution Act, B. E.

Prostitution in areas such as Corinth in Ancient Greece could have also infected those who partook in prostitution, as a similar virus existed which had flu-like symptoms and later continued to weaken the immune system of those infected.

The Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography is a protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and requires states to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Stead set up a " Special and Secret Committee of Inquiry " to investigate child prostitution, which included Josephine Butler, as well as representatives of the London Committee for the Suppression of the Traffic in British Girls for the Purposes of Continental Prostitution ( of which Scott was the chairman ) and the Salvation Army.