How would you legislate prostitution?

[Rapscallion]

Been thinking about this for a few days.

Were prostitution legalised, what legislation would you put in place for it?

Require the workers to keep a log of names and contact details for all clients to ensure that they can be contacted in case of disease?

Restrictions on working hours? Restrictions on places?

Your thoughts please.

Rapscallion

[gremcint]

registered bordellos that are regularily inspected, full health benefits for all employees. some sort of client screening.

[Seifer]

registered bordellos that are regularily inspected, full health benefits for all employees. some sort of client screening.

Unless all clients are given a full health-workup and are ordered to provide their personal health records, I doubt anyone would willingly pay health insurance benefits for prostitutes. I assume it could be classified as a dangerous profession (like construction workers and such), but I really don't know how expensive it would be to insure them against diseases and possible pregnancy. Just as with other dangerous jobs, you can use safety equipment and be cautious, but the inevitable will happen eventually. Either a condom breaks, someone lies about an illness, or something gets rubbed the wrong way.

Yeech. I don't even want to think about the nightmare of mapping out those insurance plans.

[Duelist925]

Registered bordellos would be one aspect, along with registered "Call girl" Style agencies. Same rules would pretty much apply for both--regular (At least monthly) health screenings, good healthy insurance (it'd be expensive, but, I think, doable), keeping clients on a registry to keep track of disease spreading.

Payment...eh, it could be an hourly fee, or maybe percentage based. I think percentage would be fairer.

Restrictions on working hours...Mmm, I wouldn't say working "hours" So much as "per X number of clients". That, I couldn't figure out.

Full use of safety equipment, both for vanilla, and the fetish places that'd inevitably spring up.

Would also legislate that the company that runs the bordello/agency cannot reveal any information about any customer, or, more importantly, worker, to anyone without express written consent, including any portion of their "Real" name if they choose to use a stage name.

[siead_lietrathua]

registered bordellos that are regularily inspected, full health benefits for all employees. some sort of client screening.

they just legalized this type of system in ontario. street-level prostitution is still illegal, but working for a bordello is legal. which is awesome because it gives the men and woman a safe working environment with security personnel and access to health care.
it basically reworked the current law to make pimping, or people exploiting off prostitution, illegal but working towards legalizing the act itself. it's still a work in process with the federal government.

to the healthcare issue, saying risking STDs and pregnancy is part of the job and they should be denied health care because of that is like denying construction workers insurance because they work a high risk of injury job. it's a really, frankly, dumb concept that the most likely to be injured people are the ones we shouldn't be insuring.
also, any good escort insist on condom use every.single.time. you could bring them in medical records saying your clean and you still aren't getting any penetrative contact without a condom, oral or otherwise. any prostitute willing to go latex free are the ones to be avoided.

[Greenday]

As I recall how it's done in Nevada: health insurance, screened twice a month for STIs, security.

What kind of limits could you put on the customers though? Other than health screens, I can't think of any. Prostitutes wouldn't be able to choose who they want and can't turn "healthy" people down because of their looks or what have you. That'd be discrimination.

[lordlundar]

they just legalized this type of system in ontario. street-level prostitution is still illegal, but working for a bordello is legal. which is awesome because it gives the men and woman a safe working environment with security personnel and access to health care.
it basically reworked the current law to make pimping, or people exploiting off prostitution, illegal but working towards legalizing the act itself. it's still a work in process with the federal government.

Actually that is in line with federal laws which state that while prostitution is legal, solicitation of it isn't. So long as they don't advertise it, it's legal.

[Rapscallion]

What kind of limits could you put on the customers though? Other than health screens, I can't think of any. Prostitutes wouldn't be able to choose who they want and can't turn "healthy" people down because of their looks or what have you. That'd be discrimination.

Interesting point. An acquaintance of mine has fewquented brothels in foreign climes and one of the things he approves of is that while he gets to choose who he sleeps with, so do they. If they say no, it's no go.

Would provision need adding in for that? Should it be 'any punter' served? That said, there has been more than one occasion where a blanket sign has been applied where an establishment reserves the right to refuse service at any time. If they don't give a reason that's prosecutable under the law, that's where they'd be safe I reckon.

Rapscallion

[HYHYBT]

This is one area where anti-discrimination principles shouldn't apply in any way. If you don't want to hire a particular prostitute for any reason or none, fine; if they don't want a particular client or a particular act or anything else, likewise fine.

As for health... I'd say that as long as the brothel (or independent contractor) follows all appropriate screenings (and tests healthy) and safe sex procedures, you can't sue them if you catch something anyway.

Since it's more or less part of another current thread... what about pregnancies (on either side, because surely at least a few women would hire males)?

[Lace Neil Singer]

One thing I was thinking of was that in this kind of thread, most people assume that the transaction would be a man hiring a woman when if prostitution was legal, there'd be other transactions as well; ie, a man hiring a man, a woman hiring a man or a woman hiring a woman.

How would other such transactions, such as wanting two women or two men for a threesome go? What about other such kinks, like water play or BDSM? How would charges be calculated if something go out of hand and a prostitute was injured? There'd be all kinds of details to work out, not just healthcare and insurance against pregnancy.

[Rapscallion]

Considering there's no real protection now for such things, I can only see it being an improvement.

Of course, the field research for the insurance underwriters finding out chances of injury are going to be comedy gold.

Rapscallion

[Lace Neil Singer]

Yeah; plus if security cameras are installed in rooms to protect the workers... would you want to be the security guy who has to review the tapes? XD

[Rapscallion]

Er, I could stand to hear a little more...

Rapscallion

[Andara Bledin]

I imagine that for security purposes, there could only be cameras and no tapes for the actual working rooms. But any of the common areas would be fair game for recordings.

And no record of the patrons. They'd have to show valid ID to prove they were of age, and possibly sign a waiver stating that they aren't infected and promise to abide by the rules of the establishment. I could even see them issuing membership cards.

I could also see a market for professionals who already have certain STDs to cater to clients with the same. No chance of passing something that both parties already have, after all.

^-.-^

[gremcint]

sorry but if you say they aren't allowed to turn men down then that's rape. look at it this way women gets raped, later on joins a bordello and the rapist then gets to hire her anytime he wants.